If you haven’t seen Firefly, it is not the kind of show you rent, it is the kind of show you buy. I’ve shown it to fans of science fiction, westerns, romance, comedy, drama, it doesn’t matter, they’ve all loved it. Unlike a lot of my DVD shelf, Firefly gets played over and over again. It is universal and a must own for anyone who is a fan of good story telling.
guillee:
Guido Núñez-Mujica, a 26-year-old Boing Boing reader in Venezuela who is an avid gamer, writes in with this extensive personal observation piece about a new law that widely criminalizes video games in the South American country. As you read the piece, please also bear in mind that publishing this sort of thing under one’s full name is not done without personal risk.
These games are a cherished part of my life, they helped to shape my young mind, they gave me challenges and vastly improved my English, opening the door to a whole new world of literature, music and people from all around the world. What I have achieved, all my research, how I have been able to travel even though I’m always broke, the hard work I’ve done to convince people to fund a start up for cheap biotech for developing countries and regular folks, none of that would have been possible hadn’t I learned English through video games.
Now, thanks to the tiny horizons of the cast of morons who govern me, thanks to the stupidity and ham-fisted authoritarianism of the local authorities, so beloved of so many liberals, my 7 year old brother’s chances to do the same could be greatly impacted.
Do me a favor and go read his essay. It’s not just about video games.
“Yesterday I was explaining to my little brother how any computer could in theory, emulate another computer, and how that made it possible to play really old games (Older than him!) on his DS. I was explaining what a terminal window and a program were and how I converted videos to a format that his DS can understand. And he was thrilled, his eyes lit with pleasure, technology was a bridge that got us closer. If we blindly follow the copyright and video game forbidding laws, we won’t be able to do this anymore, and he will stop learning as much as he could gaming and hacking, finding his way to talk to machines to get them to do what he needs.”
This is my fave quote from this, and so very true. Copyright laws are insane, the situation in Venezuela is ridiculous. I hope they can do something about this idiocy!
In most horror movies there are scenes that take you out of the movie; things you just don’t believe or are flat-out ridiculous or cheesy. Not so in Alien; the movie’s immaculate reality is utterly untarnished…you believe it from beginning to end because the performances, pacing, sets and special effects all combine to create a believable atmosphere of growing terror.
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A post by the user hafabee on the IMDb Alien Message Board. Such a brilliant thread, and we need to have a great horror classic again, like Alien. Soon!
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My favorite scenes in the film are the quieter ones, with people just talking or doing little things, like Brett stepping into the shower of water or Ripley chasing after Jones the Cat. The real reason to admire the film is because of the totality of it’s vision, and the way that the production design creates a very real world within the film that is complete.
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An excellent post by the user Squonkamatic on the IMDb message board of Alien. You can read more of this here.
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dbsw:
Stop Motion at it’s best.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Behind-the-scenes (via MoviePictureDB)
via travors
One of the most impressive SFX feats ever.
browncoats:
Browncoats have infiltrated Google:
Firefly Reference on Google Wave: I SEE WHAT YOU DID THAR.
(submitted by mimisaurus)
In fact, Wave itself was inspired by Firefly :-)))))))
Tumblr search: I figured it out!
In one of my previous posts, I comlained about the new search engine. A few days ago, a revelation came and… voilá:
If you put “+” between your keywords, you’ll find everything. Doesn’t work with space, works with “+”. Let me give you an example:
“copyright ridiculous”
Wrong! You won’t get anything!
“copyright+ridiculous”
There you go! (Without the quotation marks though, obviously (duh))
Hope that helps!
Oh, and the fact that it doesn’t work with space and it used to, is ridiculous. What’s next? Google?
(via fuckyeahfirefly)
It could totally work! Do it already!!! :D
OMG, this is soo funny and sad at the same time…
random-deinography:
Agressive marketing.
I’m imagining this with a kickin’ “Yo-yo-yo” background vocal track. Kinda sick :-)
crystalliferous:
drunkymcgamblingproblem:sati1984:
Oh, this is just brilliant and WONDERFUL!
Although I don’t like Castle, this made my eyes teary…
BRING IT BACK! Please, please, please, ABC or Syfy or any other network, BUY THOSE DAMN RIGHTS FROM FOX ALREADY!!!
How awesome was this? He even says “space cowboy”.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Nathan Fillion is the biggest Firefly fanboy that ever existed!
Yeah, actually he is (But I think I’m close :-)), and I can bet this was his idea!
Oh, this is just brilliant and WONDERFUL!
Although I don’t like Castle, this made my eyes teary…
BRING IT BACK! Please, please, please, ABC or Syfy or any other network, BUY THOSE DAMN RIGHTS FROM FOX ALREADY!!!
My Equilibrium music video. It’s still up! Wonderful!!! :-)
