8. Leverage Anchors
Anchors are the tools we use for something to hold us to a starting point for our exploration. Believing that we do not have them is the first mistake.
Video Clip, Flying Feathers
The final result of a month's work in roughly 30 seconds of feathers emanating from the artist flying in the middle of the room. Houdini Sidefx was used to procedurally generate the feathers and animate as a particle system.
The work was done as part of the post-production while I worked at Global Aim Group in Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon, circa 2009-2010. While I worked on the feathers, the composition team put the shot all together so you get the result you see here.
Control yourself, and you control the cage and who’s in it.
Why You Should Never Judge a Book by it's Cover | Kathy Buckley
Kathy was born in Wickliffe, Ohio. When she was young, Kathy's family chalked up communication challenges to her being "slow." Kathy was in second grade when school administrators and audiologists diagnosed hearing loss as the cause of her challenges with speech development. Throughout her childhood, she was sexually molested and contemplated suicide in her adolescence.
At age 20, Kathy hung out on the shores of Lake Erie, trying to figure out what to do with the rest of her life, when she was run over by a 3,500-pound lifeguard Jeep while sunbathing. She was pronounced dead by attending paramedics and saw life after death. (At least she believed she did.) Kathy was in and out of a wheelchair for two years because of intermittent paralysis in her legs. It took almost five years to completely recover.
One year after recovering from the Jeep accident, Kathy received more heartbreaking news: a cervical cancer diagnosis. She endured two more years of hospital visits to defeat cancer. And she hadn't turned 30 yet!