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alexainslie: “For every Pixar movie, a color script is created. I’m not sure at which stage in the entire film-making process this is produced, but I’d think it would be during or after the storyboards. This is essentially a rough look at the color keys, palettes, and tones for the entire film. This ‘visual script’…
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Goldstein was a radical liberal with a social conscience. Screw was not just pornography for its own sake—and not just a mouthpiece for his own rants (though it was that). It was a clarion of free speech. Goldstein launched the “Homosexual Citizen” column—a first in the underground—and funded the first “overground” Gay magazine. He was…
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emergentfutures: Robots Can’t End Amazon’s Labor Woes Because They Don’t Have Hands The holidays should be a celebratory season for Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer. Instead, the company is facing conflict and tragedy over the work done inside its distribution centers, the massive warehouses where the logistics of holiday package delivery are executed with…
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emergentfutures: Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality The Rift is the brainchild of a 19-year-old tinkerer and VR enthusiast named Palmer Luckey. A collector of old VR headsets, Luckey was all too familiar with the shortcomings every system had faced—small fields of vision, unwieldy form factors, horrific resolution. He was also…
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nprplays: Museums Give Video Games Bonus Life, But The Next Level Awaits Video games, like other digital media, present a host of challenges for preservationists. The hardware and software used to run and play any particular game eventually becomes obsolete or breaks. Storage media like DVDs, flash drives or hard drives can become corrupted over…