TRON Legacy

The trailer for TRON: Legacy is out & I am stoked. It's going to be a sequel that picks up right where the original left off twenty-six years ago, and yes, The Dude himself will be returning. Other than that, the graphics look amazing. The film is scheduled for 2010 release. Watch the trailer here: youtube.com/tronlegacy.

Also, in my interwebbings, I stumbled upon a website called Flynn Lives, in reference to Kevin Flynn's (Jeff Bridge's character in the original TRON) sudden disappearance. You can check out that insanity here: flynnlives.com.

Shake Weight? WTF.

Today's Big Thing is the Shake Weight, a weight specifically designed for women who want to tone their upper arms for tank top season. I don't think I even need to comment on this product's similarity to a sex toy. Watch the video here: shakeweight.org.

My First VLOG

This is my first attempt at editing. It's really not very entertaining, but I feel pretty comfortable with iMovie now. Unfortunately, it's low quality. I'll have to figure out what to do about that.

Rhonda Forever

http://rhondaforever.com
This is a pretty cool video demonstration Rhonda Forever, a 3D Drawing software developed by Amir Pitaru in 2003.

Pitaru is a classically trained musician but makes really badass digital art with his own custom programs. The coolest part is, he has no formal computer programming training; he's completely self-taught. The Design Museum website says he strives to create interactive animations with the same fluency as music, which is pretty obvious once you take a look at his stuff. This one is call "Geisha", also made with another custom software. You can check out more of his work at pitaru.com.






The hands & drawings in the video belong to James Paterson (no, not the guy that writes those paperback novels my mom reads), another self-taught software geek. So the interwebz say, the two of them met at a conference in London, then realizing they lived on the same street in Brooklyn, and started collaborating. His stuff is a little more my taste than Pitaru's; kindof purposely rough figural line drawings. He likes to use the computer "like a sketchbook". He's has a few creative outlets on the web but I like halfempty.com/james most.

BONUS: If you visit the site, there is a field at the bottom of the page to sign up to be a tester. They'll e-mail you a password to download the prototype to play around with. I already got mine!

Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland trailer

Even with all of the damage Hot Topic and mallrats did to the icons of his movies, I still cannot help but love Tim Burton's stuff. It's predictable at times, but I think he's got the right duo in Johhny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter, who, by the way, is going to be the perfect Queen of Hearts. >>

This movie is going to be worth the horrifically inflated ticket price of $9.50. Unfortunately, it doesn't come out until March 2010.

Miles Fisher cover of This Must Be The Place by the Talking Heads as dedicated to American Psycho