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The Star Trek Enterprise Project

To promote the upcoming Star Trek movie, the studio commissioned 25 "graffiti, FX, and pop" artists to reinterpret the USS Enterprise on 34-inch replicas cast from the actual 3D models created for the film.

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Disney Templates

A video comparing scenes from older Disney animated classic films that suggests that animators at the magical kingdom just recycled the same scenes over and over again.  Nothing magical about that, just like your childhood. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL6FYxIuJlA&fmt=18]

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James Franco Destroys Furnished Room

Hollywood dilettante James Franco does his best rock star in a hotel room impression for this promotional video for Wholphin, McSweeney's quarterly DVD 'zine. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBRF910RFsM&fmt=18]

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Remixed French Films by Stella Artois

Stella Artois recreated movies and gave them a certain French je ne sais quoi in this entertaining viral campaign. C'est magnifique! Die Hard:

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24:

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8 Mile:

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German Scientist Accidentally Pricks Self with Ebola Virus

You think you had a bad day at work? Try this one. On March 12 a German scientist accidentally "pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice." Ebola as we know is some bad shit and has no known cure: "It begins with flu-like symptoms, followed by bloody diarrhea and vomiting. Days later, some victims begin bleeding through the nose, mouth and eyes. Depending on the strain of virus, it can kill up to 90 percent of victims."

An international team of biologists and virologists immediately gathered in a transatlantic teleconference and decided on a course of action. Less than 24 hours after the incident, "an experimental vaccine never before tried on humans was on its way to Germany from a lab in Canada." So far tests suggests that she will survive (fingers crossed), unlike this Russian scientist. Or Karen Wetterhahn, a former chemistry professor at Dartmouth.

Speaking of the movie Outbreak which featured a...wait for it...an outbreak of an Ebola-esque virus, I'd be mad if I was Morgan Freeman.

"A monkey? A goddamn monkey is getting higher billing than me on the movie poster?! I'm MORGAN FREEMAN. I was RED. I'm a fucking GOD. Who's Marcel's agent? Why? Because I should fire YOU and hire that fucking monkey's agent instead."

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Official Movie Poster for Where the Wild Things Are

I cannot wait for the release of this movie adaptation directed by Spike Jonze of one of my favorite books, Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are." Here's the first official (great) poster:

Fun facts:

Maurice Sendak grew up in the Brooklyn! BROOKLYN PRIDE, BABY!

It was originally called "Where the Wild Horses Are," but because Sendak couldn't draw horses, his editor changed the title to "Wild Things," and the rest is history.

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Congrats on Slumdog, Dude.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWy4Fklp7Cw&fmt=18] Slumdog Millionaire definitely set the bar high for hanging out with my Indian friends. They'd be a lot more fun to party with if they busted out in synchronized Bollywood dance.

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Review: Man on Wire

Based on Philippe Petit's account of his stunning high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in 1974 in his book "To Reach the Clouds," director James Marsh revisits that event in "Man on Wire," which won the best documentary category at this year's Academy Award. Using actual footage as well as interpretive reenactments and contemporary interviews with many of the participants, Marsh succeeds in recreating the tense and suspenseful atmosphere experienced by Petit and especially his accomplices as they case and eventually break into the then recently completed World Trade Center. Paradoxically, it is at the point of no return, when Petit confidently steps onto the precarious wire--seemingly counter to human nature--does the film achieve a peaceful quietness that leaves the viewer in awe and wonder. However, throughout the documentary, one also views snippets of the narcissism and obsessive force of Petit’s exuberant personality. While no one was ultimately physically injured, it is clear that there were emotional casualties, especially in the frenzied aftermath of his walk.

Although it is never mentioned, the specter of 9/11 looms large in the background, and one can't help but make comparisons at times between Petit's crew and the terrorist attacks years later, particularly when they describe the various methods including impersonating a reporter to enter and gain access to the towers' rooftop. Yet the sight of this Frenchman casually resting on his back high above the streets and staring up at the clouds above New York City, provides a cathartic counter to the monstrous and horrifying collapse of the World Trade Center.

I highly recommend this movie. And if you don't believe me, it has a 100% rating with 137 review over at Rotten Tomatoes.

Relatedly, this was the New Yorker cover on the 5th anniversary of 9/11:

[Thanks Kate for Netflix'ng this movie and the New Yorker cover connection!]

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