![]() The brief was both very open creatively and specific on concept. ![]() It all took shape in very close collaboration with the creative director Richard Flintham at 101. How detailed was the brief? Were you given quite a lot of creative freedom to capture a specific tone? It was slow cooking, it is easier to stay focused that way. It felt that the concept would be best served by multiple narratives and sometimes non-linear structures, so this is what we set out to do on the shoot as well as in the editing process. There are multiple narratives and details going on – how did you stay focused on your vision? The French Connection films are sensual and funny and the more you view them the more things are revealed. He was at one point going even bigger, but we restrained ourselves. We did think we were going to have an exploding bunny on our screens for a moment there. The other challenge, is the usual one, covering in a short amount of time a very ambitious amount of shots. We didn’t want the film to be posty and overcooked, but to look spontaneous and strangely believable. The challenge was to get the special effects right in order to do as much as possible in camera, and to give the maximum amount of elements for the post. We went digital as we needed to shoot on the Phantom to achieve the speeds required for the shots. The shooting time of each scene/portrait varied in length, depending on the actor’s performance and getting the timing and rhythm right when developing their expressions, also depended on the complexity of the lighting needed for the shot. We had to squeeze in 6 character portraits per day, in mostly daylight situations, so we did not have the luxury of time. The longest process was actually the casting, we ended up casting 450 actors for the 13 characters. Did it take forever to get the one-takes working? You’ve created 13 one-take portrayals for Ergo. How would you describe your visual language?Īnd where do you draw your inspiration from? ![]() We think and breathe a project when we are in the middle of it. We haven’t thought about doing it differently.ĭo the boundaries of home and work life constantly blur? It insures there is always a critical eye present throughout. ![]() Is it easier working as a pair? Could you imagine doing it alone? So we overlap and part, then overlap again in pretty much all the stages of the process. We have always liked to escape defined roles. How does your working relationship operate? Do you have defined roles? In a way we wanted to include a bit more of the before and after and make longer sentences. Our ‘observational’ photographic work is also very ‘filmic’, in the sense that the characters always look ‘inhabited’ by a story that we can only just imagine. We have always based our photographic work on mini scenarios and on the premise of a before and an after to the still image. What triggered your move into directing film? Challenging, yes, but we found it to be a very interesting part of the process. Working with actors (and non actors) for film was the next step. Some of our photographic projects actually involved working with actors and we always found it to be a very rewarding experience that provided a different dynamic to the shoot and the final end result. Now their campaign for Ergo – perceptive slo-mo up-close portrayals reflecting “understanding” – will be airing throughout the year in Europe.Ĭoming from a stills background did you find it challenging to direct actors for film? Leila and Damien De Blinkk caught our eye with their fluid and beautiful direction for French Connection and HTC (see Related Content).
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I don’t want much.Ī longer, more realistic wake from the carrier, so it’s easier to detect the direction of travel from a distance. ![]() It requires iOS 4.3 or later.Įven though it’s just a game, there are some things I’d like to see added for more realism. There were no glitches or problems of any kind in this version 2.1, and believe me, I spent plenty of time obsessing over my landings, as I’m wont to do.į18 Carrier Landing Lite runs on iPhones back to the 3GS, iPod touch back to 3rd generation and any iPad. The app didn’t crash on me, as some have reported. That’s all that’s needed, and this game delivers. Sure, it’s a very limited game, but then that’s the point of game: make it realistic and fun to play. The reason, I think, is because the visual presentation is so compelling. At first, you’ll probably be hot and high, and you’ll have to overfly the carrier and get into the landing pattern to line up with the carrier - which is in a different location with every attempt. Catching wire #1 (arresting gear) is hard. There’s no chance to eject if you stall, and that’s all too easy to do if you don’t manage the pitch control and throttle in unison. You just figure it out by trial and error and fly by the crude instrumentation and the seat of your pants.Ĭrashes are fairly well done visually. Because it’s just a game, there isn’t anything in the way of technical documentation. From there, it’s pretty easy to get the hang of it. When you first start playing, there’s a coaching mode that tells you what to do next. The optical landing system doesn’t appear to be active. I reached 45,000 ft, and the simulation just stopped. For example, I tried a take off and climb from the land-based runway. It’s designed to do its thing in a constrained way. The game has many limitations, of course, because it’s not a full-featured simulator. The radar will guide you to the carrier (or land runway) with a green rectangle, and your radar will show you the direction and distance to the carrier. Also, in that rear-view mode, you’ll see the elevons twitch just like the real thing it’s very cool. I liked that second mode for starters because it’s easier to look down and gauge your position with respect to the carrier, the Nimitz, CVN-68. You can play by looking through the HUD and see the cockpit instruments or you can watch from behind. There is no scoring other than evaluation of the wire you caught each time. However, there is a nice fly-by/pan after you arrest so you can take some screen shots if you like. There’s no playback option, so you can’t go back and watch your landing as a learning experience. The good news is that the developer has created a very easy to fly system, and while some may grumble that one cannot really do this flying thing without a joystick, there is more fun to be had by holding and tilting the iPad that one might imagine. In this game, you’re constrained to pitch and roll control to change altitude and direction by tilting the iPad (or iPhone). The clouds and a wing-tip vortex in a high speed bankĪs we found out with the F-Sim Space Shuttle Landing Simulator, input modes, especially a pseudo joystick can be very helpful. When it rains, you’ll see lightning and streaks of water. The rendering of the sky and clouds is simply, if I may use the word, awesome. The app supports nighttime, daylight, dusk and rain storm conditions, and they’ll be thrown at you randomly as you start each attempt. There’s very little control over the weather. Basically you have control over the throttle, speed brakes, gear and attitude/roll control. The navigation, in terms of finding the carrier, is rudimentary. The simulation, er, game, doesn’t much care if you overspeed with the gear down. There’s background music that has a nice beat, but you can mute the music separately. ![]() This game packs a lot of delirious fun for zero dollars, so you can try it before you fork over the big bucks. What more could you ask for? And there’s a US$0.99 version that’s ad-free. The Lite version is a free game (with ads). One might be tempted to wonder about the technical level and the respectability of the app. The instruments are good-looking but incomplete. One is using the tilt of the iPad, calibrated by the accelerometer, to fly the F/A-18 and not a joystick. Rather, one can just play a fun game with terrific visuals, pass some time - and the satisfaction of getting better in the game is palpable. As a result, one might, at first glance, be tempted to consider this a highly technical simulator. The Apple iPad is capable of some fabulous graphics. This game has great visuals and is easy to fly, but it’s not really a technical flight simulator. ![]() So it’s a great candidate for a game, both as a challenge and as a sobering introduction to the real thing. Landing a jet fighter on an aircraft carrier is one of the hardest things humans do. Transitions: The program supports a total of 61 different transitions. VideoProc Vlogger supports a large list of transitions, effects, options to create titles, and video effects that users of the free program may use to create professional videos. Note that you need a free license code for the application, which you are reminded of when the processing completes. A click on start begins the processing, which is very fast if the device supports hardware accelerated video processing. You may change the output folder and format, video quality and codec, frames per second, and audio preferences. You may also add image files, mix and match videos and images, and add audio to a track with just a few clicks and drags. Previews are supported, and basic operations, such as creating a video that consists of multiple video clips, are done in a matter of seconds. These can then be dragged to the processing timeline. Click on the plus icon next to video, picture or music to add source files. The main application interface is intuitive to use. ![]() The scan is very useful as it configures the program in the best possible manner to take advantage of the capabilities of the operating system, processor and graphics processing unit. According to VideoProc Vlogger, full hardware acceleration may speed up the processing of video by a factor of 47 when compared to real-time video processing. ![]() Full Hardware Accelerationĭevices that support hardware acceleration features will process videos much faster. It works well with all video capturing equipment and gear, including GoPro, iPhone, smartphone, video cameras and drones. The video editor supports all major video and audio input formats, and resolutions, including 4K, 8K and HDR 10bit. VideoProc Vlogger is available for all major versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system and Apple's Macintosh operating system. The program is created by VideoProc from Digiarty Software, a company known for its quality video processing tools like VideoProc Converter for video conversion and processing (Find the giveaway at the end of the article). VideoProc Vlogger is a brand new application that fits the description to the letter. ![]() I was more refering to the original settlers of Valyria, who were said to tend to sheep before finding the dragons. Is there such a theory, Miri/sheep people intentionally using Dany to make dragons great again? That's when I realized, the whole dragon thing might actually have been the witch's plan - without her, Drogo would have lived, and the dragons never hatched. Hi, this is half off-topic, but by "sheep farmers" do you mean the sheep people of Miri the witch? So far, I've only watched the TV series, and recently read the first book (AGoT). The Valyrians do claim descent from their fiery companions, this could explain the original "sheep farmers who found the dragons in the 14 flames", and why a bunch of human farmers were living in a mountainous active volcano range. If you look at the shape of Drogon and co in TWOIAF Dany illustration, Drogon does have some humanoid characteristics such as his torso, chest and "hands". The Valyrians themselves could somehow have evolved from dragons. How much of their enemies culture did they take interest in? The scions of Grazdan were known for their love of harpy based imagery, perhaps the Valyrians were inspired by these hybrid statues and sought to turn themselves into humanoid dragons. The Freehold notoriously battered the Ghiscari in five consecutive wars. Valyrian sphinxes - the body of a dragon and face of a woman. ![]() The dragon dreams of Dany, Aerion Brightflame and others. Valyrians were known to mate woman with beast in places such as Gorgossos. Moroe style bio engineering going on in the Freehold. There seems to have been a fair bit of Umbrella corporation/Dr. The City of the Winged Men, located in eastern Essos, is said to be the haunt of humans who fly upon leathern wings. Reptilian featured Targ kids such as Rhaego and Rhaenyra's daughter. Never the less, there are quite a few hints in the text There does seem to be something to this rumour, although one could certainly take the Blood of The Dragon idea to be simple Valyrian posturing. ![]() ![]() Dividing by 2 makes it a little prettier:ĭc^2 (x-a)^2 - 2dcs (x-a)(y-b) ds^2 (y-b)^2 s(x-a) c(y-b) = 0. 3 point equation: The equation of a parabola passing through 3 two-dimensional points equation: a statement declaring two mathematical expressions are equal. Standard Form Equation The standard form of a parabola's equation is generally expressed: y a x 2 b x c The role of 'a' If a > 0, the parabola opens upwards If a < 0 it opens downwards. To translate that to have its "vertex" at a point $(a, b)$, you could do a similar matrix trick, or something far simpler:Ģdc^2 (x-a)^2 - 4dcs (x-a)(y-b) 2ds^2 (y-b)^2 2s(x-a) 2c(y-b) = 0Īnd that's your answer. In order to give a picture of the spatial focusing let us consider that surface waves are produced by a parabolic wave maker. The equation of a parabola can be expressed in either standard or vertex form as shown in the picture below. The good news is that if you're willing to write a point $(x, y)$ as a vector $v = \begin = 0.Ģdc^2 x^2 - 4dcs xy 2ds^2 y^2 2sx 2cy = 0Īnd you can substitute in $\cos t$ for $c$ and $\sin t$ for $s$. Where $y'$ and $x'$ are coordinates of a point in a rotated and transalted coordinate system. Tool to find the equation of a function from its points, its coordinates x, yf(x) according to some interpolation methods and equation finder algorithms. US Capitol Police spokeswoman Eva Malecki said on Tuesday that “access to Capitol Complex buildings was restricted for a short time” out of an “abundance of caution” and that the situation was cleared about 45 minutes after the report of a possible aircraft in restricted space. It took 11 minutes before the object was in the range that caused the alert at the Capitol to go to aircon orange, indicating it was slow moving. AIRCON is the alert status triggered when an aircraft enters the restricted airspace in Washington without authorization. The Capitol Police source said the US Capitol went to “Aircon yellow” at 8:27 a.m. Tuesday’s event highlights the need for radar images to be “enhanced by other sources of information that can either confirm or call into question the radar operator’s – or air traffic controller’s – interpretation of those blips on his or her screen,” Leighton added. This happens sometimes with older radar systems,” he added. “How the flock of birds appears on a radar screen can be very similar to the radar ‘look’ of a small aircraft. “A trained radar operator should be able to differentiate between a flock of birds and an aircraft, but this mistake is actually a fairly common one,” according to retired Air Force Col. Pilot: “Yeah, they’re going north, northwest.” ![]() Pilot: “And we, uh, almost just hit a flock of birds here at about one thousand three hundred.”Ĭontrol: “Blackjack, you see the direction they’re going?” However, air traffic control audio reviewed by CNN showed that the responding military aircraft, operated by a pilot going by the call sign “Blackjack,” did report seeing a flock of birds while in the air. That theory has only been bolstered by the fact that military jets and helicopters scrambled in response reported that they saw nothing in the sky, according to a defense official.Ī US official told CNN that the Federal Aviation Administration also did not see any aircraft on its radar. US Coast Guard helicopters that arrived to intercept found no threat requiring further action, prompting law enforcement to search on the ground for a possible drone, the defense official said.Ī White House official also told CNN that the lockdown was in response to a possible drone.īut two Capitol Police sources told CNN that the flying object may have just been a flock of birds, given how slowly it was moving and how it appeared on radar, then dissipated. There are currently three possible causes being analyzed, a US defense official confirmed to CNN: Birds, an atmospheric anomaly or a drone.Ī US Capitol Police source also said it is “still not known” what happened other than there was “a big slow-moving blob of something” on radar that caused concern the object could be a drone. ![]() ![]() Chris Mitchell said during the early stages of the event.īut hours after the all clear was given, a defense official told CNN that a final determination had not yet been made as to what exactly caused the event. Plane is not considered hostile at this time,” Pentagon spokesman Lt. NORAD aircraft are on site and responding. “Senior officials across the interagency are monitoring the situation on a national event conference call. Pompeo refuses to counter Ukraine conspiracy theory and deflects Trump suggestion he may testify ![]() That is not to say that this won't make it at a later time. There are several reasons for this, the most important being that features such as these require a ton of setup and discussion with first parties (MS/Sony/Nintendo/etc). Once we reach that point in time, we should be ready to take our attempt at Crossplay - something that we cannot yet begin to predict in terms of timing or chances for success.ĭo keep in mind that this update does *NOT* include the Texture/Language/Music Pack support from 1.4.2 at this time. Once any needed fixes are done for the 1.4.1 - 1.4.3 updates, the team will launch headlong into bringing Labor of Love to all of the non-PC platforms. but the team is standing by to make that gap as small and as fast as possible. The team is, of course, aware that the upcoming Labor of Love update for PC will break content parity once again. Today's update will bring all currently-developed Terraria platforms up to content parity, which has been a very rare occasion. After all, if we are someday able to pull off Crossplay, this will be the way that all updates will have to work, right? ![]() ![]() We are pleased to share that the Terraria 1.4.1 - 1.4.3 updates are now available for play on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS devices! This has been a new experience for the team - trying to release across 5 platforms at once - and we have learned a lot that we will apply moving forward to make things even more efficient. 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![]() Until the night came, Jean-Pierre Jeunet had purchased every CD released by the artist, whose music was so enjoyable. The CD player was on and the director was impressed by the music he heard playing. A coincidence, however, reversed the normal flow of things: one day a member of the crew offered to give the director a lift. All you have to do is just press “play” and let the music do the miracle! And if you don’t believe that music can do wonders, then perhaps this soundtrack can make you reconsider! Cause this particular soundtrack has the ability to make its listener see the world through Amelie’s eyes, eyes that sparkle with enthusiasm and mood for mischief, structural elements that characterize the likeable heroine of Jean- Pierre Jeunet’s film.Īmelie’s director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, had Michael Nyman in mind as his choice for the composer of the film. Would you like to feel an immediate injection of optimism? Would you like to experience an imaginary musical universe overflowing with kindness? Or perhaps beamed to Paris, to places where Amelie wandered? All the above are possible by listening to the soundtrack of the film. Τhe music of the film coincides perfectly with Amelie’s fantasy world. An eccentric soul, who carries her own fantasy world as a survival tool, where the real world turns into something far more beautiful and kind. An inexhaustible source of kindness, that consciously neglects to become a part of troubled everyday life. A girl who prefers to socialize with smiling people, who face life with optimism. Sets and costumes (visual stimulus), and the soundtrack (sonic stimulus), all are inspired by Amelie’s unique character, a young girl who lives in France and she likes to improve the lives of people surrounding her. Of course, Amelie’s specific temperament is the starting point for realizing the film on a visual and sonic level. “Amelie” has become a reference point for the French cinema, a romantic comedy with a rather distinctive personality in every aspect of its production. “Give yourself a special gift: Amelie’s soundtrack.įor the rest of your life, you’ll be happy that you did!“ ![]() What we will need is a Non-Modal UserForm as a pop-up to ask to stop the alarm.įirst the macro code: Public Declare Function sndPlaySound32 Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long The best approach is to create a VBA Sound Alarm that will run in a loop until we Turn it Off manually. What if you don’t hear it? Running it once might obviously be not enough… VBA Sound Alarm ![]() SndPlaySound32 "C:\Windows\Media\Chimes.wav", |