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Also an animation program, a friendly flash-like for multimedia projects that allows interaction and game-like play.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Unity Recorder
An editor-only tool that captures video and animation data during gameplay.
From Tiny Tools Directory
The Real Kevin Bacon
Demystifying the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future center of Hollywood.
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‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen
700+ cats. 1900+ film stills. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen appeared first on…
From Colossal
The Agency, Season 2
There are a lot of “sophomore slumps” in television, but the second season of The Agency just knocked it out of the park. The focus of Martian in this go-around is two-fold — To capture “Viking,” the American solider who turned traitor and is working with the Russian mercenary group Valhalla To free…
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How many shots are in the average movie today?
I counted the cuts in 8,770 films from the last century to find out how many shots a movie has now, and how fast we are cutting.
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Wanim – Manim in the browser, but 1/20 smaller
Manim in the browser, but 1/20 smaller than Pyodide approach. - Acfboy/Wanim
From Show HN
“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)
Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.
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The Pudding finds “The Real Kevin Bacon”
Demystifying the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future centers of Hollywood
From Waxy.org links
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
A "living picture" film staging Botticelli’s *Birth of Venus* with a twist.
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Bullet to Beijing (1995)
Bullet to Beijing is another Harry Palmer installment of the series that started with The IPCRESS File back in the 1960s. It was the first Palmer film in 30 years. Unfortunately, it’s terrible. It was supposedly filmed for theaters then released direct-to-video because it was so bad. Michael Caine…
From Kagi Small Web
I Spit on Your Grave, 1978
Less a movie and more an encapsulation of toxic masculinity via 70s grindhouse. I know it’s important historically but god damn you know?
From Kagi Small Web
Streamers are becoming like cable and video games prices are ridiculous, so I went back to pirating like the old days
It's easier and safer than ever to sail the sevens seas for ill-gotten content of all kinds, as long as you know what you're doing. It's not always clear what's safe or reliable, so here's my tried and true years-long self-hosted setup for downloading and consuming multimedia, and where to get the…
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A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral
Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Macro Journey…
From Colossal
Paint of Persia
A rotoscoping tool that lets you draw pixel art over video frames.
From Tiny Tools Directory
You Can See Everything was an experience
I had seen The Rehearsal season 2 going in, so I was aware of Nathan Fielder’s general shtick, which is why I was not sure I could actually watch this movie: But I had a day off last week and decided I wanted to see it in the theater. And I’m glad I did – … Continue reading "You Can See Everything…
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