Friday 12 June 2015

A Word From Mark Zukerberg






I'm so excited about our Oculus announcement today. Here's a photo of me playing with a virtual bow and arrow before we unveiled the new Touch controllers to the world.

Monday 1 June 2015

Soprano Jacqueline Echols shined in her role as the evil stepsister






Clorinda in Washington National Opera’s production of Rossini’s “Cinderella.” (Photo by Scott Suchman. The production of Rossini’s “Cinderella” by Washington National Opera, seemed to be a cross between the enchantment that we knew as children and the sophisticated spectacle of the theater.

Filmmaker’s ‘Wild’ Confession







Author of “Confessions of a Wildlife Filmmaker”, When I first got into television in the early 1980s, I brought home a film on bears my colleagues and I had just completed to show my wife, Gail. She loved it. She particularly liked the shot of a grizzly bear stepping through a stream. The sun was dappling on its back and water could be heard dripping off its paws.
Gail asked me how we got the shot and I told her we used a powerful telescopic lens. Then she asked how we got the sound. I had to admit that my talented sound guy had filled a basin full of water, ruffled it with his hand and elbow, recorded the splashes he made, and matched those sounds to the footage.
Gail was shocked. “You’re a big fake” she said. I’d made a documentary and she expected authenticity and truth.