Global Wahrman

There are those of you out there who have requested a "writing sample".   They are provided, below, at the following link. http:...

The following image was brought to my attention by Clark Anderson and has been making the rounds on the Internet.  I looked ...

One of my favorite things in the world is flare. I mean flare like you might find in photography, not "flair", which is also g...

[Colleagues have asked, where is a picture of Wendy Wahrman?  When I get a suitable picture of Wendy I will post it].  Once upon a time I...

I regularly stumble across pictures from the real world that look fake to me.   I believe that if this picture was used in a movie, that is...

I have hesitated to comment on the Lucasarts / ILM acquisition and what it may imply for the future of ILM because, oddly, I did not want ...

Even though we acknowledge the central importance of conflict between giant robots, the choreography of spaceship battles, and the sheer a...

Today when one applies for a job you are rejected out of hand either by a computer, or in some cases, by a human resources person who is ...

This post is about the time I thought I had seen a ghost. This is the only time in my life when I have sincerely, completely and wit...

[This post should be rewritten, there are two different  topics.  The first topic is how digital has increased the volume of visual effects ...

When researching my posts on "Do Mysterious Booms Indicate a Secret Aerospace Project?" for this blog, I started to delve into t...

Its easy to look at the surface of Los Angeles and miss a lot of, indeed, most of, its nuance and subtlety. To understand this city, you...

All too often visual effects is called upon to create the illusion of something "real" in a literal sense of that overused word....

[Note: Tom Duff points out that methane is odourless, and that I probably smelt sulfur dioxide around the museum.  So I have changed this p...