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adactio: Steven Spielberg’s “Obama” (by whitehouse)

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:57:17 -0400

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Steven Spielberg’s “Obama” (by whitehouse)

lukesbeard: gifmovie: Meteorite hits Russian Urals near...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:03:53 -0500

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gifmovie:

Meteorite hits Russian Urals near Chelyabinsk.
Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds have sought medical attention for minor injuries.

Incredible

jstn: BMW designs car based on 4 year old’s specification.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:49:27 -0500

jstn:

BMW designs car based on 4 year old’s specification.

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jtotheizzoe: How the Duck Hunt Gun Worked This settles a...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:28:44 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

How the Duck Hunt Gun Worked

This settles a mystery that has plagued my now semi-grown-up brain for decades, even more than the memory of that hound’s taunting laughter.

If you’re like me, and you played a lot of Duck Hunt growing up, you never quite figured out how the dang gun worked. I mean, I assumed it was shooting something at the screen, like maybe a beam of infrared, and the Nintendo console would somehow triangulate where I was shooting from, and somehow calculate how big my TV was, decipher some x,y coordinates from that and then determine if I had actually hit the duck.

Of course, none of that takes into account that it still registered the kills when I was ~~cheating~~ experimenting by putting the gun right on the screen and pulling the trigger wildly. Well, thanks to the folks at Mental Floss, I know the truth.

The gun didn’t shoot anything.

It was a receiver! Check it out:

When you point at a duck and pull the trigger, the computer in the NES blacks out the screen and the Zapper diode begins reception. Then, the computer flashes a solid white block around the targets you’re supposed to be shooting at. The photodiode in the Zapper detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a lit target block — in others words, you should get a point because you hit a target. In the event of multiple targets, a white block is drawn around each potential target one at a time. The diode’s reception of light combined with the sequence of the drawing of the targets lets the computer know that you hit a target and which one it was. Of course, when you’re playing the game, you don’t notice the blackout and the targets flashing because it all happens in a fraction of a second.

My sleep tonight will be that much sounder, now that this has been settled. Now if we could just explain that Power Glove …

planetaryannihilation: Planetary Annihilation: Unit Scale...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:40:23 -0500

planetaryannihilation:

Planetary Annihilation: Unit Scale Render Tests

the-overlook-hotel: A deleted scene from the screenplay for The...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:01:47 -0500

the-overlook-hotel:

A deleted scene from the screenplay for The Shining, In which Jack shares with Wendy the scrapbook he has found in the basement.

The scrapbook, which figures prominently in Stephen King’s novel, was all but removed from the final cut of the film. However, many scenes involving the scrapbook were filmed, including this one, although Kubrick ultimately omitted it from the final cut.

The scene was staged on a couch in the middle of the Colorado Lounge, and would have fallen somewhere between the scene of Wendy and Danny exploring the hedge maze (while Jack seemingly watches), and the subsequent scene where Danny first tries opening the door to Room 237.

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ebtpearce: So close to finishing this batch of orders

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:51:12 -0500

ebtpearce:

So close to finishing this batch of orders

the-overlook-hotel: Screenplay for the deleted original ending...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:45:37 -0500

the-overlook-hotel:

Screenplay for the deleted original ending of The Shining. This hospital epilogue was originally at the end of the film, between the shot of Jack frozen in the snow and the long dolly shot through the lobby that ends on the July 4, 1921 framed photo.

Kubrick decided to remove the scene very shortly after the U.S. opening, sending assistants out into the field to excise the scene from the many prints showing in Los Angeles and New York City. All known copies of the scene were reportedly destroyed, although it is rumored that one surviving copy may exist.

Very little evidence of the hospital epilogue remains beyond some continuity polaroids and 35mm film trims housed in the Stanley Kubrick Archive. Evidence of how late in the process the scene was removed lives on in the form of two actors credited in the end credits: Burnell Tucker in the role of “Policeman” and Robin Pappas in the role of “Nurse”.

Kubrick’s co-screenwriter on The Shining, Diane Johnson, had this to say about the deleted epilogue:

Kubrick had filmed a final scene that was cut, where Wendy and Danny are recovering from the shock in a hospital and where Ullman visits them.

Kubrick felt that we should see them in the hospital so we would know that they were all right. He had a soft spot for Wendy and Danny and thought that, at the end of a horror film, the audience should be reassured that everything was back to normal.

theomeganerd: Metal Gear Solid ~ Lego Metal Gear Rex by Rags...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:58:50 -0500

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Metal Gear Solid ~ Lego Metal Gear Rex by Rags naRock

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samehat: Saul Bass’s storyboards for the famous “shower scene”...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:37:19 -0500

samehat:

Saul Bass’s storyboards for the famous “shower scene” in Psycho reads just like a horror manga, dang. Via this fantastic post on FilmmakerIQ

adactio: True Facts About Morgan Freeman (by zefrank1)

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:19:51 -0500

adactio:

True Facts About Morgan Freeman (by zefrank1)

seanhowe: Back when comics were a relatively small subculture,...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:50:39 -0500

seanhowe:

Back when comics were a relatively small subculture, the Comics Buyer’s Guide was like the New York Times of its world. Before there was an internet, this was how everyone kept up on news. The impact it had on me is immeasurable.

http://blog.comichron.com/2013/01/end-of-era-comics-buyers-guide-1971-2013.html

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petervidani: iOS should automatically create an album for screenshots.

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:19:08 -0500

petervidani:

iOS should automatically create an album for screenshots.