Here is some new Daft Punk to break up the sum­mer silence. P.S. prob­a­bly fake. but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it!

Today marks the 49^th birth­day of Wally Pfis­ter, the man who brings Christo­pher Nolan’s dreams to life, one frame at a time.

With films like Memento, Insom­nia, Bat­man Begins, The Pres­tige, The Dark Knight, and now Incep­tion, Nolan and Pfis­ter have proven them­selves to be one of best com­bos since Spiel­berg and Kaminski.

Below is a com­pi­la­tion of Pfister’s work that I found on Youtube. If you haven’t seen any of these films, they’re all worth check­ing out.

So this is actu­ally a Chris Nolan com­pi­la­tion, but it might as well be Wally’s reel.

Today I went on a CD burn­ing ram­page, just for old time’s sake. Do you have all these albums? You should.

I’m happy to see that Christo­pher Nolan’s Incep­tion is com­ing out on IMAX next month. Any­one who has seen The Dark Knight on IMAX should know what Nolan and Pfis­ter are capa­ble of.

Still, one ques­tion remains, will it be a 35mm con­ver­sion (like 99% of com­mer­cial IMAX releases) or did they actu­ally shoot some scenes using IMAX cam­eras (like they did with The Dark Knight). The answer lies some­where in between.

Unfor­tu­nately, no IMAX cam­eras were used dur­ing the film­ing of Incep­tion. Instead, key scenes were shot in 65mm. What is 65mm? Allow me to explain.

Most movies are shot on stan­dard 35mm film. Some­times they are blown up in post pro­duc­tion to fit on IMAX screens, like with Harry Pot­ter or Trans­form­ers.

65mm is a large for­mat film, which offers a higher res­o­lu­tion than stan­dard 35mm. Each frame of a 65mm print has a height of 5 per­fo­ra­tions. But when you take the same film and run it through a cam­era hor­i­zon­tally, so that each frame has a width of 15 per­fo­ra­tions, you get IMAX, the high­est res­o­lu­tion of any film. This is how all those Dark Knight scenes were filmed.

So, no, Incep­tion did not shoot any scenes with 15-perf IMAX, but they did shoot with 5-perf 65mm, the next best thing. The dia­gram below shows the rel­a­tive sizes of 35mm, 65mm, and IMAX.

Check out this inter­view for more info on Incep­tion [Col­lider]

I found a video that gives you an idea of what the show was like. She sang my face off.

Snap­shots from wednesday’s show, taken with my S90.
they are a lit­tle bit pho­to­shopped. maybe.

You might remem­ber a post from way back called iPhone: Offi­cial Douchebag Sta­tus. Well, iDouch­bag has struck again! Ladies and gen­tle­man, time to get jealous.

If you’ve missed out on the first two sea­son of True Blood and are inter­ested in watch­ing the third, which begins tomor­row tonight, here is a video that will get you up to speed. Of course, if you have any inter­est in watch­ing the first two sea­sons, con­sider this a major SPOILER WARNING!
The show looks kinda stu­pid when con­densed, but trust me, it’s not that bad.

Watch this Google search story fea­tur­ing Woody and Buzz. Thanks Tali!

Also, did you know there is a Google Search Story cre­ator? Check it out, it’s pretty fun.
Just don’t try any­thing dirty, they don’t like that.

So, the site was shut down today for copy­right vio­la­tions. It’s back up now that I’ve removed all the music. I guess this means no more Week­ly­TRACKS until I find a bet­ter solu­tion. (a legal one)

This isn’t much of a typog­ra­phy post but who cares.
I really love this poster that BUILD designed for the upcom­ing film Coast Mod­ern. Is it just me or does the bay area look like the mouth of a demon’s face? [more]