Monday 13 September 2010

Douglas Trumbull


Douglas Trumbull[website](who's vast volume of work includes such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and 2001: A Space Odyssey) discusses some of the work that went into the opening sequences of Bladerunner.

UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger

The newest edition of UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger totes up 6,000 world languages — and counts 2,500 as endangered and 200 as completely lost. The interactive atlas ranks the 2,500 endangered languages by five levels of vitality: unsafe, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered and extinct.