At 3:30, close-up on the flag: "And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made."

Chilling.

Why can't they get the one made by WETA.

http://nzgamer.com/x360/features/618/close-up-wetas-warthog-part-1.html

I never liked her as Cat woman...
>> ^Kalle:

Ohh I miss Michelle Pfeiffer..

>> ^soulmonarch:

That outfit simply cannot be comfortable.


her pants look so uncomfortable that they made mine uncomfortable too

>> ^residue:

it's still weird seeing this stuff happening where I live.. I was sitting in the coffee shop last week and one of the directors was sitting beside me talking on his phone about the stunt doubles..


Chris Nolan?

There's a footage of Catwoman crashing into an IMAX camera.

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/02/close-up-photo-of-fire-breathing-pony.html on the internals!

Here is a closeup of the pony via Boing Boing.

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/02/close-up-photo-of-fire-breathing-pony.html

>> ^ForgedReality:

>> ^pho3n1x:
>> ^ForgedReality:
I wanna see that bullshit at :16. Somebody find that video. I guarantee that fucker isn't gunna blend a crowbar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifzdez7FRbk

Yeah I found this momentarily after posting that, but it doesn't show a close-up like in the intro to this video. Regardless, it just tends to shed some doubt on the honesty of this whole ad campaign. "Hey let's show this crowbar and make it look like we actually tried to blend one," and they even avoided doing it for that video.
I mean, sure, obviously it won't blend a crowbar, but then why have misleading shit like that? Why claim these magnets are really hard when in fact they're not? What else am I going to find that's questionable about this company's claims if I go looking?
Meh.


I too, was disappointed, but that's the only source material I could find.

>> ^pho3n1x:

>> ^ForgedReality:
I wanna see that bullshit at :16. Somebody find that video. I guarantee that fucker isn't gunna blend a crowbar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifzdez7FRbk


Yeah I found this momentarily after posting that, but it doesn't show a close-up like in the intro to this video. Regardless, it just tends to shed some doubt on the honesty of this whole ad campaign. "Hey let's show this crowbar and make it look like we actually tried to blend one," and they even avoided doing it for that video.

I mean, sure, obviously it won't blend a crowbar, but then why have misleading shit like that? Why claim these magnets are really hard when in fact they're not? What else am I going to find that's questionable about this company's claims if I go looking?

Meh.

>> ^captmorgano:

Hypnotizing in full screen.


agreed! really great vid, I especially like the side by side comparisons at different color temperatures. I also like how the gravity lines are shown really clearly and the plasma tornado, holy crap, that's got to be bigger than the earth.

I agree and disagree with Louis on this.

The supporting the local stores over the small difference in price on goods, but when it comes to the larger chains actually giving you the service you want over the older stores not, then we diverge.

I'm not going to have a worse experience and continue to support a local store purely on the basis of them being a local store, when I could be getting what I want (the latest release movie when I actually want to watch it) from a chain.

Now, the video store is becoming an arcane example, because who the hell actually uses them anymore, but the thought behind it remains. You don't get worse service, lower quality goods, or not the goods you want purely to support a local store.

What local stores have to have is a point of difference, and when he starts talking about book stores, there's a perfect example. The big chain stores have all the 'latest' and 'popular' books, but they don't have a depth of range. Have a store that specializes in a genre (childrens/education, fantasy/sci fi, literature) and then overlay on that a wonderful experience (great feel to the store, reading areas, friendly staff) and you may have to weather an initial drop in sales when the big store comes into town, but I bet it'll come back again when people get over the excitement of the new store and realize that they can't find the books they really want in it. (I know that this 'weathering' time is quite possibly not realistic financially for a lot of stores, and that's a horrible thing).

Supporting a store purely based on it being local is ridiculous. Supporting a store because they provide you with things you can't get at another store (even if that other thing is a 'Hi Bob' when you come into the store) is why you go to shops.

Now, stories like his coffee story make me sad. Because there is a business with a point of difference that didn't make it.

That shits me, people going 'meh, Starbucks is good enough, I'll go there instead of crossing the street'.

Starbucks is shit coffee, they closed most of the stores they opened here in Australia because we like our f*cking coffee (Especially here in Melbourne... man, we sell espresso coffee everywhere, hardware stores, plant nurseries, book shops, clothing stores) and it didn't take that long for most of the Starbucks to close up and die because people realised their coffee was shit. So having a good coffee place closed down by Starbucks definitely speaks to me of consumers who are dumbass shits who will just put up with any old crap over quality just to save a few cents or avoid crossing a street.

Well, fuck them, they deserve the shit they get.

>> ^peggedbea:

i definitely want something faster to access than a laptop, ill get phone calls from people who want appointments while im shopping for groceries or picking my kids up from camp, i want to be able to open the calendar app quickly and book an appointment. also when im checking clients out at my wellness center and i have to wait for 3 other people who work out of there to check out their clients before i can use the comp to check my client out and see my schedule to book their next appointment.... and i see a laptop being too bulky to set on a dresser and play ambient music during sessions.
and gaahhh the ridiculousness of CD's that get lost, or scratched or borrowed (i don't mind sharing, it's just that they always seem to return scratched)... so sure i could get an ipod, but id rather just buy one gadget to take care of everything...
also, sometimes at night when i'm closing up or batching out or whatever i like to sit in the floor and figure out what stock i have/need, how much money i have/owe/made that day, what percentage of it i want to reinvest and what new equipment i'd like to get when its time... instead of doing that with tons of tiny pieces of paper and my shitty memory to rely on, i think a tablet in my lap with my bank accounts and quick books and schedule and the websites of my suppliers on it would minimize my time at work.
im so ridiculously right brained i have to work super hard to stay organized and on top of my business so i don't revert to my ways of winging it on the fly and crash my business into the ground or get so stressed out by all the psychic clutter that i burn it all down catharticly
also, how reliable is it in terms of memory? am i going to overload it making it play music and book appointments all day? is it going to crash in the middle of my last session and force me to pull out the 1990's technology?
>> ^dag:
Laptops are just so damn cheap these days, it's true - and generally a lot more functionality than a tablet.
The benefit of a tablet over a laptop for me are two things:
1. Form factor - I can take it to bed and read it like a book, whip it out on the bus - or in economy class seats on a plane - with a lot less fuss than a laptop.
2. Quickness - I don't mean processor speed, I mean just getting to a bit of functionality that I need at that moment. If I want to open a calendar app on a laptop, I need to open up the laptop, wait for it to unhibernate- hunt for the app and then wait for it to launch. About a minute to do that. Versus about 10 seconds on tablet.



A big part of this for you is how the thing feels in your hand and how it handles in the scenarios you envisage. The operating system is quite solid I'm led to believe. It should be very reliable.

But I'm not sure how well joined up it will be if you're trying to run an entire business of it where you need data from one app to cross over to another. This strikes me as fundamentally basic and obviously straightforward on a personal computer but you'll need an actual living, breathing ipad owner to confirm this is possible.

i definitely want something faster to access than a laptop, ill get phone calls from people who want appointments while im shopping for groceries or picking my kids up from camp, i want to be able to open the calendar app quickly and book an appointment. also when im checking clients out at my wellness center and i have to wait for 3 other people who work out of there to check out their clients before i can use the comp to check my client out and see my schedule to book their next appointment.... and i see a laptop being too bulky to set on a dresser and play ambient music during sessions.

and gaahhh the ridiculousness of CD's that get lost, or scratched or borrowed (i don't mind sharing, it's just that they always seem to return scratched)... so sure i could get an ipod, but id rather just buy one gadget to take care of everything...

also, sometimes at night when i'm closing up or batching out or whatever i like to sit in the floor and figure out what stock i have/need, how much money i have/owe/made that day, what percentage of it i want to reinvest and what new equipment i'd like to get when its time... instead of doing that with tons of tiny pieces of paper and my shitty memory to rely on, i think a tablet in my lap with my bank accounts and quick books and schedule and the websites of my suppliers on it would minimize my time at work.

im so ridiculously right brained i have to work super hard to stay organized and on top of my business so i don't revert to my ways of winging it on the fly and crash my business into the ground or get so stressed out by all the psychic clutter that i burn it all down catharticly

also, how reliable is it in terms of memory? am i going to overload it making it play music and book appointments all day? is it going to crash in the middle of my last session and force me to pull out the 1990's technology?
>> ^dag:

Laptops are just so damn cheap these days, it's true - and generally a lot more functionality than a tablet.
The benefit of a tablet over a laptop for me are two things:
1. Form factor - I can take it to bed and read it like a book, whip it out on the bus - or in economy class seats on a plane - with a lot less fuss than a laptop.
2. Quickness - I don't mean processor speed, I mean just getting to a bit of functionality that I need at that moment. If I want to open a calendar app on a laptop, I need to open up the laptop, wait for it to unhibernate- hunt for the app and then wait for it to launch. About a minute to do that. Versus about 10 seconds on tablet.

>> ^lucky760:

What's with all the fake POV shots? Very distracting.


These new BBC-documentaries all include some sort of spy-cameras for these close-ups (of course not necessarily like here in this video, but) like this:

http://videosift.com/video/Black-Bear-Mother-and-Cubs-Filmed-by-Another-BBC-Spy-Cam

http://videosift.com/video/Polar-bear-sees-through-your-pathetic-disguise

http://videosift.com/video/The-Adventures-of-Dung-Cam-and-Elephant-Calf

I love the close-up of the two busses stopped by the water. They're both thinking 'shit, what do I do now?'