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The immense city scape of Tokyo has inspired many a photographer and video artist, with it’s vast sprawl broken up only by high rises jutting out of the swarm of movement on the ground. One such inspired photographer is French video artist Samuel Cockedey whose time lapse piece, Android Dreams is one of the best examples I have seen capturing the neon studded capital in fantastic detail.

Shot over the course of one year, Cockeday seems to have discovered some pretty outstanding vantage points from where he shows us Tokyo’s crammed streets and sheer size. Focusing mostly on the skyscraper district of Shinjuku the colors and light make the city change face as the time progresses. Cockeday comments that the piece is, “A tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapse”. As he says himself, stick it on full screen, watch in HD, turn the sound up, sit back and just take it all in. Enjoy!

I recommend checking out his other time lapse pieces on his channel on Vimeo also where he explores other areas of Tokyo and brings the city to life.

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It looks like those rumors of a streaming deal between Netflix and Dreamworks Animation were as good as advertised. Details are still fuzzy at this point, but the New York Times is reporting that the two parties have reached an agreement to stream Dreamworks’ movies and TV projects, as part of a deal worth an estimated $30 million. Under the contract, which replaces a similar pay TV pact between Dreamworks and HBO, Netflix will begin offering exclusive access to the studio’s new films in 2013, with Antz, Kung Fu Panda and other titles from its library slated to become available for streaming sometime thereafter. The company won’t be confined to selling digital copies of Dreamworks’ movies within a specific period, either, drawing a major distinction between itself and HBO, which requires studio partners to halt digital sales outside of an exclusive window. HBO probably isn’t too thrilled to see Netflix strike what Dreamworks chief exec Jeffrey Katzenberg called a “game-changing deal,” but it also has a new partnership of its own with Summit Studios, which it brought on board after letting Dreamworks out of its contract a full two years early. We’re still waiting for official confirmation of Netflix’s latest deal, but we’ll let you know as soon as we get it.

Update: Now with the official press release, included after the break.

Continue reading NYT: Netflix strikes deal with Dreamworks, will begin streaming movies, TV specials in 2013

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The Robopocalypse is coming — just not in the way you’d feared. DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox have joined movie-making forces to reanimate Daniel H. Wilson’s fictional (for now) literary account of a future, robot-helmed doomsday. The studios have thrown some guy named Steven Spielberg behind the lens of this cinematic cautionary tale, and plan to scare the bejeezus out of us all when it premieres July 3, 2013 — that’s if we make it past the Mayan end of the world. No casting was mentioned in the project’s announcement, so we’ll continue to cross our toes in the hopes a certain daytime show couch jumper and film star-turned-pilot don’t join in on the blockbuster fear-mongering.

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Continue reading Sony’s F65 CineAlta 4K camera now available for a paltry $65,000

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A (non-Kodak) film canister. Photo Brian Turner / Flickr

If you have a hankering to take a teeny tiny packed lunch along with you, and you happen to have some old film canisters around the house, then Kodak has good news. While the plastic tubs aren’t FDA approved for food, Kodak reckons that they’re safe enough, despite not going so far as to actually recommend the practice.

After having made roughly 10 gazillion of the handy little pots over the years, Kodak knows a thing or two about them. The bodies of these canisters are made from high density polyethylene (HDPE), used in kitchen utensils amongst other things, and the lids are LDPE (guess what that stands for), which is also commonplace.

So, while kids might choke on the lids, human adults should be fine if they choose to store and carry food inside the watertight containers. There are no toxic or chemical residues from the film that was once therein, and the containers are “exceptionally clean” upon manufacture.

Which leaves us with one problem. What to put in there? Flakey Maldon salt is one idea, and a lollipop might fit in if you cut off its neck. You could even store a few cherry tomatoes inside for an impromptu (and minuscule) salad. After that, though, I’m stumped. Film-canister picnic ideas in the comments, please.

35mm Film Containers [Kodak via PetaPixel]

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