Psychotropic video in the spirit of EBN. Worth checking out his Youtube page: TV Sheriff
My first exposure to Davy Force vids was about three years ago when I watched the Horned Grandma short on Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted DVD. Lets just say that isn't the best video to watch when you are under the influence.
They really need a Youtube HD or something because this really doesn't convey the fluidity of CGI well at all. Gives you an idea though.
This is going to be good. You know all those skills you may have learned playing first person shooters over the years, or any 3D games in general? See what happens when you open portals :)
Just saw this on Film Four tonight (UK TV chanel)... very interesting, but 50 minutes isn't even near long enough if you've read Paul Sammon's excellent "Future Noir: the Making of Blade Runner". Interviews with everybody involved except Harrison Ford and Sean Young of course, who hated each other's guts during the making of the film. We even see Philip K. Dick before he died - what a paranoid bloke he was! And even, for the first time ever, a look at the deleted scene where Deckard visits Holden in hospital. If you look you'll see the set for that scene was from Alien.
It's amazing visiting the buildings Ridley Scott used to make his future vision of Los Angeles. In the daytime they look NOTHING like Scott's sets, particularly the Bradbury Building in L.A., used for the final battle... when you see the before and after shots it really brings home what a genius of visual style Scott is.
Most shocking is that whilst all of the people have obviously aged in the last 20 years, Joe Turkel (Eldon Tyrell) hasn't aged a day! Hmmmm...
For anyone that hasn't read Paul Sammon's book, you'll be amazed at the problems encountered making this film, a true up-hill struggle. But Blade Runner still remains one of the best American movies of all time.
Ridley Scott admits this is one of his best films, and millions of cult fans worldwide agree. A true original...
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
Topic: Humor
5:21 pm EST, Feb 26, 2007
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
Decius wrote: In keeping with my plan to regularly post music videos, in hopes that others join, here is an interesting one for Autechre that really makes you wish Youtube had higher resoltuions available. There are some better screen caps here.
Alex Rutterford makes very cool art. He also had a hand in the videos that Chris Cunningham did for Squarepusher and Bjork. If you like this, check out Fijuu. It isn't exactly Gantz Graf quality, but for a realtime AV toy you can get going on a Linux box in a few minutes, it's pretty slick. I've got it set up on my "lesser" Linux box at the house right now with a PS2 controller hooked up. Was actually going to write up a HOWTO on getting it going with Ubuntu 6.10.
BTW, I've got the Gantz Graf DVD if you want a copy. It has some other Autechre videos that are cool. The Bass Cadet video and 2nd Bad Vibel videos are pretty cool.
Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.
The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.
The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who believes his brother's death in a federal prison was linked to the Oklahoma City bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI under the federal Freedom of Information Act, alleges that authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and that guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand.
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I question the credibility of Mr. Nichols, you know, being a convicted murder of 161 people and all, but I didn't know about the death of Mr. Trentadue's brother. That aspect of this case intrigues me.
I've been researching this a little bit and found that John Doe #2 and Kenneth Trentadue's appearances were similar, including the tattoos on their forearms.
Autopsy photos and commentary are available here. Sure doesn't look like a suicide to me.
At the time, the House Judiciary Committee assigned a homicide investigator to the case. That detective's opinion is quoted as saying Trentadue "was clearly murdered." The death scene was sanitized a few hours after he allegedly hung himself, and the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner staff was denied access. A true crime scene investigation was never carried out.
Will be interesting to see where this goes or if anyone near this happens to die soon.
RE: Top Gear builds, launches Space Shuttle car - Engadget
Topic: Miscellaneous
4:13 pm EST, Feb 23, 2007
k wrote:
Wow. I love Top Gear.
Agreed. I wish we could purchase old seasons on DVD. Just have to suffice with Google video.
Favorites: The Bugatti Veyron episode where they raced a plane vs. a car across Europe. The Pagoni Zonda test drive. The jet car crash. Replacing clays with cars for target practice (that episode was insane.) And the Ariel Atom test drive, watching Jeremy wig out in an open air car was priceless.
A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
"Now I feel stupid," said James Van Iveren, who has been charged in the case. "This really is nothing, nothing but a mistake."
The neighbor told police Van Iveren became increasingly aggressive as he repeated the question, insisting that he had heard a woman being raped. The complaint said that, with the sword pointed at him, the neighbor led Van Iveren throughout the apartment, opening closet doors to prove he was alone.
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"Now I feel stupid." THAT qualifies as understatement of the year :)
