Yeah, I just did my first mail in voting this year and I don't think I'll go back to voting in person.

But one thing that worries me is lots of ballots are voided if your signature doesn't match the one on file. You have no way of telling what signature they have on file, and you will never be notified if your vote was invalidated. Plus signature records are often taken from horrible pixilated signature pads from the DMV. I'm sure they could solve these problems with a little effort.

I don't have a problem with special effects. I have a problem with shitty special effects that make me feel like I'm playing a video game instead of watching a movie. Anyone with a fair amount of gaming experience can tell what's real from what's not. All I'm saying is I long for the days when cgi was used to enhance rather than replace good special effects.

The models of the white house blown up for Independence day will ALWAYS look more real than the pixilated aircraft carrier that's coming out sometime next year. Go peddle your fan boy bullshit to someone who enjoys the Green screen studio as much as you seem to.

P. S.

I'm sooo happy that Disney purchased the rights to marvel. I always wanted to see the superheros I grew up reading in high Def PG 13 where wolverine can rip someone in half and not get blood on himself.

*makes a jerking off hand gesture* @packo

Why is this NSFW? If he were indeed wearing little panties, would it be SFW?

The much pixilating, dude is clothed.

Love this idea. I'll add something a little different...

You really ought to check out some Devin Townsend if you're into some really unique sounds.. The guy has an incredible range but dedicates his base music to "metal." Though the genre is closest to metal most of the time, he also has some really outside music as well with a recent example being the paired 2 disc project of deconstruction and ghost, 2 wildly different albums. One of my favorite projects by Townsend, however, is an album called Synchestra, which when played as intended is a seamless blend of an entire album. There are no gaps between most of the songs making it very easy to listen to the whole album. It's also got cameo artists like Steve Vai and Deborah Tyzio in some tracks.

On a side note I he's incredible live. Seen him twice, once headlining. Amazing. He talks to the crowd the entire time and got down in the crowd to play a few times. Wonderful energy, great personality and really intelligent.

I'll stick a few links from synchestra in here though it's better to go start to finish and enjoy the rollercoaster

All from Synchestra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc2dsNQX4Tw - Triumph. Metal + banjo? why not...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XERqZRMG5Cg - vampolka. Directly precedes vampira, which can be found on the sift.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzewVfIX9_w - Gaia. awesome tune. A "sprinting" song for me when running..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ0T7_3YD6o - Pixillate, follows Gaia. awesome vocals once it gets going. goosebumps.

ah..nothing better than pixilated erotica *cough* i mean well rendered gaming /grins

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Crushed car, basketball, and the cops ignoring the robbers are all fakes.

What makes you think the basketball one is faked? Not a slam just curiosity. I don't see any obvious manipulation.
The tree falling was my possible third fake. It just looks off more than pixilation can account for plus why would that big-ass tree be there in the first place?


>> ^moonsammy:
What actually happened in that tennis vid? I've watched it a half dozen times now and still can't figure it out...

It looks like the ball went down the top of the support pole. I'm not sure though.

It's a spoof!

This is by Len Janson and the late Chuck Menville, who also did Vicious Cycles. The films use the pixilation technique, which is the frame-by-frame manipulation of live-action subjects.

Great Sift.

Mike Jittlov is the creator of many inventive short films and one feature length movie using many forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation. The Wizard of Speed and Time feature-length film, released to theaters in 1987 and to video in 1989 and based on his 1979 short film of the same name, is his best-known work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jittlov