Haven’t posted in a while figured I should rock the blog… Hopefully I’ll get off my ass and post something worth while 
Category: General
Finally Titanic taken down a notch. I had hope for Return of the King, but it looks like Avatar has done it.
The original Titanic sank in 1912. Now the blockbuster movie it inspired has also gone down.
This time, though, it was not an iceberg that toppled it, but a 3D film about a blue-skinned alien race defending their planet against human invaders.
Towards the end of the last decade, James Cameron’s epic Titanic became the most successful movie ever with global takings of $1.843bn (£1.14bn).
But that record no longer stands thanks to Avatar – also directed by Cameron – which this week stole its crown as the all-time global box office champ, with receipts of $1.859bn (£1.15bn).
It is an astonishing achievement for the 55-year-old Canadian, and one that is unlikely to be repeated in his or our lifetimes.
[Via BBC News]
After seeing Avatar and its excellent digital characters it really makes me wonder do we really need actors that are payed millions pre movie. It looks like they have the visual part of the technology very refined. Now they just need to add the back end. I mean really it’s a script that could be read by a computer, develop some emotion/inflection component and let the animators run wild.
Well it looks like the extended version of LOTRs is finally coming to Blu-ray in 2011 or 2012. It’s to bad that they are going to push the theatrical versions out first but I think I will be waiting.
[Via Amazon]
I had know idea that these fish even existed let alone posed a threat to the Great Lakes. Seeing those fish fly out of the water is crazy.
Sometimes the “few” are made to suffer to protect the many. Tens of thousands of fish were poisoned last week in a drastic attempt to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
Officials poured more than 8000 liters of the fish poison rotenone into a 9-kilometer stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which links the Mississippi river and Lake Michigan, during maintenance work on a barrier that normally keeps invaders at bay using electric shocks.
[Via New Scientist]
It’s strange how one topic leads to another on the internet. I was reading about Prometheus after the flame thrower post on wikipedia, and came across an amazing digital artist Scott Eaton. Take a look at some of his other work. As a none artistic person it is truly astonishing what some people can do.
Just saw this over at engadget and it looks pretty interesting. I could see it being used quite a bit if you were using two bodies with a primary lens and another with a zoom. What will be interesting to see if this will take off. The only concern I can see right away is the camera dangling and then running it into something while your moving around. Check out their website, and see what you think.
An Introduction to the SpiderPro Camera Carrying System from Shai Eynav on Vimeo.
I really enjoyed reading this article and felt it hit home on several issues. It is very candid and raises some very interesting points. I’m sure it could invoke a lot of feelings but debate in an open forum is a great way to evaluate ideas, and hopefully bring about change.
[Via WSJ.com]
