Don Pedro Sánches de Tagle, "the father of tequila," starts the first commercial tequila factory, in what was then called Nueva Galicia (now Jalisco). The King of Spain gives a land grant to Don Jose Antonio de Cuervo to grow agave. Don Cenobio Sauza ...
MISSIONARY MAN: Stewart in his L.A. studio. As Nokia's ambassador to the entertainment world, he wants to create an open-source rival to Apple's closed ecosystem. | Photograph by Jill Greenberg Nokia already owns the global cell-phone market. Now ...
In an exclusive video created for Fast Company, Karin Fong (number 88 on our Most Creative People list) and her team at Imaginary Forces put together a behind the scenes look at the creation of the "Machine Vision" used in the film Terminator Salvation. ...
Last week we revealed the evolution of the water-based Hydrobots. Today we offer a look at the making of another star: the T-600. The inspiration for the look and movement of the T-600 came from the Soviet-era T-34 tank (pictured here), an influential ...
The visual effects master Stan Winston died last year while working on his final film, Terminator Salvation. But like the most evolved of creative geniuses, he left behind a succession plan: Rather than appointing a single person to carry out his ...
The love in the room spread all the way West to Warner Bros., which extended us an exclusive look at a photo gallery of choice images from the movie. As promised, we'll continue to post more pics as the release date nears (May 21). Check back soon and ...
Google and the YouTube Orchestra got a lot of attention for Wednesday night’s performance at Carnegie Hall, but one of the stealth stars of the evening was the SF-based multi-media design firm Obscura Digital. Check out this exclusive video showing ...
On a July day in 2004, the director known as McG sat in his car outside the terminal at Burbank Airport where Warner Bros. keeps its private jet fleet. He could see the Gulfstream g550 he was to board and feel the vibration of the engines' ...
Terminator Salvation director McG, the subject of my cover feature this month, is taking a detour from his post-apocalyptic man vs. machine epic for an upcoming film project: the big screen version of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening. While it ...
As promised last week, here are more goodies from our exclusive Terminator: Salvation cache. In part 2 of our interview with Terminator: Salvation director McG, he discusses the balance between animatronics and CGI, and how to seamlessly blend the two ...
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