The Gift, Visual Effects, Downhill Bikers, Speed Metal and Acting

Български - http://twenkid.blogspot.comThe Gift - A Dream (teaser trailer #1)Подарък - Сън на Тош (тийзър трейлър 1) from Todor Arnaudov on Vimeo.This is the first teaser trailer of my short film "The Gift" (A Dream), includes moment from "the making" of it.What I'm saying means:  I was late... When I just arrived up here, the sunset was still visible and there was a beautiful red light. A moment later - everything went dark...Genre:...

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NLP stands for Natural Language Processing and not Neuro-Linguistic Programming | НЛП означава Обработка на естествен език, а не ...

The more popular NLP is a half-scientific or pseudoscientific psychological methodology for the so called "social engineering".In my opinion this is an immoral methodology of  how to manipulate and deceive people, especially about making sex or selling something. There are courses about how to pick-up girls and make them believe you love them while you just want sex; how to make people buy your shit and persuade them how brilliant it is etc.This kind of pseudo NLP sucks, and people who try to use this "methodology" are...

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Machine Translation 50 years ago | Машинен превод от преди 50 години

While writing an article about Machine translation, I recalled this chapter from a book, printed in Moscow in 1958, just 4 years after the first MT demonstration in New York by IBM. You could try, if you wish, whether today's Google or Microsoft translators would manage. ;) The text is from a Bulgarian translation of the book.Google Translate to Enlgish this article...Докато пишех една статия за машинен превод, се сетих за един интересен "препис", който бях публикувал в bgit.net преди 8 години, от вече 50-годишна книга. ...

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Video editor/Visual Effects/CGI software - in progress | Разработвам свой видеоредактор с възможности за специални визуални ефекти

An experiment from 2005. A combination of two videos with masks for the intersections.The video editor/NLE/computer graphics environment I'm developing has no name yet and is getting its basic capabilities yet - opening video file, rendering 3D-graphics, postprocessing video, outputting to file. It's supposed to serve at least for the visual special effects needed for my fantasy short film "The Gift".I've been waking up my old-old passion...

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