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hubble on the imax

mock — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:37:46 +0000

i was sitting through the previews of avatar and caught the 3-D clip of an upcoming presentation of the shuttle launch serving hubble for the final time in may of 2009. nasa shot the presentation using imax 3-D cameras. this will debut spring 2010. (http://imax.com/hubble/)

this happens to be the shuttle mission which i got to witness the launch in person. not only did i get to see the launch with my own eyeballs but with this presentation i get to see the up close and 3-D personal of the entire mission on the really big screen. awesome!

christmas avatar

mock — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:09:45 +0000

christmas 2009 seemed shorter and less like christmas this year than in the past. maybe it was because i felt like i was doing so much as soon as thanksgiving ended until christmas or maybe it was that i didn’t start my traditional christmas music until after our christmas musical, but it was different than past years. we’ll see how christmas goes next year.

i am planning on seeing avatar tomorrow with some pals. i caught this clip on the fox movie channel about the making of the movie. it is actually ironic, i think, that the plot of the movie involves an avatar and the making of the characters as avatars was very similar to the same approach. watch the video below to see how the cg animation is a direct modeling of the actors’ actual acting.

the whole story

mock — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:55:05 +0000

this weekend, i sat down with my friend tara who had only seen the original star wars movie and watched all the movies in story order from beginning to end including the animated (not cg) clone wars.

we started on friday evening with the first two episodes. i came back the next morning to pick up with “the clone wars” which lead right up to episode three. we finally finished up around 10:00p saturday night. i don’t remember every watching the original three (episodes four, five, and six) in one sitting because that would have been too much. this was different since tara didn’t know the back story. watching with someone who hasn’t seen is much more fun. even though “i’m your father” was not a surprise to her, a couple of other aspects were: following palpatine as the emperor and finding lando to betray han.

bacon bread for saturday morning and chili in the afternoon fueled us for the weekend event. and for those who are going to ask (and probably whine about it in the comments), we watched the revised versions of the “new hope,” “empire,” and “jedi.” i do have the versions of those movies in their original theatrical releases. the updated versions include some extra scenes edited in which i tend to favor.

i had a good feeling about this. it was a fun weekend.

quantum of nasa

mock — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:20:50 +0000

just got through seeing the latest bond movie. i like how they are producing these films. less cheese, less comic book, more action, more character development. as long as they don’t end up back how they were making the movies before, it will continue to be good stuff.

after bond, i went to stir fry café for some sushi and to do a little christmas shopping. and after that, i’m headed home to put up the christmas tree and watch the shuttle endeavour launch.

and that is how my half day off ends up.