I can't find this movie anywhere. Great concept, big eco-pods holding the last remnants of the biology of earth. Sad ending, I was young, I cried. But I loved the helper robots (I think they were chimps fitted into boxes) and the cool little ATVs that the crew raced around in. I think the main dude had a big ol' blonde afro...
Boeing Surplus is a junk-collector's dream. I go there about twice a year, mainly for art-related items (picked up a Huge drafting table there, plus a million and one obscure items for various sculptures, wooden equipment boxes useful for holding CDs, 3.5" floppies, etc.), and a pal of mine is using an aluminum aircraft seat/frame (I think it was a rear-facing jumper seat from some military craft) as his living-room throne. That place rocks, and it's always an adventure to see what you discover there.
he seems to purposefully release slightly better versions of the same movie every few years, just to make sure that he can get his fans to repeatedly buy the same film.
This is a very good business decision, based on a unique situation (he both owns and controls a unique franchise that is hard to compete with). I think it's very clever, and the people that keep coming back to buy each version don't have to do it, but they do. He is simply exploiting this.
I haven't bought anything from the original series in over a decade (I'm waiting for the SE DVD 6-pack that'll come out in 2007), but my pals rush out and buy anything new from Lucasfilm, regardless of content, just to have it in their collection.
heh heh I agree, the graphics are not that great. My guess is, they are spending as little as possible on this until an investor (maybe Paramount) steps up. It pains me to see "pitches on a budget", but that's the nature of the beast.
I've worked on these kinds of pitches before (although never on the interweb).
When the artists put these pitches together, they usually add some kind of "coming soon" date, both to make the poster look more genuine to potential investors, and to show that yes, there is a release schedule planned. Some material will even have the full credits at the bottom, despite the fact that nobody's been signed to the crew yet. I always add my own name to "Senior Directing Producer" or some such nonsense.
But no, this site is not bollocks. The biggest message it shows is Freeman's dedication to the project, to those who are interested in writing checks.
Pre-game starts, you gather with the friends, and beer and nachos come out.
Game starts, bets are already placed, you settle down and start watching the commercials-er, game. Nachos are finished, sixth beer is opened.
By half-time, you're drunk and full, Twain is showing her stomach, and the No Doubt chick looks like she's been hanging out with Courtney Love too much. She looks thrashed. You take a nap.
Post-game show is up. You get to find out what you missed whilst napping, but you're too groggy to remember.
Following morning, you watch the news to get the highlights of the game, in order to fit in with the water-cooler crowd at work.
It was a good question for the masses, worthy of debate. And I'm hoping that somebody from within the industry will post some real numbers, this is something I'm very curious about.
So yes, I'm glad it wound up on the front page of Slashdot.
Now *this* statement sums up what Burning Man has become. Of course, the guy got a Troll mod, but that is all I saw year after year: more and more psuedo-oddball, psuedo-goth, psuedo-"I've got a statement that the world needs to hear" kids that aren't quite sure what to make of the older hippycampsters and their group art. So they pop their X, chant loudly so's to fit in, and loudly exclaim their blanket "art is..." statements.
Of course, you'll find this at any large event involving the right side of the brain, a little pop culture, and a lot of people trying to discover themselves.
There is no arrogance in creating art that you do not intend to last. Art can be the statement, art can be the experience. It is subjective, and open to interpretation.
My scuptures are meant to fade and decay over months, until there's nothing left but a pile of junk in a half year. I do not demand that anyone be present at the time of their creation, nor do I demand that they stay and watch the decay. It's my art, I did it for me and to explore something new with each design. If other people want to see what I'm up to, cool. I steal no culture or history from these creations.
Your blanket statement on art is a nihilistic, intellectually bankrupt, culture-rotting crock of shit. You're one of those loudmouths we hear at the museum, noisily complaining that Warhol sold out.
It may seem slow if you used OS 9 for a long time, then made the switch to X on the same machine. Windows and menus don't seem to "snap" as quick, and Classic will seem a little slower than native OS 9. So there's no real general answer here.
Give me a dual-1.25ghz with Jaguar and native applications on it, and it'll seem very fast compared to my every day Pismo.
During tight deadlines, sometimes I reboot to 9 since I can blast through menus and windows and it feels like the machine is working at "my" speed. But it really isn't a necessary thing for me to do.
The web site for the movie has a dedication to the original iBrotha, Rodney O. Lain. Anybody who read his stuff (variously on MacAddict, The Mac Observer, and a ton of other mac sites) will definitely see the parallels. He was a good journalist, always trying to incite the crowd with controversial topics like "The Macintosh is the nigger of the PeeCee world". He committed suicide in June. I think his site is still up at http://www.ibrotha.com.
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I thought that was a "Gonk" robot getting tortured. Although probably played by the same chimp...
I can't find this movie anywhere. Great concept, big eco-pods holding the last remnants of the biology of earth. Sad ending, I was young, I cried.
But I loved the helper robots (I think they were chimps fitted into boxes) and the cool little ATVs that the crew raced around in. I think the main dude had a big ol' blonde afro...
"The dummy is right!" I loved this movie.
Wait... that's not out yet. damn it.
Boeing Surplus is a junk-collector's dream. I go there about twice a year, mainly for art-related items (picked up a Huge drafting table there, plus a million and one obscure items for various sculptures, wooden equipment boxes useful for holding CDs, 3.5" floppies, etc.), and a pal of mine is using an aluminum aircraft seat/frame (I think it was a rear-facing jumper seat from some military craft) as his living-room throne. That place rocks, and it's always an adventure to see what you discover there.
he seems to purposefully release slightly better versions of the same movie every few years, just to make sure that he can get his fans to repeatedly buy the same film.
This is a very good business decision, based on a unique situation (he both owns and controls a unique franchise that is hard to compete with). I think it's very clever, and the people that keep coming back to buy each version don't have to do it, but they do. He is simply exploiting this.
I haven't bought anything from the original series in over a decade (I'm waiting for the SE DVD 6-pack that'll come out in 2007), but my pals rush out and buy anything new from Lucasfilm, regardless of content, just to have it in their collection.
Heh heh, that gets my vote for best new name for Mozilla's OS X browser.
"I'll always remember Chimeramino, chimeramino, chimeramino..."
"My name is Camino."
"Chimeramino..."
Pink slips. We're racing for pink slips.
wait... I mean it was just a handshake bet.
You're on. I hope you win, I want my dual-970 now!
I'm betting we won't see any new 970 Mac desktops til January, then 970 PowerBooks 6 months after that, but I'm hoping I'm wrong.
I live in w. seattle, so yes, over here we call him the Dark Lord of the East (redmond is east of seattle).
heh heh I agree, the graphics are not that great. My guess is, they are spending as little as possible on this until an investor (maybe Paramount) steps up. It pains me to see "pitches on a budget", but that's the nature of the beast.
"I see DiCaprio as a poor man's Matt Damon."
heh heh, off-topic but the funniest thing I've read in days.
I've worked on these kinds of pitches before (although never on the interweb).
When the artists put these pitches together, they usually add some kind of "coming soon" date, both to make the poster look more genuine to potential investors, and to show that yes, there is a release schedule planned. Some material will even have the full credits at the bottom, despite the fact that nobody's been signed to the crew yet. I always add my own name to "Senior Directing Producer" or some such nonsense.
But no, this site is not bollocks. The biggest message it shows is Freeman's dedication to the project, to those who are interested in writing checks.
yeah, but at least this time I went and read the article. Maybe it's /.'s new RTFA timer...
hear hear. Too bad there isn't a way to disable certain mods for boards like this.
http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/morebbq/index.html
what the hell are those pressurized tanks in the bkgd? Are they really lighting LOX only 4 meters away from that much explosive material?
Balls, bravery, stupidity... a jedi craves not these things...
You are so wrong with this.
Pre-game starts, you gather with the friends, and beer and nachos come out.
Game starts, bets are already placed, you settle down and start watching the commercials-er, game. Nachos are finished, sixth beer is opened.
By half-time, you're drunk and full, Twain is showing her stomach, and the No Doubt chick looks like she's been hanging out with Courtney Love too much. She looks thrashed. You take a nap.
Post-game show is up. You get to find out what you missed whilst napping, but you're too groggy to remember.
Following morning, you watch the news to get the highlights of the game, in order to fit in with the water-cooler crowd at work.
This is American Football. God bless us all.
It was a good question for the masses, worthy of debate. And I'm hoping that somebody from within the industry will post some real numbers, this is something I'm very curious about.
So yes, I'm glad it wound up on the front page of Slashdot.
"More artistic than thou"
Now *this* statement sums up what Burning Man has become. Of course, the guy got a Troll mod, but that is all I saw year after year: more and more psuedo-oddball, psuedo-goth, psuedo-"I've got a statement that the world needs to hear" kids that aren't quite sure what to make of the older hippycampsters and their group art. So they pop their X, chant loudly so's to fit in, and loudly exclaim their blanket "art is..." statements. Of course, you'll find this at any large event involving the right side of the brain, a little pop culture, and a lot of people trying to discover themselves.
There is no arrogance in creating art that you do not intend to last. Art can be the statement, art can be the experience. It is subjective, and open to interpretation.
My scuptures are meant to fade and decay over months, until there's nothing left but a pile of junk in a half year. I do not demand that anyone be present at the time of their creation, nor do I demand that they stay and watch the decay. It's my art, I did it for me and to explore something new with each design. If other people want to see what I'm up to, cool. I steal no culture or history from these creations.
Your blanket statement on art is a nihilistic, intellectually bankrupt, culture-rotting crock of shit. You're one of those loudmouths we hear at the museum, noisily complaining that Warhol sold out.
What, you don't pocket-mulch?
It may seem slow if you used OS 9 for a long time, then made the switch to X on the same machine. Windows and menus don't seem to "snap" as quick, and Classic will seem a little slower than native OS 9. So there's no real general answer here. Give me a dual-1.25ghz with Jaguar and native applications on it, and it'll seem very fast compared to my every day Pismo. During tight deadlines, sometimes I reboot to 9 since I can blast through menus and windows and it feels like the machine is working at "my" speed. But it really isn't a necessary thing for me to do.
The web site for the movie has a dedication to the original iBrotha, Rodney O. Lain. Anybody who read his stuff (variously on MacAddict, The Mac Observer, and a ton of other mac sites) will definitely see the parallels. He was a good journalist, always trying to incite the crowd with controversial topics like "The Macintosh is the nigger of the PeeCee world". He committed suicide in June. I think his site is still up at http://www.ibrotha.com.