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...warehouse in Bristol, England, they have toiled away, as their ancestors have done for a hundred years. Painstakingly, perfectly, they build little movie sets and fashion in Plasticine the creatures to live there. They take a photograph of the scene, then move certain figures a micrometer, then take another picture. They do this about a 100,000 times to produce, in four or five years, a feature film like Chicken Run or Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit...
...American, Bradley Will, the freelance documentary filmmaker shot dead on Friday as he recorded a clash between protesters and pro-government vigilantes. Further away, on the street called Cal y Canto, by a barricade, there is a more shocking ofrenda to Will's memory: one adorned with a photograph of his naked body in the morgue, framed by handwritten messages and cempazuchil, the yellow flower of the dead, as well as an image of the Virgin of Juquila. The altar is lit by copal, the resin that is supposed to guide lost souls after dark. One message reads, "Bradley Will...
...Qanbar said he told the kidnappers he wouldn't talk about a price until he had seen for himself some proof that al-Taie was still breathing. He suggested they have his nephew describe the inside of his home in Ann Arbor or that the kidnappers photograph the soldier holding a current newspaper. He said he wanted to see proof by Saturday, Nov. 4, at noon. "I decided there had to be a deadline for these tedious negotiations," says Qanbar. "You don't want to play by the rules of the kidnappers all the time...
...same era. (Kirihito was originally serialized in 1970.) The design of Tezuka's pages endlessly varies in shape and flow to reflect the action of a sequence or a character's state of mind. He never shies away from crazy experimentation, as when one panel uses a distorted photograph in a character's word balloon to emphasize the stress of the moment...
...Satellites to orbit, photograph sun Winter could be sunny for NASA. Last week it launched twin spacecraft that are scheduled to enter orbit around the sun by January and then transmit the first-ever 3-D images of the solar surface...