Collaborate Disseminate
Have you ever noticed that people in old photographs looks a bit weird? Deep wrinkles, sunken cheeks, and exaggerated blemishes are commonplace in photos taken up to the early 20th …read more Continue reading Imaging The past With Time-Travel Rephotography
The future of artificial intelligence in the arts is collaborative. Continue reading Human Actors Bring an AI-Written Script to Life
The future of artificial intelligence in the arts is collaborative. Continue reading Human Actors Bring an AI-Written Script to Life
Join us on Wednesday, January 20th at noon Pacific for the Movie Magic Hack Chat with Alan McFarland!
If they were magically transported ahead in time, the moviegoers of the past would likely not know what to make of our …read more
Like many of us, [Emily] found herself on COVID-19 lockdown over the summer. To make the most of her time in isolation, she put together an optical audio decoder for old 16 mm film, built using modern components and a bit of 3D printing.
It all started with a broken …read more
Continue reading Listening To Long Forgotten Voices: An Optical Audio Decoder For 16 mm Film
How much would you enjoy a movie that took months to finish? We suppose it would very much depend on the film; the current batch of films from the Star Wars franchise are quite long enough as they are, thanks very much. But a film like Casablanca or 2001: A …read more
Continue reading E-Paper Display Shows Movies Very, Very Slowly
How much would you enjoy a movie that took months to finish? We suppose it would very much depend on the film; the current batch of films from the Star Wars franchise are quite long enough as they are, thanks very much. But a film like Casablanca or 2001: A …read more
Continue reading E-Paper Display Shows Movies Very, Very Slowly
We take orbital imagery for granted these days, but there was a time that it was high technology and highly secretive. [Scott Manley] has a good overview of the CIA’s Corona spy satellites, along with declassified images from the early days of the program.
It seems strange today, but the …read more
Continue reading The CIA’s Corona Project was about Satellites, Not a Virus
If you spent your youth watching James Bond or similar movies on rainy Saturday afternoons, then you may be familiar with a microdot as a top-secret piece of spy equipment, usually revealed as having been found attached to a seemingly innocuous possession of one of the bad guy’s henchmen, which …read more
For the vast majority of readers, the act of taking a photograph will mean reaching for a mobile phone, or for a subset of you picking up a digital camera. A very small number of you will still use chemical film for its versatility and resolution, and we’re guessing that …read more