These are three of my favorite
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Discovery
Here is an EP by Discovery. This band is a collaboration and side project from Ra Ra Riot's lead singer Wes Miles and Vampire Weekend's lead singer Ezra Koenig, very good stuff. Before listening to this, you must know they aren't using autotune. Autotune is used to perfect a desired tone. They are either using a talk box or a vocoder. The main difference is that a talk box fluctuates the sound or voice.
Dr. Dog, from Costal's Jams of the Week
Here is little bit more music from Dr. Dog, i love them so here is some of my favorites
Livin' A Dream - From Takers and Leavers EP
Hang On - From Fate
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Canon has provided further details on the new Canon 5D Mark II firmware, which will be available for download later this month. The new firmware version 2.0.3 will enable the Canon 5D Mark II to capture 1080p video at 24fps (actual 23.976fps) and will change the 30fps rate to NTSC standard 29.97fps. The 5D Mark II will also be able to capture 1080p video at the PAL standard of 25fps. Additional tweaks include an histogram display for shooting movies in manual exposure, shutter-priority and aperture-priority, manual control over sound recording levels and a broadcast standard audio sampling frequency.
It's coming, everyone! The gravy train is about to roll in, and its name is 24fps.
It was ridiculous when the 7D was released with native 24p, and early adopters of the 5D cried foul. But once this firmware update gets released - pfffffffffft, well, let's just say the RED ONE had better up the ante. ;)
Actors, read this!
As Mr. Lockwood consistently tells us of times of doom... A future generation of Cameron-esque movies, where the actor won't even have to be there, just a voice, there's now hope for you!
Yes, you, the striving actor, will still have a job and just take this in...
Where films are turning their back on tradition of entertainment,
L.A. Noire is Rockstar's newest game. For all of you non-gamers, let me break this down: Rockstar (yes the drink maker) for the past nine years since the release date of the gangster mega-hit, Grand Theft Auto III, has been the expert and genius behind the drive and shoot epidemic. Releasing ten installments since GTAIII, it's monster corporation is taking a turn on what to expect. Unlike Manhunt, a ruthless game in which all you do is beat down on people. L.A. Noire is from the other side. Much like Mass Effect, a game in which your decisions actually matter and change the outcome of the game, L.A. Noire is about being a detective.
Taking place in the 1940's Team Bondi is creating th
e largest and most researched in-game map EVER! Now there's more to just fitting the age and what's going around (trends, etc). BUT they're re-creating Los Angeles. So get this, streets that aren't even there anymore, shops, even actual pictures of areas are all taken literally into the game. What is mind blowing is seeing an L.A. without freeways. What? Yes, that's right.
Now, skipping the details of the game itself, where all of you actors will be in luck is that Team Bondi and their sister developer have come out with a new software. Like Cameron's Avatar, it will change gaming history and production. Team Bondi has now a set design in which the actor/actress reads off a teleprompter, as you would if you were in news, but with the difference of as translated onto the screen, they are in 3D, like you would see in a normal videogame. They are pixelated and transformed into something new. Now this changes the whole process of making video games. Usually, you hire the actors, take their voice recordings, stylize the character faces, render the exact mouth movements, and end up with a fake looking emotion... It doesn't seem real. There's nothing human about it. BUT, now every emotion you would see play out, like in film, will be translated into a game.
So for all of you actors out there, never fear. You might not be Brad Pitt, but you could become an immoralized God for all those gamers out there.
Yes, you, the striving actor, will still have a job and just take this in...
Where films are turning their back on tradition of entertainment,
L.A. Noire is Rockstar's newest game. For all of you non-gamers, let me break this down: Rockstar (yes the drink maker) for the past nine years since the release date of the gangster mega-hit, Grand Theft Auto III, has been the expert and genius behind the drive and shoot epidemic. Releasing ten installments since GTAIII, it's monster corporation is taking a turn on what to expect. Unlike Manhunt, a ruthless game in which all you do is beat down on people. L.A. Noire is from the other side. Much like Mass Effect, a game in which your decisions actually matter and change the outcome of the game, L.A. Noire is about being a detective.
Taking place in the 1940's Team Bondi is creating th
e largest and most researched in-game map EVER! Now there's more to just fitting the age and what's going around (trends, etc). BUT they're re-creating Los Angeles. So get this, streets that aren't even there anymore, shops, even actual pictures of areas are all taken literally into the game. What is mind blowing is seeing an L.A. without freeways. What? Yes, that's right.Now, skipping the details of the game itself, where all of you actors will be in luck is that Team Bondi and their sister developer have come out with a new software. Like Cameron's Avatar, it will change gaming history and production. Team Bondi has now a set design in which the actor/actress reads off a teleprompter, as you would if you were in news, but with the difference of as translated onto the screen, they are in 3D, like you would see in a normal videogame. They are pixelated and transformed into something new. Now this changes the whole process of making video games. Usually, you hire the actors, take their voice recordings, stylize the character faces, render the exact mouth movements, and end up with a fake looking emotion... It doesn't seem real. There's nothing human about it. BUT, now every emotion you would see play out, like in film, will be translated into a game.
So for all of you actors out there, never fear. You might not be Brad Pitt, but you could become an immoralized God for all those gamers out there.
Monday, March 1, 2010
It's Always Savage in Philadelphia
I just found out that one of my favorite childhood characters, Kevin Arnold, directs It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. For those of you who lost track, Fred Savage played Kevin in the Wonder Years and was a role model for aspiring teenagers like my six year-old self. I watched Kevin and dreamt of the days when I was a grown up- a high schooler. Lucky for me, and my parents, the Wonder Years did a great job of doctoring up this joyous journey. The Years, as I'm calling it now, gave me hope for my high school years as a 1970's teenager.
It's Always Sunny is very edgy and hits close to home for anyone within a twenty-five mile radius of Philadelphia, or can at least smell the poverty and alcoholism. In other words, it's one of the greatest shows on cable television. If you don't know, now you know (thanks Biggie).
Am I just out of the loop or am I dropping a huge bomb on all the It's Always Sunny fans?
Craziness All Around
Yesterday, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, i scooped up a friend of mine and we went to the movies. Nothing like spending the first beautiful day in about 900 months inside a dark movie theater. But i just couldn't resist. (Plus the tickets were only $7.50!!!!) Anyway, we arrived about five minutes late and the theater had way more people than i was expecting.
The Crazies (2010) is loosely based on the George Romero film by the same name that was made in 1973. George Romero's version went mostly unrecognized. But since i have not seen it myself, i can't say for sure why it never became like his other infamous horror flicks, like Night of the Living Dead. However, i can speak for the remake starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, and Joe Anderson.
The story revolves around a small town in Kansas with one Sheriff, Timothy Olyphant<3, and his deputy, Joe Anderson. The action starts in the first 2 minutes of the movie and does not stop! Its packed full of scenes that will send chills down your spine, or maybe I'm just a big baby. I literally jumped about five times though. What makes the film so intense is the idea of being stuck in a town where everyone is losing control. It starts with no warning and the town becomes part of a massive cover-up. cover-up for what exactly? You have to see for yourself. Not to mention that the entire movie takes place over an action packed, CRAZY two days.
It's not over bearing with gore like every other "horror" film that has come out over the past few years. It's got just the right amount of gore, and i really don't like gore. But this movie has the best kind. I really enjoyed my Sunday afternoon full of crazy and i hope you will do too!!! (p.s. you are not limited to seeing this on a Sunday or an afternoon, it will be good anytime!!)
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