Twinsplynn's Blog

New host for my blog

2006-09-22T13:28:00.000-04:00

Ok so I transferred my blog to it's new place. Sadly, I lost all the embeded video during the process... Anyways, you can reach my new blog at www.doublesouls.com/Twinsplynn/

This will be my last post at twinsplynn.blogspot.com

Blog news

2006-09-22T08:48:00.000-04:00

After more than a year running this blog, I have decided to take a step forward. This blog will be moving (hopefully by the end of the weekend) to it's brand new domain. I will keep you posted and put up the link to it soon.

From now until it has moved, I do not think I'll be updating this blog. I'm not sure if I'll be able to move my previous entries... We'll have to see.

Hydrofoam R/C

2006-09-20T13:15:00.000-04:00

Whoa I wouldn't mind getting my hands on this...

Amazing archery shots

2006-09-19T08:54:00.000-04:00

Zune is coming

2006-09-18T09:21:00.000-04:00

Microsoft not content on letting Apple have all the fun in the portable music players have announced their new player called Zune.

These system have:

The three inch screen is 320 x 240 in resolution
Video CODECS supported: WMV, H.264, MPEG4
Video is limited to 320 x 240 currently, but they are discussing options for higher resolution video support
Supported bit rates for video haven't been finalized at this time
Audio CODECS supported: non-FairPlay AAC, WMA, MP3
Chris was unable to confirm if the battery was 700 mAH as the FCC documents indicated, but I believe that will be the case
The battery life is still in flux due to last-minute firmware adjustments, but Chris said that compared to the iPod the battery is quicker to reach full charge, quicker to partial charge, and is "very comparable" to the video playback time on the newly announced iPods - I'm hoping that means around six hours of video playback, which would be impressive indeed
The Zune battery is built-in and not user replaceable
The Zune player is 5.6 ounces in weight, 4.4 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide and 0.58 inches thick. By comparison, the iPod is 0.47 inches thick. By way of comparison, my Zen Vision:M is 5.8 ounces, 4 inches tall, and 1 inch thick. So I can definitely say that I don't think the Zune is too thick, especially while serving up that bigger screen
WiFi is 802.11b/g, and Chris described the WiFi as being "on when you need it, off when you don't" - I assume that means it has a very aggressive sleep state that will minimize the battery impact
Photo support is JPEG so far, I have no further details at this time

You can get your fix on news of this device at ZuneThoughts.

Red Steel trailer

2006-09-18T09:05:00.000-04:00

New trailer for the Wii game called Red Steel.

Overworked Programmer

2006-09-18T09:04:00.001-04:00

Rejected Iron Man movie armors

2006-09-18T09:04:00.000-04:00

Here are some (5 but only showing 2) armor concepts which were rejected for the movie. You can see the rest here.

Wii

2006-09-15T09:40:00.000-04:00

So it's official, Nintendo announced the details for their Wii system:

* 250$
* Comes with Wii Sports
* Includes 1 controller
* Wii Channels (photo, news, ...)

There is more details and I'll probably add more to it later in the weekend.

Quickly, I'm a bit disappointed with the price, I was hoping for cheaper. But it still not the end of the world. I still think this system will rock!

Breathing Earth

2006-09-13T09:02:00.000-04:00

A nice graphical display that shows the status of the earth.

Star Wars Kid, part 2847...

2006-09-12T16:01:00.000-04:00

More Star Wars kid... Will it ever end?

My future laptop!

2006-09-12T13:22:00.000-04:00

Japanese Algorithm Dance

2006-09-12T13:15:00.000-04:00

Hmmm yaaa...

Japanese Prostitute English Lesson

2006-09-12T13:11:00.000-04:00

Oh my god! Way too funny! Viewer discretion is advised.

Yuka and the most beautiful CG Girls

2006-09-12T12:51:00.000-04:00

There was a contest at CGFolks (or here if link is down) to find the most beautiful CG girl and CG girl "Yuka" won 2nd prize. She was drawn by Lukasz Szeflinski.

Simply amazing! This is a drawn photo! You can see how he made it here (has a higher resolution picture also). His website can be found here.

The new car for Knight Rider

2006-09-08T13:13:00.000-04:00

This new car is for the Knight Rider movie.

Casino Royale Trailer

2006-09-08T13:11:00.000-04:00

The Casino Royale trailer is now out. Check it here.

Philips product preview

2006-09-08T12:43:00.000-04:00

Battlestar Galactica season 2(.5) DVD on sale September 19th

2006-09-07T08:45:00.000-04:00

So the second part of the season 2 DVD set is coming out soon. Here is the picture of the DVD box:

Also, for people who don't know, there are Webisode online at the scifi website. Two per week until season 3 starts again. If you can't view it, do a search on Youtube.

Chumby

2006-09-06T10:41:00.000-04:00

This little device is called Chumby. It's an open source device to display any kind of information. You can check out a hands-on review at Engadget.

Your name in Japanese

2006-08-29T12:46:00.000-04:00

On this website, you can enter your name and get it in Japanese.

This is my name in Traditional Japanese:

And in Calligraphy:

More information on the Transformer's movie

2006-08-28T08:41:00.000-04:00

Damn this blog is turning into a Transformer movie blog! Oh well, one can I do, I love the Transformers.

John from the Movie Blog has gone on set of the movie for the day and has a recap from his trip up on The Movie Blog.

Optimus Prime returns

2006-08-28T08:29:00.000-04:00

Stick till the end of the video, it's worth it.

Magic Sand

2006-08-25T09:19:00.000-04:00

Very cool sand which does mix with water!

Check out the video.

New LEGO Mindstorms NXT Robot

2006-08-25T09:17:00.000-04:00

Really cool robot which you build and control.

Megatron Pictures

2006-08-24T13:49:00.000-04:00

Ya baby this rocks! The only thing is that I thought he was going to be a tank... Oh well, still very nice. Enjoy!

Molyneux's warning

2006-08-24T09:08:00.000-04:00

"Peter Molyneux, the legendary game designer responsible for games like Populous, Theme Park and The Movies, has issued a warning to future games designers regarding the new motion sensing control pads - that gamers may be too lazy to use them!"

I have to agree with him, most gamers are lazy and might enjoy swinging the Wii controller for an hour or two but after that, they might get tired of it and stop playing...

Some fancy parking

2006-08-24T08:59:00.000-04:00

Confirmed Transformers

2006-08-21T13:03:00.000-04:00

So last week there was a Webcast and they announced the list of Autobots and Decepticons that will be in the movie.

Autobots:

Optimus Prime (Of course)
Bumblebee
Ratchet
Jazz
Ironhide

Decepticons:

Megatron (He will be a tank, not a gun)
Starscream
Bone Crusher
Brawl
Scorponok
Blackout
Frenzy
Barricade

Software Development Cartoon

2006-08-21T09:01:00.000-04:00

Nice little cartoon showing the process of software development.

Sadly, I do not who made this, hence I cannot give credit to the creator.

Optimus Mini in the wild

2006-08-18T08:57:00.000-04:00

The Optimus 3-key OLED Keyboard is an interesting device. At first it started as a full blown keyboard with every key having an OLED screen which could change it's image depending on the currently working app.

Since then, it has changed (mostly because of cost) to this, a 3 key keyboard. I wish we could get the full keyboard but we'll have to make do with this.

It's nice but I wonder if it's really useful and not just a fun gizmo to play with for a while...

More Transformers news

2006-08-17T16:00:00.000-04:00

It looks like tomorrow (Friday), there will be a live Webcast and the writers will unveil the list of Transformers in the movie!

You can even send your questions and they'll try to answer them on the Webcast.

Check out the official website for more information!

Optimus Prime images

2006-08-17T08:19:00.000-04:00

These are images for the Optimus Prime in the new Transformer movie! The concept art is not confirmed by Paramount but the 3D renders are!

Porn Foley artist

2006-08-16T13:02:00.000-04:00

This is way to funny. While listening to the video, just close your eyes and imagine!

More Touchscreen technology: TouchLight

2006-08-16T12:56:00.000-04:00

Microsoft, not wanting to be left behind have demonstrated a new technology called TouchLight. Using cameras, they can detect where the user touches the screen.

It's a really cool demo because it does something that the others don't, high-res scanning right on the screen.

Nintendo DS Homebrew report

2006-08-16T09:22:00.000-04:00

A really nice article explaining everything involved in the DS homebrew world with examples of games written for the DS.

Some of these games look really good!

How to draw a head

2006-08-15T13:01:00.000-04:00

Nice tutorial on how to draw a head.

YouTube for videogames

2006-08-15T08:56:00.000-04:00

Microsoft will be releasing a toned down version of their software suite, XNA Game Studio, for the masses. It will only cost 99$ per year and you'll be able to create content for the XBox360! This is great news for home developers or hobbyists.

I believe that this will unlock so many new original and unique games. There are some great games on the web right now and to be able to bring them to the XBox360 is just a great.

I'm anxious to see how it turns out and I'm sure it will help to sell more units.

New features for Blogger

2006-08-15T08:39:00.000-04:00

Blogger is now in beta with a new and improved system. Here's a little list of new features:

Privacy
Tags
Drag and drop

Not very innovating as most other blogging sites have these features already. But it will be a nice upgrade once it's here.

Here is a more in-dept look into the new features of Blogger.

Opening a beer bottle using a piece of paper

2006-08-14T16:32:00.000-04:00

When stuck, a man will always find a way to open a beer bottle, always!

Relationship Revenge

2006-08-14T13:00:00.000-04:00

Break up fantasies of a man and a women.

The Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router

2006-08-14T08:54:00.000-04:00

This is the router of all routers!

Built-in 160GB Drive
iTunes client
Bittorrent
WiFi

So it's possible to download bittorrents while your machine is powered off!

Zombie Poison

2006-08-14T08:50:00.000-04:00

I've heard of this before but never really knew if it was really true or not.

He told them a fantastic tale of being dug up from his grave, beaten to his senses, and led away to work as a slave on a remote sugar plantation.

It's an interesting read.

Beautiful China

2006-08-14T08:39:00.000-04:00

I think I've blogged about this before but I've found some new pictures.

Just incredible!

Windows Live Writer

2006-08-14T08:36:00.000-04:00

Microsoft has just released the Microsoft Live Writer. A tool for bloggers. It is currently in beta but it's free! :)

I'll be testing it out, this post is done with it. It looks a lot like Word with WYSIWYG functionalities.

What if the Enterprise was running Windows?

2006-08-14T08:31:00.000-04:00

Real life Transformers

2006-08-11T09:00:00.000-04:00

A look into real life Transformers and why we would not see a Optimus Prime robot walking and transforming for a while.

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Video of a test, traffic pole vs truck

2006-08-10T12:18:00.000-04:00

Amazing, these traffic pole are sturdy!

Behind the scene of Transformers the movie

2006-08-10T09:26:00.000-04:00

Check out this video of a shoot for the Transformer Movie

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Really cool card trick

2006-08-07T09:06:00.000-04:00

Very nice!

Cool multi-touch interface

2006-08-07T09:03:00.000-04:00

Very cool new interface for computers that will be coming out soon.

technorati tags:interface

Browse the web more easily at the job

2006-08-02T08:50:00.000-04:00

What can I say, sometimes it's hard to surf at the job. Work Friendly is a nice little portal that transform website to look like Word. :)

From the ashes of E3 comes E3Expo

2006-08-01T08:30:00.000-04:00

It's dead, well not exactly. E3 as we know it is dead, but a new expo will emerge for next year called E3Expo. A smaller, more intimate version of E3.

Apparently it will become a kinder, gentler, "more intimate" trade show after E3 sought counseling and found itself to suffer from severe cases of ADD, Tourette's, and harbor deep-rooted antisocial tendencies.

ESA confirms E3's dead, long live E3Expo - Engadget

technorati tags:E3

Mobile17

2006-07-31T08:50:00.000-04:00

A service to create/upload images and ringtones to your phone for free (well except for the connection to the web to download your content).

The creation is quite easy, I've done an image and got it to my phone in less than 2 min.

Now it's time to find more content to send to my phone!

technorati tags:phone, mobile17

The end of E3?

2006-07-30T21:47:00.000-04:00

Well, rumors floating around the Internet says that there might not be an E3 next year, or not an E3 we know and love.

It seems that some publishers are having second thoughts on going because of the cost.

One industry insider told MCV: "Costs have been getting out of hand. We're talking double digit millions for some of us. But that's not just floorspace, of course -- it's build, parties, hotels, flights. Security, particularly, has become a massive cost."

Did the ESA Just Kill E3? news from 1UP.com

Now this could be a big hit to the gaming industry. This is "the event" of the year for gaming, where news, sneak peeks, announcements are done. But this years, a lot of announcements have been done outside of E3. Would the gaming industry already be preparing for the demise of E3?

One question remains... What about the booth babes?!

technorati tags:e3

Microsoft Photosynth

2006-07-30T10:53:00.000-04:00

You might be wondering what the hell is Photosynth. I had the same questions as you. Well it turns out that at Microsoft Live Labs, they've created a virtual world using photos. They intend on using photos from the web to create a sort of world using the photo. They are able to reconstruct buildings and landscape using multiple images.

With this technology, one could take photos from there trip and find other photo from that are similar or taken at the same place from other users. You could have taken a far way shot of a statue and you could zoom in on the statue if others took close up photos.

It's really an interesting project and the videos on the website is quite impressive. Worth a look.

technorati tags:photosynth, microsoft

Wow, the Ariel Atom car

2006-07-30T08:30:00.000-04:00

Check out this awesome car.

Ever wanted to see what it looks like to cheat in Counter Strike?

2006-07-27T13:02:00.000-04:00

Here is a video of a player who is cheating in Counter Strike. Very interesting.

technorati tags:counter-strike, cheats

Great website which compares ship sizes (everything from real life to sci-fi)

2006-07-27T08:42:00.000-04:00

Really cool website called Starship Dimensions which shows the size of different starships from different TV shows.

Great article on the Nintendo Wii System

2006-07-26T09:03:00.000-04:00

A hands-on article of the Wii system. I'm really excited about it, I think it will be the top unit for this Gen (Next-Gen) systems. Since it's going to be so cheap, I think everybody will have one!

There's only one single thing you need to know about the Wii: That it's sheer, unadulterated, peerless and incalculable FUN - for kids of all ages… and we mean that right up to those grown-up kids with mortgages and half-pints of their own.

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Monopoly replaces paper money with plastic credit card

2006-07-25T12:42:00.000-04:00

The latest version of the popular game will forgo the use of paper money for a "credit card".

Spokesman Chris Weatherhead said: "The new electronic Monopolyreflects the changing nature of society and the advancement oftechnology."

I think it's a great idea and will make life a lot easier for the players since you could always lose your money. But now, it's the end of hidding an extra 500 under the board.

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Nintendo DS Browser real world video

2006-07-25T12:35:00.000-04:00

A nice video of a guy who bought the browser from Japan for his DS Lite.

technorati tags:DS

Babylon 5 direct to DVD adventures

2006-07-25T12:23:00.000-04:00

This has to be the best news in so long! Babylon 5 will be coming back with more adventures but direct to DVD.

Source: Aint it Cool

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Next Gen Star Wars Engine

2006-07-24T08:38:00.000-04:00

This is way cool!

technorati tags:starwars

Console War video

2006-07-21T09:09:00.000-04:00

Check out the video of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft dish it out to see who wins.

technorati tags:Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo

DS Browser video

2006-07-21T09:07:00.000-04:00

This is quite interesting. It looks like they added some nice features into the browser.

technorati tags:DS

200mph Radio Controlled Jet Plane

2006-07-21T08:51:00.000-04:00

Now that's some serious power to control! Check out the video.

technorati tags:RC, jet

Great Mad TV sketch of Sesame Street

2006-07-21T08:41:00.000-04:00

Funny video.

20 Questions game

2006-07-21T08:40:00.000-04:00

Let's see if the AI can guess what you are thinking.

technorati tags:AI

Chilling phone call from somebody in the two towers...

2006-07-21T08:39:00.000-04:00

This video can be quite disturbing to some people, you've been warned

technorati tags:9/11

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Trailer

2006-07-21T00:12:00.000-04:00

There is a new movie coming out soon and and a trailer is out on the apple website.

technorati tags:tmnt

Preview of Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica!

2006-07-20T08:41:00.000-04:00

Battlestar Galactica Season 3 will start with a 2 hours special

2006-07-19T08:33:00.000-04:00

I love hearing news like this. SyFy Portal has the scoop and it looks like it will be an explosive beguinning!

"I just thought I'd let you all know that the beginning of Season 3 truly kicks ass," series music composer Bear McCreary said in his blog over the weekend. "I've started writing music for it and I think it's safe to say you'll be blown away. I won't spoil anything (you have each other for that!) but I will say that the season premiere will air as a two-hour movie ... more intense than most films you pay to see in the darkened theater."

technorati tags:battlestargalactica

Fantasia: Some Reviews

2006-07-15T23:29:00.000-04:00

I know, I know, I've been lazy. But here are my reviews of the movies I've currently seen at the Fantasia Festival.

First up is A Bittersweet Life, a mobster movie from Korea. First of all, I personaly think that Korea is becoming quite a force in the cinema department. Comedy wise, they have no competition. There stories are original and smartly written. This being my first "crime" movie from Korea, it has not disapointed me. This movie has some of the best fighting scenes with a great un-American ending!

Plot: A mobster boss right-hand man is asked to look after his master's mistress, as he suspects that she is cheating on him with another mook.The plot thickens when the boss turns on his right-hand man, ordering his death via the rest of his henchmen. That doesn't go over too well, and the next thing you know, a certain right-hand man wants revenge upon his boss, his henchmen and anybody else who gets in the way! A cool-ass flick ensues.

The actors are really great, the script is well written, the fights are just so great. It is quite a serious movie but it's got it's funny moments, which is great, not too much, not too little. This is a violent movie, blood is spilled and a lot. I was not expecting it to be this violent.

A must see!

Next on the agenda would be My Scary Girl. A Korean comedy about a virgin teacher meeting a women who pretends to be somebody she is not.

Plot: A timid college lecturer, Dae-woo, who is smart but has never been in love, meets a mysterious but charming woman, Mi-na. With no skills to win a date, he asks her out awkwardly. To his surprise, she accepts. And as a first time lover, he behaves very unnaturally. However, as they fall in love, Dae-woo discovers some disquieting things about Mi-na. Although she claims to be an intellectual and an artist, she has never heard of Crime and Punishment, nor has she heard of Mondrian although one of his paintings hangs in her living room. But Mi-na has even more terrible secrets.

This I went to see because a couple of years ago I saw My Sassy Girl, a Korean comedy that got me interested in the Korean cinema. I have to admit that, when I choose a movie to see at the festival, I mostly choose by title and images alone. I rarely read the plot of the movie, so most of the movies I don't really know what to expect. This movie, I've expected to try to copy My Sassy Girl (almost same title) but they don't have much in common. I laught almost the whole movie. This poor teacher has no clue in what his getting into. The cast of characters are all very interesting and unique. The acting was just amazing, Park Young-woo (the teacher) was just incredible.

Great date movie!� (That's weird... why would a house without kimchi have a kimchi refrigerator?)

Next is A Chinese Tall Story. Again, not knowing what I was getting into, this movie surprised me in more than one way.

Plot: Young Tang monk Tripitaka and his three disciples - Monkey King, Piggy and Sand Monk - are ambushed and captured by the demon tree. Tripitaka escapes with Monkey's golden pole and begins a journey to free them. This pole can turn into any fighting device as long as you say "I'll love you for 10, 000 years." Along the way he meets an unlikely love interest and fighting companion in Meiyan, an ugly girl who falls in with him but is told she has to consume him to achieve immortality. But the mysterious Princess Xiaoshan and her army who used to live on Earth receive the monk's undivided attention. Who are his friends, and who really wants to consume him for his flesh, which contains the key to eternal life? How will he survive aliens, huge armies and mad Celestial gods?

First surprise: this movies uses CG (and bad ones at that) like there is no tomorrow. It's used in most fight scenes and aren't that great. Second surprise: It's actually good. The story is ok but the characters are interesting and the love story is "cute". Only in this movie can you see a fantasy world mixed with sci-fi. There's a cigarette smoking alien, guns, demons, monks, Spider-Man, a magical bow that transform into pretty much everything you could think of, even those robots in The Matrix.

It's good but not the greatest.

My last review for the night is Funky Forest: The First Contact. What can I say about this movie... WEIRDEST MOVIE I'VE SEEN! Really, it's beyond explanation.

Plot: If you look at them just right, the most mundane elements of daily life can seem utterly bizarre. Conversely, the strangest, most inexplicable things can seem perfectly ordinary. That's the lunatic logic behind Funky Forest, a sprawling omnibus of the obvious and the oddball, the casual and the completely insane. If you're reading this in hopes of being handed a sensible synopsis of a straightforward story, you're out of luck - Funky Forest's daringly disjointed narrative is a mish-mash of blackouts, non-sequiturs, flashbacks, lucid dreams, magical moments and so much more. Awkward stumbles on the path to romance, and others of life's little disappointments, are woven together with all sorts of extraterrestrial freaks and incomprehensible biological curiosities, music-video mayhem and mind-bending theatrics, and psychedelic surrealism of the finest grade, delivered with a deadpan shrug.

Ya that sums it up pretty good. This movie is a gem in it's own right. There is actually a Side A and Side B to this movie, with a 3 minutes intermission, really... Side A is more normal, you see 10-20 minutes sketches of the different characters. They all seem unrelated, but on Side B, you start to see them interact between themselves and, aliens. This side really becomes weird. All in all, I really enjoyed this movie, it's quite a ride.

This movie is not for everyone, but if you like weirdness then this is your movie!

Please note that the plots are not mine, I have found them on different websites. I'm way too lazy to write those up.

technorati tags:fantasia

Incredible synchronized driving!

2006-07-14T13:07:00.000-04:00

Very impressive. I wonder if some of the stunts are real.

Video

New Robot from Japan runs on Linux

2006-07-14T08:40:00.000-04:00

A new robot from Japan runs on Linux!

Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (ASIT) has just unleashed the latest in a long line of bipedal robots to come out of the R&D labs of this country. The HRP-2m Choromet is a 35cm tall, 1.5kg Gundam lookalike that is driven by Linux and for once, we're actually told the flavor in use: ARTLinux in this case.

Digital World Tokyo

They say that the robot is inexpensive... Let's wait and see.

Great Animation Clip

2006-07-13T09:04:00.000-04:00

Check out this clip of a playing machine. Great animation!

technorati tags:animation

Being Lazy

2006-07-12T09:22:00.000-04:00

Well I know I'm bad for not posting stuff sooner on my blog but I've been on vacation and I just didn't feel like updating much.

I've started seeing movies at the Fantasia Festival and all of them are all great movies. Some were surprises, I did not expect some to be so good.

I'll be starting to put reviews up soon, when I can find the time.

Zelda Walk of Shame

2006-07-06T08:38:00.000-04:00

Amazing Japanese Magician

2006-06-30T20:30:00.000-04:00

Man this is just amazing.

Japanese panty shot fighting game

2006-06-30T20:12:00.000-04:00

I just don't know what to think about this. The goal of the game is to knock the oponent on the ground and take a picture of their panty. So wrong in so many levels!

technorati tags:japanese, gaming

The cutest video I've seen

2006-06-30T19:36:00.000-04:00

Check out this video of a little Malaysian girl sing.

Japanese girl takes a thief on!

2006-06-30T14:57:00.000-04:00

This is just crazy!

technorati tags:youtube

Japanese Sauna Prank

2006-06-30T01:26:00.000-04:00

After the toilet prank, here comes the sauna prank!

Transformers, Teaser Trailer

2006-06-30T01:05:00.000-04:00

The teaser trailer and it's really a teaser, is now out on the official movie site.

Now I could really like this movie if it has the same dark tone as the trailer.

technorati tags:transformers

Rubberband Ball

2006-06-29T11:22:00.000-04:00

For the people who know me at work, they know that I have a rubberband ball that I've worked on when I started work. But it is not close to the size of this ball in the movie!

technorati tags:youtube

1979 - STAR WARS Drunk Driving PSA Commercial

2006-06-29T11:03:00.000-04:00

Rare PSA featuring the creatures of the Star Wars Cantina in the famous "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" campaign.

Fantasia Festival 2006

2006-06-29T09:07:00.000-04:00

Fantasia Festival in Montreal has now the list of movies showing during the month.

The festival shows less known movies from around the world. Mostly horror and kung fu movies, this festival is becoming a hit here in Montreal.

I'll be putting my list of movies that I'll be seeing this year soon. And I'll have reviews of them. I'll hopefully have pictures of the festival.

If it's your first time to the festival, here are some things you should know:

If you plan on buying your tickets for the movie the same day... Good luck. The most popular movies are sold out even before the festival starts.
When you arrive for the movie, don't come 10 minutes before, you'll be seating way in the back. General rule, 1 hour before, you get good seats if you are alone or with somebody else. 2 hours before if you are in a group. 3 hours before, well you'll probably the first one in.
There are always a lot of movies to see and make sure not to buy tickets for two movies that play at the same time (There are two theaters showing movies for the festival).

Dark Vader Calls The Emperor

2006-06-28T15:45:00.000-04:00

The call to the Emperor to let him know the Deathstar has been destroyed...

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X-Seed 4000

2006-06-28T13:21:00.000-04:00

X-Seed 4000 is a proposed skyscraper that looks oddly like Mt. Fuji. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that it could be eventually built in Tokyo, Japan. The tallest building ever fully designed, the X-Seed 4000 would house between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people. A tiny quantity of individuals, if you take into account that the technology to “fabricate” mature adult individuals from raw materials is probably only a few decades away.

The X-Seed 4000, which would be 4,000 meters high (13,123.2 feet), would in fact be taller than Mt. Fuji, which is merely 3776 meters high (12,388 ft).

Source: Accelerating Future

Bumble Bee Transformer Pic!

2006-06-28T13:03:00.000-04:00

This is the best news and picture of the day! Bumble Bee picture from the set of Transformers!

Source: The Movie Blog

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Spider-man 3 Trailer!

2006-06-27T16:17:00.000-04:00

That's right folks, the Spider-Man 3 trailer is out and about.

Go see it now!

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Scientology Orientation Video

2006-06-26T07:59:00.000-04:00

Wow, this is crazy!

Don't know how long it will stay up, but here is an orientation video for Scientology.

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Calucci The Game

2006-06-24T12:55:00.000-04:00

This is a "escape the room" kind of game but with real actors. Really well made.

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Chrono Crusade AMV

2006-06-23T22:27:00.000-04:00

Really nice AMV (Anime Music Video) of the Anime called Chrono Crusade.

Funniest thing I've seen

2006-06-23T21:12:00.000-04:00

Check out this video of pranks done with public toilets in Japan!

A must see!

Nice pictures of storms

2006-06-21T12:36:00.000-04:00

Nice pictures of storms

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Funny video of army guys getting stuck in mud

2006-06-21T12:32:00.000-04:00

Video

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Superman in 30 sec

2006-06-21T12:24:00.000-04:00

I love these videos! Check out the Superman movie!

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Millennium Falcon Transformer!

2006-06-21T12:10:00.000-04:00

This is just cool!

Millennium Falcon Transformer Spotted

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