Food commercials used to have food stylists preparing the foods to look attractive for photography or filming while making it inedible at the same time. Now, with powerful and cheap 3D programs, you can create delicious looking food that tingle your taste bug with nothing. The level of fakeness in commercial has just reached a whole new level.
If only MacDonald really serve food that’s close to what they advertise.
Despite all the revolutionary innovations that goes in the making of Apple’s Mighty Mouse, the ancient rubber trackball still has a important role to play in the form of the 360° Omni-direction scroll ball. And like all good rubber trackball, it get “stuck” and become sticky over time due to all the dirt that built up in it. However, unlike mouses of the old days which usually had a removable cover for you to remove the trackball for cleaning (and lose it afterward), the mighty mouse’s trackball is sealed in.
The Wolverine and Ironman anime trailer were released at US comic con 2009. Looking at these trailers convince me that comics, manga, cartoon and anime simply do not mix well together.
Wolverine look more like a fragile bishounen than the half man, half beast monster he is suppose to be, and what’s up with the Japanese settings.
A friend of mine come back from a very satisfying tour from Europe recently and start to describe to me how eerie the painting of Mona Lisa at Musée du Louvre is. “The eyes follow you around no matter which angle you are viewing it from” he said. This phenomenon has to do with the way a painting is created and the lack of third-dimensional on a 2-dimension surface such as a canvas. The key mechanism at work here is perspective.
Ground Zero, a google map mapplet that let you “blow up” entire cities without killing a single soul with nuclear warheads and even a earth-destroying asteriod is created by Carlos Labs. Just click anywhere on the map and drop the bomb and see the area affected by the blast.
Google map mapplet are mini-applications running [...]
