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Plasma Effect

The classic plasma effect is a staple of demoscene history. Using sinusoidal functions and color gradients, it creates mesmerizing organic patterns that flow and pulse across the screen.

Meta Ray-Ban glasses make it easy to film (and harass) strangers

We regret to inform you that the pickup artists have discovered Meta Ray-Bans.

Don't you mean extinct?

In 1993, Jurassic Park came out and revolutionized the use of CGI in films[1]. To the public the experience was magic. But for some of the people in the movie industry, it was a rude awakening.

What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads

Often the criticism of vintage ads focuses on their inherent sexism, racism, or other displays of social prejudices, which we find laughable today, despit...

Retro Wave

Turn your text into a retro-futuristic illustration

Enlarging a Negative for Contact Printing: The Analog Process » Shoot It With Film

Have you ever tried to enlarge a film negative? We'll walk you step-by-step through the process of enlarging a negative using only analog techniques...

The Sunshine Recorder

I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d li

The Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment

The ground rules, the pervasive structure, the overall pattern eludes perception except in so far as there is an anti-environment or a counter-situation constructed to provide a means of direct attention. Paradoxically, the ten percent of the typical situation that Drucker designates as the area of effective cause and as the area of opportunity, this small factor is the environment. The new TV environment is an electric circuit that takes as its content the earlier environment, the photograph and the movie in particular. Thus to put the artefacts from such a culture into a museum or anti-environment is an act of nullification rather than of revelation. To create an anti-environment for such electric technology would seem to require a technological extension of consciousness itself. The structural features of environment and anti-environment appear in the age-old clash between professionalism and amateurism, whether in sport or in studi.

How To Remove Remjet: An Update

Welcome to my blog about all things film photography. We'll talk about books, cameras, film stock, etc. If it's film it's game.

Gazing through a lens, I invent as much as I reveal | Psyche Turning Points

For years I watched people through cameras and screens, filling in the blanks and calling it truth

VR is the opposite of cinema – Ken's Blog

I was on a panel this evening about the future evolution of VR. At one point I made the argument that people who try to “make their film in VR” are getting it very wrong. In fact, I argued, VR is essentially the very opposite of cinema.

Using CSS to create a CRT

Many of us remember televisions from our childhoods as these flickering glass behemoths. These were CRT TVs and they had a very different look to them than our LCD screens do today. I have attempted to assemble a set of CSS effects to replicate this look mainly by adding three things: screen-door effect, flicker, and color separation. The color separation idea originally came from the hyperpunk theme by Andre Staltz for the hyper terminal. The scanlines and flicker effects came from the CSS CRT screen effect codepen by Lucas Bebber.

The Plane of Focus — a lens, opened up

Everyone knows when a photo is blurry. Almost nobody has seen the exact plane where it turns sharp. Open a lens, turn the focus ring and watch that plane sweep through a tiny world.

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

Blue light from digital devices and the sun transforms vital molecules in the eye's retina into cell killers, according to optical chemistry research at The University of Toledo.

The Real Story of Pixar

How a bad hardware company turned itself into a great movie studio