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Postmodern Jukebox: Vintage Remixes of Modern Music [Videos] It was a few months ago when I came across Scott Bradlee's, Postmodern Jukebox on YouTube. The group had recently put out a vintage remix of Macklemore's song Thrift Shop and a British artist had in turn, created a techno remix of the vintage remix. In short, a modern remix of a vintage remix of a modern song had been born. FEATURE: Zomby Interview Hidden in the middle of the Tate Modern’s sprawling Pop Life exhibition is a startling recreation of Keith Haring’s Pop Shop. The floors, walls and ceilings are covered in his bold, monochromatic graffiti, and garish, branded products new and old are shilled while vintage rap mixtapes blast around the room. London’s monolithic modern art gallery dragged a small corner of New York’s SoHo back from the ’80s in vibrant, living color. Zomby and I had arranged to meet here, but for reasons known and still somewhat unknown, our plans changed. You may have heard Zomby does this.
3 Reasons Why Inception Was Robbed For Best Director – Latest Nerdy Pop Culture News So today, the Oscar nominations were announced and one name I was sure would make the list would be Christopher Nolan for Best Director. Oscar doesn’t give nominations to newcomers but after Dark Knight and Memento, I thought he’d finally get a nomination. Instead here are the directors that are up for the running:
Phrases And Philosophies - Oscar Wilde Bibliographic Notes: First published in the 1894 December (and only) issue of the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon. The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty. Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither. "If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer": Guillermo del Toro's words to live by @greenman1: Because you are an insightful and perceptive snowflake. @greenman1: In the extra materials for Pan's Labyrinth, he talks a bit about the scene where the woman slices the fascist's mouth/cheek open in a grotesque way. He mentioned that when he depicts violence, he likes to depict an unconventional or surprising sort of violence, because it feels more visceral and affecting than clichés like a shotgun blast, a stabbing, or even an amputation, despite those being more objectively violent acts. That's probably only part of the puzzle, though. @bakana: He's from "Upper Class" (for Spanish...hahaha) stock.
After Effects for Beginners: Getting Started When we launched we asked you to tell us what content you wanted and quite a few of you told us you wanted the basics. Well we are listening and this is the first installment of a 3 part series for after effects beginners. Each section lists at the top the topics that are covered in that section. Even though this series focuses on the latest CS4 release, most of the concepts apply to all the versions of After Effects.
Photoshop Tutorials » Creating A Retro Grunge Poster This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro, What We Are Going To Achieve Step 1 – Create A New Document First of all as always create a new document using the sizes 750 x 1000, this size is suitable for a poster design. Step 2 – Grab The Pen Tool Now you need to grab the pen tool and start drawing some shapes, first set your foreground colour to and draw a shape the same as below to get perfect 45 degree angles when drawing with the pen tool hold down shift and click at what you think is 45 degrees and it will make it straight:
Create a Vintage Polaroid Effect in Photoshop I love anything graphic design that has that vintage grunge kind of look. In this tutorial you’ll see how to create a stunning vintage Polaroid effect in Photoshop. It’s fairly simple to make and can be used in many different types of projects. What You’ll Need This tutorial will be completed using mostly filters and fills, but we will need three photos to complete the look. Rebecca-Parker-Stock-201 Download Favorite Do what you will with my textures. Please send me a link with your finished piece. Thanks You May Also Like Sponsored Images
Learning How to Shoot Video and Time-lapse Footage : Traveling with Ariel Bravy After the 6 day camping trip alongside a river, I went back to a nearby location and spent 30 days camping on the side of the mountain in the forest. The video above is a compilation of still photos and moving videos that I put together. In fact, I’ve had SO much fun creating that video and learning how to do more of it, that I haven’t been interested in investing the time and energy in publishing a full-out blog post on the 30 day trip. With that said, I’ve been really getting into video lately.
Tonal quality and dynamic range in digital cameras Making fine prints in your digital darkroom Tonal quality and dynamic range in digital cameras by Norman Koren updated Feb. 15, 2005 Prints made from images captured on digital cameras can have extraordinary tonal quality, comparable to the finest full-toned traditional prints. If it is realistic or plausible, then it is not science fiction There's a lot of possible definitions of SF that make sense, certainly. But plausibility never really struck me as particularly good. The problem, to my mind, is that to really split apart the literary efforts of perhaps-SF writers into the "could happen" and "could not happen" would require essentially perfect knowledge of all things. If I wrote, say, a story where the Messenger probe sends back the first images of the side of Mercury we could never see before and discovers a vast ruined structure that's obviously artificial — what have I written?