Happy Time Travelling Day

As today is the day when Marty McFly arrives in the future (or present as it is now - at least until tomorrow) I thought it might be fun to reference back to the only thing that makes Titanic a bearable film...the fact that it is a prequel to Terminator.

If Jack hadn't saved Rose then the ship would have turned around in search for her, thereby avoiding the collision with the iceberg...and all the things that would have entailed from that.

Obviously Jack's mission was to save Rose - presumably she's somehow related to Sarah Connor - and unfortunately 1500 people die in the collateral damage.

Don't believe me, go read the thread on Reddit 

I particularly like the idea that Jack is really The Doctor rescuing a relation to a future potential companion...Rose... :-)

Now scientists have searched for time travellers making comments on social media, apparently without success. But then again time travellers might have very strict rules about such things...as seen in the 1992 film Timescape.

However there is evidence that Twitter featured on the cover of Amiga magazine in April 1988! Well, not quite..but you never know...

Anyway, next week's lottery numbers are 4,7,14,19,22,34 ... I think, sorry can't read my handwriting...

...oh, and I shouldn't say this, but next week James Cameron told me last week he was a time traveller....

#ICanChangeThePast2
#ICannotChangeThePast2

2001 again...

James Maynard Gelinas' blogpost on "Underground Research Initiative" entitled
2001: A Space Odyssey - Discerning Themes through Score and Imagery is a 22,000 word essay about the film 2001 and one certainly as worth reading as watching Kubrik's masterpiece.

In the 50 years since its release, while special effects have improved, the sheer grandeur of the film from many angles, especially that of science, has not diminished.

I can't say anything more other than what is already written in Gelinas' article, maybe than we got Facebook and Twitter instead, which given the effect of the Monolith in later books in Clarke's series might have been a good thing (though it seems that while 3001 told us how to destroy a Monolith, another movie used the idea - and a Macintosh - aliens (and humans too), beware of iPods).

OK, if I do add something, in 2001 you're probably going to see the best portrayal of a computer in any film (including ones using Macintoshes).

Maybe I should lobby Finnkino to show it on their number one screen in Helsinki....

Cassini Saturn Fly-by Movie

This is incredible! A movie of one of Cassini's Saturn fly-bys from Astronomy Picture of the Day.


5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.

And if Cassini wasn't enough, she did manage to release Huygens too...

London to Brighton by train

Interesting comparison, the 1953 version besides the 1980's:

Iron Sky

Vertigo...

If you didn't suffer from vertigo, you will after this....climbing a transmission tower...

Free Software and a Movie

This is impressive - an "free/open source" produced movie -



all produced using Blender - read more at the Sintel pages. Move over Pixar!

Pixels

Clever little movie this - quite like the 2001 touch at the very end.


PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
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