Geek Chic

Check this out:

It’s a commercial (for Phillips TVs), yes, but a brilliant one.  Adam Berg, through some amazing combination of CGI and live-action filming (and maybe some still photography?) basically constructed an uninterrupted tracking shot to rival the one at the beginning of Touch of Evil (rival, perhaps, but not beat — considering that shot was a minute longer and was shot on film with no digital trickery).

I have no idea how Berg did it, but it’s pretty cool.  And like the opening of Touch, it’s a self-contained story.  I like it.

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This video just takes my breath away:

I can’t even imagine how many collective broken bones these guys have between them. But the outcome is unbelievable.

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Isn’t Lando a handsome devil?

I’d like to sing the praises of this man for just a minute.  Who else could’ve played Harrison Ford’s old buddy / president of a cloudy oasis planet / Ewok air support commander Lando Calrissian with quite as much flair as this guy.  Certainly not Mark Hamil….

What ever happened to dear old Billy Dee?  He was great as Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s Batman.  Then POOF!  Nothing.

Maybe it was that after playing Harvey Dent in the first one, he thought he’d get to play Harvey Two-Face in ‘That Horrible Batman Movie We’d All Like to Forget.’  As it turned out, no.  That dubious honor was handed to other three-namer, Tommy Lee Jones, who chewed up the scenery like a termite.

Did that leave him with such a bad taste in his mouth that he left the screen forever?  Did the industry just lose interest and relegate him to various TV and video game appearances (basically, the actor’s graveyard)?  Or is he, as we speak, staging a comeback?  Only time will tell.

In the meantime, here: let Billy Dee sell you some Colt 45.  It’ll make him (and you) feel better.

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From Silicon Alley Insider:

Hulu iPhone App Coming Soon, ‘Badass’

Sweet!!!

I like this.  Like a first-person-shooter but without the violence:

The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Thanks FormFiftyFive

Kacie Kinzer, a student at Tisch in NYC, is working on a cool project called Tweenbots — little unmanned robots that can only move forward, but which have a destination that’s not in a straight line, and therefore depend on human interaction to get where they’re going (in this case, from the northwest corner to the southeast corner of Washington Square Park ).

Watch what happens:

Check out her site to get the full story.

And thanks, It’s Nice That.

I’m sure this has been floating around the interwebs for awhile now, but I just found it this morning and I think a) it’s hilarious and b) whoever did the editing has both a ridiculous amount of skill and an unbelievably large amount of time on his or her hands.

Without further ado Geek Chic is proud to  present the Bert and Ernie / M.O.P mash up:

What’s funny about the whole thing, I think, is that their voices line up better in this edited fake ‘music video’ than they do on Sesame Street (from what I can recall…).

For more kids show/Rap mash ups, see Unreality