Steve Wright selects the weirdest, most fascinating and entertaining trivia from around the world, as read out on his hit Radio 2 show, Steve Wright in the Afternoon. This book also features commentary and anecdotes, plus photos and illustrations. An ideal book for all those seeking knowledge - of the weird kind - and a perfect gift book for Christmas.

Steve Wright's Book of Factoids: As Heard on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon

Wright, Steve

Reference

HarperCollins, UK

"Steve Wright is a national institution."  —Ricky Gervais Now fully revised and updated with new content, Steve Wright presents a selection of the weirdest, most fascinating, and entertaining trivia from around the world, as featured on his radio show Steve Wright in the Afternoon, along with commentary, anecdotes, photos, and illustrations. No subject is off-limits and even the most boring of categories will provide an amazing fact, illustrated with a variety of humorous photos and drawings. This paperback edition has been revised and updated and also includes a special section on the World Cup.

Steve Wright's Book of Factoids

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

After the phenomenal success of Steve Wright’s Book of Factoids, Steve returns with Further Factoids, bringing together the weirdest and most extraordinary factoids from BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon.
Steve Wright, one of nation's favourite DJs, is a man with a brain the size of a small planet. Unfortunately for him, this brain appears to be filled with trivia that would make Magnus Magnuson green with envy. Fortunately for us, he has decided to let his brain gush out into another hilarious, fascinating and informative compendium of strange and bizarre facts from around the world.
For example, did you know that: • Worcestershire sauce is basically anchovy ketchup? • They add liquid detergent to our favourite bevvy in beer commercials to make it foam more? • Austria was the first country ever to use postcards? • A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit Little Ant and Dec inside?
Bringing together more of the strangest and most hilarious factoids from Steve's show, he provides explanations, commentary and anecdotes to enhance this entertaining collection of hundreds of fun facts.

Steve Wright’s Further Factoids: Strange and entertaining facts from the hit Radio 2 show

Harpercollins Entertainment

Steve Wright selects the weirdest, most fascinating and entertaining trivia from around the world, as read out on his hit radio show, Steve Wright in the Afternoon. The book also features commentary and anecdotes, along with photos and illustrations. Some of the trivia includes facts like: Worcestershire sauce is basically anchovy ketchup, liquid detergent is added to beer in beer commercials to make it foam more, Austria was the first country ever to use postcards, and Tony Blair is a distant cousin of the Queen.

Steve Wright's Further Factoids

Compositing Visual Effects

Taylor & Francis Group

Steve Wright played ball for Bear Bryant at Bama,for Lombardi at Green Bay,with Sonny Jurgensen of the Redskins,et al.He wasn't in a glamour position;as an offensive linesman,he had a fly-on-the wall look at the pro football worldof the late 60s,early70s.His memoirs read like a real version of the already realistic Peter Gent novels.If you want your athletes on pedestals,skip this book--but if you want to read about the real blood,sweat,booze,broads,pills,and road life from an earlier era of pro ball written by a guy with a wry self-knowledge and affection for the whole game,in spite of/because of everything---then this is for you.

I'd rather be Wright;: Memoirs of an itinerant tackle

PRENTICE/HALL

Digital Compositing for Film and Video is a hands-on, practical, how-to guide that addresses the problems and difficult choices faced by the professional compositor in real-life situations. It presents techniques, tricks, and solutions for dealing with badly shot elements, coloration artifacts, and mismatched lighting that bedevil actual compositors working on real shots. Readers are offered in-depth practical methods for matte extraction, despill procedures, compositing operations, and color correction--the "meat and potatoes" of all digital effects. Compositing is the artistic blending of several disparate elements from a variety of sources into a single image while making all the component elements appear to be in the same light space and shot with the same camera. When confronted with a bad composite any observer will recognize that something is wrong--the artist will know what is causing the problem, and the technician will know how to fix it. A good compositor must be both an artist and a technician. Written by a senior compositor with over ten years' experience in both feature film and broadcast television, this book offers a broad range of alternative solutions that will save hours of fiddling with composites trying to get them to look right when the basic tools aren't working. A companion CD-ROM provides examples of the many topics covered in this book. Loaded with practical tricks, techniques and alternative solutions to the common thorny problems faced by today's compositorsCompatible with Adobe PhotoshopWritten by a senior compositor with over ten years of digital compositing experience

Digital Compositing for Film and Video (Effects and Animation Series)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Focal Press

Digital Compositing for Film and Video is a hands-on, how-to guide that addresses the problems and difficult choices faced by the professional compositor in real-life situations. This book presents you with tips, tricks and techniques for dealing with the badly shot elements, color artifacts, and mismatched lighting that bedevil compositors. Included in this book is: in-depth, practical methods for bluescreen matte extraction, despill operations, compositing operations, and color correction-the "meat and potatoes" of all digital effects. Written in a completely software independent style, it is totally applicable to any brand of compositing software. The second edition contains many important additions: * printed in full color with over 400 color photos and illustrations * companion DVD with 3.7 gigabytes of test images, including hard to get HiDef video and feature film scans * new section on working with HiDef video * new section on digital intermediate, the feature film finishing process of today * more Adobe Photoshop blending modes and procedures * new material that reveals the add-mix composite, light wrap, slot gags, and how to defeat banding problems .

Digital Compositing for Film and Video

Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures, illustrations and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a valuable vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role. Beginning with an inspirational tour of the scope and magnitude of digital compositing you get a solid overview of the kinds of digital effects routinely executed today. See how CGI (Computer Generated Image) is composited with live action, how set extensions are done, and what a match-move shot is. Following that, you learn each of the key applications of digital compositing, which include bluescreen compositing, bullet time shots, motion tracking, and rotoscoping, and you get a primer on digital images, key concepts, and terms used in the compositing process. The subsequent chapters dig down into each of the major digital compositing applications, introducing the fundamental concepts and processes behind them. This includes the many ways to composite CGI, bluescreen compositing, animation, creating masks, working with digital keyers, and many more; but most importantly, the art of digital compositing-making your shots look not just photorealistic, but cool. Learn what is easy and hard, possible and impossible, and what to expect when working on a job that entails digital compositing. There are tips on when not to use the new low-end DV video cameras and tips for the client, such as guidelines on how to shoot a quality bluescreen or greenscreen to get the best results at compositing time. All the while, special attention is paid to defining new terminology and telling a clear story from the ground up, with the only requirement being that you have read the previous chapters. * An accessible introduction to a complex subject for novice compositors * Full color presentation illustrating the art and techniques of the practice * An experienced book author of 20 years compositing experience; with 60 feature film credits including Vanilla Sky, X-Men 2, Swept Away, and Solaris

Compositing Visual Effects: Essentials for the Aspiring Artist

Computers & Technology

Programming

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Steve Wright's Book of Factoids: As Heard on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon

Steve Wright's Book of Factoids

Steve Wright’s Further Factoids: Strange and entertaining facts from the hit Radio 2 show

Steve Wright's Further Factoids

Steve Wright's Further Factoids

Compositing Visual Effects

I'd rather be Wright;: Memoirs of an itinerant tackle

Digital Compositing for Film and Video (Effects and Animation Series)

Digital Compositing for Film and Video

Compositing Visual Effects: Essentials for the Aspiring Artist