An interesting visualization of how George Lucas and Star Wars changed our world beyond just making a star of Harrison Ford and making Carrie Fisher the object of a-many's geek-fections.
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Something Awful's recent photoshop contest: Recreating classic art with Star Wars characters.
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News of the availability for purchase of the complete set of Star Wars action figures from the original trilogy registered a 8.5 of the Nerd Richter Scale today. It's all yours for $3500 here and a monthly payment plan IS available.
Although if the owner had watched "40-Year-Old Virgin" he would have known that this collection would be worth a whole heck of a lot more if he had left the figures in their original plastic packaging. DUH.
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This dance off featuring characters from the Star Wars universe at some theme park made me chuckle but also gave me a huge headache. Either way, in the amount of time it took me to post this, George Lucas just made 20 million dollars. Supposedly Lucas looked to classic hero's quest stories for guidance when he was writing Star Wars. This may be true. I just have a hard time making the leap from Gilgamesh to Darth Vader and his storm troopers dancing in synch to Thriller. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQwP2gFxU]
Remixing Star Wars and Boogie Nights. So obvious, yet so genius. [Sorta NSFW] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FekiHW_YS7w]
You know what would make the original Star Wars even cooler? If Obi Wan and Co. were on SNOWBOARDS. I like the moment on the ski lift. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2uiRzT9fYQ]
Saul Bass is pretty much my favorite movie title sequence designer of all time (Yea, I know it's a rather esoteric preference), and is also just an overall seminal graphics guru. So, what if Saul Bass did the opening for Star Wars? I saw this first on Kottke and it made me super, super, super happy: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A]
Yea, the original Star Wars introduction that we all know and love is timeless and apropos, especially when it was first released. The Saul Bass remix gives Star Wars a campy vibe, but I think today the "Bass version" is a more appropriate sequence today because Star Wars nowadays IS camp, especially after the prequel threesome that George Lucas's bank account decided was so necessary.
I first fell in love with Saul Bass's style after seeing It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World when I was younger.
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