Things to Read For When You Have Spare Time
posted January 27, 2011 # 0 Comments
aka Mark These With Instapaper.
- Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed. - great argument from Walter Murch, respected film editor and sound designer, about why 3D will never work due to evolutionary constrictions. This man worked on 'Captain EO' - he must be believed. His summation is perfect:
3D films remind the audience that they are in a certain "perspective" relationship to the image. It is almost a Brechtian trick. Whereas if the film story has really gripped an audience they are "in" the picture in a kind of dreamlike "spaceless" space. So a good story will give you more dimensionality than you can ever cope with.
- A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes May Exist - if you are at all familiar with the concept of Parallel Universes this probably won't shed too much new light on the subject for you but with such a far out, conceptually bizarre, topic it's always good to get a refresher on the basics.
- The year 2011, according to Thomas Edison in 1911 - musings from the past regarding the future that is actually the present are always worth a read.