Comments on: Technologies of Disappearance http://graphic-engine.swarthmore.edu/?p=184 Bob Rehak's Blog about Special Effects, Videogames, Film, and Television Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:18:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Alan N. Shapiro http://graphic-engine.swarthmore.edu/?p=184&cpage=1#comment-12618 Alan N. Shapiro Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:00:36 +0000 http://graphic-engine.swarthmore.edu/?p=184#comment-12618 If you are going to call my book “interesting and frustrating” (given all the very positive book reviews that it has had), then you should write at least one sentence stating why you find it frustrating, and then give me a chance to reply. That would be more democratic.

]]> By: Michael D. http://graphic-engine.swarthmore.edu/?p=184&cpage=1#comment-2300 Michael D. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:17:01 +0000 http://graphic-engine.swarthmore.edu/?p=184#comment-2300 Re: The Digital Fireworks (“Footsteps through history”). To my memory, the commentators on the American broadcast basically alluded to the fact/indicated that this moment was indeed a “cinematic re-construction.” Or am I crazy?

I could kind of tell something was “off” about that moment anyway — then I realized, as they talked about it, that it wasn’t real…until the last footsteps over the stadium. Those were real, I believe.

Your other points are great as always, and the lip-sync issue is interesting. I noticed it, but I didn’t know about the “substitution”! (I normally cringe whenever I see my favorite artists forced to lip-sync as well).

We should talk “shop” (and everything else) soon.

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