Lifesized Stormtrooper-Cake
Oakleaf Cakes haben für die Arisia Sci-Fi Convention in Boston einen Stormtrooper-Kuchen in Lebensgröße gebacken und erklären in einem Blogposting mit Bildergalerie, wie’s geht:
The building of the Stormtrooper cake was an epic event in and of itself. It took our entire wonderful crew of ten people two full weeks of to put this guy together (although the cake wasn’t added until 2 days before it was to be served). Along the way we even had to invent completely new cake making methods so it could be put together modularly onsite, hold its fondant over long vertical stretches, and stand on two beautifully sculpted Rice Kripsy legs that supported his 300 lb body –all while keeping every bit of cake tasting light, fluffy, and delicious!
We built a life-size Stormtrooper and he was delicious (via Boing Boing)
Den weggeschmatzten Trooper gibt’s nach dem Klick.
Surfing Trooperess on Fiji
Im Sommer hatte ich über André, den Surfing Stormtrooper auf Weltreise gebloggt. Der war nicht alleine unterwegs, sondern hatte seine Trooperess mit dabei und jetzt hat er mir den Originalshot seines letzten Postings geschickt. Lucky Bastard!
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Surfing Stormtrooper
Surfing Trooper in Fiji
Stormtrooper at Machu Picchu, Peru
Nikon D5100 Star Wars-Hack
Flickr-User MartinSK2011 hat die Firmware der Nikon D5100 gehackt und gestarwased. Ich selbst habe eine D5000 und glaube, dass die kompatibel sind… ich werd’s aber nicht ausprobieren.
Nikon’s firmware got decrypted last month, and now an unofficial firmware for Nikon DSLRs has emerged. Rather than offer useful adjustments, the firmware is purely for geekiness: it gives Nikon D5100 DSLRs a Star Wars theme.
Here’s a list of new menu items and the text they replaced:
Holocron – Playback menu
Weapon System – Shooting menu
Super Stardestroyer – Custom Setting menu
Hyperdrive – Setup Menu
Go to Dagobah Luke – Format Memory Card
Death Star Codes – Firmware Version
A Jedi? – Update? (new update screen)
(help: StarWars v1.01)
The Cantina – Retouch Menu
My Menu – unchanged
Dark side of force! – Subject is too dark
Light side of force! – Subject is too light
Nikon D5100 Gets Unofficial “Star Wars”-Themed Firmware Update
Christian Nuts: Star Wars-Figures can be demonic!
Youtube Direktdemons, via Cyn-C
Dieser Gentleman erzählt uns, dass Star Wars-Figuren von satanischen Dämonen besessen sein können. Das erklärt einiges. Von Youtube:
Yes, I have a sick obsession with watching low budget Christian television. I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I know I’m not alone!
Episode 6: Star Wars, Smurfs, Pokemon, Harry Potter
Advocating book burning, homophobia, Ouija boards cause birth defects – this episode presents a true potpourri of superstitious fundamentalism. I’ve tried to tone down my picard-palming as requested (it’s a challenge), and am experimenting with some new techniques… on-going process.
In response to some comments: This isn’t parody or trolling, these people are completely serious.
Where Everybody Knows Your Name…
Youtube Direktcheers, via Neatorama
Ich hab’ in meinem Leben noch keine Folge von „Cheers“ gesehen, aber das Mashup hier mag ich. Also: The Force-Supercut.
Sits Dark Vader
Beim meisten, was mir so an „Geek-Art“ begegnet, rollen sich mir ja die Fußzehen hoch. Die Illu/Foto-Serie Dark Vader von Sit kann aber was, genauso wie sein restliches Portfolio. (via cpluv)
Chewbaca Babydoll
Adrie Stoetes creepige Realdolls hatte ich hier schonmal irgendwann, jetzt verkauft sie auf Ebay obigen Chewbaca . Die anderen Puppen auf den Bildern sollen übrigens Luke, Han und Leia sein. (via Neatorama)
Stormtrooper at Machu Picchu, Peru
André, der Surfing Stormtrooper, war zuletzt in Peru am Machu Picchu und hat sich angesehen, wie andere gefallene Imperien das so gemacht haben, damals.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Surfing Stormtrooper
Surfing Trooper in Fiji
Radiohead and 394 Floppys playing the Imperial March
Vor mehr als drei Jahren bloggte ich obiges Cover von Radioheads „Nude“, gespielt von einem Sinclair ZX Spectrum, einem Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer, einem HP Scanjet 3c und ein paar Hard Drives. Seitdem ist für mich das Thema „Musik auf alter Hardware“ durch, danach kam nie wieder etwas, das auch nur halb so gut gewesen wäre.
Deshalb blogge ich auch garantiert kein Video von zwei Floppys, die den Imperial March von Star Wars spielen. Ich blogge zehn Videos von Floppys, die den Imperial March spielen. Das „aktuellste“, das grade rumgeht, ganz oben, neun weitere mit genau demselben Dings. Same same, no difference.
Turkish Punk vs Turkish Star Wars
Marc von Dangerous Minds hat den türkischen SciFi-Trash „Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam“, besser bekannt als „Turkish Star Wars“, mit einem neuen Soundtrack aus türkischem Punk, Post-Punk und New Wave hinterlegt: „Turkish punk, new wave, no wave, psychedlia and hard rock vs. Turkish Star Wars (The Man Who Saved The World).“ Gran-di-os, fantastische Idee!
Der Flyer ganz oben stammt vom Projekt Filmmusik, die live neue Soundtracks zu alten Klassikern spielenen, den kompletten Film im Original gibt’s auf Google Video, aus dem Infotext von dort:
Turkish-made film commonly known as Turkish Star Wars because of its notorious bootlegging of Star Wars film clips worked into the film. Released in 1982, Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam was created in Turkey caught in the midst of massive political upheaval. As a result, American-made films were not easily acquired and were often remade with a Turkish cast and setting. The musical soundtrack is entirely lifted from Western film hits of the time, primarily using Raiders of the Lost Ark. There are also scenes incorporating the music of Moonraker, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes and Disney’s The Black Hole. Film’s considered the worst ever.
Die Tracklist nach dem Klick.
Tatooine found on Hoth
[update] Hier ein NASA-Video inklusive Luke:
(Youtube Direkttatooine, danke Marco!)
Astronomen haben einen Exoplaneten gefunden, der in der Goldilocks Zone um ein Doppelgestirn kreist. Sie nennen ihn inoffiziell tatsächlich Tatooine. I kid you not.
It is the first planet, astronomers say, that has been definitely shown to be orbiting two stars at once, circling at a distance of some 65 million miles a pair of stars that are themselves circling each other much more closely. A team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft announced the discovery on Thursday in a paper published online in the journal Science and in a talk at a conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
The official name of the new planet is Kepler 16b, but astronomers are already referring to it informally as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke and Anakin Skywalker in the George Lucas “Star Wars” movies, which also had two suns. Indeed, a representative from Mr. Lucas’s production company, Lucasfilm, expected to participate in a news conference at NASA’s Ames Research Laboratory in California, Kepler’s home office.
“Reality has finally caught up with science fiction,” said Alan P. Boss of the Carnegie Institution, a member of the research team.
NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars (via MeFi)
Und vom Discover Magazine: Astronomers discover a wretched hive of scum and villainy
Kepler-16b is cold: the temperature at its cloud tops (assuming it’s a gas giant like Saturn) would be at best -70°C (-100°F).
So any visions you have of Luke Skywalker standing in the desert with his leg resting on a rock while he wistfully watches the two suns set in the west may have to wait. Even if the planet has a big moon (which these observations cannot yet detect) conditions there would be a bit chillier than on Tatooine. More like Hoth.
DIY Han Solo Blaster-Lötkolben
Da willste nix mehr über Star Wars bloggen, weil George Lucas die BluRay grandios verkackt hat, schon poppen zwei mehr als nette Items im Feedreader auf. Was will man machen. Craig Smith hat als Kind jedenfalls den Lötkolben seines Papas gefetzt und das Innenleben davon in seinen Han Solo-Blaster eingebaut. Und der funktioniert. WANT!
Außerdem erklärt Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Ward anhand des Todessterns, warum big ass Militärbudgets zum Scheitern verurteilt sind:
Meet the biggest cautionary tale in the world of defense procurement: the Death Star. Thanks to the Pentagon’s in-house acquisition journal, Defense AT&L Magazine — not usually a venue for fan fic — we have a detailed explanation as to why. Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Ward provides a nerdy-but-accurate examination of the Empire’s acquisition flaws in building the moon-sized death ray:
In the Star Wars universe, robots are self-aware, every ship has its own gravity, Jedi Knights use the Force, tiny green Muppets are formidable warriors and a piece of junk like the Millennium Falcon can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. But even the florid imagination of George Lucas could not envision a project like the Death Star coming in on time, on budget.
George Lucas on Altering Movies, 1988
Lucasfilms hat die Änderungen an den Star Wars-Filmen, inklusive Darth Vaders „No! Nooo!“ am Ende von ROTJ, bestätigt (via Daniel), meine Vorbestellung der BluRay hatte ich ohnehin gestern morgen bereits gecancelt. Derweil hat /Film dieses Zitat von George Lucas aus den Archiven gekramt. Es stammt aus einer Rede von Lucas vor dem Amerikanischen Kongress am 3. März 1988, als die Diskussion um die Coloration von Schwarz/Weiß-Filmen bis in die Politik reichte.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as “when life begins” or “when it should be appropriately terminated,” but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race.
These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with “fresher faces,” or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved.
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
