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CAA One-A-Day: The Chemical Brothers - Free Yourself

CAA One-A-Day: Goodbye Uncanny Valley

This is a must watch for our students - a short documentary on the future of CGI as a 'post-realism' medium.  Properly fascinating! Goodbye Uncanny Valley from Alan Warburton on Vimeo .

CGAA Cinema: Tourist Trap (1979)

For me, one of the joys of YouTube is using it to track down all the b-grade horror movies of yesteryear... well, of the 1970s anyway. As a child, I owned a number of glossy coffee-table style books on horror cinema - much to my poor mum's concern - filled with stills from ripe-sounding shockers. On listless, rainy Sundays I'd stare at these images and allow my imagination to build elaborate contexts for these film-stills, inventing the stories that might give rise to such lurid vignettes. One such image that held me in its thrall was this bizarre tableau from David Schmoeller's 1979 film Tourist Trap - a doll-like figure holding another decapitated doll-like head. Thirty years or so later, I finally got around to watching Tourist Trap , and while many similar experiences of watching films have ended in disappointment and/or boredom, I can honestly say Tourist Trap was a good deal more disturbing than even the promise of that single image. Don...

The Uncanny Valley at its best

While browsing twitter I came across a link left here by a fellow twitter... here I present you a robot who cares about dental hygiene. Hope you enjoy or not... is this me or is this wrong ??