Take a trip to the scenic Uncanny Valley

Neil Gaiman was nice enough to link to a fascinating article about the recent wave of computer-generated human characters in films like Beowulf, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, The Polar Express (and explaining just what was so shudder-causing about that film) and, perhaps most intriguing, the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. (Davy Jones!) It talks about what it takes to make us truly accept a digitally-created and digitally-manipulated character.

Now I'd like to see the writer's analysis applied to characters like Gollum and Max Headroom. (I wonder: how much of Max's look was effects-manipulation and how much of that was Matt Frewer's makeup?)

Sitting

I spend a lot of my job standing. Stand and wait for PDX Valet customers to pull up in their cars, stand as I get their info, walk around…
Somehow, Twenty Years

September 22, 2004. I don’t remember how the weather was that day. I don’t remember my mood, how the day had gone, what I was reading, but I did a…
Friday is my Wednesday.

My current work week is Wednesdays through Sundays. From late 2018 to March 2020, when the pandemic closed PDX Valet, my work week was Sundays…