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We dissect the “Weta Effect” video! Less repulsive than dissecting an actual weta.
- Old Business
- PJ's cliffhanger, revealed! (It's about creature features)
- The “knife tail” is a reference to “Alligator Alley” aka “Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators”
- “Sharktopus” (of course!) and his squid-beak mouth gets a shout-out
- “Heebie Jeebies” has a multitorso body that can creep you out–with mist!
- And are particle effects a crutch?
- PJ's cliffhanger, revealed! (It's about creature features)
- Revisiting “The Weta Effect”
- Weta Effects
- The Weta Effect on YouTube
- Discoveries and Distractions
- Efram read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- …also The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon
- PJ is reading the writings of James Altucher, recommending The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth
- Sean has reached back and watched the original The Andromeda Strain, directed by Robert Wise
- Comparisons are made to Contagion
- And probably Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ???
- Sean has also read Made to Stick
- and he bought an iPad-based teleprompter system that uses voice recognition to automatically scroll the dialogue! Crazy
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