Wanna know why movies are called flicks? It’s because of the flickering light that’s emitted from film projectors. Like smoking, smell-o-vision, and intermissions, it looks like 35MM films and their projectors are on their way out of the cinema.
One Millionth Tower is part of Highrise, a series of mini-documentaries about the history of high rise towers and their effect on society. What sets this one apart from the others is that it was made using HTML5 technologies such as WebGL and Javascript.
James Cameron loves 3D a whole lot, and he’s still passionately pushing for cinemas to adopt 60 frame per second projection, arguing it’ll make for better 3D.
If you take a negative, slap it on your forearm and sunbathe, will the image burn on your skin? This is a question Petapixel asked of its readers and the video above is the first attempt at an answer.
Polaroid cameras have found a second life as ironic/vintage hipster iconography, but the tech behind them hasn’t changed much in 50 years. Here’s how the “film sandwiches” (how delicious does that sound!?) are made at The Impossible Project‘s factory in the Netherlands.
Remember film? That stuff your baby pictures were taken on? Developing it is something of a niche hobby these days, but if that’s your bag, you’ll like this strange (and relatively easy!) method. The main ingredients? Instant coffee and vitamins.
