The goal was as simple as it was ambitious; as beautiful as it was grotesque; as awesome as it was … so freakishly awesome! A crowdsourced version of Star Wars Episode IV (A New Hope) in 15-second blocks, open-sourced and using any creative media you happen to have nearby. Less than a year later, the results are in.
I, for one, will never wash my eyeballs again!
Enjoy it now before the MPAA tries to shut it down:
Currently out of stock at Amazon, but I’ll be in geek heaven when one of you decides to buy me these puppies. ‘Course since I’m exclusively on Kindle these days I’ll have to find something else to separate these two nutters. Perhaps my growing pile of unpaid bills? That’ll show ‘em!
Tired of eating corn like all the other straights? So was Shed Simove until he came up with Cornobi! Now when you’re eating lunch by yourself, the cool kids will be too busy laughing to notice the corn stuck in your teeth!
I couldn't find one of these badboys for sale on his website, but head on over anyways for some other fun yum-yums. Until they are back in stock, you can at least enjoy the demonstration video!
This incredible short film by Peruvian filmmaker Montreuil is 6 minutes of pure, pharmaceutical-grade awesomeness. Set in a dystopic Los Angeles, the film follows Chris Black (Victor Lopez), a man who “possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime” and his desperate race for survival. Produced on a budget of $5,000 – roughly the amount that Hollywood films spend on 1 page of a script – it pound-for-pound equals or betters your average blockbuster.
You can watch the embed here, but if your broadband can handle it, I highly recommend heading over to Vimeo for the Hi-Def version!
If you've been a long-time reader of this blog, you know by now that I am huge sci-fi fan. What you almost certainly don't know, is that it takes only mere seconds of a barbershop quartet performance to send me into fits - yes, fits - of pure glee. Never did I imagine that, one day, the modern commnications marvel that is the internet would come along to deliver both in a single, double-shot package of mirth. Enjoy!
CRACKERJACK JUNCTION sings THE EWOK CELEBRATION SONG
Fallacious yet widespread and documented beliefs courtesy of Wikipedia.
Christopher Columbus's efforts to obtain support for his voyages were not hampered by a European belief in a flat Earth. Sailors and navigators of the time knew that the Earth was spherical, but (correctly) disagreed with Columbus's estimate of the distance to India, which was approximately 1/6th of the actual distance. If the Americas did not exist, and had Columbus continued to India, he would have run out of supplies before reaching it at the rate he was traveling. Without the ability to determine longitude at sea, he could not have corrected his error.[clarification needed] This problem remained unsolved until the 18th century, when the lunar distance method emerged in parallel with efforts by inventor John Harrison to create the first marine chronometers. The intellectual class had known that the Earth was spherical since the works of the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. Eratosthenes made a very good estimate of the Earth's diameter in the third century BC. (See also: Myth of the Flat Earth)
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Conflict and Conciliation: Faith and Politics in an Age of Global Dissonance
Despite the peaceful foundations of global monotheistic religions, the broad diversity of interpretations can lead to a sharp paradox regarding the use of force. Inevitably, we must ask ourselves: How can those who ascribe to peaceful beliefs suspend their own moral foundation to beat the drums of war? ... read more
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