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Yes I do accept assignments...at my discretion. Rob Cruickshank sent me this link to a flying-through-space Christopher Walken with a note: "This effect needs to be overused on your blog, with or without Mr. Walken." Hence the flying pod. It's easy as pie! (Actually its a lot easier than pie. Pie is kind of tricky because you have to make the crust.) The original Space Walken post is at Mighty Optical Illusions. Here's their recipe, pretty much as it was posted by Vurdlak:
This ubercool Illusion of Christopher Walken [green pod in my case] flying through space [over ocean] is our newest submission. Believe it or not, this magical "animated" illusion is a composition of only four frames. The second two are just color-inverted originals (with small modification in shiftment from the original). It gives you opinion Chris [pod] is drifting through galaxy [over ocean], while in fact he's [it's] just leaning milimeter back and fourth for our photo-session ;)
I forgot to mention: the film Rhinocerous Eyes is really really fun. You need a bit of tolerance for f#*cked-up-stalker stories, but the script is really funny, the acting is great and the animation is visually and conceptually satisfying on many levels of detail. I love the nose made out of a spinning blue plastic rabbit. No more spoilers.
There is Neutrino news (thanks JM) in the Nobel Intent journal at Ars Technica. Posted by Chris Lee. Quote:
A consequence of the known neutrino types having mass is that there must be a fourth type of neutrino, one that has even weaker interactions with ordinary matter and has been dubbed the sterile neutrino."4 flavours of neutrino! One of them "sterile." And it might have mass which would mean a lot of matter we couldn't account for before. Plus a lot of other trippy stuff about the early universe. Cosmology hurts my head. There's more here at New Scientist Space dot com. Quote:
[Alexander Kusenko] says the fact that sterile neutrinos could account for such a wide variety of astrophysical puzzles is a "highly non-trivial coincidence" and a "strong indication this may be right".
Peggy Gale, Governor General's Award winner
Photo: Martin Lipman
I normally don't pay much attention to the Governor General's Awards for art, except to count up the ration of men to women and wonder if I'm being political or petty. But I just realised that Peggy Gale, who I wrote about here, won this year for "outstanding contribution." This is great news! Gale's writing about video art provides essential context, exploring both the conceptual implications and the experimental physical experiences of the technology. She has stayed with the medium intellectually, charting its trajectory from the transgressive, performative beginnings of TV-in-the-hands-of-artists, to the present diffusion into a plethora of moving images online, in the gallery, at the theatre, on DVD, and cell phones. Here is what Sarah Milroy at the Globe had to say:
Gale is being honoured for her pioneering work as a curator and writer. Her exhibition Videoscapes, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1974, was one of the first in the world to isolate and examine the new phenomenon of video art and was a first step in establishing a canon of Canadian video art. In addition, Gale has served as director of the artist-run centre A Space and, later, of Art Metropole (an important early centre for video distribution in Toronto). Since 1981, she has worked as a freelance curator, editor and writer.
