MetaFilter posts tagged with acrobat

"Life! Hope! Escape! Whoops! Obstinacy!"

JaiMahodara — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:22:51 -0800

Charlie Chaplin [previously, except the primary link from blogspot is down] has a grandson, James Thiérrée. Growing up in his parents circus Le Cirque Imaginaire (later, Invisible), the acrobat evolved into performer/director/choreographer of soon to be four full -length works. (Full disclosure: the first three are all from La Veillée des Abysses--Bright Abyss--and the latter is a preview for his upcoming solo act Raoul.) He's also made forays in movies you've probably seen. More? Check out this Au revoir Parapluie (Farewell Umbrella) medley, and how about some trapeze? "It's a story about a story about a story (about a story about a story about a story) that cannot be told." See also, the whole generation: (Warning: if you don't read French just enjoy the images). Hint: Aurelia Thiérrée = sister, Victoria Chaplin-Thiérrée = cousin, I think, and Victoria Chaplin = mom, daughter of Chaplin, and granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Niell. Another famous relative, demand you?? How about Margery Williams Bianco, author of The Velveteen Rabbit? James on the Rabbit: "It's about a soft toy that gets more real as it's worn down. The more it gets crumpled and torn, the more real it is. At the end it gets burned but it is happy because it is becoming real. I like the sense that as life wears us down we become more real. Maybe I'm a broken-down old rabbit."

Dude, I'm flippin' out!

CuJoe — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:02:51 -0800

I first saw Russian Barre at Cirque du Soleil's Alegria show. I find it an exciting display of acrobatics but the ending of this video is absolutely amazing to me.

EMBEDtastic!

Artw — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:05 -0800

Flash, PDF, two great tastes that go great together? And now you can use PDF flash movies to put videos in your powerpoint – er… what?

Cirque du Swan Lake

BuddhaInABucket — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:13:52 -0800

Swan Lake like you've never seen it before.

Vintage Vertiginous Vaudevillian

tellurian — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:09:49 -0800

Ben Dova the Drunk Daredevil, contortionist, Hindenburg survivor and one of the 10 most unfortunately named people on the internets.

Sports Acrobatics

ColdChef — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:43:54 -0800

Sports Acrobatics Spellbinding gymnastics feats.

A New Approach

knave — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:06:00 -0800

Unexpected Features in Acrobat 7: A company called Remote Approach offers a feature to PDF authors to allow them to track the dissemination of their documents. Linux Weekly News reports, "After doing a little research, we found that Adobe's Reader was connecting to http://www.remoteapproach.com/remoteapproach/logging.asp each time we opened the document."

m.polo — Sun, 17 Jun 2001 19:33:01 -0800

I usually just ignore Jakob - he has his right to his opinions, tho' I seldom agree with him - but I draw the line at misrepresenting a technology so egregiously... Acrobat's not that hard to understand; I can't believe it's possible for Neilsen to not know that the features he berates Acrobat for missing are, in actuality, right there to be used.

mutagen — Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:07:47 -0800

Adobe and SVG: Adobe leverages their Acrobat reader along with Real Player to include their SVG browser plugin. Of note are the SVG with sound, filter effects, and JavaScript animation. Is Adobe gearing up to position this as a Flash competitor?