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THE FUTURE IS CLEAR: Watch “Hologram Feist” Perform In Canada

When fallen legend Tupac Shakur was brought back to life as a dancing, rapping hologram at Coachella last year people were everything from shocked to amazed. The progress of projection technology has made the recreation of physical beings stunningly realistic, especially from a distance, but following the events at Coachella most the hype for the technology seemed to die down. That is, until now.

Last night, indie pop songstress Feist performed three simultaneous shows in various cities across the great nation of Canada. No, she didn’t split herself into three smaller Feists who then performed separate sets before rejoining as …

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EDITORIAL: “48 Frames Per Second: Advancement or Fad?”

Recently Peter Jackson and James Cameron have come out supporting a new film technology: shooting movies at 48 frames per second instead of the traditional 24 frames per second of film. For people in the film industry that sentence has a lot of meaning and implications, but for most other people it is just gibberish. Since this is such a big deal and will be discussed heavily in the upcoming year we here at the UTG Film department have decided to try and help clear up some of the confusion and explain what everyone is talking about.