December 2011
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October 2011
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Steve LaVietes visit
Today I had the chance to see Steve LaVietes at SCAD. We got this e-mail yesterday that he would be in to talk a little bit about Katana.
He is one of the main developers of Katana. He has worked at Sony Imageworks for over 12 years and the thing is that he is a former Student and Professor at SCAD. He had a ton of annecdotes about his years as a Student/Professor and also about his professional...
September 2011
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August 2011
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Great Vacation Short Films
Lately I’ve been enjoying my holidays before I move to the US to study a MA at SCAD. I did a trip with a great friend of mine that was 24 days long and more than 5000 km. (3,106.856 mi.). We filmed some stuff and did over 800 photos.
So I want to show you some guys that have done an amazing trip and have created 3 short films about their awesome trip.
MOVE
LEARN
EAT
So...
June 2011
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EBOY @ OFFF 2011 Barcelona (Episode 3)
The EBOY Lecture was Saturday June 11th in the Roots Space at OFFF 2011 held in Barcelona.
There is no better way to describe Eboy than to let them do it themselves:
eBoy is Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital.We create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork. And we make toys.
Basically that is it. But don’t let the simplicity of...
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Marian Bantjes @ OFFF 2011 (Episode 2)
Today I want to talk about how Marian Bantjes inspired me deeply. Her lecture at the OFFF 2011 was Friday, June 10th in the ROOTS space.
For me she was unknown, I hadn’t seen any of her works before but I still went due to the importance a lot of the attendees to the OFFF festival told me she had. So I got my self a pretty good seat and prepared to be Inspired! She began her lecture by...
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The Mill @ OFFF 2011 (Episode 1)
The motion design division of the Mill talked at the OFFF 2011 held in Barcelona. It was Thursday, June 9th at the BIS space.
At first I was expecting a more VFX talk, but rapidly discovered this division inside the Post-House the Mill. They talked about who they were, what they did and how they did it. This division is called “the 4th floor” as they are a series of digital and motion...
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OFFF 2011 Barcelona Post Zero
This lasts days: 9-10-11th of June I was able to assist to the OFFF Festival in Barcelona. The tickets were sold out for 4 months… so the only way of assisting was doing some good old volunteer work! And that is what I did.
So this days I’m going to write about the experience I had being there and how I got inspired from lot’s of the great artists that came to this festival.
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May 2011
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Champions League Final: FCB vs. MnU
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Ghetto window scanning
Some time ago (for christmas) I recieved a Mini-Diana from my best friend. You can read my review here.
It is a little-but-oh-so-cool camera. So far I’ve developed 3 film rolls. And I wanted to talk about the experience I’ve had since there is a lot of people trying out these type of cameras (lomography cameras) for the first time.
First Attempt: First Roll
->Everything ok I got...
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Tron Inspired Barça Toons
Here is a little taste of the Tron inspired clip of the Barça Toons made by MUF Animation. (Click on the image to see the making of)
April 2011
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Entering the Void with BUF
Today I want to talk about a movie and a VFX studio. The movie is “Enter the Void” by the French Director Gaspar Noé. The VFX studio is the one that made this project possible: BUF. (This is going to be a long one so hang on!)
First of all let’s talk a little bit about the movie. The sinopsis of the movie is pretty simple, a young drug dealer is killed in Tokyo and his spirit...
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Limitless review
It’s been a while since I’ve done any “movie review” but the other day I went to see a movie that I wanted to see for some time. The movie is “Limitless” and the idea behind the movie was what really got me interested in the first place. A drug that makes you access an 80% more of your brain? Who wouldn’t want to try that. The movie is nicely constructed...
March 2011
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I haven’t been writing much because I’ve been working like crazy these past months. So next week or so… I’ll try to post a little ‘making of’ of the last project I’ve been working on…
I can only say it has a lot of light-streaks, light-cycles, and glows! :D
See you soon!
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February 2011
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Yesterday I watched “Black Swan” completing my veiewing of all of this years Best Picture Nominees for the Oscar’s. This is my little review of all these movies:
1. Inception: For me the best one by far… The concept is amazing. It is amazingly built, the photography, the VFX, and the soundtrack is so immersive! The only movie that you come out of the cinema a different...
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Best Movie of 2010 Oscars Review (Coming Soon)
The Oscars are coming soon (February 27th) and this year having only one movie left to see all the movies nominated for best Movie I will give my opinion on them.
Next week I’ll go see the last one I have on my list: Black Swan
See you soon!
Gasland Not just a documentary... a real problem
Yesterday I had the chance to see this documentary and it left me with an eery sensation. It is a real problem what the documentary exposes and it’s kind of sad to see how we are destroying everything that nature has given us…
January 2011
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Slice of happiness
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Diana Mini Review
These Holidays I’ve had the privilege to get a gift from a great friend of mine. It was a Diana Mini from Lomography. As they say in the Lomography community say: “We are a global community whose strong passion is creative and experimental analogue film photography.”
They comercialize a ton of analog “Toy Cameras”. They recieve this name because they are cameras...
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December 2010
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Best of the Year 2010 by Fubiz
Hi there!!! New Year’s Eve is coming and a new year will be in our lives. So naturally it’s time to look back at our year! And I just wanted to point out the great recopilation of this year’s inspiration made by Fubiz a french site that gives (as they say) “A daily dose of inspiration”.
And it’s true I’ve seen some great things there and now seeing this...
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Watch
Today I want to talk about the Moleskine Film Journal. This Notebook is specially designed as a blank film critique book for you to fill it with your own and personal movie reviews.
When I saw it I thought instantly that it would be perfect for me, being the passionate film-lover that I am. I use it to review the movies I got to see on the cinema and to keep track of all the other films I...
November 2010
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RSA Animate + Andrew Park
Today I just wanted to mention the Idea behind the RSA and the illustrator Andrew Park.
“The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress for over 250 years”
The part which I want to talk about is something they call “RSA Animate”. This consists in having the...
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Windows 7: The Past of Compositing
Today I was reading my blog feeds and I came to the new Microsoft ad. It uses a technique used in other ads that consists in reading a text from beginning to end and then reading it from end to beginning and having it mean a whole different thing… Really creative. Well that is not my point… When the ad gets to the end and we are looking at a tablet device we see appear not one but...
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TED iPad App
Today I want to talk about an iPad app I’ve been using for some time. It’s the TED iPad app. For those of you who don’t know what TED is:
“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.”
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HDR on the iPhone (Revised)
Today I’ve got the opportunity to test the new features on the iPhone 4 I talked about a while back. That feature is the ability to take pictures in “HDR”. As I explained in my old post it takes three different images at various exposures and combines them with a basic tonemapping algorithm which leaves us with a tonemapped HDR image.
That means that we can see more exposure...
October 2010
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RED HOT
This movie had a great appeal for me but after seeing it I liked it even more. Great Cast for this action-packed movie with some great laughs. Bruce Willis does a great performance as Frank Moses and John Malkovich is just hilarious as a psychotic ex CIA who isn’t as crazy as it may seem. Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman just complete this RAT pack and makes the movie so cool. It has one of...
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Impossible vs Polaroid vs Fujifilm Instax !?
These days I’ve been in the great city of New York and I didn’t want to miss the chance to visit the Impossible Project Space down in Broadway.
I want to talk about a couple things:
1 - The IP (Impossible Project) Space itself
2 - The “new” instant Polaroid 300 from Polaroid
The IP space is in the 5th floor of a Building at 425 Broadway, Manhattan. It’s a bit...
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The Social Network
At first I was a bit skeptical about this movie. I didn’t know if it was just a movie trying to bring down Mark Zuckerberg, kind of like a hate-envy movie. So I went to see it like most of us fore the gore of seeing a movie of someone of whom we know so little as Mark Zuckerberg.My surprise was that during the movie I started to enjoy it more and more. The pace of the movie is great. The...
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WatchThis Friday I leave with my best friend to see my Dad in New York. I hope I get some cool inspiration for some VFX projects and some footage to make some personal work.
Who doesn’t love New York.
This is a little video I did last Christmas when I got my Nikon d90, to set the mood!
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Buried in the Buried hype
This movie is more a visual experiment than an actual movie. It’s like Alfred Hitchcock’s: ” The Rope ” where he wanted to prove a point by creating a movie in a single shot.
The movie is about a transporter who wakes up in a coffin in some part of Iraq, and the story explains his struggle to survive and to get found and rescued. Don’t expect to see anything else than...
September 2010
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WatchA Pro is someone that can make something complicated seem easy
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iOS app-swap!
Wouldn’t it be great if you could swap those apps that you bought and you don’t use for some new one (in the same price range) that you really want?
A swapping-app-market should exist for users to interchange apps they don’t want, or you should be able to exchange your old apps for new ones having a discount on the new one, something like that!!!!
Just a thought, what do you...
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Stop Spoiler Trailers
What are spoiler trailers?
Trailer-spoiler: trailer that shows you the whole idea of the movie or at least the most interessant and important parts.
When you see one of these trailers you feel like you already know what is going to happen, and a lot of times going to see the movie is like seeing the extended trailer…
I’m sure that some of you have seen some of these… and...
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District 9 (Re-Edition)
Before the Avatar Hype, in the summer of 2009 there was an exciting film that came out. It was exciting for me because all the “viral campaign” that was done to promote this movie. I’m talking about District 9.
The movie comes from an Idea that Neill Blomkamp produced into a short film in 2005 called: Alive in Joburg
This next video is the original Alive in Joburg. It has...
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HDR on the iOS 4.1
I was looking at the Keynote from Steve Jobs at the Apple Special Event celebrated this 1st of September. And one thing that interested me was the new ability for the iOS 4.1 in the iPhone and the new iPod touches with camera (event next generation iPads that is rumored to have camera….) to take HDR pictures.
I don’t know if to get excited or not… In one hand I’ve been...
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The iPad Review
I got an iPad as a present for my birthday and also for finishing my university studies. At first I was given the 64 GB with wi-fi and 3G but after thinking of all the pros and cons I decided to get the 32GB one and without 3G.
Some of you may think that it wasn’t the smartest thing to do but I had my reasons:
The price of the iPad is 200€ less, so it’s a huge...
August 2010
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Just another Inception Review
Well, last Friday I went on to see Inception for the second time since it has been out here in Spain. If the first time I saw it, it was amazing, this time it expanded my view of the whole concept of the film.
I consider it to be one of the more complex plots of the lasts years but it is amazing how you know (or at least feel like you know) where you are in the film at all times. It’s...
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PhotoJojo Fisheye Lens for any phone
It might seem that I’m a little obsessed with fisheye lenses or effects but it’s just a coincidence. Besides recently I’ve finished my final thesis and it envolved fisheye lenses. So I just wanted to share some cool add-on to your phone camera.
(Click on any image to go to their site :))
This is the Fisheye Lense for Any type of phone camera and it’s pretty cool. The...
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The Goon Proof-Of-Concept
Today I saw this amazing Proof-Of-Concept of Dark Horse Comics. It’s called “The Goon”
“Eric Powell’s ‘The Goon’ is being developed as an animated feature film to be produced by ground-breaking filmmaker David Fincher, Blur Studio, and Mike Richardson at Dark Horse Entertainment. ‘The Goon’ has not been funded yet, and the team is currently...