New “Star Wars Trilogy” Shines on DVDWhether you’ve seen “Star Wars” once or a hundred times, unless your name is George Lucas, or you looked over his shoulder on the set, you’ve never seen it like this — as clean as the day it was shot, digitally scrubbed and re-mastered for DVD, as part of the “Star Wars Trilogy” boxed set. The re-mastering of the trilogy involved epic wrangling of badly degraded master prints by film restoration expert John Lowry. |
Turning the Tables Using CSS
Have you noticed web pages loading a bit faster than usual? You might thank Eric Meyer, an expert and author on the subject of CSS, a standards-based method of coding websites. |
Green Filmmaker Strikes Gold
Jeremy Coon isn’t the only green filmmaker to strike Hollywood gold. But as producer and editor of “Napoleon Dynamite,” he sold the film to Fox Searchlight Pictures for $3.2 million. |
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DesignCORE Advertising: Creativity Over Hierarchy“In many ad agencies, art people become middle managers,” says designer John Dames. “We wanted to avoid that.” Film + VideoMike Leonard: Today’s Talented StorytellerDuring 20+ years on Today, Leonard has created wryly observant video features on often-overlooked aspects of everyday life. Kerry Conran: “Sky Captain Flies to Big Screen”Remarkably, he tried to make his debut feature, “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” on a single desktop computer, in 1994. PhotoNels Israelson: Capturing Spider-ManThe photographer behind posters for blockbuster films such as “Spider-Man 2” makes the impossible seem perfectly reasonable. |
Music + AudioAdam Dorn: DJ Mocean Worker Keeps it Movin’As the Mocean Worker, Adam Dorn is a pioneering DJ, an electric bass player and a recording artist with his own label. Kenji Williams: A Visual Music Composer”When people hear my music, they feel it’s very visual, almost holographic,” says the techno composer and performer. ScienceCOLSA Corporation: Taking Apple Xserve to MACH5To model hypersonic flight on a computer system, they use a supercluster of 1,566 64-bit, dual-processor Xserve G5s. WordsDaniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot: Writing “Zeke Armstrong”Hale, 44, and LaBrot, 16, are an uncle-and-nephew writing team who live about 100 miles from each other in the Dallas area. |
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