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Foreign-language film: Leos Carax explains it all – The Vote on Variety.com

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“Holy Motors” director Leos Carax wasn’t able to accept his prize for best foreign-language film in person at the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.’s awards on Saturday night, but the French helmer sent the following speech, which is as eccentric and surreal as the film for which he won:

“Hello, I’m Leos Carax, director of foreign-language films. I’ve been making foreign-language films my whole life. Foreign-language films are made all over the world, of course, except in America. In America, they only make non-foreign-language films. Foreign-language films are very hard to make, obviously, because you have to invent a foreign language instead of using the usual language. But the truth is, cinema is a foreign language, a language created for those who need to travel to the other side of life. Good night.”

via Foreign-language film: Leos Carax explains it all – The Vote on Variety.com.

Gradint programa para aprender lenguajes extranjeros.

Gradint is a program that can be used to make your own self-study audio tapes for learning foreign-language vocabulary. You can use it to help with a course, to prepare for speaking assignments, or just to keep track of the vocabulary you come across.

The method: Gradint uses a variant of the “graduated-interval recall” method published by Pimsleur in 1967.  It’s like audio flashcards that appear in a special pattern designed to help you remember. The Pimsleur accelerated language courses use several techniques (they say some are patented), and Gradint does not imitate all that, but this particular 1967 idea is now in the public domain so Gradint can use it to help you learn your own choice of vocabulary.

Gradint gives only audio, so you concentrate on pronunciation. (And so you can listen during daily routines e.g. washing etc, since you don’t have to look or press buttons during a lesson.) Gradint can write its lessons to MP3 or similar files for you to hear later, or it can play them itself and try to adapt to emergency interruptions. The words it uses can be taken from real sound recordings or they can be synthesized by computer. You can add words to your collection at any time, and Gradint can manage collections of thousands of words (and supports batch entry). It can also help you rehearse longer texts such as poems.

Gradint is free/libre and open-source software. The latest release is v3.062.

Gradint, a program for self-study of foreign languages.

Tu grabas tu propia voz o frases y las utilizas con un método similar al pimsleur.

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Azdrawing and AzPainter Testing

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Bueno pues buscando alternativas para pintar, me encontré con dos softwares que son una joya para los que estemos buscando una calidad de línea de entintado similar a SAI o a un pincel real.

Originalmente un software Japonés, traducido por la comunidad, está AZPainter por Azel y AzDrawing, siendo el segundo mi predilecto pues nos permite hacer animación básica con la misma calidad de línea.

Aquí anexo algunas pruebas…

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/26750361

Test_head animation

El software para descargar en Español:

AzDrawing_2_COCOALOPEZ_V003_4

==== Shortcuts ====
N - Activar modo de Animación (Onion Skin)
A - Ir al FRAME anterior
Z - Avanzar al Siguiente FRAME
F9 - PLAYBACK pencil test
E - Duplicar Capa
CTRL + SHIFT + D - Borrar Capa
CTRL + SHIFT + N - Nueva Capa
H - Reflejar vista
TAB - Esconder Herramientas
V - Herramienta para Mover
1 - Pluma
2 - Borrador
3 - Shading
4 - Sketch
5 - Valor Tonal
F2 - Opciones
F3 - Herramientas
F4 - Brochas y Valores
F5 - Capas

 

Insane in the Chromatophores | Visuales orgánicos

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Extracto:

We tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid’s chromatophores. We used a suction electrode to attach to the squid’s fin nerve, then connected the electrode to an iPod nano as our stimulator. The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video below is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the fin.

Backyard Brains » Insane in the Chromatophores.

Gulvies 001

Comenzando con un pequeño proyecto para matar el tiempo, intervenciones esporádicas sin afectar el entorno.

O algo así…