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Composition – 5 tips for creating perfect cinematic lighting and making your work look stunning
http://www.diyphotography.net/5-tips-creating-perfect-cinematic-lighting-making-work-look-stunning/
1. Learn the rules of lighting
2. Learn when to break the rules
3. Make your key light larger
4. Reverse keying
5. Always be backlighting
5 Thought Experiments That Will Melt Your Brain
1- the basic concept of the “Swampman” thought experiment posited by the philosopher Donald Davidson in the late-1980s. In this experiment a man is traveling through a swamp and killed by a bolt of lightning, but — by sheer chance — another bolt of lightning strikes a nearby swamp and rearranges all the organic particles to create an exact replica (including all the memories and such) of the man who was killed. The new Swampman wakes up and lives the rest of the deceased man’s life.
2- Achilles and the tortoise are racing at constant speeds: Very fast and very slow, respectively. At some point in the race, Achilles reaches the tortoise’s original starting point. But in the time it took Achilles to get there, the tortoise has moved forward. So, then Achilles’s next task would be to make up the new gap between himself and the tortoise, however by the time he did that, the tortoise would have again moved forward by some smaller amount. The process then repeats itself again and again. Achilles is always faced with a new (if smaller) gap to overcome. The takeaway: The great Achilles loses a race to a big dumb lumbering tortoise and no deficit is ever surmountable.
3- let’s say you just froze time at some point along an arrow’s trajectory . At that particular instant, the arrow is suspended in space in a single location. In any one instant of time, no motion is occurring. The arrow can only be in one place or the other and never in-between. So, how does it get from one instant to another if there is never a moment when it is in between the two places?
4- the question at hand is would a blind person who learned to distinguish basic shapes by touch be able to distinguish those objects when he suddenly received the power of sight? In other words, does information from one sensation translate to another, or do we associate them only in our minds?
https://news.psu.edu/story/141360/2006/04/17/research/probing-question-if-blind-person-gained-sight-could-they-recognize
5- You are on a bridge overlooking a set of trolley tracks and you notice that five people have been tied down to the tracks by a devious (and presumably moustache-twirling) villain. Then you see an out-of-control trolley barreling down the tracks that will certainly kill the unfortunate people unless someone intervenes. you realize that you are sharing your bridge with a gigantic fat man, who — if you were to push him in front of the trolley — would have enough girth to stop the trolley and save the five bound people, though he will certainly be killed.You are now faced with the following options: 1) Do nothing and the five people will die, or 2) Push the fat man in front of the trolley and sacrifice him for the five people. In either scenario, are you at all culpable in these innocent people’s deaths? Should the law make any distinction?
iOS using Swift
http://cdn2.raywenderlich.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/RW-Swift-Cheatsheet-0_3.pdf
http://www.raywenderlich.com/115279/swift-2-tutorial-part-2-a-simple-ios-app
http://www.raywenderlich.com/115253/swift-2-tutorial-a-quick-start
http://neonto.com/?ref=producthunt#slice-pricing
https://www.toptal.com/ios/ios-user-interfaces-storyboards-vs-nibs-vs-custom-code
4 Timeless Ways to Boost Your Intelligence
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/4-timeless-ways-boost-intelligence/
Factors that affect our growth.
a- The environment we choose This is the classic Nature vs Nurture debate. Nature: our genetic makeup. Nurture: the environmental factors which influence our development. Turns out it is not so much Nature vs. Nurture as it is Nature and Nurture
b- The mindset we choose What about when things do happen in our environment, which we have no control over? It comes down to our mindset. Embracing challenges Persisting in the face of setbacks Viewing effort as the path to mastery Learning from criticism Finding lessons and inspiration in the success of others
so… 4 Simple Ways To Get Smarter:
1. Challenge Yourself
2. Read Smarter
3. Hang Out With People Who Are Smarter Than You
4. Become An Idea Machine
What is the purpose of the Universe? Here is one possible answer – Cosmological Natural Selection
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5981472/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-universe-here-is-one-possible-answer
Well, it just so happens that there is a theory that gives a kind of raison d’etre to our universe and all the objects flying through it. If true, it would mean that our universe is nothing more than a black hole generator, or a means to produce as many baby universes as possible. To learn more, we spoke to the man who came up with the idea.
It’s called the theory of Cosmological Natural Selection and it was conjured by Lee Smolin a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. Smolin proposed that Darwinian processes still apply at the extreme macro-scale and to non-biological entities. Because the universe is a potentially replicative unit, he suggests that it’s subject to selectional pressures. Consequently, nearly everything the universe does is geared toward replication.
Life advice upon turning age 30 from the president of YCombinator
http://qz.com/394713/life-advice-upon-turning-age-30-from-the-president-of-y-combinator/
Short version:
1) Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list.
2) Life is not a dress rehearsal—this is probably it.
3) How to succeed: pick the right thing to do
4) On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about.
5) On money: Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that’s a big deal.
6) Talk to people more.
7) Don’t waste time.
8) Don’t let yourself get pushed around.
9) Have clear goals for yourself every day, every year, and every decade.
10) However, as valuable as planning is, if a great opportunity comes along you should take it.
11) Go out of your way to be around smart, interesting, ambitious people.
12) Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter.
13) Keep your personal burn rate low.
14) Summers are the best.
15) Don’t worry so much.
16) Ask for what you want.
17) If you think you’re going to regret not doing something, you should probably do it.
18) Exercise. Eat well. Sleep.
19) Go out of your way to help people.
20) Youth is a really great thing.
21) Tell your parents you love them more often.
22) This too shall pass.
23) Learn voraciously.
24) Do new things often.
25) Remember how intensely you loved your boyfriend/girlfriend when you were a teenager? Love him/her that intensely now.
26) Don’t screw people and don’t burn bridges.
27) Forgive people.
28) Don’t chase status.
29) Most things are ok in moderation.
30) Existential angst is part of life.
31) Be grateful and keep problems in perspective.
32) Be a doer, not a talker.
33) Given enough time, it is possible to adjust to almost anything, good or bad.
34) Think for a few seconds before you act. Think for a few minutes if you’re angry.
35) Don’t judge other people too quickly.
36) The days are long but the decades are short.
RIP Leonard Nimoy
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a33392/leonard-nimoy-what-ive-learned/?spr_id=1456_152373401
Best piece of advice I ever got was from John F Kennedy when I was driving a taxi in and out of the Hotel Bel-Air. He was a senator then. I was just out of the army and I needed to make some money, so I got to talking about the difficulty of making a living as an actor. And he said, “Just keep in mind, there’s always room for one more good one.”
To The Members Of The VES From Jeffrey A. Okun
It has been just over one month since our industry reached what I called a “tipping point,” which intensified on the heels of the Oscars. In an effort to be responsive to a beleaguered community and sincerely offer our leadership, we issued an open letter calling for increased subsidies in California and a public VFX Congress. In the days and weeks since then, visibility on the changing visual effects industry has increased dramatically. And during that time, we have received a good deal of feedback on our suggestions – both positive and negative.
Given what we have learned, I want to underscore a few important points:
Unity3D training resources
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/69938-Unity-3-Video-Training-Course-%28FREE%29-Walker-Boys
http://walkerboystudio.com/html/unity_course_start_here__free_.html
http://www.vtc.com/products/Introduction-to-Game-Development-Using-Unity-3D-Tutorials.htm
http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-learn/how-to-learn-unity/
The Price Of The VFX Overtime Death March
vfxsoldier.wordpress.com An article is making the rounds promoting the 40-hour week and explains how long work hours have proven to cost workers and their employers more of their time, their money, and their health.
Unity 3D resources
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/12321/how-can-i-start-learning-unity-fast-list-of-tutori.html
If you have no previous experience with Unity, start with these six video tutorials which give a quick overview of the Unity interface and some important features http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/video/
How to become an apps developer in a few easy steps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/feb/10/gameculture-apple
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/11/the-ultimate-toolbox-for-iphone-development/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/30-plus-tools-for-building-your-own-mobile-app.php
The developer of iShoot quit his day job after earning $22,000 a day at the top of the App Store charts. Here’s what you have to do to be next…
CASSINI MISSION
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
The footage in this little film was captured by the hardworking men and women at NASA with the Cassini Imaging Science System. If you’re interested in learning more about Cassini and the on-going Cassini Solstice Mission, check it out at NASA’s website:
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm
Blockbusters blow budgets, deadlines
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118035870
All of Hollywood seems to be still figuring this out, and as a result, the tentpole pattern is now well established:
• A movie demands you’ve-never-seen-this-before visual effects both for marketing and story;
•Ambitious plans and a short schedule leave little margin for error;
•Inevitable schedule problems trigger urgent meetings among studio execs, vendors and filmmakers to get the project back on track;
•”911″ emergency calls go out to almost any vfx shop in the world that can take on some last-minute work;
•Everyone runs a harrowing race to deadline despite all the extra help.
Collapse, rest, repeat.
