“To wake up to one of these things is pretty special — to have a Leonardo at home,” said Joe Kennedy, the director of the contemporary art dealership Unit London, enthusing recently about an elaborately framed LED screen with a digital replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Portrait of a Musician” Read more…
As viewership drops for Hollywood’s annual Academy Awards ceremony, “Everyone has a theory about the decline…” argues an opinion piece in the New York Times. “My favored theory is that the Oscars are declining because the movies they were made to showcase have been slowly disappearing.” When the nominees were Read more…
He produced the science fiction film THX 1138 — George Lucas’s first movie — in 1971. 28 years later he supervised the re-editing of the science fiction film Supernova. But now 82-year-old Francis Ford Coppola — who has also made a second fortune in the wine business — has an Read more…
i wanted to share with you a wonderful piece honouring the life of helen workman, my first “big” boss. she had a big influence on me. the MITE lab touched the lives of so many. helen passed away one week ago.
This little 6-frame wonder was create by Scott Prentice in 1989 on a Commodore Amiga @ Concordia University’s MITE AVISTA LAB. My soul has enjoyed countless hours of pure happiness thanks to this little guy.
Slashdot reader DevNull127 shares this transcript of James Cameron’s new interview with the BBC — which they’ve titled “The Danger of Deepfakes.” “Almost everything we create seems to go wrong at some point,” James Cameron says… James Cameron: Almost everything we create seems to go wrong at some point. I’ve Read more…
Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch “can now be viewed on computers everywhere in ultra high definition,” writes The Hill. But ultra high definition is an understatement, according to long-time Slashdot reader dr_blurb. “Some tech specs: 717 Gigapixels in a 5.6 terabyte image: 8,439 individual images, taken with a 100 megapixel Read more…