17 fevereiro 2009

Twitter, discursos e Óscares

Twitter Could 'Go for Years' Without Earning a Dime, Investor Says: In fact, Twitter did not even actively seek out the current, third round of $35 million in funding lead by Benchmark Capital and IVP

Vanity Fair Invades the Twitter Zone: You guessed it: the VF.com squad is learning to Twitter.
The ostensible reason is simple: I'm going to be live blogging from inside the Vanity Fair Oscar Party next Sunday


A propósito de Oscars: The art of accepting effectively: Actors may think it unfair that we judge them at this fragile, vulnerable moment of jubilation—like having strangers critique your reaction to a surprise marriage proposal. But the best stars understand that the acceptance speech is just another performance, and that it will be reviewed accordingly.

Building The Curious Faces Of 'Benjamin Button': The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a film based loosely on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, stars Brad Pitt as a person who is born old and ages backward. [...]
"There's 325 shots — 52 minutes of the film — where there is no actual footage of Brad," says Steve Preeg, a character supervisor at Digital Domain, the studio that did all the special effects for the film. "He's not in any of the shots."
What the audience is actually seeing in the first third of the movie is a computer-generated copy of Pitt's head, which the studio aged digitally.