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Monday, February 17, 2014
Academy honors scientists behind special effects Associated Press Writer
BEVERLY HILLS, California — The scientists and inventors who make big-screen superheroes, spectacular explosions and other only-in-the-movies effects possible have their own Oscar ceremony. Kristen Bell and Michael B. Jordan hosted the film academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, recognizing more than 50 of the most creative scientists and engineers in the movie business.
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Left to right, Dan Piponi, Olivier Maury and Ian Sachs, creators of the ILM Plume system that simulates and renders fire, smoke and explosions for motion picture visual effects and recipients of a Technical Achievement Award, pose together at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
These are the men who developed the computer technology behind the bullet scene in “The Matrix” and the animation techniques in “Life of Pi.” They’re the visionaries who build the things the film industry needs that don’t yet exist, like advanced remote helicopter cameras and the Pneumatic Car Flipper (which does what it sounds like), for which they received certificates and plaques from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. One honoree, Joshua Pines, who helped develop image-processing mathematics to standardize color, called the evening “this year’s annual winter Olympics for geeks.” The two Oscar statuettes were presented among the night’s 21 awards: The Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Peter W. Anderson for his contributions to 3-D technology, and an Academy Award of Merit in honor of the countless owners and operators of film-processing labs over the past century. “The Dark Knight” writer-director Christopher Nolan accepted the film lab Oscar, which will be on permanent display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles when it opens in 2017. Nolan described film processors as alchemists who “(turn) silver and plastic into dreams — and not just any kind of dreams, but the kind of dreams you can unspool from a reel and hold in your hand, hold up to the light and see, frozen: magic.” He also contributed to the filmversus-digital debate that other
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Missing from Friday
Search resumes for seven Japanese divers
Indonesian rescuers on Sunday resumed their search for seven Japanese scuba divers who vanished during a dive near Bali two days ago, a consular official said.
DENPASAR - Indonesian rescuers on Sunday resumed their search for seven Japanese scuba divers who vanished during a dive near Bali two days ago, a consular official said.
FILE - Puppeteer John Henson, the son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson is seen with Muppets Miss Piggy and Kermit at the Disney/MGM studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida in this June 15, 1990 file photo.
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Agence France-Presse
Associated Press Writer
SAUGERTIES, New York — John Henson, the son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson, has died in New York. He was 48. Cheryl Henson says her brother died of a “massive heart attack” at his home in Saugerties on Friday. She says it happened after he had been building an igloo in the snow with his daughter. Henson followed in his famous father’s footsteps as a puppeteer, performing as Sweetums the ogre in several films, including “Muppet Treasure Island” and “It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie.” He was also a shareholder and board member of the Jim Henson Company. Henson leaves behind his wife Gyongyi and two daughters, ages 10 and 15.
honorees nudged at during the night. Film is “the technology that lies at the heart of filmmaking,” Nolan said, “and still represents the gold standard in imaging technology.” Still, the majority of Saturday’s awards honored research and inventions related to digital filmmaking. Eric Veach was recognized for his Stanford doctoral thesis that incorporates the physics of lighting into computer graphics. Dan Piponi, part of a team who created a system to simulate smoke and fire first used in films such as “Avatar” and “Puss In Boots,” joked about his unlikely road to Oscar recognition.
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A search party was combing the seas for the five tourists and two instructors -- all women -- who went missing during their third dive near the islands of Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida southeast of Bali on Friday afternoon, deputy consul general of Japan in Bali Yasue Katsunobu said. Their boat’s skipper called the police after the women did not resurface, Katsunobu said, adding the boat was hired from Yellow Scuba on the beachside strip of Sanur. “We are still searching for the seven missing divers. So far there’s no indication of where they are,”
Katsunobu said on Sunday. A staff member for Bali’s search and rescue agency said a around 100 people had joined the operation from his agency, the maritime police, the navy, as well as fishermen, and Japanese and Indonesian diving instructors. “After having no luck on Saturday, we have expanded the search area,” said Amtarama, a Bali search and rescue official who goes by one name. “We have seven official boats, not including the fishermen’s, and a helicopter has been scanning the waters since the early morning,” he said.
The team will continue until dark, he said, adding that weather conditions had so far been fine. Rescuers searched until 3 pm on Saturday when bad weather, including heavy rain, forced them to halt the mission, officials said. Police said earlier that the women had left from Crystal Bay on the larger island Nusa Penida when they went missing. Popular dive site Crystal Bay is a popular site for seeing Nusa Penida’s famous mola-mola, or ocean sunfish, and is recommended for experienced divers because of its strong downward current. The bay was closed temporarily in August 2012 after a Danish man and Japanese woman died diving in the same week, according to
reports. The skipper said that he was following the divers for some 20 minutes before a sudden downpour of rain made the water cloudy, according to a report in Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper. He moved his 10-metre-long boat to a point some hundreds of metres away where the divers were expected to resurface at an agreed time, the report said. The skipper said he searched for them for an hour before reporting the incident. “I’ve been guiding since 2009, and I’ve been to the area (of the accident) many times. Why did this happen?” he said in the report. Katsunobu said that the seven women were very experienced scuba divers with at least 50 dives each under their belts.
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Japan’s Kyodo news agency said the missing women were named by police and rescue authorities as: Ritsuko Miyata, 59, Emi Yamamoto, 33, Nahomi Tomita, 28, Aya Morizono, 27, Atsumi Yoshinobe, 29, Shoko Takahashi, 29, and Saori Furukawa, 27. Bali is often pounded by heavy afternoon rain during the wet season, which lasts around six months of the year. Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida are popular scuba diving spots and are part of the Coral Triangle, widely considered the world’s richest underwater wilderness. The Coral Triangle includes the waters of six nations in the Indian and Pacific oceans -- Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.