November 12, 2009
Amusing Father Comments Becoming a Show
CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.Wow, that sounds like it will probably be terrible. But I suppose it makes sense. Television can't survive more than a couple years without seeing Jerry Stiller as a screaming father."Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are on board to executive produce and supervise the writing for the multicamera family comedy, which Halpern will co-pen with Patrick Schumacker. Halpern and Schumacker will also co-exec produce the Warner Bros. TV-produced project, which has received a script commitment.
The comedy's title will change if it gets on the air.
Karl Pilkington Gets His Round Head and Hangdog Face Animated
Here are a couple previews:
Saturn at Equinox
How would Saturn look if its ring plane pointed right at the Sun? Before last month, nobody knew. Every 15 years, as seen from Earth, Saturn's rings point toward the Earth and appear to disappear. The disappearing rings are no longer a mystery -- Saturn's rings are known to be so thin and the Earth is so near the Sun that when the rings point toward the Sun, they also point nearly edge-on at the Earth. Fortunately, in this third millennium, humanity is advanced enough to have a spacecraft that can see the rings during equinox from the side. Last month, that Saturn-orbiting spacecraft, Cassini, was able to snap a series of unprecedented pictures of Saturn's rings during equinox. A digital composite of 75 such images is shown above. The rings appear unusually dark, and a very thin ring shadow line can be made out on Saturn's cloud-tops. Objects sticking out of the ring plane are brightly illuminated and cast long shadows. Inspection of these images may help humanity understand the specific sizes of Saturn's ring particles and the general dynamics of orbital motion.
November 10, 2009
Sony Commercial for Magic Headphones
Director/Designs/Animaton/BGs: Kristofer Ström
VFX/Compositing/Animation: Eric Buchholtz
Music/Sound Effects: Douglas Holmquist
Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham
Studio: Varelsen
Cookie Monster goes into Withdrawl
From 1990, the final appearance of my favorite Sesame Street comedy duo, Ernie (Jim Henson) and Cookie Monster (Frank Oz).
Of course I like Ernie & Bert, Kermit & Grover, and all of Jim & Frank's other great double acts, but there's something about seeing Ernie & Cookie together that I always really enjoyed.
November 09, 2009
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