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."

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wow

[rd4tech]

"Burt Rutan for launching the private space age"
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?

suspect statement

[Savatte]

"Until The Incredibles, the conventional wisdom was that animators can't do action," Bird says.

umm..anime?

Re:suspect statement

[Golias]

Your comments reveal that you simply miss the point.

The appeal of anime is a direct result of the fact that it's cheap to make. The low cost means it is a low-risk investment, which means that an Anime creator has far fewer studio pressures than somebody making a US movie or TV show.

Like I said in another comment, "Haibane Renmei" could never be made for US television. Not because there's nobody writing for TV who's as smart as ABe, but because no TV writer or director has the power to realize a vision which is so unique and fails to fit into any easy-to-sell "genre."

The same is true of "Kino's Journey," a show which is a hybrid of a road buddy picture, and a smarter, more spiritual "Twilight Zone."

If you can't follow the plots of such shows, I would not suggest bragging about it.

Is 99% of anime as good as the stuff I just mentioned? No. Then again, neither is 99.999% of US media.

Re:Jon Stewart

[That's Unpossible!]

Jon Stewart is brutally honest about the media.

Jon Stewart is NOT brutally honest about politics. He would be funnier if he made fun of all sides equally, but he is definitely biased towards the left and has admitted as much.

The show is still hilarious, but only people that are biased towards the left think that Jon Stewart is brutally honest, politically...

Re:Jon Stewart

[bitrott]

Not even. The only legitimate question he asked was "Why the softball questions?". Anyone who watches the show KNOWS that NO guest, no matter their orientation, is going to get mostly softball questions.

Jon was dead-on-right questioning WHY that dork was trying to compare Daily Show to a legitimate news channel's programming.

Jon's attitude at the end of the interview was really just shock. He, like many people, realize that there's NO ARGUING with pedantic rhetoric dicks in bowties. It's like trying to argue there is no God with a person of faith. In fact, it's just like that. What can you do when the host won't even respond to simple, irrefutable logic, like "explain how BS talk shows like this HELP public discourse in America"?

Re:grey album

[_ph1ux_]

what about Skinny Puppy and Front 242 or Front Line Assembly...

All three of these have contributed orders of magnitude more than this guy.

Remix record using beats from the Beatles. How quaint.

Skinny Puppy is the most sampling band ever (actually I believe they were surpassed by the other two I mentioned), front line assembly being extremely deft at it.

and this was in the late 80's and early 90's.

I love how all these genre's and youngins attempt to take credit now for doing things that Industrial pioneered 15+ years ago....