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I hosed the mud off expecting to find hole where the pivot bolt should have been – before it had corroded away and caused my current predicament. But there was no hole! No fragments of broken pivot bolt; nothing. Just a nicely cast aerofoil shaped lump of cast iron with cast-in trunnions on each side (trunnions are ‘protrusions’ commonly seen on old navy and military gun barrels which allow the barrel to pivot around them on the gun carriage to change the elevation of the gun). Terry discovered another Pandora with the same sail number called RedStart, sailed here by Ian Curnow and his daughter, Emily. Photo: Green Sea Photography

However, whatever the problem was with Pandora 799, Rydgeway Marine decided it was best fixed by changing the keel configuration from fin to swing keel.In fact, Cameron doesn't even like the term "motion capture" for the process used on Avatar. He prefers to call it "performance capture." This may seem like semantics, but to Cameron, the subtle facial expressions that define an actor's performance had been lost for many of the digital characters that have come before. In those films, the process of motion capture served only as a starting point for animators, who would finish the job with digital brush strokes. "Gollum's face was entirely animated by hand," says Weta Digital effects master Joe Letteri. "King Kong was a third or so straight performance capture. It was never automatic." This time, Cameron wanted to keep the embellishment by animators to a minimum and let the actors drive their own performances. A unique hybrid of scientist, explorer, inventor and artist, Cameron has made testing the limits of what is possible part of his standard operating procedure. He dreams almost impossibly big, and then invents ways to bring those dreams into reality. The technology of moviemaking is a personal mission to him, inextricably linked with the art. Each new film is an opportunity to advance the science of cinema, and if Avatar succeeds, it will change the way movies are captured, edited and even acted.

Pupils could work in groups to create their own planets – each planet having a different setting and characters – these characters could then interact with each other. I stripped her out, replaced the tired old upholstery, re-rigged her, repaired and reinstalled the roller reefing spar (broken when the mast came down), replaced the running rigging and rewired her.For actors, the process of performing within an imaginary world, squeezed into a leotard while pretending to inhabit an alien body, is a challenge. Motion-capture technology is capable of recording a 360-degree view of performances, so actors must play scenes with no idea where the "camera" will eventually be. Weaver found the experience liberating. "It's simpler," she says. "You just act. There's no hair or makeup, nothing. It's just you and the material. You forget everything but the story you're telling." Directing within a virtual set is more difficult. Most directors choose their angles and shots on a computer screen in postproduction. But by then, most of the immediacy of the performance is lost. Cameron wanted to be able to see his actors moving within the virtual environments while still on the motion-capture stage (called the volume). So he challenged his virtual-production supervisor Glenn Derry to come up with a virtual camera that could show him a low-resolution view of Pandora as he shot the performances.

At Biphoria, we believe that everyone has the right to be themselves and to express their true identities. We strive to create a safe and welcoming space where everyone can be their authentic selves and connect with others who share similar experiences and identities. Yet live-action 3D was hardly the biggest technical challenge. Only about 25 percent of the movie was created using traditional live performances on sets. The rest takes place in an entirely computer-generated world—combining performance capture with virtual environments that have never before been realized on film. Conjuring up this exotic world allowed Cameron to engage in "big-time design," he says, with six-legged hammerhead thanators, armored direhorses, pterodactyl-like banshees, hundreds of trees and plants, floating mountains and incredible landscapes, all created from scratch. He drew upon his experience with deep-sea biology and plant life for inspiration. Sigourney Weaver, who plays botanist Grace Augustine, calls it "the most ambitious movie I've ever been in. Every single plant and creature has come out of this crazy person's head. This is what Cameron's inner 14-year-old wanted to see." The onscreen rendering of Worthington was supposed to be a sort of digital sleight of hand—a human character inhabiting an alien body so that he could blend into an alien world, played by a human actor inhabiting a digital body in a digital world. To make the whole thing work, Worthington's performance, those subtle expressions that sell a character to the audience, had to come through the face of his Avatar. But after millions of dollars of research and development, the Avatar's face was not only lifeless, it was downright creepy. It "scared the crap out of me," Cameron recalls. "Horrible! It was dead, it was awful, it wasn't Sam. God, I thought. We've done everything right and this is what it looks like?" Welcome to Biphoria. Biphoria organises Mixed Bisexual Events, welcoming Couples and Singles of all genders and sexualities.

Currently events are held every Thursday at an Adults only complex just outside of the City Center of Leeds, West Yorkshire. Pandora's Piñata is the third studio album by Swedish avant-garde metal band Diablo Swing Orchestra. It was released on May 14, 2012, in Europe by Candlelight Records and on May 22, 2012, in North America by Sensory Records. [8] The stainless M8 machine screws were coated with water pump grease prior to refitting and I ran an M8 tap into the tapped stub keel holes to clean the threads.

Cameron's dual-sided personality has roots in his upbringing—the brainy sci-fi geek from Chippewa, Ontario, was raised by a painter mother and an engineer father. "It was always a parallel push between art and technology," he says. "My approach to filmmaking was always very technical. I started off imagining not that I would be a director, but a special-effects practitioner." The Cosmopolitan Influencer Awards with PANDORA will take place at brand new venue, Wild by Tart and is a unique celebration of the biggest, best, new and up-and-coming talent. Cameron wrote his first treatment for the movie in 1995 with the intention of pushing the boundaries of what was possible with cinematic digital effects. In his view, making Avatar would require blending live-action sequences and digitally captured performances in a three-dimensional, computer-generated world. Part action–adventure, part interstellar love story, the project was so ambitious that it took 10 more years before Cameron felt cinema technology had advanced to the point where Avatar was even possible. After making the photographs, Meiselas set aside the project, then eventually published it as a book five years later. The photographer had also considered documenting the mistresses’ lives outside of the club or venturing deeper into the subculture of which they were part but ultimately decided against it. “There is a subtle process here: you allow yourself to immerse and then you have to pull out. Knowing when to get out takes judgment and I think it is intuitive,” she reflects in Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline. Today, however, the series continues to exist as a powerful representation of the complexities of a hidden world and the people participating in it.So there you have it; for what it is worth, my acquired wisdom of how to keep a Pandora swing keeler floating the right way up and on top of the waves; although I’m sure a lot of this applies to any swing keel design. Now, my annual haul-out/ maintenance list includes two new essentials: Documenting hidden worlds by collaborating with those who inhabit them has been a central part of Susan Meiselas’s practice from the very beginning. The approach has allowed her to capture scenes where the act of photographing could have easily become voyeuristic. First, at the small circuses and state fairs of 1970s America, where Meiselas was invited into the private dressing rooms of the carnival strippers; and later, in the covert spaces of the elite S&M club Pandora’s Box.