Links for 2006-07-29 – plasticbag.org

“Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited” (2005) A wonderful fifteen minute bit of video splicing together Back to the Future and Back to the Future II’s bits in parallel. Also manages to get much of the great bits of the films in, so well worth a watch…
Pictures of a huge open pit mine near Mirny, Russia, East Siberia God knows why I’m linking to this, except that the hole looks really really big and big things are sort of impressive.
Bend it like Gardner Someone from the CBC has responded to my post the other day about the BBC, indicating some of the stuff that happened on their side of the pond.
Is the new Superman meant to be Jesus? This must be one of the weirdest articles I’ve read in a while – on Superman Returns, Jesus, Christian parallels, Nazis, Jewish comic book creators and crystal from Krypton as metaphors for sin…
Find Detail in Your Photos That You Thought Was Lost using Photoshop’s levels tools A good basic introduction to some of the tricks in correcting bad exposures using Photoshop, selections and levels. The trick to using Photoshop successfully is that it’s all about selections, hence useful article…