Its amazing the access actors have to sets and what they could share with us if they took the time to document their experience. Sean Young has done just that, by sharing her Super-8 films from the making of the David Lynch Classic Sci-Fi Film - Dune. Shot in Mexico City in the Spring of 1983, this 6 minute film is a must see for Dune or David Lynch lovers.
This is a pic-by-pic preview of Issue 13 from Hamburger Eyes! This 150 page zine is stellar! Issue 13 features beautiful photography from the following:
American magician and master of endurance David Blaine delivers a TED talk on the challenge of holding one's breath for as long as humanly possible. Blaine currently holds the Guinness World Record for longest breath held, at 17 minutes. His journey to achieve this feat (described below) is quite interesting, don't miss it.
David Talley, a 19-year-old fine art photographer, has been widely praised for his surreal self-portraits. Many of them take hours to set up and shoot, and even more time to post-process through Photoshop or any other photo editing program.
Everyone has taken a photo that didn't turn out quite right because of bad lighting or a flash that produced too much or too little light. A flash can make your subject look washed out, or even downright creepy with bright white skin and red eyes. But with a bounce wall, you can redirect the light to make it less harsh and reduce the shadows. It also means less demonic-looking cats. Bounce walls can be expensive, but David Hobby of Strobist made this DIY version that uses a wire hanger, some ...
This trick from Flash designer David Stiller will help users organize 3D assets in Flash CS4. In this project, David demonstrates how to create a clip of a rotating 3D book using movie clips and the 3D rotation tool. This is a great example of how to start using 3D space in Flash CS4 and really get comfortable with these new tools. Create a rotating 3D book in Flash CS4.
Ashes directed by David Dang Making of Ashes (Shot with a Canon 7D)
Grasshopper is a new plug-in that David Rutten is working on for Rhino. It has similar functionality to GC but at this point if not so component based. It is more like GC in that it uses features and stores them as nodes you can rearrange and change hierarchy’s. In this video David covers where to find the plug-in, how to install it and then the very (let me emphasize the VERY) basics of the interface. Learn how to install and get started using the Explicit History plug-in (also known as Gras...
In this Adobe CS4 project tutorial, designer David Stiller works with the new Flash CS4 motion editor and its easing functions to adjust the speed of movement in a simple animation. The easing graphs allow for adjustments to motion speed to be made visually. See how to use the new motion easing tools in this Flash CS4 tutorial. Ease motion when animating in Flash CS4.
In this video magician David Zanthor shares an age old magic trick. You will need a willing human, a deck of cards, a rubber band, two identical coins and skills. The trick? It involves Ing Ping Ching energy and it is quite involved...so you will have to watch the video! Do the Ing Ping Ching magic trick.
David J. Castle teaches you a magic trick in which you appear to make a knot jump from one strand of rope to another. You can use two different colored lengths of rope for a more impressive effect. Perform the Pakistan jumping knot rope trick.
Representational painting requires great skill and practice. The best examples aptly capture light, breathing life into the work. Accurate proportion and perspective is an asset. Matching what you perceive as the correct color to what actually is the correct color requires a highly trained eye.
Obama's inauguration may have been Tuesday, but why not party to the weekend. Here's a lesson in the Napoleonic art of Champagne sabrage.
This CAD software tutorial covers the process of exporting DWG files from Revit Architecture. We export a DWG file as a solid for Rhino and David Fino explains the process for exporting Meshes. This is a good beginner level Revit Architecture tutorial. Follow along and learn how to export DWG files from Revit. Export DWG files from Revit Architecture.
Chef David Blom demonstrates how to make babas and savarin - A yeast dough, enriched with butter and eggs, baked in two different shapes. It's a very spongy dough. Chef Blom demonstrates how to prepare the molds with melted butter and then adds the dough to the molds. Make babas and savarin.
David Tutera makes a beet salad to go with a red, black and white themed dinner. Make beet salad.
The perfect golf swing is the Holy Grail for all golfers. In the second part of his series on building a better golf swing, David Blair offers a simple lesson packed with tips and drills to help you groove a new swing and smooth out any faults. Build the correct golf swing.
To get maximum control over your pitch shots you need to learn to swing the body, not the arms. David Blair demonstrates how the weight of the golf clubhead can do the work for you. Set the triangle between the arms and the body and maintain this throughout the swing. Pitching will become easy. Make pitching easier.
This video shows you how to create and update a table of contents for one or more documents in InDesign. You learn how to manage formatting options and how to hide text that needs to appear in a table of contents but not on the referenced document page. Check out this cool video from David Blatner now! Create a table of contents using InDesign CS3.
This video shows you how to use the Text Wrap panel to make text automatically flow around pictures or other objects in InDesign. You also learn how to control the way text on document pages interacts with items on master pages. Check out this cool video created by David Blatner now! Use the Text Wrap panel with InDesign CS3.
One of the easiest ways to allow readers to search through your documents is by using an index. This video shows you how to create an index for a document in InDesign, and how to manage formatting options. Check out this cool video created by David Blatner now! Create an index in InDesign CS3.
This video shows you how to synchronize master pages, styles, and swatches in InDesign. This will help you maintain a consistent look and feel across different documents. Check out this cool video created by David Blatner now! Synchronize master pages in InDesign CS3.
Watch and learn how to make your very own snake habitat. This is an OUTDOOR habitat and not one for an indoor pet snake. It may look like a pile of sticks but apparently, if you build it, they will come... Hosted by David and Molly from the Discovery Channel's Backyard Habitat. Care for snakes and build a snake habitat.
Google+ isn't filled with just Google workers and tech-obsessed nerds. Many creative people are part of the community, and they're using Google+ to connect with their fans. Authors, especially, love talking to people about their work. We've rounded up the best published authors for you to follow on Google+. We've listed their best known works so that you can get an idea of the topics they write about.
San Francisco writer Jimmy Chen over at HTMLGIANT cleverly composited the beloved filmmaker/artist/furniture designer/transcendental meditation expert David Lynch next to the likes of Cy Twombly, Vincent Van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, Roy Lichtenstein, Claude Monet and Katsushika Hokusai.
In the picture for this post you can see a grab of David Kassan's DVD sales page. The reason it is there, is if you really want to be the best, you should know how to draw. I suggest buying this DVD and anything from David Kassan, Jeremy Lipking or Tony Pro. If you want to learn, why not learn form the best?
I guess I must still be sad that Dennis Hopper died, while searching his name I found this amazing project by a group known as Mashed in Plastic.
The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards take place this Sunday, January 16th, 2011 between the hours of 5 and 8 PM PST — that's 8 & 11 PM for those of you on the East Coast (and Somewhere in the Middle for those of you Somewhere in the Middle).
So beautiful... I'm looking forward to tackling this one: Via David Petty:
Just came across this image in Google, and thought it was cool. It's from what was apparently the first ever Human vs. Computer Showdown in Toronto back in 2006. Former world Scrabble Champion David Boys, of Montreal, was defeated by computer super brain "Quackle".
