Posted on April 15, 2017 at 8:00 am
Composer Christopher Lennertz created new instruments for “Smurfs: The Lost Village.” Here’s a peek behind the scenes.
Posted on April 5, 2017 at 3:50 pm
Thelma Schoonmaker, winner of three Oscars for editing, and long-time creative partner of Martin Scorsese, has a great interview in Crave.
When we edit, I do the first cut, but then after he’s through shooting, we cut everything else together. I mean every single thing. So we talk to each other constantly in the editing room. It’s just a give-and-take that goes on every second we’re in this room. We also talk about all kinds of other things, but it is a constant communication that goes on about the editing. I wish more people could see it, because it’s fascinating, how his mind works. A very high level. He has very high standards. And he’s very tough on himself. And it’s just incredible to be in this room. I wish everybody could see it .
Like Scorsese, she loves to spend time exploring the nature of spirituality. “I loved living in that world. A world of spirituality. Which is something you don’t see much of. And I miss it. I wish I was still working on it, frankly.” Their next film together is “The Irishman,” about aging gangsters. But she thinks they will return to “Silence”-type themes of faith and doubt in the future.
Posted on April 3, 2017 at 10:54 pm
“Rogue One” is out on DVD/Blu-Ray this week with some very cool extra scenes. Here’s a sneak peek.
K2SO Design
Cardboard K2SO Head
Walking On Stilts
K2SO’s British Accent
Posted on March 28, 2017 at 8:00 am
Adam Savage goes behind the scenes of “Ghost in the Shell” at the legendary WETA Workshop to see the thermoptic suit worn by Scarlett Johansson.
And here’s the robot skeleton.
Posted on March 16, 2017 at 3:39 pm
Vanity Fair pays tribute to MAD’s Al Jaffe, creator of the iconic “fold-in” and the snarky “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” noting that he is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest-running cartoonist. I was happy to see that he told one of my favorite stories, about one of the legendary trips the MAD artists used to take together every year.
The first trip we ever took was to Haiti. All the Mad artists and writers, we went over to Haiti.
That’s a weird place to take a company retreat.
It was, sure. It was ostensibly about bonding as a group, everybody getting to know each other a little better. But the second day we’re there, Bill rents a bunch of Jeeps, and he tells us “We’re going to visit someone.”
That’s all he tells you?
We have no clue what’s happening. So we all get in these jeeps, and we drive out to some neighborhood in Haiti, and pull up in front of a house. Bill knocks on the door, a guy answers, and Bill says to him, “We’ve all come here to find out why you canceled your subscription to Mad.”
No he didn’t!
He really did. This guy was Mad’s only Haitian reader, and Bill didn’t want to lose him. So he brought the entire staff to his doorstep. We all just started begging, “What can we do? Come back to us!” He eventually said yes. And the guy next door, his neighbor, he became a subscriber too. So we left Haiti with two new Mad readers.
