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What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies)
Thursday, December 7th, 2006This is a funny take on Hollywood’s portrayal of computer programming.
Following up our article: Top 20 Hackers in Film History and Vibrant’s Top 10 Servers in the movies, I felt obligated to dispel some of the notions about programming that these movies endorse. I understand that Hollywood needs to dress things up to make them more entertaining, but in the case of programmers, code, and hackers they’ve done more than dress things up - they’ve morphed a little stuffed teddy bear into a cybernetic polar bear covered in christmas lights and phosphorescent hieroglyphics with a fog machine pumping rainbow smoke out of his ass. In other words, they’ve layered a ridiculous amount of extravagance on top of something that in reality is very grounded.
Masi Oka: Coder, Actor, Hero
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006The actor who plays Hiro Nakamura on the TV show Heroes is also one of Industrial Light & Magic’s top programmers.
Since graduating from Brown University in 1997, Oka has worked on more than 30 big-budget Hollywood films at ILM. During that time he has written more than 20 programs and 100 plug-ins for the leading special-effects house. While audiences might not have known his name or face until Heroes, they’ve seen his programming magic on the big screen in films like The Perfect Storm, Star Wars: Episode II, Terminator 3 and the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Sydney Matrix locations
Monday, October 30th, 2006A Flickr photographer has taken some pictures of the locations in Sydney, Australia that were used to film The Matrix.
