Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy the new photoshop art I created to celebrate the holidays. I love it!
Ahead of the Pack
Check out a BBC commercial for digital television that has generated 1,300 complaints. Some even described it as “horrific” and “disturbingly psychotic”. Personally I thought it was pretty cool looking.
I’m Finished Classes
I finished my last class a couple weeks ago and today the marks are in. It feels so good to be finished school. Now I’m on the prowl for an internship—the only thing between me and my degree.
I’m hoping I’ll be able to work for a video game company in Vancouver, though, I’m also considering a couple of other opportunities here in Alberta, and in the States. Since I’ve been learning French (on my own) lately, I might also like to go to Montreal, but I don’t really have any specific leads there.
Working at the International Centre has awoken in me a strong desire to go out and see the world. I’ve begun to think about what I’d like to do after I’m truly done school. Of course plans might change depending on where I’m working and who I’m with, but I’m thinking for my next big trip I’d like to go all over Europe and perhaps make a stop in Iran. (Is it too taboo to say that?) I have an ex-roommate from there and I’d love to visit him.
I can’t say for sure when any of that would happen since I still have a long way to go paying off student debts, but it’s exciting to dream anyway.
Special Effects Montage
Check out this amazing special effects montage from the design company R!OT Manhatten.
I love this sort of thing! I should have taken a compositing class in University when I had the chance.
Return to the Dead Zone: Land of the Wolves
It’s just a few months until the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident (26 April 1986). Elena Filatova, previously blogged here as The Kidd of Speed, has returned to the dead zone once again.
This time she documents some of the more remote areas of the highly radioactive areas, what she calls, the Land of the Wolves.
Check out the videos, which show some of the cleanup process of the reactor and sarcophagus after the meltdown. I found the footage taken by an unmanned camera of the two metre mass in the heart of the reactor to be quite interesting. Nicknamed the Elephant’s foot, it contains enough radiation to kill a person instantly.
- Video1: Shows clean up workers (nick named biorobots) on the roof of Unit # 3. (2mb wmv)
- Video2: footage that was taken deep in a basement of reactor N4 and shows the “Elephant’s Foot” (3mb wmv)
- Video3: shot of a helicopter dropping chemicals on the reactor (1.3mb wmv)
Expect to be hearing a lot about Chernobyl in the coming months. Twenty years after the fact, radiation levels are still too high to safely remain in the area for very long or to leave the road. Radioactivity in the plants and grass are much higher than levels on the highway.