A fake, AI generated trailer in a world where Wes Anderson took on ‘Star Wars’. Just fantastic. I have nothing more to add.
Wow
Owen Wilson as Darth Vader
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Detail of The Madalorian’s Ship
Really awesome set of detailed drawings breaking down The Mandalorian’s Razor Crest space ship. Kotaku has reposted several of the drawings however the originals are from Max Degtyarev over on Behance.
With all the social distancing and stay at home orders happening, I have been meaning to fire up The Mandalorian and re-watch it again. May actually do that tonight.
Rethinking The Obi Wan vs. Darth Vader Fight
Pretty amazing re-work of the iconic Light Saber fight between Ben “Obi Wan” Kenobi and Darth Vader in the original Star Wars: A New Hope
For comparison purposes, here is the original
The reworked version is so much more compelling. The camera angles do a much better job of engaging the viewer in the urgency and passion of the battle. It makes you feel the hatred that Vader has. From another perspective, the mobility of Obi Wan in the remake is a bit of a stretch as I never felt that he was that nimble on his feet, but I?m willing to let that go.
Darth Vader Yule Log
Just in time for the holiday season, a “Yule Log” video of Darth Vader’s funeral. Even includes the obligatory visual of Luke at the start.
Just fire up your Apple TV or Interactive TV and you can discuss the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie while Darth Vader meets his maker.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
The new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer has been released in all its glory. T minus 56 days to go. I was able to watch it live when it was released at halftime of last night’s Giants disaster in Philadelphia. Watching it a few times afterwards on YouTube really helped put the nuggets of information into more perspective.
We were able to purchase tickets this morning, but not without some major troubles. The AMC Theaters website was crying bloody murder last night over the volume of traffic to the site. Supposedly, Fandango was not any better. It is not surprising as I doubt any tech company save Apple, Google, or Amazon could have handled what I would imagine was unprecedented levels of traffic trying to buy tickets.
Under two months until the re-boot of the Star Wars saga. I only hope that the movie can live up to the hype and expectations.
If you are interested in decorating your computer/device desktop with some Star Wars backgrounds, feel free to check out the Star Wars Desktop Wallpapers that I have created.
Watch All Six Star Wars Movies At The Same Time
Watch all six Star Wars episodes at the same time. Talk about overwhelming.
As one of the commenters on the YouTube page said THIS is why the internet was invented. :)
via Waxy Links
Map of the Star Wars Galaxy
A stunning and beautifully detailed map of the Star Wars galaxy, including the travel routes of the space ships color coded for each of the six Star Wars episodes. Also available without markings.
Save Tatooine
Mark Dermul, a big time Star Wars fan, has been taking the lead over the past few years in an effort to restore the Lars Homestead and other sites (including one of my favorites, the Moss Eisley Cantina) in Tunisia that were used to film the original Star Wars: A New Hope in 1979. Over the years, the sites have fallen into dis-repair so Mr. Dermul and other volunteers from around the world have baned together to fix these sites.
More about the project can be found at the Save Lars site.
Don’t Be A (Phantom) Menace
I went with my son to see Star Wars: The Phantom Menace yesterday on the big screen and in 3D. And to no one’s surprise, the movie has not gotten any better with the new effects. Menace is easily the worst of the three “prequels” and wins by a nose over the whole Ewok thing from “Return of the Jedi”.
When movies are re-released with new bells and whistles, its always interesting to recollect about what people’s initial reaction was to the movie, to see if time has healed any wounds or opened new ones. With Menace, neither is the case. This release of Phantom Menace is, daresay, a little worse than the original because you have to watch the movie with the stupid 3D glasses on and cringe at the way a movie franchise that SHOULD have been built for 3D demonstrated no redeeming enhancements from the visual effect that felt like it was hacked into the master copy using iMovie.
As in 1999, the one element of awesomeness in this movie is Darth Maul. From an original review of Phantom Menace in 1999, this snippet from Eric Davis at Movies.com sums his presence up:
Darth Maul was — and still is — the greatest thing about Episode I. He’s scary and menacing, and you’re frightened by him. The dude rocks a duel lightsaber, which totally kicked my world’s ass when I first witnessed the ferociously-paced fight scene between Maul, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon — perhaps the film’s greatest sequence — and one of the best Star Wars lightsaber battles the series has to offer.
You are begging and pleading for more of him in this movie…maybe some “never before seen” fight sequences that look stunningly awesome in 3D…something, anything to expand his presence in the movie and make it worthy of the epic series it is part of. But alas, we are stuck with Nute Gunray and a Senatorial debate over taxes that apes those in this Galaxy.
I’ll just stick with the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, thank you very much.
Make Your Franklin
Make Your Franklin is a community creative project out of France where some folks redesigned the old “C” note. Some really interesting designs, including a few slightly NSFW. Clearly my personal favorite is the one above. :)
Potential Gladwell Books
Silly and funny site – The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator – spits out new best selling book covers inspired by the famous author.
Star Wars Typography
The Italian agency H-57 created several illustrations of Star Wars characters that is using different typography to render Yoda, Vader and a Stormtrooper.
Blueprints For The Millennium Falcon
The design and engineering blueprints for the Millennium Falcon. I always thought the main area where Luke hung out and battled the floating orb was closer to the cockpit. In the movie, it also seemed like a much longer run from the doors to the cockpit.
Via Jalopnik.
Let The Force Guide You
TomTom, the company that makes in car GPS systems, has Star Wars voices available for their devices. So now you can have C-3PO, Yoda, Han Solo or Darth Vader guide you to your destination. They have some pretty amusing video clips on their site of the “recording sessions” with Darth Vader and Yoda. Only issue I see is that GPS navigation systems are now getting baked into smartphones, so how long will it be before Google Navigation develops an API to enable anyone to create voices to download to your smartphone?
Star Wars Uncut
Star Wars: Uncut is an online project where the original Star Wars movie has been broken down into :15 increments. From there, folks from around the Web and world then submit their own video depicting that scene. The final product is a mash up of all the best submissions for each scene edited together to create the full length depiction of the movie. Just brilliant and awesome!! Here is a clip of a preview of the movie, which will be premiered at a film festival in Copenhagen.
Lego Star Wars Droid Control Ship
A guy named Paul Yperman spent the past two years constructing a scale model of the Star Wars Droid Control Ship from scratch, using schematics he found in a Star Wars Cross Sections book in a bookstore.
He found a software on the Internet that helped him figure out the orb in the middle and then he continued from there. 30,000 pieces later and 2 years of building, he was finished. The God sent idea was finally done, and as a result, he constructed one of the worlds most elaborate Star Wars LEGO creations. Forget the small 200 piece builds you can buy off the shelf. This one was carefully executed and took some custom ordering to fit the purpose.
This is just another amazing example of the super cool things that can be built with Lego.
Why The Internet Rocks – Reason 4504
Recently, my 6 year old son acquired an old Lego set from the Star Wars line – the old Millennium Falcon set from 2004. Problem was that it was acquired from a school thrift sale, meaning the set was used, it was in a brown box and not in the original packaging, and the instructions were nowhere to be found. We (OK, my son) decided that we wanted to start building it today but with no instructions, this would prove to be quite the challenge. With about 5 minutes worth of searching, with relative ease we were able to find the instructions booklet online. Click, download the PDF, and we’re in business. Yet another reason why the Internet rocks.
Star Wars In The Right Order
Today was one of those great parenting days, Yes, today, my kids watched Star Wars for the first time.
Earlier this year, I took my son to see the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie (not one of the finer products out of LucasFilms), and ever since, he’s been completely obsessed with the franchise.
After picking up the multi-disc set from the Library, doing a little prep work (“There are no animations. There are real people in these movies.”), we sat down this morning in our post-Thanksgiving sloth to enjoy the show. While tempted to have a 14 hour Star Wars marathon, we held back and just watched the first one.
And here is where the debate begins…which one is really the first one? There has been much animated discourse on which order do you show your kids these movies – theatrical release order (Episodes 4,5,6,1,2,3) or numerical order?
I decided that he should view the series in the theatrical release order since the original three movies are easily the best of the bunch (even though Jedi introduced us to Ewoks) and I felt that seeing them in the theatrical order is how Lucas intended us to experience the story – getting thrown right into the middle of the story via Star Wars: A New Hope (IV).
One day, I may take the time to watch them in numerical order to see if it changes my perspective on the series. That way, at least I’d be able to get Jar Jar Binks out of the way early.
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