A really rather excellent sixth scale representation of Peter Cushing’s Star Wars character from A New Hope, digitally reprised in Rogue One (complete with high backed chair and three interchangeable sets of hands).
€200 from action figure supremos Hot Toys.
Previously: Your Iron Man 3 Action Figures Have Arrived
St Peter & Paul’s Church, Athlone.
Ah here. Everyone knows Frank’s a Jedi.
(Thanks Nick Moran)
Above: the Grand Hotel de l’Europe in Bad Gastein, Austria; Stadt-Bad Gotha in Gotha, Germany; Spadina road, Toronto; Hotel Polonia in Warsaw; Hamble-Warsash Ferry Shelter in Hampshire; Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare, England; a door in Kiev, Ukraine; a conference Room in North Korea and (our favourite) a VW van in Berlin by Ulfar Loga.
A subtreddit in which people from around the world post images of places that aren’t, but could easily be film sets from Wes Anderson films.
The Apprehension Engine – an instrument for generating sounds for horror movies, designed by composer Mark Korven (who was tired of digital sampling and wanted something more experimental and acoustic) and constructed by guitar maker Tony Duggan Smith. Korven sez:
A normal instrument, you are playing it and expecting it to have a sound that is pleasing but with an instrument like this, the goal is to produce sounds, that in this case, are disturbing.
Here’s the full effect…
https://vimeo.com/184366394
Now it all makes sense.
A well crafted trailer for a film that doesn’t exist. Or does it?
Youtuber themanbatman sez:
A lot of time has passed since the first three pieces of this project. A lot of new material has surfaced. This is me scratching an itch. :)
A compilation by video artist Roman Holiday of title drops: scenes from 150 films where a character or characters say the actual name of the film.
The trailer for Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) recut by Mashable Watercooler as a comedy wherein Jonesy wreaks adorable havoc on board the Nostromo.
