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The 2005 Wired Rave Awards
smack-pot writes "March 2005 issue of Wired Magazine features The 2005 Wired Rave Awards announcements. The 15 categories include Films, Business, Science, Architecture, Medicine, Games etc. Some of the winners are Brad Bird for The Incredibles, Danger Mouse for The Grey Album, Burt Rutan for SpaceShipOne, and Pete Parsons for Halo 2."
This years "Best use of glow sticks" award goes too . . .
Oh, not that sort of rave?
Pretty Pictures!
I don't know. iFilms is great and all, but I think Jon Stewart should have won for Television. He did something (and continues to) that no one else on major television stations would dare do, and that is be brutally honest and be intelligent about it. When it comes to those qualities, he's my hero. Oh and the humor aspect is pretty good too.
I only mod up parents of "mod parent up" posts...
(resisting the joke about rendering Alex Trebek) I think anyone who says that is nuts, as nuts as the producers who need star-power to keep them warm at night. Bird just did the job right. There were some pretty insightful comments back in the Discworld movie topic, regarding writing a movie you can make. I become more a cynic when I read people's opinions that such and such can't be done. It's an illusion, dumbasses. Bird's gifted enough to take the intelligent approach. To see the wrong approach taken again, watch Tom Cruise in Spielberg's WoW. Or see a class act, the Pendragon version late March. Bug your theater to carry it! Hopefully it'll live up to expectations and make Wired's list next year.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
"Burt Rutan for launching the private space age"
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I for one, welcome...
"Mark Fletcher for making bloglines the Internet's news network (RSS Reader)"
Neat, now more people can autocreate blogs targeted for adsense...
"Robert Lanza -for eye-opening work on embryonic stem cells"
See your future, it's right here
"Steven Squyres for keeping Spirit and Opportunity roving"
Where is the rest of Nasa on this one??? But that's humanity, always picking up one who holds the stick
The rest... boring, BTW there are also bunch of research in DNA, materials, and compsci which are changing the world arroung us constantly, why not mentioning anything of those fields?
Who is this Pete Parsons fellow, and why are they giving him all the credit for Halo 2?
As a longtime Bungie fan, my understanding is that Jason Jones is the man behind the curtain.
for those who don't know, the grey album is a remix record using beats from the beatle's white album with vocals from jay-z's black album it's available at http://www.bannedmusic.org/ and is hosted by http://www.downhillbattle.org/. DJ Dangermouse was the DJ who made this mix.
"Until The Incredibles, the conventional wisdom was that animators can't do action," Bird says.
umm..anime?
Film: Brad Bird : Business: Shigeyuki Hori
Science: Steven Squyres : Medicine: Robert Lanza
Architecture: Rem Koolhaas : Music: Danger Mouse
Television: Blair Harrison : Blogs: Kevin Sites
Books: Jeff Hawkins : Industrial Design: Burt Rutan
Technology: Mark Fletcher : Art: Jennifer Kevin Mccoy
Games: Pete Parsons
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
Ron Popeil for Ron Popeil's Pocket Proctology Polyp Fisherman.
Uh...this isn't new. I've known this for almost 2 weeks now.
CKSCIII
Halo was released in 2004?
Will it never end? Pretty soon were going to have slashdot stories, about the slashdot stories on Halo 2.
I await the flames, safe in the knowladge that I finished it on legendary and it still doesn't make my top ten. But maybe top 15? Geddit?
May the Maths Be with you!
This may be a dupe post by the time I write it, but why would Halo 2 get an award? It seemed to me and most of the people I've talked to that it's just a slight improvement on Halo...and there was nothing revolutionary about the gameplay.
Unless they're just focusing on the financial success:
"Halo 2 made $125 million on its first day of release. By contrast, the biggest opening weekend in film history was Spider-Man, which netted a mere $114 million over three days."
i have no idea who any of those people are (and i visit here regular) the only one i recognise is Burt Rutan, but who are the others ?
fame/success is all relative i guess as any Bollywood star will tell you, you can be a household name in 1 country while in others you are nobody
I guess it's basic 15-second mainstream digestible keystone of mash-up'dom.
Of course this is old as hip-hop itself. Dancehall exists on the idea of a riddim becoming popular itself and multiple deejays rap/sing over it. Now hip-hop, R&B and Reggeton artists get in on it. An example from '04: Pitbull "Culo", Mr Vegas "Pull Up", Nina Sky "Move Ya Body" and many others all used the Coolie Dance Riddim.
The pop culture clash of using a very recognizable outer-genre instrumental (the "mash-up") got big in clubs two years ago (making this Wire award a bit like John Wayne's Oscar). A popular one was Whitney Houston ("I want to dance with somebody") over Kraftwerk ("Numbers") forming ala Voltron to Girls on Top's "I Want to Dance with some Numbers". Nigh unreleasable due to copyright considerations but interesting none the less.
Of course now MTV is in the Official Mash-up business by creating things that aren't Mash-ups at all (that Jay-Z and Linkin Park thing is, due to original parts by both artists, a collaboration).
I still think Chopped and Screwed is going to hit the mainstream consciousness soon as T.I.'s disc just got the treatment and it sold amazingly. And kids are chop n' screwing all sorts of tracks now. Many on laptops and then distributed into the public conscious via P2P (so Wired could give it an award and be a bit ahead the bellcurve). Of course this is a decade old style too.
What is music when you despise all sound?
I can't help but think of those who got left out--i.e. the rest of the members of the teams the highlighted individuals work with. Anyone else get the feeling that some of these awards should have gone to the whole team and the selection of a single individual was rather arbitrary?
I prefer my Dangermouse to be animated and British, thank you very much.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
given the choice, I'd prefer the incredbiles by a small margin. they're all good films
Atleast wait to see it before you do.
1) I'll bash it anyway, as it's about the martians, about the firey orange explosions, the goodlooking actor and his disfunctional movie family brought together very formulaically by the upheaval, etc. It'll probably be lots of eye-candy CGI, but that's probably where my enjoyment of it will end.
2) From an early age it was always a dream, if I won a fat lottery pot I'd do a film true to the original H.G. Wells story. Pendragon has done that and I look forward to it with baited (and popcorn-scented) breath. The story isn't about martians and incredible weapons they have, but of the world's superpower (Victorian England) struck at it's heart by a vastly superior force and the impact it has on the survivors. The hope of watching the iron-clad Thunderchild take on the invaders, the discussion with the man on putney hill, the encounter and eventual confict with the curate. That's what it's about. I read it in 2 nights as a 13 year old and it jarred me and I've often come back to read the tale.
You may recall Independence Day was originally styled and planned to be titled as a remake of War of the Worlds. Awful.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
you make a good point but...
anime sucks...
i'm sorry to break the news to you, now put away your cheetoes and tell your mom to iron your best shirt cause its time to get a job. your mom is tired of explaining the odd smell coming out of the basement to her friends that come over.
Hey, I'm honest, at least.
Chinese guy: "I'm sorry I... I don't understand."
NORA guy: "Oddly enough, persons of Asian status do not qualify under Article 4."
C.G.: "Yes... but why not?"
NORA: "Well, for starters, anime."
enough with supporting them and they views-based advertizing, we are all intelligent people, an if we want to read what is on wired, we already have the page bookmarked in our browser.
no entertainment category i guess
More proof that Slashdot is dead.
OK, so it's significant conceptually. As actual music I found it to be quite disappointing. There are much better examples of mash music to be found.
Screwed up clique for life!!
Posts like this make me wish there was a music.slashdot.org
bit trollent
Does anyone read the moderator guidelines anymore? F*ck. Halo 2 has better graphics and story, and some nice extras, but you're right there was nothing revolutionary about the game. However, the financial success is pretty impressive.
Anyone who whines about being modded down should be.
Bloglines tilts my axis. RSS readers are cool, but I read from multiple computers. A single tracker is excellent. It also provides pretty good links to related feeds and has a few nice sorting features, such as sorting feeds by the number of unread entries.
His show routinely presents Mr Satan in a bad light, and does not do as much on the crap from the Angels. When he has devil/angel guests on, he routinely softballs the angels, and asks pointed questions (well, for a daily show interview) of the satanists.
One comment only: Doh!
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
It is mostly unimaginative, repetitive nonsense.
A few masterpieces worth watching, that in general, funnily enough, are not action histories.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
They democatized it, which is quite different.
Before them "black music" for lack of a better name was constrained by its explicity etnicity. The original idea was to realize that it was good music on its own right and that it deserved a wider, more diverse, audience.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
It's a brilliant game. One of the best in years, and justly awarded. But convincing Microsoft haters of that is like trying to convince a vegetarian that a T-bone steak tastes good.
Oh, so I see, I ask a perfectly legitimate question about why a story about a technology awards show is listed under games, under my own username, and I get modded as flamebait? Yeah, that's good moderating there.