David Tennant in Fright Night
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | Movies, Sci-fi | No Comments
Remember Fright Night? You know, the vampire movie from 1985. Back when vampires were vampires and didn’t sparkle? If you never saw this movie, see the original, as there is a 50/50 chance it’s about to be ruined.
I say this as most remakes suck. They are either remade by people who don’t know what they are doing or just want to make a quick buck off the current trend (In this case, vampires.) and half ass it.
HOWEVER! David Tennant will be playing a ‘updated’ Peter Vincent. The character will be trading in his gentle old man appearance and horror tv show titled “Fright Night”. Instead, the new version has a Hard Rock Hotel show called “Fright Night”, is an illusionist and looks more like a Chris Angel look like.
To me, David Tennant gives the movie a chance. Even if the writers botch the story and the director seems to have steered it into a wall. David Tennant could probably carry the movie with one hand tied behind his back.
[Source]
John Lennon’s toilet sells for $14,740 at auction
Monday, August 30th, 2010 | Weird | No Comments
What?!?!? I’m sorry..WHAT?!?! $14,740 for a toilet John Lennon used? I have his tooth brush! Gimme 500 bucks!
“Lennon, who was murdered in New York in 1980, had the porcelain lavatory removed from Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, southern England, where he lived from 1969 to 1971, and replaced with a new one.
The builders who took away the white and blue lavatory were told to “put some flowers in it or something,” according to the auction catalog.
Builder John Hancock stored it in his shed for 40 years until he died recently and the lavatory was sent for sale, British media reports said.
The toilet was among Beatles memorabilia sold at auction as part of the Beatle week festival in Liverpool, the group’s native city in northwest England. The pre-auction estimate was 750 to 1,000 pounds.” – Source
Everything Ages – Vintage ads for todays communication trends.
Saturday, August 7th, 2010 | Geek | 1 Comment
Created by Moma’s Rodolfo Sampaio, have been running in Brazilian newspaper Meio & Mensagem to promote media seminars from Maxi Midia.
What’s new today, is old tomorrow. With this in mind we’ve developed this campaign, showing how the tools in communication are quickly outdated.
[Source]
I-Dosing – What?
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 | Weird | No Comments
It’s 2010, many imagined by now we would have many advanced things. Flying fuel efficient cars, the end of world hunger, and maybe even world peace? The cure to all disease? We have one thing now that I don’t think the scientists of ‘yesterday’ hand in mind, digital drugs.
Like something out of a Sci-Fi story, kids are getting “high” off music. Or should I say, as the web sites pitch it, they can buy “doses” and download them to their i-pods and computers.
When I saw one my friends post to an article on facebook about this. To be honest, I thought it was a mistake. Maybe the person writing the article saw a few youtube skits and ran with it. The screen caps the article posted from videos on youtube of kids that recorded their experience…well..it didn’t look like ‘fun’ to me. Heck one looked a little funny or staged. So I did some investigating. It’s real.
I found several articles and sites with information about I-Dosing. It also wasn’t hard to find a web site selling I-Doses. The one I visited claims you can buy “The highest quality exotic bud, mood enhancement pills and legal hashish.”
All our favorite drugs that came out of the 60′s (and then all the dumb ones that came after) now available in digital form. To be taken in via sound files. The question is, does it work?
These kids seem to be reacting on some level. But, are they reacting because the variation in pitch and sound is stimulating the same areas of the brain as the drug the music is supposed mimic? Are they reacting because they are psychologically convinced they should? (Ever heard someone say, you can convince yourself your sick?) Or are they faking it for the attention?
Could be all of the above.
Ever hear of the “Hemi Sync Program” from the Monroe Institute?
Monroe indicated that the technique synchronizes the two hemispheres of one’s brain, thereby creating a ‘frequency-following response’ designed to evoke certain effects. Hemi-sync has been used for many purposes, including relaxation and sleep induction, learning and memory aids, helping those with physical and mental difficulties, and reaching altered states of consciousness through the use of sound. – Wiki
This all sounds crazy and dangerous to me. Its something that should be left to being Sci-Fi. Ever seen Warehouse 13? They covered this in one of their episodes. There was a record that when played with an echo, reached out and touched your synapses and made you feel calm, relaxed and loved. While people were standing there drugged out like hippies in a commune, banks were being robbed.
This makes one think. Does it not?
$4 Foot Long..Cheeseburger.. aint no Subway
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 | Weird | 1 Comment
This…is really weird to see, and disgusting. The sandwich is being tested in select Carl’s Junior (Hardees) locations in Santa Ana, CA.
Would you eat it?
[Source]
Men in Black III, details that left me facepalming.
Friday, July 9th, 2010 | Sci-fi | No Comments
Will Smith will be traveling through time.
To stop a dastardly villain named Yaz (more about him later) from destroying the world, Agent Jay will go back to 1969 where he’ll team with a young Kay.
Duh…what? This might as well say… “We spent the last 8 years trying to come up with a valid story plot, and got nothing.”
Apple is even more important than we know.
Not only will a secret time-travel hub be housed inside an Apple Store, but one way to travel into the past turns out to be by shaking an iPhone’s clock app.
This wasn’t well thought out. Unless there’s a detail left out here.. wouldn’t this mean anyone who shakes the app would travel in time?
Regardless of my over thinking this detail. The first person who I see shaking their iPhone clock app making comments about they are about to travel in time..gets slapped.
More celebrities will be revealed as aliens.
A new film means new celebrities unmasked—Jimi Hendrix, Castro, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol and more.
Yoko Ono is an alien…hehe…ok..
Johnny Depp to play Dr. Who in Americanized movie?
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 | Sci-fi | 2 Comments
Johnny Depp to play Dr. Who – Thats the buzz going around. But is it just a rumor? That seems up in the air at this point. Here is what’s being said:
-Russell T. Davies reported that the reason he moved on from the show was due to the opportunity to transform the Doctor to the big screen.
- Movie studio sources confirmed with Tor.com today that, while it can’t comment on possible story elements, the casting of Johnny Depp as the Doctor for a 2012 film is confirmed.
Here is what I would like to know….why Americanize it at all? Americans who love Dr. Who love it the way it is. Why should it change to appeal to the masses? House hold name? Dr. Who IS a house hold name. Anyone whos anyone knows who the Doctor is.
So why Americanize it? They didn’t Americanize Harry Potter. It was filmed in England (and surrounding areas) and all of the European lingo and culture remained. The same should be done with Dr. Who – it should be David Tennant or Matt Smith to play the Doctor..not Johnny Depp even though he is brilliant.
Wonder Woman gets..pants?
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 | Geek, Sci-fi | 1 Comment
Wonder Woman’s costume has always been a wearable tribute to the American flag. Through out the years the colors have stayed the same. Red top with the American bald eagle in gold, blue bottoms with white stars, red boots and her tiara. The top and bottoms have always been skimpy. More or less the same thing since 1941.
Wonder Woman, as seen above, is getting a new look- and it’s about time! While most super heroes from her era have already had their costumes altered through the years to keep up with the times. Wonder Woman always stuck out, clinging to her retro look..not anymore.
Her story is even getting a bit of a face lift along with her appearance and wardrobe.
“In the reimagining of her story, Wonder Woman, instead of growing up on Paradise Island with her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and her Amazon sisters, is smuggled out as a baby when unknown forces destroy her home and slaughter its inhabitants.”
This change to her story and to her costume, hopefully will help in the campaign to get Wonder Woman on the big screen.
The Amazon thing about Wonder Woman always bugged me. But I can see what the creator was thinking. Guys like hot babes, guys like the idea of an island of all hot babes and guys like comics…. $$$$$$$
[Source]
Refrigerator of the future, or simply gross idea?
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 | Gadgets | 1 Comment
“The Bio Robot fridge cools biopolymer gel through luminescence and uses non sticky, odorless gel to envelope stored food as individual pods. Sans doors and drawers, the fridge can be oriented vertical or horizontal, as per the home” requirements.
This concept work by Russian designer Yuriy Dmitriev presents a simple and effective way to store food and keep it cold. An idea that is certainly out there. The “biopolymer gel” however leaves one to question the food they are about to eat if it wasn’t stored in a bag or container? Even then it’s like..ehhh.. alien fridge?
[Source]
Recent Posts
 |
 |
|