PZ Meyers calls XVIVO on bad ethical judgment after accepting a commission on Deepak Chopra. Click xvivo’s fallopian tube above to check it out.

Lots of relevance here, and a burning example of the authority of quality imagery in solidifying a claim – in this case a questionable one. Also of interest is the critique on the animation:

their animations of cellular and molecular processes are spectacular and beautiful, they are also annoyingly purposeful: they show tubulin making a beeline across microns of distance to assemble a microtubule, for instance, while kinesins stride determinedly down the cytoskeleton. There isn’t the slightest hint of the stochastic nature of the biochemistry, and they are seriously misleading in that sense

A fantastic interview with Hans Frick, the Coelecanth man. Click the fish.

If [a coelecanth] makes a downbeat with its right pectoral, the beast turns. To counter this, it has to make a counter-downbeat on the far left side. This produces the tetrapodic cross-step. It’s a normal thing for an animal on land, but we’re talking about a fish.

Open Letter To VFX Artists And The Entertainment Industry

Had to round off a presentation video for a pitch, so I tackled some remaining issues and ignored others (ie. the wing feather deformation). This is the Scott Hartman approved Archie, though he hasn’t seen the walk yet. Anxious to hear his feedback.

I’ve had a chronic tooth ache for the last two weeks, a bone spur on my heel that keeps me from running, though I can now walk, and I haven’t done a speed paint in ages. This isn’t one either, as it took 2 hours and 44 minutes. It didn’t change my mood much, but it did reflect it. Michael Maisch is a passionate paleontologist who – as I discovered on my last trip to southern Germany – is out of a job. In a country that spends 163 billion Euros a year on subventions. And bails out banks.
Hope it’s not true. I had no photos of Michael to go on, just a sketch that I made during a wonderful talk he gave at the museum in Stuttgart. So – it likely misses the resemblance, but I remember this pose of his – and his passion.