El cementerio de los Aguilas

Eagle Boneyard, un nuevo apartado en www.scifiairshow.com.

El sello de música Metal de Christopher Lee

Saruman's latest heavy metal Christmas carol is the best thing you'll hear today

"…Peter Jackson once shared this anecdote about working with Lee on Lord of the Rings, further proving Lee's reputation as one of the most hardcore individuals in cinema. From the behind the scenes feature on the DVD:

"When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would, I was explaining to him what he should do… He says, ‘Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?’ And I said, ‘Um, no.’ And he says ‘Well, I have, and I know what to do.'"

"Tech Demo" del motor de Final Fantasy XV y su editor


FINAL FANTASY XV PS4 Tech Demo Vol. 1por itsartmag

Wanderers

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.

For more information and stills gallery, please turn to: www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers
(Just in case my website runs slow, here is a link to an imgur album version of the gallery: http://imgur.com/a/Ur5dP)

Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available.
Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea of the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.

CREDITS:
VISUALS - Erik Wernquist - erik@erikwernquist.com
MUSIC - Cristian Sandquist - cristiansandquist@mac.com
WORDS AND VOICE - Carl Sagan
COLOR GRADE - Caj Müller/Beckholmen Film - caj@beckholmenfilm.se
LIVE ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY - Mikael Hall/Vidiotism - mikael@vidiotism.com
LIVE ACTION PERFORMANCE - Anna Nerman, Camilla Hammarström, Hanna Mellin
VOCALIST - Nina Fylkegård
THANK YOU - Johan Persson, Calle Herdenberg, Micke Lindgren, Satrio J. Studt, Tomas Axelsson, Christian Lundqvist, Micke Lindell, Sigfrid Söderberg, Fredrik Strage, Johan Antoni, Henrik Johansson, Michael Uvnäs, Hanna Mellin

THIS FILM WAS MADE WITH USE OF PHOTOS AND TEXTURES FROM:
NASA/JPL, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, ESA, John Van Vliet, Björn Jonsson (and many others, of which I unfortunately do not know the names)

El reino de los sueños y la locura: documental sobre Studio Ghibli

'The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness' reveals the tortured genius of Studio Ghibli

Star Wars Episodio VII: El despertar de la Fuerza

Esto es Eve Online… para sus jugadores

El tema musical para el final de la trilogía de "El Hobbit"

Cómo añadir la fila de teclas numéricas al teclado estándar de Android

How to add a dedicated number row to the Google Keyboard

Entrevista a Hans Zimmer

Aprovechando el estreno de "Interstellar", ahí va una reciente entrevista a Hans Zimmer cubriendo mucha de su obra, muy jugosa.

Composer Hans Zimmer Talks 'Interstellar' Origin, Punk Influence on 'Dark Knight' (Exclusive Video)

Android 5.0 Lollypop en Ars Technica

Android 5.0 Lollipop, thoroughly reviewed: Android's biggest update ever revamps nearly every part of the OS.

"Ambition", el último corto de Platige Image


Making Of Ambition by Platige Imagepor itsartmag

Cuando Google "unta" a organizaciones como la EFF

Julian Assange discovers Google's given MONEY to EFF: Sterling journalism there, mate

"…But a better indicator of Google's influence is not when money changes hand, but when it doesn't. Take for example, the implications of the CJEU’s Gonzalez ruling, which upheld that Google wasn’t exempt from European data protection law, and which confirmed that individuals have the right to ask for links to old and irrelevant information to be removed from Google.

It’s popular with individuals who have done nothing criminal, and who can’t afford the lawyers needed to take out a superinjunction, like Andrew Marr. Google structured itself to avoid having to comply with European privacy law, so it could argue that it wasn’t actually doing any data processing in Europe. But this argument was rejected in the Gonzalez ruling.

In July, The Media Society, supported by ITN, held a discussion of the ruling. The event was called "Rewriting History" – no bias there – and featured a representative from Google, along with a barrister, an academic and ITN executive who were all hostile to the decision, on numerous occasions citing misleading evidence. The other panellist was the UK Information Commissioner, who is legally obliged to be even handed between the data processor (Google) and the individual. So four and a half panellists represented Google, the data processing giant, and half a panellist represented the individual – some of the time…"

Dragon Age 1 gratis hoy en EA Origin

El juego base sin los DLCs: https://www.origin.com/en-ie/store/buy/dragon-age-1/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition

Las Cazafantasmas

Finalmente habrá un Cazafantasmas 3, protagonizada por humoristas femeninas.

The next 'Ghostbusters' is happening and it will star 'hilarious women'

La Gran Guerra (de los mundos)

Great martian war from PLAZMA on Vimeo.

Windows 10

The next version of Windows will be… Windows 10: Microsoft has announced the name of the next Windows, and it's not the name anyone expected.

Windows 10 in pictures: A new Start menu puts focus back on the desktop: Multiple desktops and new application views make Windows 10 more PC-friendly.



Demo de un monitor Dell Ultra-Widescreen 21:9

"Jupiter Ascending", el trailerazo refinitivo

Panoramificando la serie original de Star Trek

No recortando, sino añadiendo.

'Star Trek: The Original Series' scenes look fantastic as cinematic panoramas

Análisis de iOS 8 en Ars technica (11 páginas)

iOS 8, thoroughly reviewed: A big, developer-centric update completes the overhaul started in iOS 7.

Telepatía con hilos

The First Successful Demonstration Of Brain-To-Brain Communication In Humans

"…By using advanced precision neuro-technologies including wireless EEG and robotized TMS, we were able to directly and noninvasively transmit a thought from one person to another, without them having to speak or write," explained coauthor Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. "This in itself is a remarkable step in human communication, but being able to do so across a distance of thousands of miles is a critically important proof-of-principle for the development of brain-to-brain communications. We believe these experiments represent an important first step in exploring the feasibility of complementing or bypassing traditional language-based or motor-based communication…"

Dirty English

Esa palabra no significaba lo que tú crees que significa (hoy día): 10 Words You Didn't Know Used to Be Dirty

Monitor curvo de 34" de Dell

Dell says its curved monitor will help make you a better gamerDell curved monitor

MOTOROLA: quién te ha visto y quién te ve

What Happened to Motorola: How a culture shift nearly doomed an iconic local company that once dominated the telecom industry.

"Autómata", la película de CF de Antonio Banderas

Automata: los robots se vuelven a cruzar en el futuro de la humanidad

El siguiente paso en memorias tras el DDR4

Los diferentes tipos de tecnología de memorios que la industria ha de explotar: Cadence white paper helps you selecting what come after DDR4

"Prelude to Axanar" completa y en FullHD

La primera fase del kickstater de "Star Trek: Axanar" ya está en línea. 20 minutos de fanfilm profesional con actores de las series de Star Trek y Battlestar Galactica.

Unidades Flash 3D de Samsung

Samsung SSD 850 Pro (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) Review: Enter the 3D Era.

Va a ser muy interesante, porque aumenta la velocidad y la durabilidad.

El nuevo Runtime de Android

En vez de un JIT, un precompilado in situ de las aplicaciones, optimizando según el dispositivo.

A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) in Android L

Robin Williams

Una complilación de vídeos mostrando de lo que era capaz.

Some of our favorite moments and memories from Robin Williams: O Captain, Our Captain

Dopamina y religión

The god effect: Religion spawns both benevolent saints and murderous fanatics. Could dopamine levels in the brain drive that switch?

Entrevista a John Bruno

Veterano supervisor de VFX.

The visual effects legend behind 'Ghostbusters' and 'Terminator 2' on realism, restraint, and adventure: Get it in the camera

El embarazo, una batalla

War in the womb: A ferocious biological struggle between mother and baby belies any sentimental ideas we might have about pregnancy

"…As the pregnancy continues, the foetus escalates its hormone production, sending signals designed to increase the mother’s blood sugar and blood pressure and thus its own resource supply. In particular, the foetus increases its production of a hormone that prompts the mother’s brain to release cortisol, the primary stress hormone. Cortisol suppresses her immune system, stopping it from attacking the foetus. More importantly, it increases her blood pressure, so that more blood pumps past the placenta and consequently more nutrients are available to the foetus.

The mother doesn’t take this foetal manipulation lying down. In fact, she pre-emptively reduces her blood sugar levels. She also releases a protein that binds to the foetal hormone, rendering it ineffective. So then the foetus further increases its production. By eight months, the foetus spends an estimated 25 per cent of its daily protein intake on manufacturing these hormonal messages to its mother. And how does the mother reply? She increases her own hormonal production, countering the embryo’s hormones with her own that decrease her blood pressure and sugar. Through all this manipulation and mutual reprisal, most of the time the foetus ultimately gets about the right amount of blood, and about the right amount of sugar, allowing it to grow fat and healthy in time for birth. This is the living instantiation of Haig’s tug-of-war between maternal and paternal genomes. As long as each side holds its end up, nobody gets hurt…"



Studio ghibli podría estar a punto de echar el cierre

Studio Ghibli may be shutting down

Se reduciría a una gestora de los derechos de su propiedad intelectual. De esto ya se habló hace unas pocas películas, en realidad

Desmentido aquí: Studio Ghibli Is Not Closing, Despite Rumors

Time Travel Lover

Tercer trailer de "Interstellar"

Más Mad Max

Tragedia RPera

Creo que me he cargado a uno de mis personajes, llevándolo más allá del rompimiento, y transformando a otro en el proceso, lo que hará polvo a my personaje principal.

Tengo síndrome de estrés rol-traumático :(

Kárate a muerte en no sé dónde

El nuevo tren superlujo japonés

Japan's new Cruise Train is a luxury hotel on rails: The design looks more like an upscale hotel than an Amtrak car

Google + permite desde ahora utilizar nombres ficticios

Google+ kills off “real names” policy. Users can now make up whatever identity they please on the social network.

El nuevo Doctor está en camino

El Sistema de Ventanas X de Unix, su historia y su sucesor

XPLAIN: Explaining X11 for the rest of us

El texto contiene sesiones X Windows incrustadas en sus páginas y todo

Ed Catmull, tal cual como Jobs

Pixar's Ed Catmull central figure in the wage-fixing scandal

[Pixar's] Catmull's deposition and emails from the lawsuit confirm that he was instrumental in operating a secret wage-theft cartel that violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. But it's even worse than you think. The cartel orchestrated in large part by Catmull robbed potential wages and job opportunities from thousands of animation industry workers at other studios, including DreamWorks, Lucasfilm, Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers, the now-defunct Orphanage, and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Star Trek Vs. Star Wars sobre San Francisco

Primero fue la ocupación…

Y entonces llegaron esos balleneros ilegales…

Poema con Ascensor Espacial

Ormr, interesante programa de edición de imágenes procedimental y no-destructivo

Bonus technology to watch: Ormr

Airbus quiere patentar una cabina de piloto virtual

…Para librarse de la mala aerodinámica de tener que ponerla en el morro del avión.

Airbus submits patent application for windowless jet cockpit
Fully opaque cockpit would let pilots navigate with viewscreens and holograms.


De hacer UIs imaginarios para películas a aceptar encargos del mundo real

Fiction Meets Function

"…Perception is known for their futuristic VFX work for film. But ever since Iron Man 2, they’ve increasingly been asked to do real-life concepting and design work for everything from smartphone screens and flight simulator interfaces to augmented reality environments. It’s a unique position to be in these days and the possibilities are endless…"

Nueva película de Studio Ghibli

Ghibli's Ghost Story When Marnie Was There Gets A Haunting Trailer

Nueva película de Studio Ghibli

Ghibli's Ghost Story When Marnie Was There Gets A Haunting Trailer

El Alzheimer de Terry Pratchett

…Está empezando a entorpecer seriamente su vida ya.

Terry Pratchett forced to cancel appearance by Alzheimer's
Discworld author, diagnosed in 2007, has announced that 'the Embuggerance is finally catching up with me'


(de Víctor)

35 Aniversario de Cinefex

Celebrating Cinefex – The Video

Cinefex 35th Anniversary Pt. 1 from Visual Effects Society on Vimeo.

Cinefex 35th Anniversary Pt. 2 from Visual Effects Society on Vimeo.

Cinefex 35th Anniversary Pt.3 from Visual Effects Society on Vimeo.

9 Minutes

Capitán América: El soldado de invierno

Acabo de verla, y me ha encantado. Decían que pretendían darle un aire de película thriller político setentero, y no es exactamente eso, pero les ha salido una cosa peculiarísima: un thriller político/de espias con un toque Bourne (en el buen sentido), sólo que con superhéroes, y el tono es genial.

Buena parte de él proviene de la música de la banda sonora, que encaja perfectamente con este estilo, opuesta a, por ejemplo, el de "Avengers", que era demasiado obvia. Esta no estaría de más en cualquier tecnothriller.

¿Y cuántas veces hemos visto una peli de superhéroes donde dos o tres de los números más espectaculares son una persecución de coches, un asalto a un vehículo o una pelea en un ascensor? Sé que a este film lo han puesto un poco verde, pero yo creo que no se lo merece para nada.

Por cierto, que la paridilla tras los créditos finales iniciales es Pietro y Wanda Maximoff.

AÑADIDO: todas las referencias al universo Marvel y más allá que aparecen en la película. No lo leáis hasta después de verla.

All the Secrets and References in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Guía de las tarjetas SD

Comprar una tarjeta SD: toma nota de lo que debes saber

Los memristores, más cerca

HP Labs’ “Machine” dissolves the difference between disk and memory. Memristor technology promises a world where RAM never forgets—and is everywhere.

Elegy for a Dead World: el juego donde tú escribes el epitafio de una civilización

El concepto es genial: paseas tu personaje por unos paisajes muy evocativos, y escribes la elegía de la civilización cutos restos estás examinando. Y luego la compartes con otros jugadores de Steam y ves qué interpretación ha hecho cada uno.

"Cazafantasmas 3" debería ser esto

Max Landis Has The Best Idea Yet For The Ghostbusters 3 Movie

Nuevo vídeo de OK Go

Aventuras en el Programa Espacial Kerbal

En un universo perverso…

Auténtica obra maestra de la descomposición mental inducida.

Curioso rumor sobre el futuro de SWTOR

The Future of SWTOR

"…EA and Disney have a brilliant plan for SWTOR. It will be upgraded to canon in the next expansion and will have some subtle tie-ins with Star Wars 7. (Specifically, a certain planet will be used and lord Vitiate will be an off-screen influence on the main villain of 7). The first step, although it won’t be obvious how, to SWTOR’s ending has begun in Forged Alliances.

The storyline for SWTOR is going to end in about 3.5 years, and the sequel is already in development. These next 3 years are going to see an increase in funding as the game is brought back in line with initial expectations. There is a fun plan to let SWTOR run for as long as players want it to, with dynamic and scaling end-game content, but focus will shift to SWTOR 2. It will run on the Cryengine 3 Frostbite 3 (sorry I was excited and they look similar to me), so your first preview of how the game might look/run will be Dragon Age 3 later this year.

The personal stories of SWTOR will continue in the next major Xpac, and they will each have an “ending”. YOUR character from SWTOR will appear in the as-yet-unnamed SWTOR 2 in various forms. Force Ghosts, holocrons, etc. As of right now, only one class appears to be able to survive until SWTOR 2 (Sith Inquisitor), but that might change. These will use your appearance settings and dialogue based on the actions you chose in the game. I will detail what I could gather about the plot later on in this post…"



…Y mucho más.

Star Trek: Axanar

Kickstarter de un FanFilm de Star Trek que promete lo que ningún otro ha cumplido. Con varios de los actores de "Battlestar Galactica" e incluso alguno de "Star Trek: Enterprise" (el embajador Soval), el dibujante y cineasta Christian Gossett ("The Red Star"), el artista de VFX Tobias Richter (el de aquella increible recreación de la Enterprise-C en colaboración con Andy Probert)…

startrekaxanar.com

“Axanar” takes place 21 years before the events of “Where no Man Has Gone Before”, the first Kirk episode of the original Star Trek. Axanar is the story of Garth of Izar, the legendary Starfleet captain who is Captain Kirk’s hero. Kirk himself called Garth the model for all future Starfleet Officer’s. Garth charted more planets than any other Captain and was the hero of the Battle of Axanar, the story of which is required reading at the academy. This is that story.

“Axanar” tells the story of Garth and his crew during the Four Years War, the war with the Klingon Empire that almost tore the Federation apart. Garth’s victory at Axanar solidified the Federation and allowed it to become the entity we know in Kirk’s time.

It is the year 2245, four years into the war with the Klingons.

Poesía en latín, subida de tono

Vamos, que muy subida de tono.

A Latin Poem So Filthy, It Wasn't Translated Until The 20th Century

Erótica peculiar

Fierce Warrior Elf Erotica Makes Nudity Into Something Badass [NSFW]

Se nos ha muerto Rik Mayall

El rubio de "La pareja basura", "Los jóvenes", "El nuevo hombre de estado" y tantas otras.

Rik Mayall dies aged 56



(de Víctor)

Los diseños futuristas de Luigi Colani

The Bulging, Twisty Future, As Imagined by Designer Luigi Colani

8 Clips de "Cómo entrenar tu dragón 2". Tiene MUY buena pinta

Eight How To Train Your Dragon 2 Clips Are All Insanely Good

Renderman gratis para proyectos no comerciales

…Y más cosas. RenderMan/RIS and the start of next 25 years
By Mike Seymour

Diseñando Godzilla

Entrevista a la peña de Weta Workshop sobre el proceso de diseño de Godzilla: Early Weta Workshop designs for Godzilla

Hoy empieza la WWDC: la conferencia de desarrolladores de Apple

La "keyna de mierdote" está disponible en varias webs. En Ars Technica está aquí (no hace falta dar a recargar para actualizar: añade líneas solo).

Peter Watts, privacidad, y política de tierra quemada

Esta es la transcripción (en PDF) de la conferencia que dio cuando le invitaron a un simposio de profesionales de la privacidad.

Y estas son sus impresiones de cómo le fue al darla: A Suicide Bomber’s Guide to Online Privacy.

Another World

…of retrogames.

El ballet es difícil

El estado del ecosistema de desarrolladores Apple

Pues eso: The State of the Apple Developer Ecosystem. Tiene puntos de mucho interés sobre la filosofía de producto de Apple para las dos plataformas, Mac e iOS.

Sutilezas de "De la Tierra a la Luna" de Julio Verne

How Jules Verne Invented Astronautics

"…The reason is that Verne was not only striving for accuracy, but believability. He was certainly aware that all the accurate details in the world were for naught if no one believed them. And that was the problem with the use of rockets. And, of course, if Verne had not employed a giant cannon, he would have lost all of the book's sharp satire, which was one of the driving forces behind its creation…"

Ciencia

En un solo plano

Mis-drop by Ferand Peek from Ferand Peek on Vimeo.

Homenaje a Giger en DeviantArt

A Tribute to Hans Rüdi Giger

"Wolfenstein: The New Order". ¿Una agradable sorpresa?

MAKING WOLFENSTEIN: A FIGHT CLUB ON TOP OF THE WORLD

El himno del ingeniero

Back in the U.S.A.!

En la cama con "They might be giants"

Ascension

Después del verano, en SyFy.

Primer trailer oficial de "Interestelar", de Chris "Batman/Inception" Nolan

¿Era eso al final del trailer una visualización realista del efecto de lente gravitacional en un agujero de lombriz (cuya boca tendría la forma de una esfera, no de un disco)?

Hans Rüdi Giger ha fallecido

Legendary Alien Artist H.R. Giger Has Died At 74

Historia de los "cinerides"

La verdadera pasión de Douglas Trumbull en su momento.

The Art of the Ride Film (we visit 6 killer rides)

Akira FanTrailer del copón divino

El Egipto sexy reemplaza a la Roma sexy

The world of ancient Egypt — a time of magic, Pharaohs, gods and thieves — lives again in HIEROGLYPH, an exciting action-adventure series from creator/executive producer Travis Beacham ("Pacific Rim," "Clash of the Titans"). When a dangerous scroll, The Book of Thresholds, is stolen from Egypt's most secure vault, master thief AMBROSE (Max Brown, "Beauty and the Beast," "MI-5") is plucked from prison to track down the perpetrator. Having spent the past five years in the darkest of pits, Ambrose quickly learns that his prison cell might be safer than the dangerous new world in which he finds himself: Atum, the empire's capital. Ambrose must answer to Pharaoh SHAI KANAKHT (Reece Ritchie, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time"), a god in the flesh, a young ruler with a cool charm and a violent, frightening temper. The question for Ambrose is not whether he can trust his new boss, but whether he can trust anyone. Also stalking the halls of the palace is NEFERTARI KANAKHT (Condola Rashad, "Smash," "Steel Magnolias"), half-sister to the Pharaoh, whose relationship with Shai's closest advisor, MAGISTER BEK (guest star Hal Ozsan, "90210"), masks her own designs for power. Finding few leads in the palace, Ambrose's investigation takes him to the doorstep of his long-lost love, PESHET (Caroline Ford, "Lake Placid: The Final Chapter"), a magic-wielding adoratrice, a type of homespun priestess who uses her femininity as a portal to the gods...for the right price. Peshet was the keystone in Ambrose's merry band of thieves, an impressionable youth with great knowledge of magic, a woman who never saw a lock for which she didn't have an unlocking charm. Five years later, Peshet has left her old life behind in a pious pursuit of divine contact. Ambrose's journey also leads him to old friends, such as VOCIFER (John Rhys-Davies, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings," "Raiders of the Lost Ark"), a peddler of mystical wares and Ambrose's mentor. But he also comes face-to-face with foes both old and new, from RAWSER (Antony Bunsee, "EastEnders," "Sex and the City 2"), the Pharaoh's captain of the guard, who imprisoned him five years ago; to LOTUS TENRY (Kelsey Chow, "One Tree Hill"), a palace concubine and spy for a rival kingdom. As Ambrose unravels the mystery of The Book of Thresholds, he begins to see the extent to which sorcery has seeped into the halls of power in ancient Egypt, and how close it is to causing this great civilization's downfall. HIEROGLYPH is produced by Chernin Entertainment in association with 20th Century Fox Television. The series is created and written by Travis Beacham. The series is executive-produced by Beacham, Peter Chernin (NEW GIRL, "Touch"), Katherine Pope (NEW GIRL, "Touch") and Anna Fricke ("Being Human," "Men in Trees"). Miguel Sapochnik ("Mind Games," "Repo Men") also serves as an executive producer and directed the pilot.

La presentación en vivo de Modo 8.0.1

Brad Peebler toma demasiado café.

¡GANDAAALF!

Este ES bueno :D

Creando un cebo para pedófilos en 3D en tiempo real

Arnold: used to help in the fight against child exploitation

Aniversario del lenguaje BASIC

Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

The Illusion of Life

Fry y Laurie, años después

Un loro muerto para los tiempos que vivimos

Interesante novela

Afterparty Is A Cutting-Edge Story About How Science Will Change Us

"…Afterparty follows the so-called Smart Drug revolution: anyone with an internet connection can become a designer drug manufacturer. In a Toronto psychiatric institution, a teenager kills herself as she goes through withdrawal, saying that God has left her. It's troubling to fellow patient Lyda Rose, because she's one of the ones who designed Numinous. Take the drug, and for a short while, you absolutely believe in God. Overdose, and you believe forever. In Lyda's case, she's got Dr. Gloria following her around, her own guardian angel. There's no faith required, just a bit of biochemistry. What's worrisome to Lyda is that she and her fellow designers swore that they'd never build the drug again. Now, it's back on the streets…"

Modo 8.0.1

Ignite your MODO mojo with 801

Superman con una Go Pro

…Y, de alguna forma, ver esta tontería te da realmente la sensación de poder volar como Superman.

¿Retro tecno espacial?

Parece que "Los Goonies 2" tiene posibilidades

It's not just director Richard Donner back for The Goonies 2. Steven Spielberg is involved too...

Historia de los intentos de adaptar "Watchmen" al cine

Watchmen's long journey from page to screen

¿Qué hacían los héroes de los 80 para distraerse?

The things action movie heroes get up to on their days off

Entrevista a Tom Baker

Tom Baker interview: Doctor Who, fans, Harrison Ford

Guías para escritores gratuitas (en inglés)

Basadas en el blog de Jordan McCollum. Descargables como PDFs.

Free Writing Guides

X-Men Days of Future Past: el trailer final

¿Ciudades-rascacielos del futuro cercano?

If These Proposed Skyscrapers Are Ever Built, Cities Will Be Insane

¡Ahora no, Cato!

Vampiros lánguidos contribuyendo a las artes

You Can't Say No to Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as Vampire Lovers

"…A big part of the fantasy in Only Lovers Left Alive is that Adam and Eve are sort of subculture superheroes, with impeccable subterranean taste, drawn to brilliant indie creations the way more typical vampires are drawn to blood.

But of course they feed on human blood too. And when various setbacks — including Eve's snotty sister — interfere with their supply of clean, hospital-grade O negative, Adam and Eve have to figure out what they'll do next. This conundrum is perhaps the only thing that could pass for "action" in this film, which is ultimately a sweet, funny character study of a love affair between two people who share a passion for creative weirdness. It's incredibly refreshing to watch a relationship drama where the relationship itself isn't the source of drama. The bond between Adam and Eve is never questioned, and we know they can depend on each other as they cope with whatever madness the world hurls at them…"

El audio en "Alien: Isolation"

La música parece que la han clavado.

El manifiesto io9

Los orígenes de io9: ¿de dónde salió esta peña?

The io9 Manifesto: Science Is Political

"…io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade input/output devices for the brain that tuned tachyon waves and gave users vivid images of possible futures. The things were so addictive, and drove so many people insane, that io9s were eventually outlawed. Today the word is just slang. io9ers are the early implanters who obsessively upgrade themselves with beta tech. People who tweak out on buggy brainware are sometimes said to have "gone io9." Science fiction writer Ken MacLeod has another term for io9ers. He calls them rapture fuckers…"

La nueva película de "Battlestar Galactica" sigue adelante

Glen A. Larson mantenía los derechos de cara a versiones cinematográficas. La historia diferirá de la nueva serie, pero no se sabe si proseguirá la historia de la antigua o si reiniciará la saga.

‘Battlestar Galactica’ Movie Gets New Life at Universal (EXCLUSIVE)

Historia del IBM S/360 y los "mainframes"

Why won't you DIE? IBM's S/360 and its legacy at 50: Big Blue's big $5bn bet adjusted, modified, reduced, back for more

Trailers extendidos de Godzilla

Demo de Presto, el programa con el que animan en Pixar

Luc Besson ataca de nuevo

Se le echaba de menos.

Jeff Hawkins (el fundador de Palm) y su enfoque sobre la IA

Palm's Jeff Hawkins is building a brain-like AI. He told us why he thinks his life's work is right: Inside a big bet on future machine intelligence

"Phantasm V: Ravager" ¡¡¡Coscarelli, el Hombre Alto y las esferas vuelven a la pantalla!!!

Director Don Coscarelli returns to his bizarre horror franchise with Phantasm V: Ravager. Here's the first trailer...

El "Dune" de Jodorowsky: la película

www.sonyclassics.com/jodorowskysdune

"Making of" pero bien largos de Alien, Aliens, Predator y otras

Alien (con subtítulos en castellano):





Aliens (3 horas de "cómo se hizo"):





Depredador





2001




Y unas cuantas más aquí: Spend The Evening Learning About The Making Of Your Favorite Movies

Nuevo trailer de "Edge of Tomorrow"

Nuevo trailer de "X-Men: Días del pasado futuro"

El modelo de la mente del pandemonio, y la IA

Pandemonium Explains Why Computers Will Share Human Biases

"…We can recognize the letter "m" even when it's written in many different fonts. We recognize it because, according to the pandemonium theory, one little demon in in charge on small curves that peak in the middle, and shouts that it sees them. Another is in charge of vertical lines and shouts that it sees them as well. Those two shouters pass their messages, simultaneously, up the chain of command until a demon in charge of recognizing the letter "m" accepts them and starts shouting itself. But, because the letter "n" also consists of curves and lines, and also joins in the chorus. Eventually, the whole process comes to a decision demon. It picks, "n" or "m" and that is what registers in our conscious mind. This process of recognizing tiny bits of information, and putting them together for the best fit, can work for anything from basic curves to human faces…"

Utilizar 123D Catch de Autodesk para hacer modelos 3D de tus personajes de MMOs

De SWTOR nadie ha logrado hacer todavía un extractor de modelos. Sin embargo, a esta persona se le ocurrió probar con la aplicación gratuita de Autodesk 123D Catch y…



¿Alguien se acuerda de los Transputers de Inmos?

Algunos están intentando revivir su OS, Helios (que se escribe "Helios", no "HeliOS").

Helios Next Generation

Vive tu propia aventura… con el Escogetrón

The Choosatron turns choose your own adventure books into their own game console

He estado desde el jueves pasado sin internet

…Porque se me frió el cablemódem. He pasado a Ono 50MB, pero me han dado un modem-enrutador WIFI de Cisco. Que vale, bien, pero preferiría usar mi Apple Airport para la LAN y el WIFI, y el Cisco como sólo módem (tiene fama de poca potencia inalámbrica, y me gusta más el control que me da Airport en varias cosas).

El hecho es que se puede: antes capaban la opción en el panel de configuración del Cisco, pero cuando me llegó estaba accesible. En lo que no me estoy aclarando es en cómo configurar el Airport. Me da aviso de doble NAT. Mi Mac tiene dos puertos Ethernet: conectando uno directo al Cisco, y otro con el Airport interpuesto, veo que surte datos a ambos, así que ese sería el origen del problema, si es que es realmente un problema.

¿Alguna sugerencia?

El Chuarche tiene un tanque

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Los trailers de "The Elder Scrolls Online"

Y el artículo sobre los mismos en FXguide:

Blur’s The Elder Scrolls Online cinematic: 8 mins of action

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La película de "Veronica Mars"

'Veronica Mars' review: a true detective returns. The mysterious case of the crowdfunded movie

Wolfram Language

Wolfram Language

Otros Nautilus

The 20,000 Leagues Remake That Almost Was

"Believe", Nueva serie de J. J. Abrams y Alfonso Cuarón

Roleando en Star Wars: The Old Republic

Parecerá una tontería, pero estoy en una nube, porque he participado en una sesión de juego de rol con la peña rolera del Guild "Binary Sunset" que ha sido una perfecta delicia.

Hace unos meses, Jen, la guildmaster, hizo un reintento de hacer despegar la parte rolera del Guild, y unos pocos acudimos. Ella resucitó una pequeña saga que tenía montada con antiguos miembros de ese Guild y anteriores encarnaciones, y nos introdujo en ella.

Lo gracioso es que yo anticipaba ir por detrás de los demás, siguiendo sus acciones con un papel menor, pero prácticamente ha sido al revés.

En el foro de RP del guild expandimos nuestros papeles y la historia con documentación imaginaria, biografías, personajes secundarios, introspecciones y demás. En esta ocasión habíamos estado creando chicha para una secuencia que no sabíamos muy bien cómo iría. Jen ha estado brillante en la planificación, y el resultado ha sido muy bonito. Para bordarlo, tuvimos una estrella invitada: un personaje cuyo jugador está actualmente en otro Guild apareció en la escena, de forma pertinente e impactante.

No es que sea la sesión donde yo haya dado más de sí, pero sí una donde pudimos ponernos dramáticos e incluso emotivos.

Y yo que me he estado perdiendo esta clase de cosas todo este tiempo…

Pilotando el mirlo

Flying the world's fastest plane: Behind the stick of the SR-71

Starbuck y Amy Pond en una de terror que encima parece buena

Lo relojes inteligentes… y bonitos

This is the smartwatch Apple or Google needs to make: One designer wants to take smartwatches back to their origins

Gettyimages te deja incrustar sus fotos gratis

…Si dejas visible su pie de foto.

The world's largest photo service just made its pictures free to use: Getty Images is betting its business on embeddable photos

Opinión sobre el 1º episodio de la nueva Cosmos

First look: Cosmos rebooted with Neil deGrasse Tyson: We've seen the first episode, and we came away impressed.

Entrevista interesante a James Woods

James Woods interview: Videodrome, The Hard Way, Hercules and more

Este domingo empieza la nueva "Cosmos"

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why the new Cosmos matters so much

Historia oral de los Cazafantasmas

Hace treinta años que una peliculita nos divirtió tanto a todos.

An Oral History of Ghostbusters: Who you gonna call? Everyone in the cast of Ghostbusters.

Salvar el Columbia

The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia: The untold story of the rescue mission that could have been NASA's finest hour.

Godzilla

Harold Ramis ha fallecido

Harold Ramis of 'Ghostbusters' and 'Groundhog Day' fame dead at 69

"…Harold Ramis, known best for his portrayal of Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters films and as the filmmaker behind several beloved comedies, has died at the age of 69. Ramis died due to complications stemming from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis…"

Interesante manera de resolver los problemas de los chips 3D

Si apilas chips uno encima de otro para hacer chips 3D, has de comunicarlos entre sí haciendo agujeros que se alineen perfectamente, a través de los cuales pasarán los hilos conductores, cosa cara y difícil. Esta peña, en vez de comunicarlos mediante contactos físicos, lo hace por inducción.

Intel, Sun vet births fast, inexpensive 3D chip-stacking breakthrough. Cranky, costly through-silicon vias replaced by inductive coils

Nuevos videocursillos de Modo

Desde que Luxology y The Foundry se unieron, están haciendo un esfuerzo promocional con un canal de Youtube y Vimeo, y nuevos cursillos introductorios.

New Modo Tutorials

Creo que voy a hacer el enésimo nuevo intento de cogerle el tranquillo (no sé qué me pasa que me cuesta una barbaridad entrarle. No me gusta nada su "tactilidad", acostumbrado como estoy a los abandonados Hexagon y EIModeler. Pero es obvio que el programa es la monda ya solo como modelador).

El buscador duckduckgo va creciendo

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

duckduckgo.com

Los guardianes de la galaxia

Cumberbatchin'

Una entrevista muy interesante en el BAFTA, y bastante divertida.

Watch Benedict Cumberbatch's spot-on Peter Jackson impersonation

Vértigo

La nueva de "Robocop"

'RoboCop' review: meet the new model: Director José Padilha delivers a somber reboot of an '80s classic

Interacción a medida con tu ordenador

Beyond QWERTY: how Palette's knobs and dials change the way you work and play: Custom fit controls

Limpieza de PCs Windows infectados

Esta guía me ha gustado mucho, sobre todo por los consejos a la hora de asegurarse de que realmente has desinfectado el equipo, y a la hora de reparar los agujeros en el OS y aplicaciones que ha dejado el quitar los archivos infectados.

How to Clean An Infected Computer

Ciencia-ficción low-cost

Cortos y series de poco presupuesto y alta imaginación.

www.lofiscifi.com

Por ejemplo:

Cortos y largos primerizos de famosos directores de cine de ciencia-ficción

Desde Cameron a Tarkovski pasando por Emmerich.

Watch the student films scifi directors made before they were famous

Los alienígenes de "El juego de Ender"

Ender's Game concept art shows off the movie's amazing creature design

Dirigibles a tutiplén

The Most Astounding Airships, Dirigibles and Zeppelins in History

La tipografía que vino del espacio

Empezando por la empleada en "2001: Una odisea del espacio".

Typeset In The Future

Goro Miyazaki dirige la adaptación a TV de una novela de Astrid Lindgren

…La autora de los libros de "Pippi Calzaslargas" y "Miguel el travieso". La que van a adaptar, a serie de TV, es "Ronja, la hija del bandolero", uno de sus libros ya más tardíos: una especie de Romeo y Julieta entre bandas de ladrones medievales. Parece que la animación será subcontratada, y será tipo 3D con "cel shading".

Studio Ghibli, Goro Miyazaki to create fall TV series: Polygon will produce the animation

Aparte, más sobre el hombre más ocupado del mundo retirándose.

Los malvados, si británicos, mejores malvados

Dos libros electrónicos de tutorías para artistas de videojuegos

artbypapercut.com

Los vínculos a las descargas en sí:

Vertex Vol. 1: This is one of the most comprehensive free resources that belongs in every game-artists’ library. This eBook covers everything from Sculpting, Color Theory, and Texturing and even how to set you up as a successful Freelancer. The book even has articles and workflows from studios such as Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment.

Vertex Vol. 2: In this eBook you will find information ranging from modeling & texture workflows to tips on working as or with outsourcing. This eBook features articles and workflows from studios such as Blizzard Entertainment and Ubisoft as well as tips and tricks from various freelancers in the movie and video game industries. This is another must read for any artist in the entertainment industries.

Carretera al infiehnno

Es como una maldición bíblica: hay que tomárselo con filosofía.

VFXguideTV: uso de GPUs para Efectos Visuales

This week on fxguidetv we feature a presentation from the CVMP 2013 conference in London. NVIDIA’s Wil Braithwaite takes us through a decade of GPU use in visual effects and post production.

fxguidetv #185: GPUs in VFX

Adaptadores y alimentadores: cuánto gastan en reposo y cómo ahorrar

Consumo fantasma. Mitos, verdades y soluciones

Blade Runner como radionovela en Radio 3

Blade Runner en Radio 3

"…La adaptación radiofónica estará protagonizada por Antonio de la Torre, que dará vida a Rick Deckar (el personaje que en la película interpretaba Harrison Ford) y contará también con Álex Angulo que interpreta a Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel en la película).

Se representará ante el público esta noche (28-01-2014) a las 22.00 h en La Casa Encendida de Madrid, con entrada libre hasta completar aforo (las entradas comenzarán a repartirse a partir de las 20.00 h), pero por suerte para los que no vivimos en la capital, también se podrá seguir en directo…"

(¿Sueña Víctor con abejas dieléctricas?)

Ars Technica analiza el Mac Pro desde el punto de vista de un profesional del 3D

Extremadamente majo en vídeo pero, específicamente en 3D, hay serios problemas de rendimiento/precio.

A pro with serious workstation needs reviews Apple’s 2013 Mac Pro
Apple’s latest Mac Pro is powerful, but it isn’t always a clear upgrade.

Maléfica

Al fin sale la versión en enchufe de MeshFusion para MODO

La tecnología de booleanas interactivas de GroBoto combinada con los SubD de MODO.

MeshFusion for MODO

Más sobre los "agujeros grises" de Hawking, en Nature

Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes': Notion of an 'event horizon', from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims.

Aunque, tal como lo veo, a efectos prácticos sigue siendo lo mismo.

El Macintosh cumple 30 años

30 años de Macintosh (dejad pasar el vídeo y explorad la web: el diseño es una delicia).

Y en The Verge: The Mac turns 30: a visual history

Fuse de Mixamo: creador gratuito de personajes 3D

Puedes exportar OBJs con texturas, o formatos con huesos desde su servicio web.

Mixamo releases Fuse ‘universal character creator’

La edad dorada de la insectoaviación

Golden Age of Insect Aviation: The Great Grasshoppers from Wayne Unten on Vimeo.

Huhg Hancock, el "padre" de Machinima, en el blog de Stross

Introducing Hugh Hancock

How To Survive A Death March

Introducing ... Death Knight Love Story, evolution of Machinima

Why Make A Movie Within A Computer Game?

Y el tío se ha agarrado a Joanna Lumley y otros actores famosos para su nuevo proyecto:

"…If you have access to a virtual world like Azeroth (the world of World of Warcraft), you can suddenly take a live-action filmmaker's approach. Rather than creating sets, you can simple location-scout. You can choose a landscape, a castle, a house suitable for your project from hundreds of those locations all over these virtual worlds. The process becomes very similar to that of a conventional cameras-and-real-actors film: shortlisting possible locations ("How about this house at the back of Stormwind?" "No, too dingy - how about this one in Goldshire?"), picking one, then moving the cast and crew there.

The only difference is that in real life most directors don't have access to a "/teleport" command…"

Stephen Hawking le quita el horizonte de sucesos a los agujeros negros

…Como solución a un serio problema de conservación de la información, que ya lleva tiempo pululando. Veremos cuál es el consenso sobre su propuesta.

Stephen Hawking's new theory offers black hole escape

Tasa de fallos de discos duros

De 3-4% a 25% en algunas marcas (Seagate, te estoy mirando a tiiii).

Putting hard drive reliablity to the test shows not all disks are equal: Failure rates vary from 2 percent to 24 percent per year, depending on make, model.

Noveau Parfum

Hoy puede ser un mal día, plantéatelo así…



(de Víctor, mala persona :D )

El sonido de "El Hobbit: La desolación de Smaug"

Boy in a Band

Esta es la web de un chaval británico que descubrí en Youtube y me resultó simpático. Hace música electrónica, abordando desafíos divertidos; pone videocursos de manejo de instrumentos virtuales; y, en general, resulta interesante escucharle.

www.boyinaband.com

Una de sus últimas paridillas:

El Concorde

Especialmente interesante la historia del diseño del ala para funcionar a velocidad supersónica y a bajas velocidades de despegue y aterrizaje, sin cuya resolución no habría habido manera de hacer viable el proyecto.

Concorde

¿Qué idea o actitud científica está lista para ser tirada a la basura?

La lista es interesante.

2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?

Por ejemplo:

M-theory / String Theory is the Only Game in Town

"…But, to be fair to those who insist that Einstein must be now made to bow to Bohr, the most strident of those enthusiasts have offered a fair challenge. Quantum exceptionalists claim, despite an unparalleled history of non-success, that string theory (now rebranded as M-theory for matrix, magic or membrane) remains literally 'the only game in town' because fundamental physics has gotten so hard that no one can think of a credible alternate unification program. If we are to dispel this as a canard, we must make a good faith effort to answer the challenge by providing interesting alternatives, lest we be left with nothing at all.

My reason for believing that there is a better route to the truth is that we have, out of what seems to be misplaced love for our beloved Einstein, been too reverential to the exact form of general relativity. For example, if before retrofitting we look closely at the curvature and geometry of the legs, we can see something striking, in that they are subtly incompatible at a classical geometric level before any notion of a quantum is introduced. Einstein's leg seems the sparest and sturdiest as it clearly shows the attention to function found in the school of 'intrinsic geometry' founded by the German Bernhard Riemann. The Maxwell and Dirac legs are somewhat more festive and ornamented as they explore the freedom of form which is the raison d'etre for a more whimsical school of 'auxiliary geometry' pioneered by Alsatian Charles Ehresmann. This leads one naturally to a very different question: what if the quantum incompatibility of the existing theories is really a red herring with respect to unification and the real sticking point is a geometric conflict between the mathematicians Ehresmann and Riemann rather than an incompatibility between the physicists Einstein and Bohr? Even worse, it could be that none of the foundations are ready to be quantized. What if all three theories are subtly incomplete at a geometric level and that the quantum will follow once, and only once, all three are retired and replaced with a unified geometry?…"

¡…Y sale Kai Krause!

Estudiando el problema de hacer IAs amigables

…Para que no se nos coman crudos.

"…It has been said that an AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made of atoms it can use for something else…"

Can we build an artificial superintelligence that won't kill us?

¿Qué hizo pinchar a la industria americana de la distribución de Animé?

​What killed the American anime industry?

"…So here's how it broke down: Based on the inflated sales of the early boom, Japanese companies demanded the same high price for an inferior product — for a not-necessarily real example, demanding to be paid the same for the RahXephon license as they did for Evangelion. RahXephon isn't bad, but it had no chance in hell of coming close to matching Evangelion in sales. Now repeat that with pretty much every single anime series released after 2005 or so. The Japanese, wanting to match their initial revenues, overcharged for pretty much everything, and the U.S. companies, both out of wishful thinking and because Japan had a complete monopoly on the source (where else was the U.S. going to buy anime?) paid them. And the U.S. companies lost and lost and lost money until basically two U.S. anime companies survived — Funimation and Viz…"

Sistemas de Archivos de nueva generación

Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems:We look at the amazing features in ZFS and btrfs—and why you need them.

"…Generation 0: No system at all. There was just an arbitrary stream of data. Think punchcards, data on audiocassette, Atari 2600 ROM carts.

Generation 1: Early random access. Here, there are multiple named files on one device with no folders or other metadata. Think Apple ][ DOS (but not ProDOS!) as one example.

Generation 2: Early organization (aka folders). When devices became capable of holding hundreds of files, better organization became necessary. We're referring to TRS-DOS, Apple //c ProDOS, MS-DOS FAT/FAT32, etc.

Generation 3: Metadata—ownership, permissions, etc. As the user count on machines grew higher, the ability to restrict and control access became necessary. This includes AT&T UNIX, Netware, early NTFS, etc.

Generation 4: Journaling! This is the killer feature defining all current, modern filesystems—ext4, modern NTFS, UFS2, you name it. Journaling keeps the filesystem from becoming inconsistent in the event of a crash, making it much less likely that you'll lose data, or even an entire disk, when the power goes off or the kernel crashes…"



Y la siguente es…

El Trash Pro

Alternativas al Mac Pro: emular el diseño en una papelera o emular el rendimiento, tú eliges

Auge y declive de Quark XPress

How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing
In the early '90s, Quark boasted 95% market share. In '99, InDesign arrived...

El Sinclair QL cumple 30 años

Sinclair’s 1984 big shot at business: The QL is 30 years old. Quantum Leap micro leapt too early

La ley del aborto de Gallardón es procesalmente imposible

Elefantes azules, aborto y las leyes como rama de la literatura fantástica

Entre otras cosas:

"…En nuestro Derecho Procesal Civil no existe la figura del silencio positivo o negativo. A diferencia, por ejemplo, de lo que sucede en la vía administrativa cuando se trata de peticiones dirigidas a la Administración, en la vía judicial civil:

  • no se entiende ni autorizada
  • ni denegada
  • ninguna petición por falta de resolución por el juez en los plazos que marca la ley.

Por tanto, una petición dirigida a un juzgado civil y que no se resuelve en el plazo teórico que marca la respectiva normativa procesal queda indefinidamente en un limbo jurídico que no permite actuar a quien efectúa la petición hasta que resuelva el juez, puesto que:

  • no se entiende ni concedido lo pedido
  • ni tampoco denegado a efecto de poder recurrirlo.

No existe sistema legal para obligar a un juez civil a dictar resolución en plazo, sin perjuicio, en su caso, de las responsabilides disciplinarias que procedan, o de las consecuencias procesales que se deriven de ello, en su caso, que suelen ser ninguna…"

Cualquier trámite que inicie una mujer para conseguir abortar según los supuestos de la ley de Gallardón practicamente tiene garantizado una tardanza de dos a tres meses como mínimo.

Y ese es sólo uno de los detalles de este despropósito.

Un TED sobre por qué TED no funciona

Un monolito en el jardín

Aunque parece cumplir las proporciones del libro en vez de las de la película.

"Making of" de "En busca del arca perdida"

Homenaje de "Los Simpsons" a Miyazaki

Los 3D escultóricos de Platige para "Ryse"

Esa gente cada vez se supera a sí misma.

RELIEF TRANSITIONS FOR RYSE SON OF ROME

Clásicos de la cultura informática: el artículo original del "Pringao HowTo"

"…espero con este documento salvar a otros pringados de caer en las redes del usuaribus chupopterus. Este caso de arriba es sólo un ejemplo. Es sólo una de las muchas personas que me han pedido consejo sobre comprar un ordenador en la vida, y que me han enganchado en una espiral de se me ha estropeado y por favor instálame esto que me hace perder muchas horas de mi tiempo libre cada año, no sólo instalando, sino comprando, buscando o desesperándome.

Recuerda, no seas el soporte técnico gratuíto de Microsoft…"

Pringao Howto. Octubre del 2001 - Revisión 1.0. Santiago Romero aka NoP/Compiler

Y no olvidemos la mítica camiseta y la correspondiente pose hierática:

Pringaohowto

Emotional Titanic Flute

El canal de Youtube de ILM

Ultimamente están añadiendo material jugosillo, sobre todo mostrando los pasos que componen cada escena: 3D + simulación física, elementos a composición digital y su masajeado.

www.youtube.com/user/ILMVisualFX

Por ejemplo:

Doc Brown, DeLorean, Gibson, CES

"…It was all part of an elaborate event from Gibson, during which Lloyd “traveled back” to 1894 to see Gibson's very first guitars (some now worth millions of dollars). Because at CES, everything is a marketing gimmick. But unlike bringing Michael Bay up to talk about your curved TVs or asking Shaq to hawk your HDMI cables, bringing out the Back to the Future gang is awesome…"

Incluye fotazas: Doc Brown sets the DeLorean to 2014, arrives at CES to shill for Gibson



"Alien: Isolation", ¿la última esperanza de la franquicia en videojuegos?

Después del desastre de "Aliens: Colonial Marines" (los desarrolladores prometieron y no cumplieron en ninguno de los aspectos), llega "Alien: Isolation". La historia consiste en que Amanda Ripley, la hija de Ellen Ripley (que en "Aliens", en la edición especial, había envejecido y fallecido mientras su madre hibernaba en la chalupa Narcissus), a los 15 años de declararse la pérdida de la Nostromo, viaja a una estación que ha rescatado la caja negra del carguero. El enfoque del juego es de supervivencia. La estética es la de la primera película. Y no tienes armas

Alien: Isolation and Creative Assembly's making of the anti-Aliens game

www.alienisolation.com

¡Es el CES!

…Y en todas las webs de tecnología de consumo están haciendo reportajes sobre la feria y las presentaciones de las marcas. En Ars Technica, The Verge, los Xatacas, Gizmodos y Engadgets…

Curiosidad: las camaritas para deportistas de riesgo y tal de Polaroid.

Ordenar cables guardándolos en tubos de cartón del papel higiénico

No es mala idea. Es la hora de guardar los canutos del papel higiénico.

Código fuente en las películas

¿De donde viene el código visible en los monitores de las películas que quieren fardar de tecnología-ficción?

Source Code in TV and Films

A veces, la gente responsable le pone picardía: Iron Man está hecho de Lego

Un día con los babilonios

Gallery: Ars talks to Babylon 5 and Game of Thrones actors at Space City Con

(Mirad las fotos de cada uno con su comentariete. Y qué lástima que la forma en que fue producida y conservada impida la edición en HD de la serie)

Y esto no lo sabíamos.

Argumentos en contra de una interpretación psicologista del lenguaje en la primera etapa de la obra de Ludwig Wittgenstein

PERO ESTO QUÉ ES VII

"…Sorprende la peregrina tesis de mi expareja especialmente porque, antes de aliarse académica y sexualmente con la señorita Robinson -rompiendo, así, con el sólido proyecto de investigación en el que tanto él como yo estábamos involucrados-, él nunca mostró el más mínimo interés por relacionar la concepción wittgensteiniana del lenguaje con los procesos psicológicos. Muy al contrario, en el artículo que coescribimos cuando éramos felices en 2012, publicado en la revista de la “Cognitive Science Society”, él mismo defiende que la normatividad del lenguaje en Wittgenstein depende de la propia naturaleza del lenguaje y no de la actividad psíquica de los sujetos empíricos. Léase lo que él mismo escribe, pues, en el citado ensayo de cuando parecía tener dos dedos de frente…"

Los primeros 15 minutos de "Helix"

Entrevista a Gabe Newell de Valve sobre Steam como empresa

Gabe Newell on what makes Valve tick"…Also, it was pretty clear that there were very large differences in productivity between people who were good and people who were great. So we needed to figure out why those people would come here rather than working some place there or starting their own company. So we had to have a clear model for how Doug [a long-time Valve employee who handles much of the company's press and was in the room during the interview] was going to be better because he was here rather than going off and starting his own gig.

The set of those requirements led to decisions about not having titles, not having organization structures, and things like that because as useful as they are in the short-term in the long-term they really end up hurting you a lot…"

Las virtudes del multiproceso heterogéneo asimétrico

The bright side of dark silicon

10 minutos del FanFilm argentino de ROBOTECH

Patrick Stewart y la división social de las vacas

Sir Patrick Stewart breaks down the regional accents of cows

El análisis de Anandtech del nuevo Mac Pro

The Mac Pro Review (Late 2013)