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Blur (band) Members
Blur may refer to: Optics and images * Bokeh, the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus parts of an image * Box blur, a graphic-art effect * Defocus aberration, blurring of an image due to incorrect focus * Gaussian blur, a graphic-art effect * Motion blur, blurring of an image due to movement of the subject or imaging system Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Red Blue Blur, or The Blur, an alternate identity for Clark Kent in ''Smallville'' * The Atlanta Blur or The Blur, a character in the Marvel MAX comic Supreme Power Films * Blurred (film), ''Blurred'' (film), a 2002 Australian film * Blurs (film), ''Blurs'' (film), a 2011 Croatian film * Blurr (film), ''Blurr'' (film), a 2022 Indian horror thriller film by Ajay Bahl Music * Blur (band), an English rock band ** Blur (Blur album), ''Blur'' (Blur album), a 1997 album by the band ** ''Blur: The Best Of'', a 2000 album by the band * Blur (Rachael Lampa album), ''Blur'' (Rachael Lampa album), a 2002 album by Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bokeh
In photography, bokeh ( or ; ) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring ("good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively). Photographers may deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions, accentuating their lens's bokeh. Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all regions of an image which are outside the depth of field. The opposite of bokeh—an image in which multiple distances are visible and all are in focu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circus (Britney Spears Album)
''Circus'' is the sixth studio album by American singer Britney Spears released on November 28, 2008, by Jive Records. A transition from the "darker and more urban" themes of her fifth studio album, '' Blackout'' (2007), Spears wanted to make her next project "a little bit lighter". She recorded the album during the spring and summer of 2008, after being involuntarily placed under a conservatorship earlier that year. As executive producers, Larry Rudolph and Teresa LaBarbera Whites enlisted collaborators including Spears' longtime colleague Max Martin and Danja. Their efforts resulted in a primarily pop and dance record with urban influences. Upon its release, ''Circus'' received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who complimented its production but were ambivalent towards its lyrical content. It debuted at number one on the US ''Billboard'' 200, making it her fifth album to reach the top of the chart. The album has sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Four s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blur Studio
Blur Studio is an American-based production company which specialises in CGI visual effects, CGI animation and CGI design. Located in Culver City, California, the studio has produced CGI-animated films, teasers and ad spots for television, as well as video-game CGI cinematics. History Founded in September 1994 by David Stinnett, Tim Miller, Cat Chapman and Al Shier, Blur has worked on numerous projects earning critical acclaim . Sometime in the early 2000s, the studio took interest in the Bionicle toyline by The Lego Group and came up with an idea for a Bionicle film, and a short test pitch was created, under the title ''"Tahu Nuva vs Kohrak"''. The project did not manage to be green light by Lego, however a direct-to-video film was eventually made in 2003. The final animation for the film was eventually handled by Creative Capers Entertainment. The studio worked on the 2004 short film '' Gopher Broke'' which was nominated for 2004 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blur Group
Maistro (formerly Blur Group) is a UK-based company which provides an online platform for organisations to buy and manage services within tail spend. Services Maistro is a UK-based technology company that provides a hybrid of platform and procurement category expertise to enable organisations to purchase and manage services within the area of tail spend (small value purchases outside of contracts). The company has a database of over 35,000 suppliers made up of providers from the UK/Europe, AsiaPac and North America. As part of using the platform customers benefit from access to the pool of suppliers, with Maistro vetting suppliers at various levels depending on the customers preferences. The Maistro e-procurement platform uses a mix of AI and automation to enable anyone from an organisation to buy services quickly; from scoping, tendering and shortlisting to selecting, contracting and paying suppliers, while procurement teams benefit from ‘hands-off’ visibility and contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trademark Dilution
Trademark dilution is a trademark law concept giving the owner of a famous trademark standing to forbid others from using that mark in a way that would lessen its uniqueness. In most cases, trademark dilution involves an unauthorized use of another's trademark on products that do not compete with, and have little connection with, those of the trademark owner. For example, a famous trademark used by one company to refer to hair care products might be ''diluted'' if another company began using a similar mark to refer to breakfast cereals or spark plugs. Dilution is a basis of trademark infringement that applies only to famous marks. With a non-famous mark, the owner of the mark must show that the allegedly infringing use creates a likelihood of confusion as to the source of the product or service being identified by the allegedly infringing use: it is highly unlikely a likelihood of confusion will be found if the products or services are in unrelated markets. With a famous mark, any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Focus (computing)
In computing, focus indicates the act of selecting an element of a graphical user interface. Text entered at the keyboard or pasted from a clipboard is sent to the component which has the focus. Moving the focus away from a specific user interface element is known as a blur event in relation to this element. Typically, the focus is withdrawn from an element by giving another element the focus. This means that focus and blur events typically both occur virtually simultaneously, but in relation to different user interface elements, one that gets the focus and one that gets blurred. The concept is similar to a cursor in a text-based environment. However, when considering a graphical interface, there is also a mouse pointer involved. Moving the mouse will typically move the mouse pointer without changing the focus. The focus can usually be changed by clicking on a component that can receive focus with the mouse. Many desktops also allow the focus to be changed with the keyboard. By co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DP 7
''D.P. 7'' was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics as part of its New Universe imprint. It ran for 32 issues and an ''Annual'' (January 1987), which were published from 1986 to 1989. The title stands for Displaced Paranormals and refers to the seven main characters of the series (who never refer to themselves as displaced). All of them received superhuman powers as a result of the stellar phenomenon known as the White Event. ''D.P. 7'' was the only New Universe series to maintain a stable creative team during its first year: its entire run was written by Mark Gruenwald, penciled by Paul Ryan, and colored by Paul Becton. Inker Danny Bulanadi (who began work on the title with issue #10) and letterer Janice Chiang (who began with issue #16) also stayed with ''D.P. 7'' through to the final issue. Publication history Eager for the chance to work on "a virgin universe", writer Mark Gruenwald signed on to the New Universe staff and developed ''D.P. 7'', shocking many read ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach ( sq, Bill Kovaçi, born 1932) is an American journalist, former Washington bureau chief of ''The New York Times'', former editor of the '' Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', and co-author of the book ''The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect''. Biography Born in 1932 in East Tennessee to Albanian parents, Kovach planned, after attending college at East Tennessee State University, to go to graduate school in marine biology. After four years in the U.S. Navy, a summer job at the ''Johnson City Press Chronicle'' in Johnson City, Tennessee persuaded him to go into journalism. Kovach covered the civil rights movement, politics and Appalachian poverty for the ''Nashville Tennessean'' from 1960 to 1967. In 1965, he was involved in a fight for public access to the legislature, when he refused to leave a committee hearing following a call for executive session. The state senate passed a resolution revoking his floor privileges. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic, researcher and academic. He is the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He was for the previous nine years the executive director of the American Press Institute. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Rosenstiel was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. His first novel, ''Shining City'', was published by Ecco of HarperCollins in February 2017 and his second, "The Good Lie," in 2019. A journalist for more than 30 years, Rosenstiel worked as a media critic for the ''Los Angeles Times'' and chief congressional correspondent for ''Newsweek'' magazine and as co-founder and vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. Among hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blur (video Game)
''Blur'' (stylized as ''blur'') is a 2010 vehicular combat arcade racing, arcade-style racing video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision in North America and Europe. The game features a racing style that incorporates real world cars and locales with arcade style handling and vehicular combat. ''Blur'' was the penultimate game developed by Bizarre Creations before they were shut down by Activision on February 18, 2011. Gameplay The gameplay in ''Blur'' is centered on vehicular combat. The game tracks present eight different powerups that the cars can pick up. Each car can carry a maximum of three powerups at any given time, that they can then switch and activate at will, or discard. Out of the eight powerups, five of them are weapons, with the remaining ones being a defensive shield, a repair wrench that restores any damage that the car may have sustained, and a nitrous boost. Several of the weapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Came As Romans
We Came as Romans (sometimes abbreviated as WCAR) is an American metalcore band from Troy, Michigan. Formed in 2005, the band has gone through one name change and multiple line-up changes, and signed to SharpTone Records in 2016 after having been on roster of Equal Vision Records since 2009. They have released six studio albums – '' To Plant a Seed'' (2009), ''Understanding What We've Grown to Be'' (2011), ''Tracing Back Roots'' (2013), ''We Came as Romans'' (2015), '' Cold Like War'' (2017) and '' Darkbloom'' (2022) – and two EPs in 2008 titled ''Demonstrations'' and ''Dreams''. History Formation, line-up changes and ''To Plant a Seed'' (2005–2011) In August 2005, high school classmates Sean Zelda, Dave Stephens, Jonny Nabors, Mark Myatt and Joshua Moore formed a band called This Emergency. During the beginning years, current vocalist Dave Stephens performed the guitar, keyboards and backing vocals. They performed various shows throughout the Detroit metro area. In Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
