Obviously it’s actually a serious bit of news, but a nice little crash blossom nonetheless.
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Infographics
A spot-on assessement by Phil Gyford:
The current trend is definitely producing more graphics than information. This is also semi-relevant to some work I’ll be picking up later this week relating to our recent student survey, let’s see how many graphs I can use to convey, “cheaper drinks”…
(via kottke)
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Street Fighter
I quite like this:
Though if I’m honest I only browsed Abduzeedo’s collection of Street Fighter illustrations because I had it in my head that rendering our new Sabb team as characters from SF was by far the most sensible thing to do.
What better way to usher in our first international president than drawing him as Blanka…
Must get more sleep.
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How to make your documentary sound awesome
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A-Team / Expendables
The new A-Team trailer:
And The Expendables Trailer:
Stallone + Statham + Li + Lundgren + Schwarzenegger + Willis.
Van Damme turned down a role but was happy to star in Universal Soldier 5 (which incidentally also stars Lundgren as a cloned Andrew Scott; I’ve not seen it but I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s still a psycho).
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The Holocron
So it turns out Lucas Licensing employ someone to manage a “continuity tracking database” called the Holocron (yet another thing to add to the list of real-life things semi-seriously named after technology from films):
The Holocron is divided into 5 levels (in order of precedence): G-canon, T-canon, C-canon, S-canon, and N-canon.
It basically runs a little something like: Films > George > TV > Books/Comics > RPG > Everything else (the N in N-canon stands for ‘non’).
The problems arise when you take thirty years of licensed expanded universe, add in healthy dash of prequel-related discontinuty and retcon and then feed to your large base of foaming fanboys.
This also puts an amusing spin on it:
“So how did Anakin get that scar, George?” asks John Knoll.
“I don’t know. Ask Howard,” says George, referring to President of Lucas Licensing Howard Roffman. “That’s one of those things that happens in the novels between the movies. I just put it there. He has to explain how it got there. I think Anakin got it slipping in the bathtub, but of course, he’s not going to tell anybody that.”
I love the idea that the long-suffering Howard has just finished crowbarring an explanation to George’s latest addition into the Universe when George comes bounding back in to tell him about his new idea.
Rather than come up with my own amusing take on an actual example I’ll just use something someone else has done:
“…that little lazer sword of his.” Really George?