Last week I posted that really great quote about how 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted stupendously more impressive technology than we actually got in the year 2001, and that got me thinking about how totally lame the technology situation really is. Personally, I’m pretty bummed out that we still haven’t reached the level of technological [...]
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and, WOW, Matt & gang have really outdone themselves. All the little annoyances with the administration of WP have not only been fixed, but they’ve fixed them in really smart ways. For example, WP 2.5 now gives you a preview of what your url is going to be, right under [...]
Design firm mono has an awesome page that lets you shuffle and mix-and-match pieces of some of their employees’ faces. It’s pretty much hours of entertainment.
You can click on the face parts to cycle through the different peoples’, which allows you to mix and match your own, or figure out what Erin actually looks like [...]
Speaking of my college education, here’s a YouTube video made in 1971 that explains protein synthesis through interpretive dance. At 3:30 into the video the dance starts, and a great many balls are tripped.
I bring this up to note that I watched this video in a Molecular Biology class at UCSD taught by Dr. William [...]
Charles Etienne Pascal’s demo reel is nifty.
I realize there’s a lot you can do with computer software, and there are classes and books all over the place that teach you how to use that great software, but I still see things like this and think, “How do they do that?!”
That is to say, I still [...]
Gamespot got a hands on with Capcom’s upcoming Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD. As a huge fan of the original Super Street Fighter II Turbo I can say with absolute conviction, “Woot!”
That hadouken is glorious, and I do know a thing or two about hadoukens.
The Gamespot article has plenty more gorgeous high-rez shots like [...]
According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky, Windows XP, and Freddy Got Fingered. Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes it’s [...]
When I first got there, during rehearsals I was changing some of the lines a bit, and Wes Anderson pulled me aside and said, ‘Jason, uh, it took me four years to write this script, so could you please just try to do the words I wrote?’ After that I always just did the words.
Jason [...]
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, FTW:
Anyone who’s spent 15 minutes with me knows that I utilize this technique a lot. Because I am awesome.
Rana June pointed me to the hilariously disturbing LOLscobles.com, and I couldn’t help but create the following:
This is why I shouldn’t know about things.
The new trailer for the upcoming Pixar film WALL*E is nothing short of magical. It fills me with a mixture of glee and wonder, which is impressive given that I’m already filled with shredded beef (I had a chimichanga for lunch… it was awesome). Also because I’m generally incapable of feeling human emotions that aren’t [...]
I haven’t been this disappointed in a film that I thought was about bowling since I saw “300.”
The spectacular Peter David, about The Other Bowlin’ Girl.
If I thought there would be as much nudity in The Other Boleyn Girl as there is in The Tudors I would totally go see it, but, sadly, I don’t [...]
I’m sorry, but this is too awesome not to share:
Ten bucks says the cat is Puerto Rican.
Speaking of Steve the Pirate, I finally got around to watching 3:10 to Yuma this past weekend, and I can say without hesitation that it is the best film I’ve seen this year. Granted, it’s only March, but still.
The film stars Christian Bale as a down-on-his-luck, one-legged rancher hired to escort Russell Crow, as an [...]
swede \sweeeed\, verb
The process of recreating a film in an amateurish, low budget style, with hilarious results. As seen in the film Be Kind Rewind.
There are tons of sweded videos now floating around YouTube, most of which suck completely, with the following version of Forrest Gump being the only exception I’ve found. It is hilarious, [...]
All Web 2.0-y. The table confirms my suspicion that Carbon turns into a liquid at 3840 Kelvin. Sweeeet!
Ars Technica is reporting on a study that found that most people think e-books are hella lame. This is not the least bit surprising, as I said the exact same thing back in November.
As usual, I am totally freakin’ right about everything. Also, unemployed.
Weird.
I once read that Alfred Hitchcock characterized the difference between American and British films thusly: a British film can open with a shot of the some clouds, followed by another shot of clouds, followed by a third shot of clouds; if an American film opens with a shot of clouds, the second shot must be [...]
In which I review a bunch of films.
