What Is the Icelandic Word for “Four”? Fjórar. No, fjórir. No, fjögurra. No, fjarki. No …
By Daniel Tammet from slate.com: Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown. Ask an Icelander what comes after three and he will answer, “Three what?” Ignore the warm blood of annoyance as it fills […]
Amazon launches Storyteller to turn scripts into storyboards — automagically
By John Koetsier from VentureBeat.com: Upload your script, choose some backgrounds, and magically created a professional-looking storyboard of your movie. Or the graphic novel version of your text-based anything. Amazon Studios released Storyteller today to allow writers and filmmakers to quickly, easily — and cheaply — storyboard their scripts. I’ve tried it, and while the […]