Thanks! It's always nice to be part of something that can evoke an emotive response...Especially when its done with artfully arranged german engineering! :)
I think the idea that the "showstopping" nature of the "natural patina" on this is its main feature is genius... "Buy this rusty car, everyone will look at you!"
Sometimes is definitely the key word there... Sometimes it's great...sometimes it's lemon-fresh and toilet related... ;)
I do, and it really is worth it (Having people stand on your feet after leaving the toilet door open to their stinking plane food ejections next to you doesn't even register as a issue, compared with the alternative...) And that sucks that it's not an option...You'd think someone would have jumped on the revenue generating aspect of it on those flights too...
Yeah, I'm not much of a sue-er either, but I brought up the height discrimination thing with BA when they changed their policy, along with the potential associated health risks of having your legs rammed against a stationary object for hours at a time, and I got a very honest answer that it was all about revenue now and the health and physically accommodation of their standard passengers was of far less interest or concern to them, and if if really bothered me I should just pay double and upgrade. They're all businesses, I get that, but they are also a service industry too, so the lack of interest in the people they serve does piss me off occassionally too...
As something like this included pre-visualising the edit to fit it to the chosen ideas and archival footage, and testing out to see if things like the forming metal ideas would work as imagined, it's at least a good couple of months with about a half dozen guys and gals on it... Also decisions made in production meetings and all that razzle have the potential of adding more to those numbers (well, at least to the time-needed side! ;) )
I hear you, as I share your dimensions and proportions... British Airways used to, unofficially, take it into account when taking booking if you mentioned it (I think 6'5" was the cut off) and they'd try to sort you out, if the plane wasn't chock full of teeny-tiny frequent flyers who liked sitting in the emergency row for the feeling of superiority without actually having the status to move up a class (bitter? moi? ;) ) But then they realised they were haemorrhaging cash and started charging for seat pre-booking, so now it's £100 for a return flight (~$150) for the privilege.
I'm wondering when the claim that 'we're all getting taller' and 'we're all getting fatter' will actually translate into transport seating decisions...(Probably when 'we're all getting richer!' becomes the norm...!)
He he, I know it breaks the 'no shameless self-promotion' rules on here but I did do a few small things on that piece... :) A bit of pre-vising to get the two 911s chasing each other across the bonnet here, and some of the shape animation to get the crease to run with the speedster up the flank there...
I hadn't seen the final version, I thought it might have disappeared into the ether at Stuttgart... But nice to see something I've worked on appear on Jalopnik!
Shame, for a while there (in the mid-2000's) I was really looking forward to them, and more recently I was hoping they'd turn up as accurately colour-gradeable reference monitors at work...oh well, bring on the OLEDs and CDs!
But it's got to suck, having an idea in development for almost 25 years and then having to can it for various reasons.
Fun little project, nicely done. I wonder if she was disciplined and added the day's chosen second at the end of each day (or just shot one second a day?) Or if she wasn't left it all to the end of the week/month/year and then rummaged through hours of cats and gigs :)
(Also nice to see our cult UK TV exporting to you guys quite well in the form of Misfits and Dr Who, seemingly! :) )
Whatever happened to SED screens? It was the Canon brainchild being developed along with Toshiba, since the 80's or so. If I remember rightly the idea behind it was like having the equivalnet a tiny little cathode ray tube firing electrons at pixel size onto the back of the screen. So you got all the colour benefits of CRT (which is great for industries waiting for a new generation of high def 16:9 reference monitors) but without the bulky arse... I'm guessing it was a cost thing?
I think the Mustang looks sweet with the polished metal, but I think if these two were done up in the same way they'd give it a run for its money....
It's cool that they gave the features to those who had already paid. It's one of my favourite apps and I use it all the time so I felt it was worth the cost for me, but getting included in the pro update is a nice touch on their part makes me feel warm and fuzzy and full of festive cheer towards them...(you may insert gift of pro subscription here... ;) )
I don't know how to reply to two commenters at once, (is that even possible?) so see above!...
@oneaustin Wow, really? That's terrifying... I'm guessing that's in place for the sake of making things 'easier' for employers, and not have the government 'interfering' with how people run their businesses...? And while government control is one thing, I'd rather take a bit of interfering that gives me some rights as an employee over all the rights being given to the interests of the employer...us tax payers are people too I guess...
It does also remind me a bit of the logical solution they announced here in the UK to help get more people in employment, by making it easier for employers to fire people...!
Ok, so on rereading, I guess this is more about severance pay after you've actually left, rather than a notice period before you leave...In which case I think you'd have to be pretty slick to get this to work in a lot of cases...
"So if I don't like working here or if you're not happy with my performance will you pay me to go away...?" Yeah, I'm not sure that's an attitude recruiters are looking for...
As I'm guessing this is written from a US point of view, and assuming this doesn't apply to fixed length contracts, don't you generally/legally get some sort of mutual notice period to end your employment? ie If you want to leave you give notice and if they don't need you anymore, they give notice...Or are you just allowed to get arbitrarily fired at your employers discretion?
(Unless of course we're talking about getting fired for something like gross misconduct in which case I guess you'd have to be pretty slick to be able to negotiate for severance in that case...)
I hear the past is a foreign country, and that they do things differently there...so I guess it's best to be prepared for any cultural differences of opinion!
(Also I don't know how far back we're allowed to go, but freaking out some marauders with a Marauder seems like hours of fun!...Until you run out of gas, that is...)
Part of me has always wanted that, but then a greater part of me has never wanted to hear whatever grating, squealing, bratty voice someone would inevitably choose for Calvin... I think Bill was right to leave it with the one we have in our heads...
Great minds, with spooky timing... ;)
P. d'Auxbear - Modern, believed to be a contemporary of the 'Free Candy' liberation artists...
