Thursday, January 30, 2014

Who Stole Japan's Submarine?

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Great events of history often start with deceptively small incidents.   A glacier melts and suddenly we have Global Warming.  Several gay ...

Commentary on the Proposed Voynich Solution

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This news item is getting a lot of Internet play but I felt that the the commentary out there did not emphasize one of the most appealing...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The Acquisition of Deepmind and the Humiliation of the Proletariat

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A recurring subtheme of this blog are the silences that occur when the author melts down into a puddle of indecision and/or rage at his f...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Semi-Automatic Ernst Haeckel & Procedural Modelling

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The following demo is online but only while my server is up and until AT&T changes my IP number. Go to http://108.232.26.40/mscript53/...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The Secret Meaning of Stanley Kramer's "Mad, Mad World" Revealed

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There are reasons to believe that when the studio cut Stanley Kramer's Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), down from 210 minutes ...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Thoughts on the Visual Effects Nominations for 2014

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Here are my comments on the visual effects nominees for this year's Academy Awards. To recap, there were ten films on the long...

Arlene Schloss in Hospital

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My friend and performance artist Arlene Schloss (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleen_Schloss ) has had an accident and is in intensiv...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

You Could Upload an Image from WEBGL or You Could Just Go Shoot Yourself

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Lets say that you embrace the WebGL world and write some nifty graphics application in it.   Now lets suppose you want to save an image o...
Friday, January 17, 2014

The Goddess Phoebe in Manhattan

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the rewrite The following essay does NOT contain any spoilers beyond a throw-away joke at the beginning of a play. Once upon a time...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The "Rhetoric of the Introduction" at the VFX Bakeoff

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This is my report on the Academy VFX Bakeoff.  This year I was accompanied by Jon Snoddy and his friend Allison.  Their presence kept me ...