Comments on: NeoConstruct

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:06:26 +0000

Forgot to remark on your special effects.
Most people these days resort to wire work or blue/green screen or both, but you did your effect “in camera”, neat! It looks so real that only Plan 9 from outer space did it better!

Bad Astronomer, you are so bad that you are good, just like plan 9….

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:17:30 +0000

Nice one, BA. I’ll add that one to my list of places to vist. It’s a shame the bullets aren’t slowed down in your photo – we can’t see them!

By: Alex W.

Alex W. — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:00:36 +0000

Nah, the twins aren’t an error in the construct. Mouse, who designs that stuff, is just as lazy as any other teenage hacker and copied and pasted most of the people to make it. Of course he spent an awful long time making The Lady in Red.

The rest of the post blew my mind though.

By: JusANuttaBackYahdah

JusANuttaBackYahdah — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:38:28 +0000

The “twins” in the picture show an error in the Matrix… but… wait a minute…. this is in the Contruct not the Matrix so there can’t be an error here…. but…. wait a minute….look at the picture of BA at the fountain and extrapolate to the profile…. almost looks like the twins…. wait a minute….could this be a dual cameo appearance of the BA himself????? and just maybe those hoaxes that he writes about are created by the “twins” and he de-bunks them…..wait a minute here…. I think I’m on to something here ….AT LAST!!!! I’ve found the truth….or….maybe not?????

By: Alex W.

Alex W. — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 00:23:03 +0000

You think that’s air making the flag move on the moon?

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:51:31 +0000

To Samara!
Yes, but Plato was mostly writing what Socrates said, isn’t it? I’m almost sure it was a text of Plato with Socrates in it…

By: Alisha D.

Alisha D. — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:08:08 +0000

Phil, I always suspected you were the O-N-E!
Very funny blog entry.

By: beche-la-mer

beche-la-mer — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:11:33 +0000

Dodging bullets in Martin Place? How very Californian.

They must be virtual bullets — you know we’re not allowed to carry guns in Australia.

By: Samara

Samara — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:06:51 +0000

To Michelle Rochon, that was Plato who made the comment about how all we see are shadows projected on the wall of a cavern (or something to that effect)

All in all, great entry once again BA! I wouldn’t be suprised if you stumble into more matrix landmarks

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:09:33 +0000

All those Sydney landmarks in Matrix took me right out of the movie and plunked me back into reality again.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:48:01 +0000

[JAKE]
That’s where they got that Picasso, don’t they?
[/JAKE]

By: Tobin Dax

Tobin Dax — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:56:41 +0000

That’s great. When I was in Chicago for the first time, a few months ago, I made sure to pass through the intersection of Wabash and Lake as I was walking downtown. Your stop is cooler, Phil, but then your travel budget is bigger.

By: hale_bopp

hale_bopp — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:16:28 +0000

Hey, Phil. Did you forget to pack your dark suit so you could look the part

Rob

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:07:47 +0000

Did you get distracted by the lady in red too?

By: bearcub

bearcub — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:41:49 +0000

It’s good for a couple days of silliness fullfillment.

Of course the first thing I thought looking at the the picture of you BA was, one too many Fosters.

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:38:32 +0000

Aw! It always spoils a little bit of the magic when you know where movie elements are in real life.

Aaah, the Matrix. Great stuff! Too bad only the first one was good. It was my philosophy teacher’s favorite movie when it came to teach us some of Socrates’s stuff… Something about a cavern. I forget the name of that text. And at least I THINK it was said by Socrates.

By: Maksutov

Maksutov — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:53:18 +0000

Three specific comments:

1. What red dress? Oh, that one!

2. Too bad we can’t see the level surface you’re obviously walking on (the rest of the picture is apparently out of phase by about 50 degrees).

3. For screen-grabbing I use a completely legal software application called PowerDVD from Cyberlink. Heck, I even paid for it!

In general, nice, amusing, light-hearted blog entry!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:36:55 +0000

It is a weird experience when you see familiar locations on the big screen. You Californians are probably used to it, but for us lives in the sticks of the antipodes its all new and shiny still.

By: The Supreme Canuck

The Supreme Canuck — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:53:02 +0000

I think I can answer the circled heads thing. They used twins to film that scene so that it would look… er… weirder (for want of a better word). The two circled heads are those of two twins.

So there you have it.