Friday, March 26, 2010

Ah Pook Is Here Directed by Philip Hunt, written by William S. Burroughs




Music from the album "William S. Burroughs - Dead City Radio"
Track 4 - "Ah Pook The Destroyer / Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story"
Music By, Performer - John Cale

Dresden Film Festival:
1995 Won Best Animation Film
Philip Hunt

The Significance of the Teaching of Joseph Campbell in Story-Telling & Movie-Making



How Campbell influenced the structure of the Matrix narrative.




How Campbell's concept of 'Bliss' influenced the life choices & work of George Lucas.





This is Joseph Campbell talking with some students. His life-long interest was in discovering how the myths and stories of different cultures around the world are actually all the same, and in helping people to understand the huge importance that these stories have in our cultures and lives.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Future Now

Writers, artists and film-makers create the blue print for the future.
A massive interactive screen, similar to the one envisaged in Minority Report has been developed by the Display Wall laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø located in Northern Norway.

The Display Wall lab is home to a 22 megapixel display wall, constructed from 28 projectors and driven by a display cluster of about 30 nodes (28 to do the actual graphics, and another few to do other tasks). Each projector creates a 1024x768 resolution image, which when tiled together with the others form a 7168x3072 resolution display.





Brought to our attention by Mike Fennessy