Hasta La Motion!

There is an ongoing story in the history of cinema about films that are derided and rejected upon release but then completely re-assessed years later. Titles like Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Vertigo, It’s a Wonderful Life, and more all share this in common. Let’s talk about this concept of re-evaluation and what it means, if anything at all, for the future. For educational purposes only. Sources- Michael Cimino wins the Best Director Oscar for ‘The Deer Hunter’- http://bit.ly/2lSX0Wr Michael Powell- A Pretty British Affair (1981)- http://bit.ly/2kCA5gi Erich von Stroheim- The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)- http://bit.ly/2kulXdI Further Reading- Thelma Schoonmaker on Peeping Tom- http://bit.ly/2lWWXYO The Unloved (Scout Tafoya’s excellent series on unappreciated films)- https://vimeo.com/honorszombiefilms You can follow me through: Twitter- twitter.com/andymsaladino YouTube- youtube.com/c/theroyaloceanfilmsociety Official Website- theroyaloceanfilmsociety.com/ Music by Chillhop: http://youtube.com/chillhopdotcom Idealism- Snowfall: https://soundcloud.com/idealismus Listen on Spotify: http://bit.ly/ChillhopSpotify Solitude by Jahzzar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://bit.ly/1jl2aG6

Discussing aspects of queer pride, shame and performative gothic texturing in AHS – text and narration taken from Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins by D Elliott-Smith (IB Tauris 2016)

A live commercial for Longines watches. The commercial notes that the watches were being used in the Mobil economy run. David Ross is the announcer, and he has a face for radio. Here is the program the commercial comes from:
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.95746

A follow-up video to ” Projection Properties of and Scale Issues with Oculus Rift
,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsKuGUYXHa4 , addressing an improved approximation to correct 3D rendering when there is no eye tracking (i.e., in currently existing HMDs). This improvement was suggested by a reader of my blog, and this experiment shows that the new method is superior to the original one I talked about in the last video.

More details: http://doc-ok.org/?p=764

Stephen Murray, Professional BMX Rider, broke his neck while attempting his signature backflip. Completely paralyzed from the neck down, he is now using a Tobii PCEye Go, an eye tracker that works with standard laptops and desktop PCs. The Tobii PCEye Go helps Stephen regain some of his lost independence and to run his own business “Stay Strong”.