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Blade Runner Revisited in Gigapixels

In "Blade Runner Revisited", François Vautier has produced an experimental homage to "Blade Runner", Ridley Scott's sci-fi noir classic.  In creating the film, François ripped 167,819 frames from the "Final Cut" version and digitally pasted them together, making a single image roughly 60,000 pixels square.  In digital camera terms, it's 3.6 gigapixels. Much of the film involves floating above this

Has 3D Jumped The Shark Already?

The Daily Telegraph reports on concerns in Hollywood that the 3D goldrush is already over.  Based on recent audience figures, it appears that the percentage of audiences choosing the extra dimension is falling. It cites as evidence the percentage of audiences that watched the 3D version for a series of films, starting with Avatar back in December. Avatar - 71%