April 2010
Speeder Chase Sequence Excoriated
Highly recommended: a scathing, highly entertaining dismantling of George Lucas' Attack of the Clones in nine YouTube installments (link is to The House Next Door, where I found it; the author is RedLetterMedia).
It makes more sense if you start from the beginning but if your time is limited part 3 shines: "Almost this entire sequence deals with the speeder chase sequence where the logic behind everything in the sequence makes absolutely no sense at all and is only there so they could have a speeder chase sequence." Lucas' pretensions and storytelling ineptitude come under withering fire from a great critic, using that there gosh darn newfangled "new media" form of narrative (a smart guy pretending to be a public access cable weirdo).
Update, June 2021: All links removed due to link rot. Red Letter Media isn't worth searching but try "mr plinkett attack of the clones" in YouTube search. His part 3 review is here.
Where No Series Has Ended Before
Interesting error on the Wikipedia page for Star Trek: The Original Series:
Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired on NBC from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969.
The show actually ended on March 14, 1969. A final episode, "Turnabout Intruder," was shown in the summer reruns of 1969 (that's where they got the June 3 date). Wikipedia makes it sound like the show ran into extra innings--it's not baseball. Someone should correct this blooper.
tumblring
One of my doodles is making the tumblr rounds.
Another tumblr blog (where the GIF above came from) swallowed my digitalmediatree blog whole [update, Aug. 2010, looks like mom pulled the plug on that site, links to it replaced with digitalmediatree links]. Well, not really--someone is making choices at least.
e.g.,
Mondo Mondo Trading Post with the caption "oh my god."
Bill Schwarz found drunk tank photo.
Jessica Ciocci
Kara Hammond (one of my first blog posts)
My photo of a Leif Ritchey installation detail.
Oops, I'm putting the verbal context back in.
Update: Due to tumblr's archive limit many images referred to here are now gone from this heavy user's archive, to make space for David Bowie.
Update 2: New tumblr archive format: every image on a blog is now thumbnailized on a single page - woa.
Update 3: As noted above, the heavy user's site is now gone.
iPad in Blender
Will it blend? is the only question worth asking about this dumb appliance. Watch the YouTube and find out.
(hat tip MBM)