Bigger on the inside. A sophisticated, grown-up take on the Doctor Who scarf. No matter how conservative your office, you won’t be out of place with this draped tastefully around your shoulders — via Knitty Spring Summer 2012
This is the trailer for Shuffle
, a new feature film starring TJ Thyne (Bones
, Validation
), written and directed by Kurt Kuenne (Dear Zachary
, Validation
).
Shuffle
is the story of a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, in a different year, on a different day of his life.
He wants it to stop.
The film also features TJ Thyne’s Bones
co-stars Tamara Taylor and Patricia Belcher, acclaimed actress Michelle Krusiec and the film’s old age prosthetic make-up is by Barney Burman, winner of the 2010 Academy Award® for Best Make-up for Star Trek
They have been a feature of Edinburgh’s streets for 80 years, the city’s unique variation on the police box beloved by Doctor Who fans.
Now, people are being given the chance to own one of 22 of the blue police boxes, which are being put on sale today by police who said they were surplus to requirements.
Would-be buyers have been given no guide price on which to base their offers, and if successful, will either have to obtain council permits to keep them in situ or make alternative arrangements for the two-ton structures.
A total of 12 of the boxes are listed, so the council would have to approve their removal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Max Dalton’s pop culture prints have caught our eye on previous occasions so it’s exciting to see some new work from him, this time celebrating the 50th anniversary of James Bond.
The prints were created for a screening of eight of the Bond films in San Francisco but are pretty cool for any fans of 007 — via Retro To Go
Latex display mask — via deviantART
Menacing little Cthulhu charms lurking under tiny sparkling Swarovski vitrail crystals — via Etsy
iiNet today emerged victorious in a landmark High Court victory against a coalition of film and TV studios on the issue of Internet piracy through peer to peer platforms like BitTorrent, in the conclusion of a long-running case which is viewed as the a test for how Australia’s telecommunications industry will deal with the issue in future.
#iitrial appeal dismissed!
wrote iiNet chief executive Michael Malone on Twitter this morning. A statement by the court, available online in PDF format, states:
“Today the High Court dismissed an appeal by a number of film and television companies from a decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia. The High Court held that the respondent, an internet service provider, had not authorised the infringement by its customers of the appellants’ copyright in commercially released films and television programs.
It appears that the full judgement is available online here — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists claim to have invented their own version of Doctor Who’s famous sonic screwdriver.
The Dundee University researchers have created a machine which uses ultrasound to lift and rotate a rubber disc floating in a cylinder of water.
It is said to be the first time ultrasound waves have been used to turn objects rather than simply push them.
The study could help make surgery using ultrasound techniques more precise, the physicists said.
Surgeons use ultrasound to treat a range of conditions without having to cut open a patient — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The source code for the original Prince of Persia game has been released on github by its author, Jordan Mechner. This release comes three weeks after Jordan announced the find of a box containing old floppy disks that had been forgotten in the back of a closet for 20+ years. A digital archaeology
effort was launched to recover the contents of the floppy disks, with the help of Jason Scott from textfiles.com. Some photos from the ‘copy party’ have also been posted — via Slashdot
The London 2012 opening ceremony is going to be called Isles of Wonder, but there can be no wonderment more wonderful than the fact that Olympics organisers wanted Keith Moon to perform.
Moon has been dead for 34 years.
The band’s manager, Bill Curbishley, told the Sunday Times he had been approached to see if Moon would be available
to play with the surviving members this summer.
I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the Who’s anthemic line ‘I hope I die before I get old’,
came the excellent reply.
If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented — but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a looper
— a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) — is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to close the loop
, sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D Stern produce
Evil squids have never been this cute. Each clip has a polymer clay hand painted baby Cthulhu with mint green foam wings. This listing is for the set of two clips. Baby Cthulhu is 2.2 cm tall (a little under an inch) and has a wingspan of 5.5 cm (a little over 2 inches). They are mounted on black glossy hair clips — via Etsy
Academy Award Winner Steven Spielberg’s iconic summer classic comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever on 14 August, digitally remastered and fully restored in honour of Universal’s 100th Anniversary Celebration
Richard Bell, an Australian Film Maker, on a fellowship in New York, produced and directed approximately 18 hours of raw footage for a film with the help of an assistant called Tanya Steele and paid her for these services. Ms Steele, through her American lawyers, sent letters to Mr Bell and his agent claiming that she owned the copyright in the footage and demanding that the trailer be removed from the Internet. She also caused the Vimeo website to remove the trailer. In response, Bell went to the (Australian) courts, which declared him the owner of the copyright in the film, and deemed Steele’s threats unjustifiable
. Bell then asked for damages. These were granted in the latest judgment because Bell had lost the opportunity to sell some of his works, which typically cost tens of thousands of dollars, as a result of Steels’ threats. The Australian judge awarded over $150,000 in damages plus another $23,000 costs against her — via Slashdot
All footage taken from the original Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The order of events is pretty much as seen in the movie.
more info: Rear Window Loop (2010)
This tentacular 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea poster is by Australian illustrator Ken Taylor — via Laughing Squid
Creator Matt Stone comments on how the MPAA has caused problems for them. Trey Parker and Matt Stone voice their view that the MPAA is unfair and is less accommodating to independent film makers
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