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PostHuman — sci-fi action animated short film directed

Posted by Sean Brazell in cybercrime/malcode, entertainment, media & arts

Oct 23
2015

Official video for PostHuman — produced by Colliculi Productions.
Animated sci-fi thriller short film featuring the voice of Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica). Directed by Cole Drumb. Produced by Jennifer Wai-Yin Luk.

Production company: Colliculi Productions.
Animation studio: Humouring The Fates.
Voice of Kali: Tricia Helfer.
Voice of Terrence: Ulric Dihle.
Original Music: Neill Sanford Livingston.
Post Production Sound: Kid Dropper Sound.
Final Post Production Sound: Bad Animals.
Final Video Post Production: Lightpress.

Set in an adrenalized future of espionage, assassins, and out of control super science, PostHuman follows a genius hacker and his dog as they help an enigmatic young woman to free the remaining test subject of a black ops ESP test lab.

http://posthumanthemovie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/PostHumanTheMovie
https://twitter.com/PostHumanFilm
https://twitter.com/JenWLuk
https://twitter.com/ColeDrumb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091950/
http://posthumanthemovie.tumblr.com/

Awards:
Screamfest 2012 — Best Animated Short.
Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 — Best Animation Short.

Arizona Underground Film Festival 2012 — Best Animation Short.

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Cinema Space Tribute

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in alien life, media & arts, military, space travel

Oct 19
2015

Music: Hans Zimmer — Mountains (Interstellar Soundtrack)
Lyrics: «Do not go gentle into that good night» by Dylan Thomas.

Voice: Anthony Hopkins.

FILMS:
«2001: A Space Odyssey» (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
«Alien» (1979, dir. Ridley Scott)
«Aliens» (1986, dir. James Cameron)
«Armageddon» (1998, dir. Michael Bay)
«Avatar» (2009, dir. James Cameron)
«Battleship» (2012, dir. Peter Berg)
«Cargo» (2009, dir. Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter)
«Elysium» (2013, dir. Neill Blomkamp)
«Europa Report» (2013, dir. Sebastián Cordero)
«Event Horizon» (1997, dir. Paul Anderson)
«Gravity» (2013, dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
«Guardians of the Galaxy» (2014, dir. James Gunn)
«Interstellar » (2014, dir. Christopher Nolan)
«Lockout» (2012, dir. James Mather, Stephen St. Leger)
«Lost in Space» (1998, dir. Stephen Hopkins)
«Man of Steel» (2013, dir. Zack Snyder)
«Mission to Mars» (2000, dir. Brian De Palma)
«Moon» (2009, dir. Duncan Jones)
«Oblivion» (2013, dir. Joseph Kosinski)
«Pandorum» (2009, dir. Christian Alvart)
«Prometheus» (2012, dir. Ridley Scott)
«Solaris» (1972, dir. Andrey Tarkovskiy)
«Solaris» (2002, dir. Steven Soderbergh)
«Star Trek» (2009, dir. J.J. Abrams)
«Star Trek: Into Darkness» (2013, dir. J.J. Abrams)
«Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope» (1977, dir. George Lucas)

«Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi» (1983, dir. Richard Marquand)

«Starship Troopers» (1997, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
«Sunshine» (2007, dir. Danny Boyle)
«The Fountain» (2006, dir. Darren Aronofsky)
«The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy» (2005, dir. Garth Jennings)

«The Last Days on Mars» (2013, dir. Ruairi Robinson)
«The Signal» (2014, dir. William Eubank)
«Thor: The Dark World» (2013, dir. Alan Taylor)
«Transformers: Dark of the Moon» (2011, dir. Michael Bay)

Space-inspired objects — By Helen Chislett | Financial Times

Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in media & arts, space, space travelTagged design

Oct 12
2015

“When the Rosetta spacecraft deployed the Philae lander to land on a comet last November, the world held its breath. … Little surprise too that space is back on the design agenda as a primary source of inspiration. Visiting Design Miami/Basel in June, it was obvious that the “Philae effect” was having an impact much closer to home.”

A Whole New World: Disney App Renders Coloring Book Pages as 3D Images — By Lulu Chang | Digital Trends

Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in augmented reality, media & arts

Oct 9
2015

“Who said coloring was just for kids?”

Metamorphose: 1999 Documentary Reveals the Life & Work of Artist M.C. Escher | Open Culture

Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in media & artsTagged art, Geometry, Graphic Art

Oct 8
2015

“Made in 1999 by Dutch director Jan Bosdriesz, the documentary Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898–1972 takes its title from one of Escher’s more well-known printsin which the word “metamorphose” transforms itself into patterns of abstract shapes and animals.”

Turing Tests in the Creative Arts

Posted by Amnon H. Eden in information science, media & arts

Sep 26
2015

Turing Test-style competitions in writing stories, music & poetry.

HT: @Grady_Booch

DigiLit is a competition that encourages the creation of algorithms able to produce a “human-level” short story of the kind that might be intended for a short story collection produced in a well-regarded MfA program or a piece for The New Yorker. The prize seeks to reward algorithms that could, for example, write stories for a creative writing class in which students are asked to submit a new short story each day. (Artwork by Annelise Capo http://www.annelisecapossela.com)

What are Quantum Dots?

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in media & arts, quantum physics

Sep 23
2015

NIBIB’s 60 Seconds of Science explains how quantum dots work and why they glow.

Music by longzijun ‘Chillvolution.’

For NIBIB’s Copyright Policy: http://www.nibib.nih.gov/policies#copyright

New smartphone prototype can be charged by sound

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in media & arts, mobile phones

Sep 22
2015

Just by being exposed to ambient sound like traffic noise, people talking, or music playing, this new phone can charge itself. It’s being developed by researchers in the UK, and Nokia.