movie:september

CppCon keynote: Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application (Mark Elendt)
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Note: Three days left to register for CppCon 2018 at the Early Bird discounted rate.

In 2018, the ISO C++ committee and C++11 were thanked on camera from the Oscars stage. The shout out was by this Academy Award winner, who will be keynoting CppCon this September:

CppCon 2018 Plenary: Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application (Mark Elendt)

From the announcement:

Not only has Houdini been used in all of the Visual Effects Academy Award winning films of the past 10 years, but it has also been used for television shows like Game of Thrones and Stranger Things as well as content creation for many AAA video games, and even for scientific visualization. Houdini artists are tasked with creating amazing, never before seen visual effects. They constantly (...)

#News,_Events,

Earth Wind And Fire Live In Montreux
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAKlsU9J4R8

▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_Wind_%26_Fire:_Live_at_Montreux_1997

Earth, Wind & Fire: Live At Montreux 1997 is a DVD of performance by the band Earth, Wind & Fire at 1997 and 1998 appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The DVD was released in the US in 2004 and has been certified gold in the US by the RIAA.

Set list

“Rock That”
“Jupiter”
“Saturday Nite”
“Revolution”
“Gratitude”
“September”
“Let’s Groove”
“Rockit”
“Sun Goddess”
“Can’t Hide Love”
“That’s the Way of the World”
“Drum Solo”
“Reasons”
“Fantasy”
“Mo’s Solo”
"Boogie Wonderland
“After The Love Has Gone”
“Sing a Song”
“Shining Star”
“Devotion”

Bonus 1998 Performance

“Kalimba Funk Intro”
“Medley: Pride / Mighty Mighty”
“In The Stone”
“Solo Percussion”
“I’ll Write A Song”
“Love’s Holiday”
“Getaway”

#musique #funk #R&B #soul #jazz #disco #pop #rock #latin #african

The Search for Eclipses as Perfect as Earth’s - Facts So Romantic
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This classic Facts So Romantic post was originally published in September, 2013.Roughly twice a year, the apparent positions of sun and moon coincide, and a fortunate few observers are treated to a solar eclipse. Watching such an event provides the opportunity to contemplate a strange coincidence: From the surface of Earth, the apparent sizes of the sun and moon in the sky are nearly equal. The sun is almost exactly 400 times larger than the moon, and it’s also almost exactly 400 times farther away. There is no particular reason why they should appear the same size, and it wasn’t always that way. The moon has been retreating from Earth since the mega-collision that created it, 4.5 billion years ago. We’ve measured its rate of retreat with the help of equipment left on the surface of the (...)

Tigers and global corporate criminality: “We’ve got a really bad system” - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/15/tff6-o15.html

Toronto International Film Festival 2014—Part 6
Tigers and global corporate criminality: “We’ve got a really bad system”

By David Walsh
15 October 2014

This is the sixth and final part in a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 4-14). Part 1 was posted September 18, Part 2 on September 24, Part 3 on September 26, Part 4 on October 2 and Part 5 on October 10.

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Bosnian-born director Danis Tanović is proving to be one of the more interesting and compassionate filmmakers currently at work. His last three films, Cirkus Columbia (2009), An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2010) now, Tigers, have all looked at present conditions with honesty and some degree of social insight.

The new film focuses on an ongoing scandal that stretches back at least four decades, the marketing of infant formula to mothers in poor countries, which has caused untold suffering and death. In addition to the fact that breastfeeding is healthier for infants, in countries where clean water is not available, mixing polluted water with milk substitutes produces grave risks.

#art #cinéma #film

99 Homes, Shelter and harsh American realities:

Filmmakers inch their way toward important truths - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/10/tff5-o10.html

his is the fifth in a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 4-14). Part 1 was posted September 18, Part 2 on September 24, Part 3 on September 26, and Part 4 on October 2.

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The dominant view in contemporary cinema and criticism, unstated or not, is that art and social analysis are to all practical purposes mutually exclusive, that the dramatization of social problems, including the conditions under which vast numbers of people live, is not conducive to the creation of “genuine art.”

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#film #cinema #art

Hidden Valley [Teaser !] (trailer)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/hidden-valley-teaser

The 22 minute documentary premiered at the Environmental Film Festival Melbourne (EFFM), Australia - 5th September 2013.

A people speak out for their river, and for their future. The Hidden...

Was Pablo Neruda killed by Pinochet?
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/was-pablo-neruda-killed-by-pinochet-8641352.html

Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, described as the “greatest poet of the 20th century” and known for his romantic works, died on 23 September, 1973, after battling prostate cancer. Now prosecutors claim he was murdered on the orders of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet.

#chili