From one of our internal mailing lists, witness the mighty translating skills displayed in this illegal copy of Episode III. It’s strangely compelling.
[tags]Engrish,Illegal DVD,Bad Movie,Bad Translation[/tags]
Addendum: The more I think about this, the more hilarious it gets. The film was already in English. They went to the trouble of adding these subtitles. In English. Just who are these subtitles for?
During lunch today, we had a preview screening of the new French sci-fi film Renaissance (2006), I posted this review on imdb.com:
I highly recommend this film. Set in the Bladerunner-esquire future of2054 Paris, it is in most respect a classic film noir script: lady in peril, sister trying to find her, honest cop fighting everyone. Luckily, it avoids being stereotypical, and combines a pretty good storyline with interesting, innovative visuals. The film might remind you of Sin City in look, but it has an even sharper, even more graphic novel look that I found really compelling. Each frame, each sequence seems like it could have been pulled from the desk of a skilled graphic designer. In terms of story and artwork, you can find nods going back to the nineteen forties (or even earlier with the classic views of the Eiffel Tower and Sacre Couer) and movies like Casablanca, as well as looking toward a grim future where our destines are ruled by corporations. Make any excuse you need to see this film.
Here is the official website, mostly in French which is too rapid for my old brain to decipher in realtime, but it includes some “making of” footage that demonstrates the motion capture process they used on the film. I’ll have to dig into it more to see how they did it.
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
[tags]Moments in Time[/tags]
Today I had a bit of spare time, and so created a new avatar for myself using inkscape and an old photo. It’s not too bad, even if I do say so myself, and in theory I can even make it work in SVG format. Fun.
[tags]Inkscape,Art,Avatar[/tags]
Addendum: Learn how to do it here.
I don’t know why Wesley Elberry’s weblog hasn’t gotten onto my reading list before, but today I found an interesting article detailing how ID luminary William Dembski decided to call the Department of Homeland Security on a scientists solely on the basis of the rather curious assertion of Forrest Mimms (yeah, the guy who wrote all those Radio Books) that the scientist was telling fellow scientists to create airborn strains of Ebola to wipe out 90% of the world’s population. It’s just too bizarre for words (at least mine), so go ahead and read the who deal below:
The Austringer » Now in the “Do As We Say, Not As We Do†Dept.
[tags]Evolution,Intelligent Design,Dembski,Mimms[/tags]
Let’s face it, finding a Good April Fool’s Day gag is pretty much like trying to find diamonds: you process tons of ore in a gritty, tedious, mind-numbingly boring search for that one gleaming nugget which stands as the epitome of comic genius.
I submit that search engines are very bad at finding comedy, so instead I’ll just ask all of you: if you find a truly worthy April Fool’s gag, send it to me at brainwagon at gmail dot com or simply post it to the comments of this post, and I’ll check it out.
[tags]April Fools,Humor Wanted[/tags]