HOW THEY BROUGH TUPAC BACK TO LIFE

Everyone knows it's totally possible to bring Tupac back to life. Even Tupac made raps about it. Our question is, how?

Yesterday we learned that Hologram Tupac wasn’t, in fact, a hologram, but rather a 2-D image. Now we get word that the seemingly cutting-edge technology behind the effect was developed way back in the 19th century.

Illusion expert Jim Steinmeyer explained the history of the image to the Wall Street Journal.

The effect was first used in an 1862 dramatization of Charles Dickens’ novella ‘The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain,’ staged at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in London. The effect relies on an angled piece of glass in which a “ghostly” image is reflected. “A piece of glass can be both transparent and reflective at the same time, depending on how it’s situated relative to the audience,” Steinmayer said.

Back in the days of Dickens, the reflection was coming from an actor, who was situated offstage. At Coachella, Tupac’s computer generated image was projected onto the glass from a camera. But besides that, Steinmeyer feels comfortable classifying what happened on Sunday and what happened in 1862 as “virtually the same thing.”

Sure, but did the “ghostly” image back in Victorian times have flow like ‘Pac?

Article via http://thefw.com

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Cinematography - Menno Mans
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Tupac at Coachella 2012

Hat's to those behind this rising from the dead. Our question is, who profits from this? What fee do you pay the long gone rap star? Do they take taxes out?

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Chiptune Remixes Daft Punk

In this tech-enabled world, where you can harness the sound of anything and manipulate it in any way you damn well please, people inexplicably dive for confined formats. With sampling cart blanche as the reality, full album mashups became the fad. And while hi fi production became more accesible than ever before, lo fi music experienced a resurgence to provide a counterbalance. If human beings thrive on limitations, then the life of the chiptune makes a lot of sense.

Chiptunes limit the producer to the sounds a video game console is capable of (those tinny, synthesized tones) using emulators and often actual Game Boy parts. Over the past decade or so, chiptunes have grown into a full fledge genre, with major producers incorporating the 8bit sound into their releases. Of course, there remains a truly dedicated community of musicians that deal strictly in chiptunes, and it’s that worldwide crew that came together to produce Da Chip, a compilation of Daft Punk covers done chiptune style.

Volume 1 dropped in 2009, and at long last there is a second volume that covers more classics, as well as the ground covered by Daft Punk in the last couple of years. Both compilations are free downloads at Da Chip’s website.

Hear the newly released Volume 2 right here.