Check out Rolling Stone’s 1977 interview with George Lucas in which they discuss his early career and, of course, Star Wars.
Rolling Stone 1977 George Lucas Interview
Good Intentions Gone Bad
MSNBC has an interesting article: “Newsweek’s Baghdad bureau chief, departing after two years of war and American occupation, has a few final thoughts.”
Shroud Of Cartman
Behold, the Shroud Of Cartman has appeared on Phil Leadbetter’s sofa.
Pulp Fiction In 30 Seconds
Angry Alien Productions continues their series of hilarious video spoofs with Pulp Fiction in 30 Seconds and re-enacted by bunnies.
Star Wars: A Musical Tribute
Tim Ireland’s Star Wars: A Musical Tribute (aka Han and Leia: a love story) is a montage of images from the original Star Wars set to Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. Despite that, it’s actually pretty good… 😉
Shampoo Detergent Makes Surfaces Self-sterilizing
Biology News reports that “Adding a common ingredient in shampoo to paints and varnishes can create self-sanitizing coatings for frequently touched surfaces in public buildings that continue killing germs for months.”
It’s like the movie Evolution where the Selenium in Selsun Blue saves the day! I bet no one saw the movie and I’m on my own here. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss much…
Watch, Ride, And Report
This could just be some sort of guerilla art, but it’s pretty interesting either way.
The MARC commuter trains between Baltimore and DC are sporting these terrornoia posters styled after the heyday of Stalin’s totalitarian regime, when Soviet citizens were exhorted to spy on their neighbors and fink them out for suspicious behavior. And they say irony is dead.
Update: One of the commenters to this article (linked to in the MetaFilter discussion thread) found out that the poster is “the product of a campaign being run by CSX, the freight transportation company which owns the rail lines MARC operates on.” One of the comments in the MetaFilter thread also points out that a poster in London is similarly creepy, while examples in Boston (PDF) and New York are less innocuous.
Worth1000.com – Escher
Worth1000.com’s latest Photoshop Contest mimicing the style and works of M.C. Escher has some cool stuff…
Futurama Math
I posted about a page dedicated to math on The Simpsons a while ago, and today I came across a similar idea for Futurama at Mathematics in the Year 3000.
Fast Film
Check out Fast Film, an amazing fourteen-minute animated short film:
What makes Fast Film unique is that all its scenes were taken from 300 different feature films. Director Virgil Widrich captured stills from the 300 movies, and made over 65,000 photocopies of these, then folded them into a variety of shapes and animated them. The result is a completely fresh look at Hollywood – a tour of movie history at breakneck speed.
