Brand new showreel by Rodeo FX featuring the latest work such as ENEMY, THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, NOW YOU SEE ME and many more: WANT TO KNOW MORE? ENEMY: VFX Breakdown by Rodeo FX. NOW YOU SEE ME: My interview of Ara Khanikian – VFX Supervis…
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Beautiful new showreel about the VFX work of Mr. X Inc: WANT TO KNOW MORE? POMPEII: My interview of Chris MacLean – CG Supervisor. HANNA: My interview of Brendan Taylor – VFX Supervisor. ROBOCOP: My interview of Craig Calvert – Previs Lead & CG…
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Mr. X have just released this really cool VFX breakdown of their great work on POMPEII: WANT TO KNOW MORE? Mr. X: My interview of Chris MacLean – CG Supervisor. © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2014
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Wired have published an interesting video (hosted by Mike Seymour of fxguide) about the impressive work of Weta Digital on DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2014
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Really funny clip featuring the whole team of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. Can’t wait to watch it! The VFX are made by: MPC (VFX Supervisor : Nicolas Aithadi) Framestore (VFX Supervisors : Jonathan Fawkner & Kyle McCulloch) Cantina Creative (VFX Superv…
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Nice video interview by Tested with Phil Tippett about Cain Robot in ROBOCOP 2: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2014
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TRANSFORMERS – AGE OF EXTINCTION: Rick O’Connor – Co-Animation Supervisor – ILM Rick O’Connor began his career in the visual effects at ILM more than 15 years ago with STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE. He then worked on films suc…
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NewScribbler purpose a long video interview (in three parts) of John Knoll (Chief Creative Officer and Senior VFX Supervisor) about ILM, VFX and Cinefex: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2014
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Ben Murray has worked over 10 years as an Inferno / Flame artist. He then helps Prime Focus World to developed his stereo pipeline and he worked on films such as MEN IN BLACK 3, FRANKENWEENIE or NOAH.
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Spanish based studio Onirikal Studio have just released their brand new showreel: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2014
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Weta Digital senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri and VFX supervisor Erik Winquist discuss Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Plus we run down the new July term at fxphd.com.
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We preview the Real-Time Live! sessions at SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver, talking to Real-Time Live! Chair Nico Gonzalez and jury member Ari Shapiro from USC ICT.
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Dawn of Planet of the Apes delivers complex serious acting from its lead digital characters - we speak to Weta Digital about this blockbuster hit of the summer.
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Each year The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences extends invitations to join the academy. The 2014 invitees for Visual Effects are
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The Foundry has launched COLORWAY, a new design application that speeds up and changes the process of iterating on and finalizing an image or product look, and expands the company's move into the design space.
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Award season begins with the announcement of nominations for the 66th Annual Emmy Awards.
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In this month's Ep Jason and Mike are back from travels and switching cameras!
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We explore VFX in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hannibal, Hawaii Five-O, Sleepy Hollow, Game of Thrones, Vikings and Orphan Black.
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In these special audio podcasts for fxinsider members, we talk to ILM animation director Rick O'Connor and CG supervisor John Hansen about Transformers: Age of Extinction.
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Disney Animation responds to fxguide's UDIM texture article and promises even more new Ptex tools.
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A conversation with artists from MastersFX about how they bring to life Falling Skies' Cochise with practical and digital fx.
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Find out what's been happening with Crytek's Cinebox - from game projects to previs - with exclusive behind the scenes videos.
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User Group meeting at SIGGRAPH 2014 will preview Fabric Engine 2.0 and demo Splice for 3ds Max.
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Three-hour event (8:00–11:00 p.m.) in Hall H features the World Premiere of ‘Gotham,’ complete pilot screening of ‘The Flash’ and exclusive footage from new series ‘Constantine’ and Season Three of ‘Arrow.’
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Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt to explore the side-by-side advances in filmmaking technology and aviation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' four-evening series, ‘Hol…
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Thinkbox Software releases a beta build of Deadline 7 for the highly scalable management of render farms and compute resources.
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Marvel Studios announces the release dates for five upcoming films running through 2019.
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Origin Digital Studios opens in Burbank as new collective of veteran visual effects artists, producers and supervisors.
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Fox's ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ remains at number one in its second weekend, bringing in $36 million for a domestic total of $139 million; Disney's animated family feature ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ comes in third with an $18 million d…
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Seth MacFarlane, Universal Pictures and Media Rights Capital have been sued for alleged copyright infringement for their hit comedy ‘Ted.’
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‘Never Let Me Go’ director is in talks to helm Warner Bros.’ ‘Overlook Hotel,’ a prequel to the Stanley Kubrick classic ‘The Shining.’
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First-time governors are Kate Amend, Documentary Branch; Daniel R. Fellman, Executives Branch; Albert Berger, Producers Branch; Bob Rogers, Short Films and Feature Animation Branch; and Mark Mangini, Sound Branch.
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‘Skyfall’ star Ben Whishaw steps in to replace Colin Firth as the voice of Paddington Bear in the Weinstein Company's family film ‘Paddington.’
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Themed challenges for users of Adobe After Effects CC and Cinema 4D Lite; winners to receive Cinema 4D Broadcast.
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Middle Boop's bold quote posters are based on Jurassic Park, Back To The Future and more – and they're coming to America next week.
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Teen-focussed social network We Heart It has flown under the radar for seven years, despite amassing millions of users and several high-profile advertisers.
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The Oculus Rift and a renewed interest in virtual reality has prompted a panic about controls--how do you intuitively and accurately manipulate a game while wearing what's essentially a blindfold?
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Ben Frost's pop-art-meet-packaging works are coming to the No Walls gallery in Brighton. See what's on show here.
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Google last week said that it was finally ditching a 30-year-old technology to display fonts on Web pages in its Chrome browser for Windows.
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Chrome evangelist François Beaufort gave us a glimpse of the potential future of Chrome OS on Friday, and boy is it ugly.
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The winning projects from emerging designers include a self-administering first-aid kit and an alternative internet realm.
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The winning projects from emerging designers include a self-administering first-aid kit and an alternative internet realm.
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Designers have revelled in the chance to use Comic Sans with impunity for this poster project to raise money for Cancer Research.
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One of the first casualties of Microsoft's massive layoffs will be the company's Xbox Entertainment Studios, the company said, although some of its flagship entertainment offerings will remain.
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WOTB has launched Upstart Women, with a £10,000 prize to find the UK’s best female digital start-up.
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Source Han Sans adds East Asian characters to the free Source Sans typeface – offering more than 65,000 glyphs for typesetting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages.
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Studio DailyOrigin Digital Studios Opens in Burbank as New Collective of Veteran Visual ...Digital FacilityBurbank, CA, July 21, 2014 -- Origin Digital Studios has been launched in Burbank as a new collective of veteran visual effects artists, produc…
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Inventive Solutions: John Dykstra talks about the art of creating visual effectsFlickering Myth (blog)John Dykstra “The computer has become overwhelming,” states John Dykstra (Star Wars) who was lauded this year with a Lifetime Achievement Award…
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Saluting Game Of Thrones' visual effectsDen Of GeekIt doesn't help that popular perception of visual effects artists and animators - arguably not aided by the view that their work is simply “painting digital makeup onto actors' performances” as e…
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Hypable'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' CGI proves visual effects have reached a pinnacleHypableMost know now that motion capture pioneer Andy Serkis (pictured left) is the one who has breathed life into some of the most well-known visual effects cha…
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FilmonicWatch: Amazing Environmental Visual Effects Reel From Game of Thrones ...FilmonicMackevision is one of the visual effects companies working on Game of Thrones and they just released this reel showing off some of the fantastic stuff they did f…
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PerezHilton.comGame of Thrones Visual Effects Studio Shows the Magic of Creating WesterosIGNIt's easy to notice special effects in Game of Thrones when the White Walkers enter the frame or a dragon takes to the sky, but what about the other details t…
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'Game of Thrones' Visual Effects Reel Shows How Westeros Comes to LifeMashableA new video by VFX studio Macklevision shows the extensive CGI work that goes into bringing Game of Thrones' Westeros (and Essos) to life. See also: Couple's Extreme 'Game…
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This Is How Visual Effects Made Game of Thrones Season 4io9It's not even five minutes long, but this video shows every layer of visual effects used in season 4 of Game of Thrones. And there are tons of them, even in places you wouldn't expect. It fee…
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'Transformers: Age of Extinction': 5 Things to Know About the Visual EffectsHollywood ReporterTransformers: Age of Extinction — which has already earned nearly $600 million worldwide — marks the fourth title of the franchise and director Michael…
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VarietyVisual Effects Giants Prime Focus World, Double Negative to MergeVarietyUpdated 9:00 a.m. PDT — Prime Focus World and Double Negative have agreed to merge in a deal that represents a major shakeup at the top of the visual effects business. T…
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Mark Ruffalo recently spoke about the upcoming "Avengers: Age of Ultron" during some downtime, telling USA Today that the scale is bigger and the tone is darker than its predecessor. Ruffalo says: "Joss [Whedon] is in his full height of his powers…
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He departed "Ant-Man" a while ago, now filmmaker Edgar Wright has reportedly found his next film in the form of "Baby Driver" at Working Title Films. Wright penned the crime-themed action thriller project, no word on the tone though it'll no doubt…
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Xbox has posted the first photo from the upcoming Ridley Scott-produced and Sergio Mimica Gezzan-directed digital series “Halo: Nightfall," this one a first look at Agent Locke played by Mike Colter ("The Good Wife," "Zero Dark Thirty").Locke is…
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Hilary Swank, Ed Harris and "The Hangover" alum Ed Helms are in negotiations to join "Babel" and "Amores Perros" filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's TV drama series "One Percent".Set against the world of organic farming, Helms plays a member of…
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A few hours after FX picked up its much acclaimed series "Fargo" for a second season, the producers of the series have revealed some basic details about where and when the new story is set to unfold.Like "American Horror Story" and "True Detective,…
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Disney's two most valuable acquisitions in recent years, LucasFilm and Marvel, have come under fire over that time due to the lack of leading female characters in their films. In fact, the addition of only one female name to the initial "Star Wars…
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PixelsSony Pictures Entertainment have announced that iconic video game characters PAC-MAN, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Galaga, Frogger, Q*bert, and Space Invaders are all set to feature in Chris Columbus' new action comedy "Pixels" opening next May. T…
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Months ago came rumors that former "Lost" star Evangeline Lilly was in talks to play the female lead in Marvel's "Ant-Man," something that various trade publications have reportedly since confirmed but neither she or Marvel have yet to. Asked by Sl…
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One thing "Supernatural" has been very effective at over the years has been end off season cliffhangers, the final moments of the season finales often leaving you screaming and demanding to know what's next.IF YOU HADN'T GUESSED BY THE TITLE - SPOI…
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We saw a minute-long teaser back in May, now Disney has unveiled an extended trailer for its upcoming animated series "Star Wars: Rebels".Set between "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" and "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope," the serie…
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Recently James Franco directed a low-budget film adaptation of "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men' author Cormac McCarthy's novel "Child of God," a book with subject matter so dark that many though it to be essentially unfilmmable. Nearly four…
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DemolitionNaomi Watts is in negotiations to join Jake Gyllenhaal in "Dallas Buyers Club" director Jean-Marc Vallee's upcoming dramatic comedy "Demolition" based on a 2007 Black List script by Bryan Sipe.Gyllenhaal plays a young investment banker s…
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Long-bubbling project may boil up againFollowing his somewhat surprising departure from the director’s chair of Marvel’s Ant-Man movie, speculation turned to what Edgar Wright would do next. There has been talk of him turning his attention to the…
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Timothy Spalls stars as the painterSome great artists have had the biopics they’ve deserved (Vincent van Gogh), some haven’t (Pablo Picasso) and some are yet to get one at all (Tony Hart). By all accounts, J. M. W. Turner could be pretty satisfie…
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The Drop, The Equalizer, Wild & more will premiereThe early line-up of premieres and gala screenings for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is out and it features typically eclectic offerings including new films starring Tom Hardy, Ree…
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Tamzin Merchant & David O'Hara also aboard the supernatural thrillerWhile he waits to see whether the Mortal Instruments series gets properly back on its feet for City Of Ashes, Robert Sheehan is hopping on board a film that features some vaguely sim…
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Disney show puts out extended promoYou might have seen the first long trailer for Star Wars Rebels, the new animated series set as canon within that galaxy far, far away. Here comes an even longer look at the series, which features Jason Isaacs’ vo…
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Guess what we're talking about?Rules are made to be broken, and author Chuck Palahniuk is breaking one of the big ones, talking as he is about his most famous and best-loved work, Fight Club, and the sequel he's writing for Dark Horse Comics.More det…
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Wibbly wobbly timey wimey trailer businessThe austere man’s Wachowkis siblings, Michael and Peter Spierig are sci-fi-oriented kin with a new action-thriller Predestination that promises to weave and duck through the fabric of time like a boxer in a…
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Starring with Vin Diesel and Rose LeslieWhile we doubt he will bark “you’re only supposed to blow the coven doors off!” at any point (there’s still time, filmmakers!), Michael Caine will be lending his gravelly gravitas to a film that could p…
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Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and co. will have to wait...We already knew we’d have to wait for Cameron Crowe’s latest, still-untitled romantic comedy drama, which had been dated for December in the US and March over here. Now the film has been push…
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She's set to star with Jake GyllenhaalJust last month, we reported on Jake Gyllenhaal considering the lead in Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée’s next film, Demolition. Now we know who will likely be joining him at the top of the bill,…
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Along with Eve Hewson and Billy Magnussen Steven Spielberg is pushing ahead with his next film, even though he has yet to settle on a title for the Cold War thriller that will star Tom Hanks. He’s now organised a reunion with Amy Ryan (who had a ti…
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Lots of VFX news today. I’ll wait for more details to come out and let the dust settle before I comment. In other news, it’s pretty rare to get international governments to provide oversight of their subsidy programs and disclose their costs. The…
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@MitchyD @YamAll @UbisoftMTL @IGN Our government helped them enough, if they can't walk on their own by now… They should fall. Hard.— Dany Rioux (@TheMadJack) June 18, 2014 A few weeks ago I pondered if cuts in Quebec subsidies would trigger a mi…
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UK VFX execs are on a roll this week: Speaking during the Unreality Checked panel of the VFX Summit, The Mill chief creative officer Pat Joseph said that although the nature of the work – particularly commercials – called for long hours, “the p…
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Tuesday morning I woke up early to do an interview with the BBC about the VFX industry. I argued that while the UK is benefiting from recent increases in subsidies for the film industry, I warned that Canada was offering much larger subsidies that…
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Last week I posted about Quebec winding down it’s film and games subsidy program by instantly cutting it by 20%. This week report Will Campbell uncovers an internal Ontario document that seriously questioned the sustainability of offering film subs…
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The Quebec government announced this week that it would cut subsidies across the board by 20%. This includes film and games subsidies: On the spending side, an across-the-board cut of 20 per cent will be applied to the popular tax credits that govern…
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So it finally happened. Sony Pictures Imageworks is moving all of its work to Vancouver signaling an end of an era: Variety: Sony Imageworks Moving HQ to Vancouver The Hollywood Reporter: Sony’s VFX House Imageworks Moving Headquarters to Vanco…
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Photo by AnimationMerc Well it’s looking to be that time of the year again where Andy Serkis tries to make another failed run at garnering an Oscar nomination for motion capture performances in VFX films. The Brew nails it: In an interview that Ser…
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I just arrived back to the US from my trip to China. (Which was pretty crazy if you saw my tweet about the plane almost crashing.) During my trip I was saddened to hear about another school shooting this time at UC Santa Barbara. I just was at UCSB t…
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I’ll be in China for two weeks. If you’re a reader of the blog and would like to grab a cup of tea let me know. Here is a list of cities and dates of where I’ll be at. Beijing: Sunday May 11 – Tuesday May 13 Xian: Wednesday May 14 – Thursda…
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