Who in their right mind names a conference sketch:
"So Real It'll Make You Wet"
Completely tasteless, sophomoric, and inappropriate.
So who wins the award, who will make my skin crawl this year at Siggraph and probably for eternity?
None other than:
> Willi Geiger
> Mohen Leo
> Nick Rasmussen
> Industrial Light & Magic
>
> Ronald Fedkiw
> Stanford University and Industrial Light & Magic
>
> Frank Losasso
> Stanford University
Congratulations on making asses of yourselves! Good job!
(For reference, the sketch is on "How Industrial Light & Magic created multiple shots of photorealistic water for 'Poseidon,' ranging from huge long shots to extreme close-ups.")
Posted by sfisher at July 10, 2006 04:36 PMWow. I'm speechless. I'll be avoiding THAT session this year...
Posted by: Karen at July 10, 2006 09:23 PMI actually saw this presentation last weekend at the Festival of Visual Effects in LA and was pretty blown away by the work...but you're absolutely right, totally heinous and icky title! Creepy!
Posted by: jstaub at July 12, 2006 04:15 PMhaha, I am now the default filthy mind on susanfisher.net. I don't even have to do anything to get accused of smut! fantastic! now to move on to the left-wing blogs...
seriously, I think you'd get even money that they even REALIZED what that title meant. We are nerds after all...
Posted by: the real ben at July 16, 2006 06:39 PMas a followup, you work on fur and hair everyday. If you were going to hold a siggraph session, you too might mistakenly name your session:
Hairy Bears for the rest of us
or
What's a little hair between friends?
and you know there'd be some techno blog flaming you :).
Posted by: the real ben at July 16, 2006 06:42 PMThe way I found out about the sketch title was from other ILM employees who assured me the authors knew exactly what they were doing.
Only nerds would have come up with something so troglodytic. There isn't any innocence involved, they knew exactly what they were doing when they titled that sketch.