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Festive Family Films
As the festive (silly) season gets under way, the folks at Buffalo Technology polled 3,000 people on their favourite Christmas films. Topping the chart is comedy Home Alone starring Macauley Culkin, followed by Frank Capra's 1946 classic, It's a Wonderful Life. Rounding out the medal positions is the animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman. Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas complete the top
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%
The Sandpit
The Sandpit I found this utterly fascinating. It's a five minute study of "a day in the life of New York, in miniature" and it's just that. The director, Sam O'Hare has combined time-lapse photography and a tilt-shift lens (whatever that is!) to produce an effect akin to toy models scurrying around a miniature city. Look out for the helicopters