Word: graphics
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...stained, windowless room at CBS headquarters, a group of twentysomething men in football jerseys and jeans typed furiously behind four rows of computers. They work for PVI Virtual Media Services, the New Jersey company that produces the field-goal graphic and also projects some of the more viewer-friendly innovations--the digital line of scrimmage and first-down lines--onto the screen. (PVI is not the only company in the first-down business. Sportvision, of Chicago, holds the patent for the technology and provides the service for Fox, while Sportsmedia Technology Corp., of Durham, N.C., works with...
Also, as more fans become stats junkies (some 14 million people currently play fantasy football), the demand for on-screen information will increase. "I'm not sure that anyone has figured out what interactive means," says Gary Hartley, Fox's senior vice president for graphic design. But rest assured: with so much money riding on TV football, producers will keep investing to make the game-watching experience cooler and cooler...
...trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. When ancient-history films lumber like the elephantine Alexander, or when technological gewgaws abduct the magic of fantasy in films like The Polar Express, where can a curious cinephile go? China. That's where director Zhang Yimou blended history book with graphic novel in the worldwide hit Hero, and whence he returns with the even zippier, more cunning kung fu caper, House of Flying Daggers...
French cartoonist David B. visualizes the invisible. In Epileptic, a moving account of his brother's debilitating illness, he delivers compelling cartoon metaphors for elusive concepts like longing. The result, due out in early January, is a graphic novel that's a worthy successor to Art Spiegelman's Maus.Set in Europe during the late 1960s and early '70s, Epileptic tells the story of David B.'s family members as they struggle to help his brother, trying out "cures" from mediums to exorcisms. A seizure is depicted as his brother twisting in the coils of a giant snake. David B. says...
...piano was a gift from a friend who lived near Prina in L.A., a kind of token to remember the Latino culture of his old neighborhood), to self-reflexive allusions to his own work (a substantial portion of the work on display is a series of graphic constructions featuring photographs and floor plans of another recent retrospective of Prina’s work, which incidentally had the same title he chose to give to the Harvard show...