Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Vanessa Hudgens Disney Star from High School Musical "a mess" after playing homeless pregnant teen - video and pics
Disney star 'a mess' after playing homeless pregnant teen
10:45 AM Wednesday Jan 8, 2014
Former Disney queen Vanessa Hudgens was a "complete disaster" after filming her controversial new film Gimme Shelter.
The 25-year-old actress' friends were left "concerned" for her when she wrapped the movie because she had immersed herself so much into the role of homeless pregnant teenager Apple, she had lost her sense of self and was in "a bit of a mess".
The ex High School Musical star said: "I didn't really know who I was - Vanessa was gone. I came home and I was a complete disaster.
"My best friend is still so concerned about me when she thinks about that day because I was just a bit of a mess. I wasn't really comfortable in social situations and my self-esteem was super low 'cause I had no hair and I had put on all this weight, so physically I didn't feel attractive. And I was single."
However, Hudgens had an easy way to feel herself again.
Asked what she did to return to herself, she told Flare magazine: "Extensions! Instant confidence boost!"
Hudgens - who gained 7kg for the movie - cut her hair off on camera during filming and enjoyed the challenge of transforming herself to feel "grimy and ugly".
She said: "The grimier and uglier I got, the more I was like, 'F*** yeah'."
And the actress got so into the role, she burst blood vessels trying to portray giving birth convincingly.
She admitted: "I popped a bunch of blood vessels in my neck and face from pushing so hard."
Watch the trailer for Gimme Shelter:
- Bang! Showbiz
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Disney develops 'magical' device to make fingertips sing
Disney develops 'magical' device to make fingertips sing
Disney has developed a device to transmit sound through the human body.
The Ishin-Den-Shin technology uses a standard microphone to record audio and then converts it into an inaudible signal transmitted through the body of the person holding the microphone.
When they touch someone's earlobe, an organic speaker is formed and the sound becomes audible, effectively whispering a message into that person's ear.
The sound can be passed from person to person using any physical contact.
The technology, which was developed at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, received an honorary mention at this week's Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
Small vibrations
It records sounds through a device fitted to the microphone that creates a "modulated electrostatic field" around the user's skin.
"When touching another person's ear, this modulated electrostatic field creates a very small vibration of the earlobe," Disney Research says on its website.
"As a result, both the finger and the ear together form a speaker, that makes the signal audible for the person touched.
"The inaudible signal can be transmitted from body to body, using any sort of physical contact."
The recorded sound can be heard only by the specific ear touched.
The body of the microphone holder transmits a high amplitude, low power inaudible electrical signal
The use of bodies to conduct sound has been on the increase.
Bone conduction, a technology that transmits sound through to the inner ear through bones of the skull, is used in Google's Glass, and in some high-spec headphones.
"You can of course transmit signals through the body because it can conduct electricity," said Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford, "but I don't know quite what they are going to do with this."
He added that the technology would be "almost magical and appear to come from nowhere".
Ishin-Den-Shin is a Japanese mantra that translates as, "What the mind thinks, the heart transmits," and represents unspoken mutual understanding.
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