A while back, I came across StarWarsUncut.com, a site that divided Star Wars (A New Hope) into 15-second segments and encouraged Star Wars fans to take one of the clips, shoot it however they deemed fit, and upload the sequence back to the site. The end result includes some pretty well-crafted shots and, well, some equally… interesting ones. Ultimately, the goal was to encourage people of all ages and cinematic aptitude to exercise their creative skills, recreate their favorite scene in the Star Wars, and show it off to the world.
Now the site has released “Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut,” an assembly of the wildly varying versions of each movie segment into a two-hour-long, full-length version of the original film. While this masterpiece of crowd-sourcing isn’t exactly screen-worthy, it’s a great display of the sheer volume and variety of creativity Internet crowd-sourcing taps. From live-action tinfoil renditions of C-3PO to action figures on the beach and even simple cardboard cutouts taped to straws these clips show just how much people love Star Wars. (My favorite so far is the purring cat-Jawa, by the way.)
I think it’s clear how much fun people had creating these clips, and it just goes to show how sites that encourage user-generated content are worth protecting. And hey, if you have time check out the full-length cut above.
@FakeGrimlock in the Holiday Spirit
Are you a Transformers fan? Do you enjoy reading funny and/or geek-related Twitter streams? If either and/or both the answers to those questions are yes, I wholeheartedly recommend you follow @FakeGrimlock. There’s just something special about an eons-old Dinobot making his entrance to the internet through Twitter. Whether it’s his robot brain damage or semi-ambivalence to humanity, I always seem to get a chuckle from his tweets. Recently, I had a chance to catch up with @FakeGrimlock and ask him a few questions. His answers are in true @FakeGrimlock form.
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Aren’t SMART phones fun? It seems the unofficial SMART phone of choice for most GWCers is the iPhone. However, for those of us that have carriers other than AT&T, there are other choices available. Personally I have the Motorola DROID through Verizon. And even though I can’t wait for Verizon and Apple to finally unveil/announce the Verizon version of the iPhone, I do love my DROID’s features. I can use the phone to navigate, see what stores are in buildings, read my daily Dilbert, keep track of workouts, download and listen to podcasts on the run, use it as a wireless card for my laptop, check out the weather and local radar, play Sudoku, use it as a flashlight, pinpoint stars in the night sky, watch YouTube videos, tweet away on Twitter, use it as a Tricoder, and post on the GWC forum (thanks to Tapatalk).
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Just a small morsel to temp your taste buds on the exhibit hall floor! The next Food Network Star? You saw it here first! (Or maybe at your local con. Either way!) Friday was such a great day. We’re all beat. More details later as my mind is still on hyper-drive.
Dateline Chukchi Sea (near Alaska, where swimming = swift death by goosebump): Hunters discover an as-yet-unknown life form meandering placidly with the tides. The Coast Guard’s on the case, and CSI-types are swarming the area with petri dishes and plastic teaspoons in an effort to identify these giant floating globules of wayward organic matter.
A new life form — surely nothing to worry about, right? Something new for us to love, cherish, marvel at, study, sample, and parcel out to every lab on the west coast via UPS overnight shipping and a few chunks of dry ice. Wait, what? Is this the beginning of a great sci-fi story?
10. A centurion tries to shoot the guy next to you
9. Dee blows you off for a buffer model
8. You’re alone in a bathroom with Baltar and a chick with a pipe
7. You’re standing next to Admiral Cain
6. Caprica Six slips you the tongue
5. Jamie Bamber’s wife is performing your critical surgery
4. You tell a smart centurion “don’t kill me,” but forget to say “please”
3. You set the table and serve Kara Thrace a nice dinner
2. You have an open wound on the poo barge
1. Hera creeps up to your bed and says “bye-bye”
10. All will be revealed –Â the next time Cavil’s sliding around in slick goo.
9. Gaeta hooks up with Racetrack. Or Seelix. Or any woman.
8. Little Nicky dons the nickname “Boxey” and grows his hair into a shaggy bowl.
7. Helo is revealed as the One True God.
6. Joe’s Bar becomes Quark’s Bar.
5. The fifth and final Cylon is discovered – in Baltar’s pants.
4. Basestar threesome with Boomer, Cavil, and Scar.
3. Poo Barge finds Earth and lands in Clark Griswold’s driveway on Christmas.
2. Bubbles in Grandpa Goo’s tub kill the entire fleet.
1. New radical Centurion political sect: Sons of Larry.
The frak-up wasn’t invented yesterday, as this blooper reel from the original Battlestar Galactica series shows. Not to be missed: Richard Hatch’s numerous appearances, Dirk Benedict’s foul mouth, Adama in bed with a daggit, “plot missing,” and “finding earth.”
Apologies if you’ve already seen this since it’s made the rounds, but who doesn’t have a minute-and-a-half to hear a New Hope summary from a sweet little three-year-old?
My favorite bits: She points out that “the shiny guy always worries,” “Obi wants Luke to learn to use the light-up sword,” and most importantly, “Don’t talk back to Darth Vader, he’ll getcha.”
On the Twelfth Day of BSG my true love gave to me:
Twelve Raiders Raiding
Eleven Vipers Viping
Ten Larrys Leaping
Nine Gaetas Prancing
Eight Naked Sharons
Seven Spines a’Glowing
Six Sixes LayingFive Tubs of Goo!
Four Battling Birds
Three Hybrids
Two Pyramid Balls
And the Towel that was Draped Around Lee!
10. Paddle-ball Fantastica
9. Cattle-barn Milk Lactica
8. Snaggle Yarn Cat Scratchtica
7. Heavy-Scar Raidertica
6. Anders Rocks the Sacktica
5. President Airlocktica
4. Whiskey Bar Frakked-up Gaeta
3. Buccaneer Beertactica
2. Cylons get Knocked-uptica
1. Battlestar Kick-Asstica
*Bonus from Chuck: Felgercarb Fraktaktica!
10. By 2009, an entire new generation of sci-fi fans will have been born, and we can use the last half of Season Four to squeeze profits from them.
9. The ass-beating the network will receive from Battlestar’s rabid fanbase will be less bloody than if we waited ’till 2010, like we originally wanted to.
8. Brilliant writing, acting, music, effects, and production have all come together on SciFi original series before. And it will all happen again.
7. SciFi network viewers are still stunned and confused from recent kickass programming with BSG. We must embrace our traditional mediocrity to comfort them.
6. In 2009, no one will be left alive who has seen the 1978 or 1980 Galactica series, eliminating pesky OG criticism.
5. Wouldn’t that be sweet if Battlestar Galactica ran for five years? FIVE YEARS!!
4. By 2009, inflation rates will have risen to the point where iTunes can charge what NBC wants for the shows.
3. The gap will help to explain why Chief Tyrol is already showing little Nicky how to shave.
2. When we finally view the end of Season Four, Adama and Tigh will be old enough to have been part of the original exodus to the twelve colonies, thus ending the debate about sailing ships once and for all.
1. Three words about the women in BSG: Sexier with age.
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