Wow! what a gift! Creative Review - Open source 3D video for Warp's Flying Lotus

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by Gavin Lucas, 18 October 2010, 15:53

'Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann), the animator of a new video for Flying Lotus' track Kill Your Co-Workers, has posted all of his 3D animation project files on his website so interested creative geeky types can download them and see exactly how each shot and every character was animated and use the files as they wish.

"I like to think of it as sort of an 'open source video' in that all of the pieces of the project are also released for people to do what they'd like with," says Beeple.

If you love Shakespeare- worth reading: Shakespeare's sonnets by Don Paterson | Culture | The Guardian

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'...However, the question: "was Shakespeare gay?" strikes me as so daft as to be barely worth answering. Of course he was. Arguably he was bisexual, of sorts, but his heart was never on his straight side. Now is not the time to rehearse them all, but the arguments against his homosexuality are complex and sophistical, and often take convenient and homophobic advantage of the sonnets' built-in interpretative slippage – which Shakespeare himself would have needed for what we would now call "plausible deniability", should anyone have felt inclined to cry sodomy.

The argument in favour is simple. First, falling in love with other men is often a good indication of homosexuality; and second, as much as I love some of my male friends, I'm never going to write 126 poems for them, even the dead ones. Third, read the poems, then tell me these are "pure expressions of love for a male friend" and keep a straight face. This is a crazy, all-consuming, feverish and sweaty love; love, in all its uncut, full-strength intensity; an adolescent love. The reader's thrill lies in hearing this adolescent love articulated by a hyper-literate thirty-something. Usually these kids can't speak. The effect is extraordinary: they are not poems that are much use when we're actually in love, I'd suggest; but when we read them, they are so visceral in their invocation of that mad, obsessive, sleepless place that we can again feel, as CK Williams said, "the old heart stamping in its stall"....'

Go Cameron! James Cameron & Gordon Moore join Prop 23 fight w $Million donations | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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'Have the Texas oil companies backing Proposition 23 surrendered in the fundraising battle over the ballot measure that would suspend California's global warming law?

Since Thursday, the No on 23 forces have raised more than $7.3 million as the Silicon Valley-Hollywood-environmental-industrial complex revved up for the final push before Election Day on Nov. 2.

The Yes campaign's take since Thursday? $10,000.

The No on 23 campaign now has raised $25.8 million to the Yes effort's $9.1 million as money from the petrochemical industry backing Prop 23 has all but dried up in recent weeks, according to California Secretary of State records....'

18 Kinect launch games announced ' an attractive platform for dancing games' - WiredUK

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The list as published:

Kinect Adventures
Kinectimals
Kinect Sports
Kinect Joy Ride
Game Party: In Motion
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved
Dance Central
EA Sports Active 2
The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout
DanceEvolution
Zumba Fitness
MotionSports
Fighters Uncaged
Sonic Free Rider
Get Fit With Mel B
Dance Paradise
Crossboard 7

Finally! Greenlight! British actors 'set to star' in The Hobbit 3D-$500 million budget- Telegraph

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From The Telegraph:

'The project had been delayed by financial problems at the beleaguered Hollywood studio MGM. No location has been named for filming amid an ongoing union threat to boycott the production if it takes place in New Zealand.

The films, with a budget estimated at up to $500 million (£315 million) will be shot in 3D. Peter Jackson, who was behind the award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, was confirmed as the director.

Guillermo Del Toro had been recruited to direct but left the project in May because of delays after working on it for nearly two years. Jackson said the films would be "an all-immersive journey into a very special place of imagination, beauty and drama."

But it is thought that a number of well-known British faces will appear in Middle Earth in the remake of JRR Tolkien's classic book.

Martin Freeman, who starred in The Office, turned down the role of Bilbo Baggins because of filming dates but hopes that the part can be resurrected.

“If something could be worked out, that would be great,” he said.

Other names being spoken of landing major roles are James Nesbitt, the former Cold Feet actor, Michael Fassbender, the Irish actor who played Bobby Sands in Hunger and starred in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

A spokesman for New Line cinema, which will jointly produce the film, said the cast had not been finalised.

Turning the Inventions of Kids Into Breakthrough Innovations [watch Ken Robinson's TED talk on creativity too]

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Excerpt from fastcodesign.com:

"No, we're not talking about child labor. More like enriching play that can also enrich the bottom line.

Your typical innovation process starts with lots of customer interviews, lots of sticky notes, lots of surveys -- and a mound of data that's more often mind-numbing than insightful. "With normal research, you can see opportunities," says Rinat Aruh, co-founder of the design firm Aruliden. "But just knowing that an opportunity is there isn't going to actually inspire you." So instead, Aruliden frequently works with kids, asking them to build mock-ups of their own dream products."

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