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Neil Peart!

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Neil Peart has lost his incredibly brave three and a half year battle with brain cancer (Glioblastoma).  Rest in peace Neil Peart.

Neil Peart   September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Peart

I guess this explains the farewell tour.   The other 2 band members knew about his condition,

 

Sprawling on the fringes of the city  In geometric order,
An insulated border
In-between the bright lights, And the far, unlit unknown

Growing up, it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided, The future pre-decided, Detached and subdivided, In the mass-production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

Subdivisions
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions
In the basement bars, In the backs of cars, Be cool or be cast out

Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths, we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights

Subdivisions
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out

Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

Who Is ArTex Funding?

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Who Is ArTex Funding?

A motion graphics promo video made with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects ( with some Flash /Animate).

https://artexfunding.com/

17009 Flintrock Road

Austin, Texas 78738

Office: 512.261.0024

        Email: info@artexfunding.com

 

Who is ArTex Funding?
We are alternative working capital asset-based lenders
We fund young growing companies
six months or older with a minimum of $50,000 in sales companies that have
been in business for a while and are having working capital or financial
issues owners with a FICO score of 5 60 and above companies and owners with IRS
liens and levies companies and owners
with past bankruptcies
We use as collateral any class of corporate assets that would be real estate purchase
orders equipment invoices inventory intellectual property contracts and
royalties
We price for risk so we can always get your company a term sheet
we have the ability to fund your company
you need to have no assets or have a UCC
lien on all your assets we are business and industry agnostic what makes a Fuss
different from those other lenders we have the ability to land on just one
piece of single collateral corporate
asset we don’t need to tie up all your
assets to get your company alone
we only need one class or type of asset
to get you funding call us to brainstorm a funding program for you
artex funding (512) 261-0024

 

 

Nightmare before Christmas

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Nightmare before Christmas, kinetic type

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/01/08/nightmare-before-christmas/

Nightmare before Christmas, tests made with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

 

Lettering made in Adobe Photoshop. Fake “blood” made with Liquid mercury effect in Adobe After Effects.

Letters and background composited in Adobe After Effects.

#Adobe Photoshop, #Adobe After Effects, #Nightmare before Christmas, #motion graphics, #kinetic type,

House Lights, Travis Park, Baptist Church

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https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/01/07/house-lights-travis-park-baptist-church/

Christmas lights at a private home in suburban San Antonio, lights in Travis Park(including the amusing “Singing Tree,” and tree lights at a Baptist Church in downtown San Antonio.

 

I did bits of time remapping, slow motion and color correction ( saturation, contrast, brightness, auto color etc) to the footage in Adobe After Effects.

I edited these clips in Adobe Premiere.

https://glass-geeks.com/

 

 

Govt dont play!

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I just opened a downloaded image of a Hundred Dollar bill into Photoshop, and a government anti counterfeiting web page opened in my browser. WEIRD!

 

https://www.treasury.gov/services/Pages/Regulations-for-Reproducing-US-Currency-Images.aspx

Visit newmoney.gov for the specific regulations.

Here is a summary for authorized color illustrations:

  • Illustration must be less that .75 or more than 1.5, in linear dimension, of the currency
  • Illustration must be one-sided.
  • Destroy or erase anything used in the making of the illustration that contains an image or part of the illustration.

https://rulesforuse.org/

Precision Auto Masters

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Precision Auto Masters. 725 San Pedro. San Antonio, Texas. 
(210) 525-0044

This is a newer Version (with slight tweaks).

Below is the older version:

725 San Pedro
San Antonio, Texas
Call (210) 525-0044
Shot with a Canon video camera, tripods and sliders.
Edited with Adobe Premiere. Graphics made with Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.
Script:
Hello guys this is Andrew with Precision Auto Masters at 725 San Pedro.
We’ve been in business for twenty years.
We will rebuild an install your engine and transmission.
We also do air conditioning service.
We will weld your muffler as well.
We would cut your car in half for a reasonable price.
Come down to Precision Auto Masters.
At Precision Auto Masters we believe honesty is the best policy.
We won’t sell you anything you don’t need.
We would rather put your money on what your vehicle does need and will need soon.
We also do financing up to three thousand dollars with great approval rates.
But if that doesn’t work for you come by and talk to me, I’m the owner I’ll do whatever I want for you as long as I make you happy.
Come by and see us at Precision Auto Masters, 725 San Pedro, San Antonio Texas.
(210) 525-0044
Thank you guys and have a great day.

North by inside a studio?

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Cinematography question. In this classic, over analyzed scene from North By Northwest, as Cary Grant ever actually outside.. at that crossroads?
Or is he in a studio with a backdrop and/or blue screen (actually Ive read that back then they used a YELLOW screen for color film) it all looks so artificial.
That first shot of Cary Grant next to the bus seems real but ALL of the rest of, especially the close ups, feel like studio shots…
Those wide shots sure seems to be real outside shots of a plane ( or a model plane?) but the reaction shots of Cary Grant noticing the crop duster plane seem to be either Cary Grant in front of a studio backdrop or him in front of a matte screen.

The reverse angle of Cary Grant ducking from the plane are almost definitely studio shots… then the wide shot of Cary Grant getting up off the ground looks quite real.  Why not shoot the close up on the same day as when they shot that wide shot?

Then Cary Grant runs to the road to wave down a car. Im sure thats really Cary Grant really outside on a real road, right?

Cary runs from the plane and camera is dollying with him, thats real, right? Then the close up of him hitting the ground is a studio shot?

Grant runs across the ground and into rows of corn stalks, thats real right?

Somebody, maybe not Cary Grant but a stunt double, runs through the corn but we don’t see them.  Cary Grant is next seen in close up… studio mock up of a corn field?

The plane buzzes the corn field, close up?

Cary Grant ( or a  double?) flees the corn field and runs towards the truck.

Cary in medium shot waves at the truck and looks really artificial.

A real truck and surely a stuntman falls under the truck.

The real Cary Grant is under a real truck.. but it looks to be in a studio.

The plane hits the truck… once you look it is surely a well done set of models and model environment.

Then I think its a real truck and real plane ( really on fire) and….. Cary Grants character with his back to the camera so it might be a stunt man flee the scene.

Then the real cary grant flees the burning scene which seems to be really outside, but was Cary Grant added in on top of the burning truck and plane footage?  If its fake it works quite well.

 

Thats also my biggest problem with Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS… how fake it looks…