Word: graphics
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...time has long passed when popular fiction was almost inevitably filmed by Hollywood and when, as in the 1940s, seven of the 10 Best Picture Oscar winners were based on novels. Today graphic novels inspire as many big-budget crowd pleasers as the old-fashioned unillustrated kind. Which means that somewhere someone is saying, of the Fantastic Four movie or even Sin City, "The comic book was better...
...victim this week when i2hub, an application that allowed high speed, peer-to-peer uploading and downloading of files over the intercollegiate network Internet2, shut down on Monday. The i2hub website contained no details about the closure of the service, displaying only a blank page with a graphic containing the words “Remember i2hub,” accompanied by a caption reading “R.I.P.” and the dates of i2hub’s launch and demise (“03.14.2004 - 11.14.2005”). No contact information for the operators of i2hub was made...
...very good. Lindsey Tan, a sophomore at UCSD, complained about the corny plot line and overabundance of close-ups. When she turned it on, “It was, like, immediately, genitals were in your face, all these genitals in your face.” The graphic footage arose the ire of the Associated Students of UCSD, which condemned the broadcast as “disrespectful, inappropriate, unnecessary, intentionally malicious, divisive and hurtful.” The council further chided the show for setting a bad example, citing a lack of prophylactics during coitus as evidence. York contests that...
...Delisle's two-month visit wasn't. He was allowed to take a long look at the world's most guarded state. And after he left, Delisle set about recreating his experience using the medium he knows best: cartoons. The result, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, is a graphic novel that is a fascinating and hilarious sketch of his time in the country. Delisle admits that he didn't see anything the government didn't want him to see. But from what he was allowed to witness, he strings together a series of remarkable scenes. Many are seemingly trivial...
...company, is used for an estimated 30 million presentations around the globe every day. The most obvious change is a brand-new interface, with a "ribbon" of common commands replacing the current, confusing menu. The best new feature is a tool that converts information from any slide into a graphic that you can refine with an easy-to-use menu of ready-made options. And the software simplifies some menu choices only experts used to know about, including an improved "kiosk" that will run your presentation automatically...