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Lunar Rover!
Great variation on that Beastie Boys driving game we reported on last month - here's an official Lunar Rover simulator, which lets you cruise around the Apollo landing sites ...and in fact, the entire moon.
UPDATE: Try the Lunar Lander too.
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tron-a-thon
I remember seeing Tron in 1982. It was alright. Clever, and Jeff Bridges was cool - but a bit boring (check out the original trailer). Let's just forget about Steven Lisberger's later films, especially Slipstream.
All that seems to have been erased by the geeks though, who hold it as some holy grail of greatness - so with Comic-con last week, some more details were unveiled about the upcoming sequel - now titled Tron Legacy - and the anticipation and hype is building quickly.
Here's some titbits:
- Daft Punk seem to be doing the soundtrack - and then may or may not be touring to support it.
- Kevin Flynn lives on at this 1990's style website, which appeared a couple of months ago and now hosts HD downloads of the new concept footage (embedded below) amongst other things.
- Flynn's arcade has been re-created, where you can play a load of 80's style games.
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mad Men Yourself
what would you look like walking around drinking martinis all day? find out!
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Whip It
Juno and Maybe from Arrested Development?! it's a sassy kid overload in Whip It, the roller derby debut from Drew Barrymore
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Khmer Rock And The Killing Fields
interesting doc on Cambodian psych rock on R4 1.30pm today - Khmer Rock And The Killing Fields. MP3s of many of the tracks up at WFMU
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Rock-a-likes
Not quite sure how similar these really are, as most of them just happen to be in a similar pose - but there's some humour to be had from Rolling Stone's rock-a-likes photo comparisons.
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Keep an eye out for a cameo from 50 Cent in this week's Entourage: http://bit.ly/cWw2y
28th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterFlight Of The Conchords Present
FOTC deleted band meeting scene and S2 dvd giveaway up on the Guardian
28th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Rhys Darby? Present.
Murray Hewitt, AKA comedian Rhys Darby wants you to take global warming seriously. Head over to sign on and show your support.
He's also performing live in London for a few nights, then off to Edinburgh (tickets here). More details via The Independent and The Times.
27th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Book Of Eli
looks like it's Denzil Washington's turn to save us from a post-apocalyptic future
27th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
SpotifiPhone
Spotify have announced an iPhone version of their excellent music streaming program - and have submitted the app to Apple for approval. Assuming it gets accepted, this could be a possible game changer for me, as the thought of owning any more CDs now has zero appeal. This thing requires a premium Spotify account, which will set you back £1 a day or £10 a month, but that will provide access to several million tracks - and no ads.
Spotify are also planning a US roll-out of their service. More info at WIRED.
27th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Simulated Red Carpet
Nikon won a bronze lion award at the Cannes Advertising Festival for this red carpet simulation in a Seoul shopping mall, which fires off the flashes when someone walks past. Make sure your hand luggage is that flashy handbag we talked about.
27th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Star Wars Uncut
results coming in from the Star Wars Uncut project - Ep IV chopped into 15 sec chunks, and reworked by people all over the internet. no end to the time on their hands there is
27th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
In an hours time CSF will be a mere 5-toed mortal, taking 3 weeks of R&R.
27th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterSearch
RT @iancr: or this. you make danzig wanna speak spanish: http://awe.sm/qMJ go go go go
26th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterSky Movies showing a quadruple bill of Indiana Jones movies on Saturday - all in HD.
26th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterTouring Band
Nice bit of timelapse photography up at Wilco World from a recent show. Shows what a small piece the actual gig plays in the puzzle.
24th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tony Kaye vs Seth Rogan
Advertising bad-boy Tony Kaye has been making some tentative steps back towards Hollywood, following the debacle surrounding American History X.
He's made a short film in support of Kevin Smith's Zach & Miri Make A Porno feature, which you can watch over at Vimeo.
24th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Monsters of Folk Folks On Tour
The Monsters of Folk (AKA Jim James, Bright Eyes & M. Ward) are heading out on tour to support their forthcoming album - and that will include European dates. Tickets on sale July 27th.
2009 Europe
11-12 Stockholm, Philadelphia Church
11-14 Berlin, Huxleys Neue Welt
11-15 Copenhagen, Vega
11-17 London, Troxy
11-18 Paris, Elysee Montmartre
11-19 Koln, E-Werk
11-21 The Hague, Crossing Border
11-22 Antwerp, Crossing Border
24th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Dumpster Swimming Pool
I guess in England, we'd use a skip for this.
Update: Oops. Too late.
24th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Japan's Smart Phones
why isn't anyone else into Japan's smart phones?
24th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Coldplay
Lovely, ingenious video up for Coldplay's new track Strawberry Swing, directed by animating legends Shynola.
Trailer below, but you can see the whole video over at Babelgum.
23rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Best Title Sequences Of All Time
Nice run down on 30 of the best title sequences of all time over at Creative Review. Not sure all my favourites are in there, but it's a pretty thorough list.
We all wet our pants at film school when the Se7en titles first rolled out. Stan Brakhage goes mainstream.
23rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Data Overload
Interesting article up at Wired about tracking and documenting every facet of your life - a situation I'm sure countless people have found themselves in recently with the barrage of easy-to-use web apps.
I've been trying to cut back and streamline my own activities for many of the same reasons.
23rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Making Of
A lot of celebs seem to be investing online these days. Natalie Portman is one of the creators of film website Making Of - with behind-the-scenes film community type stuff to help and inspire potential film makers.
23rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
De-spotify
Microsoft look set to launch their own competitor to Spotify, with the focus seeming to be to draw attention to their iPod rival, Zune.
With Spotify itself not actually operating in the US, there's certainly room for something like this - although if Apple flipped the switch to allow full stream playback in iTunes they'd be in a pretty superior position themselves.
More info at the Telegraph.
23rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Taxidermia
freaky-looking Hungarian comedy Taxidermia
23rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Dude 2.0
The Dude himself made a satellite appearance at the latest Lebowskifest, reporting live from the set of the Tron sequel.
I attended Lebowski Fest here in Seattle last night and it was great, man. The Dude made a special "satellite appearance", apologizing for not making it since he's up in Canada doing that whole Tron revival thing. I didn't watch my friends die face down in the muck to let this picture go unviewed, so I present it to you.
Calmer than you are,
Walter Sobchak
AICN has the full details.
22nd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Despicable Me
New cartoon w Steve Carrell, Russell Brand and Jemaine Clement on voice duties.
22nd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Light Test
Nice collection of pre-shoot camera tests up at Light Test. Rather than leaving these tests in the bin, assistants and photographers are making something of them and giving them a life of their own.
22nd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Feed The Monster
Web 2.0 has really been picking up speed recently, and with Twitter seeming to catch up with Facebook in terms of mass popularity, let's have a look what else is out there.
Tumblr is somewhere between Twitter and a full blown blog, and in terms of customization it's pretty nifty. You can totally customise the code, and pull in data from other sources (e.g. our main content feed). Their business plan seems to involve ads on the home page, which like Twitter is made up of posts by other people you are following (e.g. Look At This Fucking Hipster). Check out ours and follow us here.
That following aspect is the big selling point for us, as a way of dragging new readers onto the mothership (www.chimpomatic.com), as well as adding some bonus data on the move, as Tumblr and Twitter are very iPhone friendly. In order to keep all our feeds and so on alive, we're using Twitterfeed, which can pull RSS content from any source and auto-Twitter it for you - hence our always up to date Twitter feed. That Twitter feed is then handy to post everything to your Facebook page.
Yahoo's Fire Eagle and Google's Latitude are likely to take off next, allowing you to easily update your location for selected people to find you. While there's something of a privacy issue, I don't think too many people will really care - or will select exactly who they wish to share that data with. Several location based social-networking services are already using the Fire Eagle service - for example Dopplr (there's that dumb spelling again), which is a travel based info-sharing service. Haven't quite got my head around that one yet, but will keep you updated...
22nd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
