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It’s official! Hollywood has finally ran out of ideas.
Saw the incredibly boring Transformers 3 yesterday, but this preview caught my eye. Why? Cause it’s Rock’em Sock’em Robots: The Movie. Really?!?!? Has science fiction movie production and development fallen this far? It seems there is a general laziness around this movie genre between countless remakes, endless sequels, and hit-or-miss comic book and game adaptions. But honestly I can’t remember an honest original science fiction movie (and don’t mention Super 8 – it’s the Stand By Me version of Cloverfield). And now we’re reduced to Real Steel, if it does well in theaters, the science fiction genre is doomed.
Yet another RIAA lawyer gets a promotion
And here I thought the Obama Administration was about openness and freedom. From Wired: Threat Level
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/senate-confirms-verrilli/
Vizzie – Free Max for Live video plugins
Robert Jarvis (Zeal) introduces us to his accidental creation called Vizzie. A series of Max for Live plugins that allow for video manipulation in Ableton. I have not had a chance to sit down and play with them, but judging from his video demo/basic tutorial it looks to be very powerful and probably the most helpful set of video plugins available. There are a couple of MfL video tools out there but in my testing with them I found that they try to pack everything in single plugin instance and find it hard to figure out what I’m doing exactly. Vizzie is very modular (and for right now very manual), so you can narrow down exactly how much effects you want on clips and if you couple this with a midi triggered effects rack, you could create a complete Ableton video rig for live video performances. I hope to see this develop further and excited by this set of tools as it would bring us closer to what EBN was able to do 11 years ago with midi triggered VCRs.
