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MOCAP: Class aims to get people involved
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Movies such as Avatar use the motion capture technology that C C C is now offering. Mo cap is gaining momentum in the film world.
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The class might be small, but
the student’s excitement to work
with this technology is palpable.
They’re ready to jump in and suit
up into black jumpsuits, carefully
planning out their actions for their
time on screen — everything from
a simple walk to a cartwheel. Not
only are they working in front
o f the cameras, but Redmond is
teaching them what to do in front
o f a computer screen, as well.
Luis Torres is a student in
Redmond’s class, and he’s thrilled
to be a part o f the class. “Since I’ve
been a kid, I’ve always been inter
ested in video games, starting off
with the basic graphics o f the origi
nal Mario Brothers,” Torres said.
“As the time goes on, the graphics , cameras or in front o f the computer
keep getting better, and it’s always screen that’s operating them, or if
been something I’m really passion it’s video games or movies, motion
ate about. I’ve always wanted to do capture technology has a lot to
something towards the video game offer, and its future at CCC looks
industry... I’ve always wondered bright, according to Mingo. “It
how that stuff works. So when really offers a ripe opportunity for
I heard about [the class],it was economic development and work
pretty much what I always wanted force development,” Mingo said.
“As long as that’s relevant, our
to do.” '
‘ I f it’s in front o f the multitude o f program is going to be expanding.”
OPINION: R a p a rtis t e n c o u ra g e s
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Other lyrics within the
Christian rapper’s parody
expressed an agitation with
those who make parallels
between the treatment o f people
based on race and the treatment
o f people based on sexual orien
tation. “Quit comparing the two
/ It ain’t die same fight /You can
play straight 7 w e’ll never play
w h ite / Using black people as
pawns for yo’ agenda.”
The attitude that the Gay
Rights Movement is somehow
trying to co-opt the movement
for African American Civil
Rights is not uncommon, but
what I would like to point out
to those who harbor this belief
is that quite often the support
comes directly from the key
figures o f that very same move
ment — Mildred Loving, the
African American wife o f white
man, Richard Perry Loving,
both o f the landmark Loving
v. Virginia court case which
struck down anti-miscegenation
laws, Kev. Jesse Jackson, Kev.
laws, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev.
A1 Sharpton and Coretta Scott
“slippery slope” was also invoked
by Associate Justice John W. Shenk
in the case o f Perez v. Sharp, a
case with similarities to Loving
v. Virginia, but predating it by 19
years. “The State’s prohibition of
interracial marriage . . . stands on
the same footing as the prohibition
o f polygamous marriage, or inces
tuous marriage, or the prescription
o f minimum ages at which people
may marry, and the prevention of
the marriage òf people who are
mentally incompetent,” Shenk stat
ed in his dissent.
And of course, let’s not forget
that religious convictions were also
a factor then, as they are now. The
trial judge in the case o f Loving
v. Virginia, Leon M. Bazile, in
handing down his sentence o f one
year in prison (which he agreed to
suspend on the condition that the
Lovings leave the state o f Virginia
and not return for 25 years), stated
“Almighty God created the races
white, black, yellow, malay and
red, and he placed them on sepa
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interference with his arrangement
there would be no cause for such
marriages. The fact that he sepa-
rated the races shows that he did not
King, widow o f Dr. Martin . . . .
Luther King Jr., have lent their
words o f encouragement Even
Bernice King, daughter o f Dr.
King and previously a staunch
voice for the opposition, has
evolved on her views.
It isn’t out o f some sinister
intent to lessen or downplay
the actions o f slave owners,
Klansmen, Neo-Nazis and the
like that people make juxta
positions between the victims
o f racism and the victims of
homophobia. In either case, lack
o f empathy, extreme personal
hatred, irrational paranoia and
fear serve as catalysts and the
only goal o f any such compari
sons is to illuminate that fact.
Now, let’s address that pesky
“slippery slope” mentality, shall
we? Slippery slope, the way
marriage equality opponents
use it, goes like this: “I f you
let the gays marry, eventually
beastophiles, pedophiles, polyg
amists and people in incestuous
relationships will want marriage
rights too, citing whatever case
that puts gay marriage on feder
al law books as precedent.” The
problem with “slippery slope”
arguments is that they can be
used against anything. In fact,
intend for the races to mix.”
The pro-KKK book series, “The
Clansman” by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
which inspired the 1915 silent film
“The Birth of a Nation,” pushed the
widely held Kian image o f African-
American men as being savages
hell-bent on raping white women.
During the 1964 “Mississippi
Burning” court trial of a group of
Klansmen accused o f orchestrating
the murders of a trio o f Civil Rights
w orkers, tw o
Jew ish
with sexuality; they’re made
to express the consequences o f
dehumanization and the exploi-
tation o f mistrust
Lastly, while watching all
o f the fuss unfolding over the
Macklemore performance, I
couldn’t help but be reminded
o f a similar fuss caused by the
interracial kiss between William
Shatner and Nichelle Nichols
in the 1968 Star Trek episode
("Andrew
Goodman and Michael Schwemer)
and one African American (James
Chaney), Defense Attorney Laurel
Weir asked Rev. Charles Wilson,
an African American witness who
worked closely with the boys, if
he had and Schwemer had ever
tried to “get young Negro males
to sign statements that they would
rape one white woman a week dur
ing the hot summer o f 1964 here
in Mississippi.” The question was
passed by one o f the accused men,
Edgar Ray Killen, via handwritten
note. Today, anti-gay groups use
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notion that all gays are
carriers o f HIV/AIDS and poten-
tial pedophiles. Parallels like foese
aren t made to equate skin color
“Plato’s Stepchildren.” Nichols,
who played the character
Lieutenant Uhura, recalls that
“After the first take, the direc
tor yelled ‘CUT’.’ and came
over, saying, ‘Bill, what are you
doing? You actually kissed her!’
And Bill said, ‘Yeah, I can’t get
her to let me do it any other way
except that it was written in the
script. So, what’s the problem?’
And the director said, ‘The
South, they’ll kill us.’” Those
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