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Well, you know. Cities do that. I'm going back to Montpellier this sunday, and I know I won't be seeing the sky for a painfully long time.

Please do. You have access to some crazy landscapes and I'd wager that you can easily find amazing skies without too much trouble.

Also, northern lights are coming to you. Go get'em.

I don't think his character was let down by the writers. In the past few seasons, he's mostly been a way to show us what Walt has become (I think the times I hate him the most is when he so obnoxiously lies to Jesse). But I really believe they have something great in store for him (as hinted last episode) and he'll have a good payoff.

You never know. Anyway: 30s, f/2.8, 1600 ISO. No filters.

A few days ago, I went with a few friends to a big mountain not too far from here and spent the whole night up there watching the sky with a telescope and taking pictures of it. Holy hell, the sky was awesome.

Mostly, I shot some timelapses, which I intend to release in a single video, along with the other few timelapses I have in store. Here are a few astrophotography shots I made during the night, though.

I don't have a proper shot of the Milky Way at the beginning of the night, when it's the most interesting (galactic core) - I was shooting at timelapse of it at that time, and while the shots will still be nice as a timelapse, I had to go to town on the post-processing because light pollution was still a pain in the ass around the horizon, even up there.

So, this is the Milky Way around the constellations Cygnus and Cassiopeia at 5:30 in the morning. Nice touch: you can see the Andromeda Galaxy in the top left-hand corner. The bright region at the top is the Double Cluster in Perseus.

I'm very happy with this one, mostly because it's only after shooting it that I found out what was on it.

The white glow starting toward the antennas and crossing the Milky Way is the zodiacal light. It's sunlight scattered by dust in the solar system. I had never seen it before; I actually thought you could only see it with the best skies on Earth, like in the Atacama Desert or something.

The Moon is seen here bathed in earthshine - reflection of sunlight from the Earth.

If you'd like to see the other pictures I made that night: A Night atop the Lure Mountain.

I'll never get tired of this one.

I have missed this show so much. Holding my breath all the way through. As Mike said on Twitter, it feels good to await something with high expectations, and not be disappointed. This ending is going to be huge.

Well, I don't know about all that, but...

Also:

Frank Oz looks like Tobias Fünke in the last picture. That makes it wrong on many levels.

One year, teams of four/five, sometimes six people. Freelance students (students who aren't part of a specific team) help the others. The school basically becomes a studio for the year for them.

The students within the team are everything in the production: directors, artists, etc. They schedule the whole production process for the year, usually shoot during autumn and spend the rest of the year editing and post-processing everything.

Year one focuses on making the students' culture and basic skills grow: photography, sculpture, art history, drawing, etc.

Year two's main course is 3D. I learned to use Maya and did some awesome projects. Some introduction to animation and After Effects too, a short movie (all practical, no VFX), and the usual (more photography, drawing and stuff).

In third year, you have to choose between three (soon four) specializations: VFX (as in compositing and stuff), 3D CGI, and animation. I chose VFX, that's what I'm in it for. During the last two years, students tend to specialize themselves even more: matte painters, compositing artists, etc.

All these films are presented in June to a jury composed of various people representing studios (we got MPC, Double Negative and stuff- mainly studios from the London area, or french).

And, yeah. The results are amazing. ArtFx is growing more popular every year. Last year, every single student was hired by a studio less than three weeks after the jury.

Interesting. I generally trust them as far as the casting goes (except for Daario; I don't like how they made him look in the show).