Woot! FTP is back, and it’s zooming like a mad thing! *grooves*
Stupid Your-Site.com temporarily disabling FTP access. Let’s see if this posts… For some reason, I’ve been able to FTP from the animation lab, but not from my room. Weirdness. So let’s see if I can publish my blog, gah.
In other news, it’s so satisfying when you set out to write a paper longer than you’ve ever done before and you find yourself decreasing font size. :D
Poll: If I named my essay “The Force of New Technology: How the Star Wars Saga Transformed the Special Effects Industry” would you want to punch me in the face?
I would.
*is cross* Why do only half of the articles that show up on the RSS feed of Whedonesque actually exist? I click on a link and find that oh, there’s no entry associated with it. And I go to the main index and it’s not there, either. Oh, my life is filled with angst!
And now: Cinefex and Industrial Light and Magic: The Art of Special Effects say the AT-ST walkers of Return of the Jedi were animated with go-motion animation. The Stop-Motion Filmography claims stop-motion. Life is so hard.
That would be so funny if this were true. I’m shocked that there’s no indication that the article is satire.
Firefly-related goodness!
Note from Adam Baldwin (Jayne) on the rough cut of Serenity
Op Ed/News: Whedonverse — K.W. Taylor’s take on how the delay could be a good thing
Also, Joss confirms that this is indeed artwork for the film and not fan-created. Purdyful.
Huh. Does anyone know the proper MLA bibliographic formatting for citing a “talking heads”-style DVD featurette?
Great googly moogly! For my film history class, I’m writing a 14 page essay on how the Star Wars saga impacted the special effects industry. Due this coming Tuesday. Worried about not having a big enough topic, in my proposal I also suggested I might also write about the original trilogy’s part in the rise of the blockbuster. But at the rate I’m going (I’ve done parts of ANH and touched on Empire), it looks like there’s not going to be a problem in the slightest. In fact, it’s probably going to be a challenge to keep it under 14 pages! Oh, I am feeling so good right now.
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P.S.: Remind me to post some of the funnier lines from Thomas Smith’s ILM book. It has excellent, detailed information about the specifics of ILM’s new technological developments I haven’t been able to find anywhere else, but the employee spotlight snippets read like personal ads. Ko laughed.
Mmm, definitely liking the upswing in comments now that I switched to BlogBack. If only people were so eager to comment on my Colorado photopost in my LJ! *is not subtle at all* :D
Ganked from a bunch of people:
If there is at least one person in your life who you consider a close friend, and who you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal.
“At least one”? Hee. :D
Tangentially related: HP Fandom Birthdays!