3D Storytelling is the ultimate guide for directors, cinematographers, producers, and designers of stereoscopic 3D movies and videos. With an emphasis on the aesthetic over the technical, this book is an essential foundation for showing you how to use 3D creatively to tell a story. Hollywood producer Bruce Block and Dreamworks stereoscopic supervisor Philip Captain 3D McNally blend their vast real-world experience and teaching skills to help you learn how to: * Think in 3D * Integrate 3D design into your script or story * Direct and design the 3D depth of your shots * Use stereoscopic windows * Work with the depth cues in 3D * Create a comfortable viewing experience for the audience * Plan editing and directorial considerations for 3D * Understand closed, open, and unstable 3D space Brimming with practical information that can be immediately applied to your 3D production, the book also features interviews with some of the industry’s leading stereographers, as well as 3D diagrams and photographs that illustrate how 3D works, how it can be controlled in production, and how 3D can be used to tell a story.

Travis Pastrana and his skilled, adrenaline-addicted friends bring their impossibly insane adventures to the big screen. They back-flip a bike between two 60-story buildings and go airborne to destroy their friends in a life-size, high-speed game of Freedom Flyers.

Go behind the scenes of one of the premiere action sports companies in the world--Nitro Circus! From bios of top athletes, like the legendary Travis Pastrana, to amazing feats to how it all started, this book is a must-have for every action sports fan! It's the book you've been waiting for--an insider's guide to everything Nitro Circus! With stunning photography and behind-the-scenes info, you'll find out how it all started, see bios of top athletes and get stories straight from the legends themselves. Featuring Nitro Circus founder and ringleader Travis Pastrana, this is the ultimate compilation of the worldwide phenomenon that is Nitro Circus. So sit back, relax, and immerse yourself in the world of action sports like never before!

In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David Newman shows your students how to see the "unfamiliar in the familiar"—to step back and see organization and predictability in their personal experiences. Using vivid prose, current examples, and fresh data, the Thirteenth Edition presents a unique and thought-provoking overview of how society is constructed and experienced.

You thin you've seen it all, and then you catch sight of someone launching a jet-powered tricycle off a ramp and performing a backflip in midair! Watch the MTV reality show Nitro Circus and you're guaranteed to see more wild antics. From BMX to BASE jumping, freestyle to freefalling, nothing is off limits as the stakes and stunts grow more creative with each episode. Starring the world's best freestyle motocross rider, Travis Pastrana, and produced by Johnny Knoxville of Jackass fame, Nitro Circus is an upbeat, hilarious collection of stunts and tricks performed by a top-notch collection of professional action sports athletes. Together, the cast and crew travel the world, dreaming up new and entertaining tricks to perform-all the while trying to outdo one another. Book jacket.