The original unaltered Star Wars Trilogy is to be released on DVD this September. Yay for no dodgy Jabba scene, Han shooting first and an assortment of bad special effects (orange blob under Luke’s speeder anyone?). Just like the old days…
Superman Returns Trailer. A little insight about the plot, a lot of Lex Luthor, some cool flying scenes and a whole heap of “OMG, this is gonna be AWESOME” (my reaction).
Thanks to Seth, it’s another fun quiz…
I would have done so much better if it wasn’t for (old) school errors, like mistaking Ninja Gaiden for Shinobi…
AT&T plans to kill Cingular brand. So, let me get this straight, AT&T broke up into the baby bells and thus Bellsouth was formed, Bellsouth Mobility formed as the cellular/paging arm of Bellsouth, Bellsouth Mobility got renamed to Cingular when Bellsouth Mobility merged with Southwestern Bell (SBC) Wireless, AT&T wireless was taken over and merged into the Cingular brand owned by SBC and Bellsouth, SBC takes over AT&T in a weird child buys out the parent deal to become the new AT&T, meanwhile Bellsouth and the new AT&T are possibly combining to become AT&T all over again thus Cingular is becoming AT&T again… Its no wonder the US telecom industry is confusing.
In what must be one of the ballsiest moves in recent memory (or the sign of an imminemt implosion in the Turner/Time Warner world) Turner Classic Movies are showing the “classic” Birth of a Nation film tonight at 8pm as part of their Race & Hollywood series…
Sure they sugar coat it in the description.
Families from the North and the South fight to survive the Civil War and its aftermath.
But everyone knows it’s quite possibly the most notorious movie ever made… Put it this way, after being inspired by the movie, a group of Atlanta men climbed Stone Mountain one night and reconstituted the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan also used it as a recruiting tool.
The funniest part of it is, the Race & Hollywood series is 37 movies ranging from Birth of a Nation through to Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus. Turner originally wanted it to be 38 movies by adding in Disney’s Song of the South, but the studio has withdrawn it from exhibition, apparently Disney doesn’t want to acknowledge it ever made that movie.
The web design trend obituary. Whats not hot in the design world? Gradients, low contrast, small fonts and shinyness to name a few…
As well as rearragning the layout of our small one bedroom condo, we’ve also been going through our extensive photograph collection to find prints to, well, print and frame and hang on the walls. Alas years and years of shooting on web format (640×480) has bitten me on the ass, so since mid-October we’ve been shooting in much higher resolution.
So today I decided to go downtown and reshoot some shots I had previously taken and thanks to the advise of the Atlanta Flickr group, I ended up going to the 74th floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza, the second tallest hotel in the world no less, and taking shots of the awe inspiring and bowel loosening view.
Now I hate heights, so the express glass elevator on the way up really set me off, luckily the public viewing platforms on the inside are actually set back from the glass. One day soon I’ll head back up there, I imagine it’s a great view at dusk/night time.
Originally uploaded by FLC.
Mike Metzger broke the world record for longest motorcycle backflip Thursday, flying 125 feet over the fountains at Caesars Palace and becoming only the second person to clear the pool on two wheels. The jump, aired live on ESPN, was made legendary when motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel suffered a 29-day coma crashing on a New Year’s Eve 1967 attempt with no backflip.