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The work of Hyunju Kim.

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‘Try playing the Trajan drinking game’

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‘Steve Austin, astronaut; a man barely alive’

Pilot for The Six Million Dollar Man (1973).

Some trivia. A Bionic Wiki. And here’s Lee Majors’ latest bionic gig.

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Found via RenaudMan

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Things in Sacramento are named Tower.

After the bridge, after the theatre (both below). Tower Records (as a walk in store) started  . . .  and finished here. I’m convinced the local auto museum, the Towe was actually supposed to be the Tower but they forgot to add the r.

Pictured: Sacramento Cityscapes by Paul Guyer. More here.

(Shakey’s Pizza started here too)

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Video for Leftfield’s Afrika Shox. Directed by Chris Cunningham, filmed in the Manhattan Financial District, February 1998.

More about the video (and Chris’ work) here.

Found via Don Reid

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I really wish this technology existed. Would make blowing things up in Photoshop so friggin easy.

‘Can you clean that up?’
‘Not if there’s nothing there – it’s just a bunch of colored boxes. That’s all pixels are.’

Jack Bauer pulls out gun, kills dude at computer. Chloe solves problem.

24 returns tonight, btw.

There are some enhancement solutions, but not on the fictional scale that tee vee shows use.

Video found via kottke.org

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What’s your day going to be like? Go here.

Nice type and image picks too.

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Details.

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‘You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!’

The original, legendary, low budget Star Wars parody.

Always loved Fluke Starbucker’s dune buggy

Plus
Here’s a link to the unauthorized 1997 Special Edition; updated with computer-generated FX. Just like Star Wars is now.

Or
Here’s the authorized 30th Anniversary restored original edition on DVD.

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‘The Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most infamous television programs in history. And it’s so bad that it actually comes around to good again, but passes it right up.’ -Ralph Garman, voice actor, The Family Guy

I remember – as a kid – watching this in some sort of zombie-like shock. The Star Wars Holiday Special aired Friday night, November 17, 1978. Only once. It’s become a nerd cult classic. Lucasfilm would like to just  . . .  pretend it never happened.

Features the original movie cast, Bea Arthur, Jefferson Starship, the original aired commercials (not edited out; note that they used to air less commercials back then) and a not-so-bad first-ever-appearance of Boba Fett animated bit.

Sit back, it’s just under two unwatchable hours long.

Happy holidays!

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New documentary on the history – and current status – of American Rock Poster art. More info here.

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