Merry Christmas!
So the Xbox Kinect is out and here is what Playstation had to say about it.
All very valid points mind you. :) Looks like Microsoft may have another failure on their hands.
Daft Punk has a new song and, with their involvement in the Tron movie, have formed a pop-culture singularity, collapsing the space around themselves into a massive self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s all very fitting, incredible imagery and sound.
via blog.iso50.com
Real Lightsabers now available!
Well almost. This new laser is the most powerful hand-held laser available on the public market. It’s called the Arctic Spyder III…even the name is awesome. This thing is so powerful you have to wear special glasses when using the crazy thing otherwise you’ll burn your eyes out. Neat hunh! This badass little laser will burn a hole in anything you point it at. One can only imagine how this “weapon” is allowed to be sold to general public ages 13+. That being said…my lightsaber fund has already been started. Stray cats look out!
This is the missing scene from Return of the Jedi where Luke is building his Lightsaber in a cave on Tattooine. Taken at The Main Event at Star Wars Celebration V. You can see Darth Vader calling to Luke from his creepy chamber of solitude. Luke hears him yet continues to tinker with his new toy.
Other news from the convention was that Lucas will be releasing the movies on BluRay next year. HOWEVER, the jerk refuses to release the original cuts so we’re stuck with the crappy redux versions. All so George’s kids don’t have nightmares about Han shooting first…Lucas..you suck.
Giant Kitchen Spider
Ok…this is about the most terrible thing I have seen on YouTube so far. If you have any sort of arachnophobia you have been WARNED.
OK Go’s newest nerdy yet cool music video. The boys use time warping to create some of the cool effects seen. Here is what they have to say:
The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.