Share on Tumblr As many of you know, I teach the first half of the Advanced Hypnosis Theory course at the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute – HPTI – (www.HPTI.org) with Scott Sandland who does the capstone portion of the course to finish out the program. Additionally, I also teach the Critical Thinking course for...
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Share on Tumblr Martin Scorsese has confirmed his preference for shooting future films in 3D during a speech at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas in which he spoke of the need to solve the ongoing problem of darkened screens. Scorsese, whose most recent film, Hugo, was shot in stereoscope, spoke after new laser-illuminated...
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Share on Tumblr James Cameron’ 3-D team, behind the worldwide success of 2009 sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar", is being tapped to assist in shooting "The Art of War", a film about ancient Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu. The cooperation was revealed Saturday in Beijing by organizers of the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival. The...
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Share on Tumblr Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee have both made 3D movies, but the esteemed directors offered different perspectives on the burgeoning film technology at a panel discussion this week in Las Vegas. Scorsese has fallen in love with 3D, telling an audience at the CinemaCon theatre owners convention on Wednesday that he...
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Share on Tumblr The effect called “frozen time” or “bullet time” is achieved, when a moving object is photographed from different angles at the same time from many cameras – a so-called camera array. The resulting pictures are combined together into a film or animation afterwards. If e.g. someone jumps and the pictures are...
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Share on Tumblr As part of the ongoing coverage of the ongoing centennial of the American Civil War, the Atlantic has a very nice collection of stereographs from the period (these are parallel 3D photographs). Click on the images to see a clever wobble 3D presentation as well. Go to http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-3-the-stereographs/100243/ for the feature....
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Share on Tumblr The folks at Digital Darkroom have a wonderful 3D film on 3D photography that is very much worth the looksee. While the gallery presentation is in excellent circular polarization, the online version is in anaglyph (red blue glasses). It’s online in its entirety so give it a looksee at http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/video-gallery/digital-darkroom/2. All...
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Share on Tumblr This is a rather intriguing music video by the band Mint Julep, the song To The Sea, shot in wobble or wiggle autostereoscopic 3D. The video requires no special viewing equipment as the shifting camera perspective creates the illusion of 3D. See http://www.aniceideaeveryday.com/video/mint-julep-ii/ but please be forewarned that if you have...
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Share on Tumblr Once again, I would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in the WALKABOUT TRANCE BEACH RESORT GETAWAY THREE and EROTICATRANCE TWO events in beautiful Redondo Beach, California, this past weekend. I am finally home after what was supposed to be a fifteen hour flight suddenly turned into a twenty-and-a-half...
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Share on Tumblr Phil “Captain 3D” McNally, stereoscopic supervisor at DreamWorks Animation, is a guest on the Home Theater Geeks Podcast with Scott Wilkinson and talks about why he thinks 3D is here to stay after several previous attempts to bring it to the market, why people have such strong opinions about 3D, the...
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Share on Tumblr The folks at CubanMidlifeCrisis have created a quirky proof of concept 3D music video for the song Shuriken by Madeon that shows that such a video works beyond the more typical let’s watch someone play instruments in 3D model with a narrative and some nice fantasy and can be accomplished with...
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Share on Tumblr Huzzah! It looks like one of my favorite adult movies (yes, I have favorites) is getting a remake! The adult musical version of Alice in Wonderland is getting a remake that just may even be in 3D! Yes, there was a musical version of Alice in Wonderland that was also XXX...
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Share on Tumblr Giving a bit of a test a go of our 3D youtube videos . . . these are the ones shot in true 3D. Checking the list here. On youtube they play in a variety of 3D formats, depending upon what you have available for viewing . . . or, you...
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Share on Tumblr It’s not that I really need to see this movie . . . nope, not at all . . . but . . . and this is a big but, almost as big as those big butts some folks love so much they have to sing about it . . ....
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Share on Tumblr The New York Times has a video discussing the new 3D extravaganza featuring the Rockettes of Radio City Music Hall celebrating Christmas with an immersive 3D interactive set on stage for Christmas. All the best, Brian Share on Tumblr
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