Superfad’s newest short, “Preguntas Hermosas,” is a poetic story of time shared and love lost, told through a combination of “Poema X” by Pablo Neruda and “Under the Harvest Moon” by Carl Sandburg. It unfolds in three parts: a fond remembrance, loss, and then finally acceptance.
Coca-Cola Robot Clip from Pedro Burneiko on Vimeo.
Coca-Cola Robot Case from Pedro Burneiko on Vimeo.
“The main focus of Rock Band 3 development was finding new ways to experience the music and actually doubling down, if you will, on our investment in compelling gameplay,” project director Daniel Sussman told USA Today. “We are adding a new instrument and we’re adding a whole new mode, which is designed basically to answer that staleness factor.”
“That new instrument will be a 25-key MIDI keyboard, which can be played either sitting down or standing up. Combined with the three-part harmonies introduced in The Beatles: Rock Band, the new keyboard brings the total number of possible virtual rockers able to play at once up to seven.”
“Also on the way is an even more sophisticated controller built by Fender that’s a fully functional six-string Squier Stratocaster guitar. There’ll be three additional cymbals added to the drum kit for use with the pro mode. With these innovations, the game takes a gigantic leap from pretending to play instruments to learning to be a real musician.”
The first snag you run into is that battery. “Although real-life battery technology is coming along great,” Gluesenkamp writes, “we are a long way off from creating handheld batteries with capacities like that the ones found in the lightsaber’s diatium power cell.” In Star Wars, Jedi didn’t have to worry about that because “diatium” is a convenient bit of fiction and are attuned to the Force, so, really, they could do anything.
Still, let’s say we did have such a battery. There’s another problem in getting a focused, powerful blade of plasma with an exact length and shape, which is where the concept of a lightsaber gets “really convoluted,” according to Gluesenkamp.
“There are also no crystals that can ‘direct’ a plasma,” Gluesenkamp writes, noting that today we use magnetic fields are used, but are limited as the machinery involved has to enclose the plasma. “In fact, a plasma ‘being directed’ by a crystal lens doesn’t make any physical sense anyway. A plasma is really just an ionized gas — a gas in which the electrons have been stripped from their atomic nuclei.”
Once again, let’s say we could direct a powerful plasma beam. That would require a huge difference in voltage, which means we’d need something along the lines of a powerful laser — or plain ol’ lightning. Given the amount of energy that would be required, it’d be “extremely difficult to control the plasma’s shape” using either approach, according to Gluesenkamp.
“An electrical arc can have wild shifts in direction, and it can hardly be controlled without being surrounded by magnets,” he writes. “A laser will go in a straight line, but of course it doesn’t stop. A laser-based lightsaber would require a block or a couple of mirrors floating in midair, moving in sync with the hilt — which is of course largely impossible.”
“3D animation presented as an event installation using matchmoving and compositing techniques.”
“Trying a “300″ style of camera movement and motion. Fake Phone”
Legend Of Zelda Rap- 1986
Holy Morly that was horrible, although I really want a cheeseburger right now, 2 more after jump
