The celebration of the Virgin Mary is held once a year in Lyon in a very magical and beautiful way. A celebration that begins on the 6th of December and lasts for four days takes the breath away of everyone who is lucky enough to witness it. The Lyon Lights Festival, otherwise known to the French as Fête des Lumières is the combination of continuous lighting and video effects, visual arts and creative audio features that are displayed all around Lyon in a very spectacular and beautiful way. It’s as if the whole city turns into a canvas and all the buildings, historic and new, all the people, roads, bus stops, water fountains and so much more of what the city is made of becomes a continuously changing art work represented by lights. It’s almost like walking into a fairytale of lights, where giant figures of people move from one building to the other, where the unexpected can be expected. Continue reading
Πρόσκληση σε σεμινάρια
Η Ένωση Σκηνοθετών Κινηματογράφου – Τηλεόρασης μέσα στα πλαίσια της συνεχούς επιμόρφωσης, πραγματοποιεί δύο σεμινάρια για τον Κινηματογράφο. Continue reading
Racism
It was Tuesday and my first day at the University of Nicosia. My first lesson was “Introduction to Communication Studies”. When we started analysing the first chapter, the lecturer started with this sentence: “A human is born to communicate, we don’t have other choice because nobody can’t afford the loneliness”.
So from this simple opinion, I started thinking “What about racism?”. Automatically I remembered a subject that we did when I was a student in high school about the Second World War. The main point that we easily understood from this remarkable chapter of world history, is that hatred generated by the German 3rd Reich was rooted in the inability to accept differences, like colour, religion, origin, people with handicaps etc. The end of this horrible situation was the deliberate death of 6 million people. Continue reading
The Omcopter
The Drones are among us! In reality & fiction film!
Have you ever thought that your camera can fly? That with a remote controller you can direct your camera and take video footage from the sky?
For many years film-makers have tried to achieve the effect of shooting from an actual helicopter without using one, and most of the time this resulted in broken cameras or at least lens. Not everyone has the budget to include a giant crane or a flying machine as a technical part of his production. Nowadays there is a solution, for all this crazy attempts to be achieved natural flying movement of the camera. A German company has developed a device called the “Omcopter”. Continue reading
Light Sensor Examination and Comparison Study of the Human Retina and of a Professional Cinema Camera’s CMOS Sensor
In this study, the image resolution of the human eye and of a professional cinema camera have been examined and compared based on the surface area and density of the light receptors in both the human retina and in the CMOS digital imaging sensor. Based upon our comparisons, the conclusion that was drawn reveals that the image the human eye perceives has a higher resolution than that of current technology of state-of-the-art professional cinema cameras. Continue reading
Being A Radio Producer
Being a radio presenter, producer or even a DJ at a radio station was just a dream job for many people a few years ago.
Today, thanks to the Internet any user can be a radio producer even if it is not professionally at a studio. I remember 10 years ago, when I came to Cyprus I used to go to internet cafés to check my e-mail or talk to friends or surf the Internet, however today we have internet access almost everywhere. You might ask how this can be related to my subject. Well the real meaning of transmitting has changed by the invention of online Radio. That is, every single internet user can be a radio presenter, producer or even DJ and transmit the content digitally online. Nevertheless the real feeling of being in a professional radio station is still different. Continue reading
Facebook – staying social, I like it…….
Facebook nowadays has invaded our daily activities and generally our lives. For more information about it’s creation click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook.
It’s no coincidence that millions of people spend so much time on Facebook. Personally, I spend more than the half of my free time on it. It can provide several things, such as free communication with people around the world, especially for people who have relatives in other countries like me. Another thing that Facebook provides is, that you can add all of your friends and also learn new things through the posts of articles or pictures that you can share with them. Moving on, another function of Facebook is the games that it includes, my favourite one lately is Candy Crash, which also attracts many people. You can also, spend your free time chatting with friends, uploading pictures of yourself and your friends. Continue reading
GRAND THEFT AUTO V review
When it seems that the current generation of consoles is slowing down ,and while the same companies seem to be throwing their weight towards the generation that follows, leaving the old consoles on autopilot – everybody is getting excited by PS4, XBOXONE and even STREAMBOX (future 2014 consoles-that will set the direction of the industry in the following 10 years). It’s this console generation’s last hurrah. Rockstar,a multinational video game developer and publisher, made a big surprise, releasing Grand Theft Auto V (5) in this generation.
GTA (Grand Theft Auto V) uses its own custom physics engine -it is a sandbox game played from a third point view.
