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...many traditional animators lament the decline of hand-drawn animation with each computer-generated box office hit, the gap between classic and cutting edge has never been wider. But by picking up a new technology, Sert Practitioner in the Arts at the Carpenter Center Munro Ferguson uses elements of each medium to put the artist back in animation. Using a device known as SANDDE (Stereoscopic Animation Drawing Device), Ferguson is able to create three-dimensional “hand-drawn” images in real time. Developed by cousin and partner Paul Kroiter, the technology allows animators to do what...
...cinematic gift Bob Clark will be remembered for is A Christmas Story, a warm and playful tale of the holiday-time highs and lows of a '40s-era boy intent on receiving an "official Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot, range-model air rifle." Clark, whose cult classic is now shown annually around the clock on TBS, was 67, and was killed, along with his son Ariel, 22, when a drunken driver struck his car head on on a Los Angeles highway...
...talk-o-saurus Larry King has nominated the man he thinks could take over the reins: Ryan Seacrest, the well-coiffed host of American Idol. "He's the classic generalist," King tells the NEW YORK TIMES. "The only thing I don't know ... is how versed he is in politics, world affairs. Does he read the paper? Is he interested in Iraq? Because if he is, he's going to be very good." SCORE...
...every one.” Harvard is on a mini-streak coming off a doubleheader sweep of Holy Cross on Tuesday, in which it outscored the Crusaders 15-0 in the two games. With both Ivy teams on winning streaks, it only makes the matchup between the two classic rivals more heated. Junior Shelly Madick only allowed two hits in her shutout performance on Tuesday, and the Crimson showed it has offensive and defensive versatility when it scored a whopping 12 runs in the second game, which was also a shutout—freshman Dana Roberts only allowed...
...however, we live in a mash-up world, where people - especially young people - feel free to borrow one another's cultural signifiers. In a now classic episode of Chappelle's Show, comic Dave Chappelle plays a blind, black white supremacist who inadvertently calls a carload of rap-listening white boys "niggers." The kids' reaction: "Did he just call us niggers? Awesome!" The country is, at least, more pop-culturally integrated - one nation under Jessica Alba, J. Lo and Harold & Kumar - and with that comes greater comfort in talking about differences...