The fredshouse crew went over to PDI/DreamWorks tonight to see Shrek 2, and w00t, it rocked! You can go read the reviews if you like, they are mostly very positive, but take my advice and go see it this weekend….

I came across your URL, quite by accident, and glad that I did.

Your interest in general public’s adjustment to presentation of themselves, is perhaps amongst the oldest matters of contemplation.

I shall follow your work closely, as it reminds me so much of my days at oxford. It is a shame that we did not have access to “instant presentation of ourselves” on a global scale, then. This brings me to another point to contemplate upon, and that is;

“Our technological advances with its enormous socioeconomic impact, only started since the discovery of electrical energy, say 100 years or so, ago. Why didn’t the human race achieve such steep rate of advancement during, let’s say pervious 5000 years?”…It will help you, I hope, with your research.

Sleep tight, and keep away from those Tangerine drinks…

Best of luck.

Sia Manzarpour PhD.
Toronto, Canada

I came across your URL, quite by accident, and glad that I did.

Your interest in general public’s adjustment to presentation of themselves, is perhaps amongst the oldest matters of contemplation.

I shall follow your work closely, as it reminds me so much of my days at oxford. It is a shame that we did not have access to “instant presentation of ourselves” on a global scale, then. This brings me to another point to contemplate upon, and that is;

“Our technological advances with its enormous socioeconomic impact, only started since the discovery of electrical energy, say 100 years or so, ago. Why didn’t the human race achieve such steep rate of advancement during, let’s say pervious 5000 years?”…It will help you, I hope, with your research.

Sleep tight, and keep away from those Tangerine drinks…

Best of luck.

Sia Manzarpour PhD.
Toronto, Canada

For the last hundred years, people made movies by spending lots of time in preproduction (assembling all the logistics of making a movie: writing screenplay, signing actors, building sets, etc). The chief reason for this is that production–the actual filming of the movie–is prohibitively expensive; everything needs to be planned precisely before the cameras start rolling. Filmmakers frequently shoot coverage which during production may seem unnecessary (my favorite example: prolonged shots of people’s backs as they walk down corridors) because they know all too well that, in post-production, having some extra footage onto which they can slam a little dialogue may save them some IMMENSE cost and headaches.

But with the advent of CGI, is the production phase coming to be irrelevant? No sets need to be built, actors are needed only for voice work, and ANYthing can be changed in post-production. Obviously we’re not all the way there (to the best of my knowledge, “Final Fantasy” is the only CGI movie that really tried to look like live-action, with mixed results), but we’re getting closer.

Another link in the chain is that “Sky Commander” movie coming out this summer, in which no actual sets were built. If it’s successful, we’ll be one step closer. I think that, once a successful, “realistic” movie is made entirely using CGI, CGI production will rapidly become the standard because financially and logistically, it’s going to become an awful lot easier to deal with than traditional filmmaking.

The fredshouse crew went over to PDI/DreamWorks tonight to see Shrek 2, and w00t, it rocked! You can go read the reviews if you like, they are mostly very positive, but take my advice and go see it this weekend….

But am I bitter? Why yes, yes I am. Thank you for asking.