Author: MrWalker
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Video Essay Explains The Speilberg Face
Short video essay explains “Spielberg Face” Written by Vince Mancini If there is one recurring image that defines the cinema of Steven Spielberg, it is The Spielberg Face. Eyes open, staring in wordless wonder in a moment where time stands still. But above all, a child-like surrender in the act of watching, both theirs…
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Parallax Scrolling Sites
Web Designer Wall has this list of Mind Blowing Parallax Scrolling Sites. Check them out on your phone and your tablet. Are you taking Web Design, Animation, or Game Programming? Mind bending! Video games and animation often use parallax scrolling technique to create an illusion of depth by moving multiple layers of images at different…
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Modern Warfare 3 Passes $1 Billion in Sales in 16 Days
By NICK BILTON, NYTimes screenshot via Activision Modern Warfare 3, the first-person shooter video game, passed $1 billion in sales in just 16 days, according to Activision Blizzard, the game’s distributor. Modern Warfare 2, an earlier installment of the game, took 60 days to reach the same milestone. The sales did not just shatter previous…
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The Dwindling Power of a College Degree
J.R. Eyerman/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images A drafter at work, 1952. By ADAM DAVIDSON, Published: November 23, 2011, NYTimes The 2012 presidential election can be seen as offering a choice between two visions of how to return us to this country’s golden age — from roughly 1945 to around 1973 — when working life was most…
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Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell
From the NYTimes, read the original article By STEVE LOHR, Published: November 28, 2011 The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching can be slight — colors brightened, a stray hair put in place, a pimple healed. Or it can be…