Everything is Awesome when you have a Double Decker Couch!
Every other Monday, some of Hollywood’s top prop makers build one-of-a-kind items for super-fans of comic books, video games, movies, and pop culture. This week, we take one super fan family’s living room to the next level by building them a Double Decker Lego Couch!
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A GPS-controlled drone video camera to be released next year can film you wherever you go without interfering with your activities. The problem is that it’s very expensive and has a severely limited battery life.
The Lily camera connects wirelessly with a small receiver that fits into your pocket or on your wrist. Once you throw it into the air, it will automatically move between five and fifty feet overhead and film you from between five and 100 feet away.
You can set the orientation so that it can film you from the front, side, or rear, with other options including rotating to keep you in frame at all times or even circling round you.
The receiver, which comes with a waterproof case, has a microphone, with the audio automatically synced up to the footage.
Technically the drone is waterproof to one meter depth, though the makers recommend not trying to “fly” it underwater as this could damage the motors. It will also land itself if the battery is running critically low.
Unfortunately there’s a major limitation: the battery that powers the drone only lasts for an average of 20 minutes of flying, takes two hours to recharge, and is not replaceable.
The drone is also limited to flying at 25 miles per hour. That will be fine for most uses, though it does rule out filming some motorsports activities
When it goes on sale next year, Lily will cost $999 plus taxes and shipping. You can pre-order it for $499 but must pay up front (though it’s refundable if you cancel before delivery).
A man meets a UFO for the first time and gets way more out of the encounter than he bargained for…
I don’t know about you, but I think this series looks refreshingly fun! Who knows, with Minority Report coming along as well, Fox might actually do something right this time… if they don’t cancel both shows after season 1.
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, The original fallen angel, Lucifer Morningstar has abandoned his throne and retired to L.A., where he owns Lux, an upscale nightclub.
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Beginning around 1377, medieval England was shaken by a power struggle between two noble families, which spanned generations and involved a massive cast of characters, complex motives and shifting loyalties. Sound familiar? Alex Gendler illustrates how the historical conflict known as the Wars of the Roses served as the basis for much of the drama in Game of Thrones.
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The Assassin’s Creed Syndicate story throws you into the dawn of the modern era during the Industrial Revolution. You play Jacob Frye, a gangster assassin fighting for justice on behalf of London’s enslaved working class. Watch as Jacob rallies his gang to break the corrupt stranglehold on London and bring the working class a brighter future.
Interested in seeing more? Here’s the introductory gameplay video:
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate will be available on Xbox One, PS4 and PC on October 23, 2015.
The one Summer movie I have really been drooling over is Mad Max: Fury Road. Looks like one of the most insane and over-the-top action movies ever. Good news for other folks clamoring to know how good the new Mad Max is. From the sounds of it, it’s going to e as astounding as we all already assume it is.
From Village Voice:
This doesn’t feel like a film that exists. How is George Miller’s bonkers, exhausting, no-future smash-’em-up Mad Max: Fury Road not one of those almost-was boondoggles mourned and dreamed of by fans, a revered director’s impossible vision that, thanks to the un-stout hearts of studio beancounters, never actually vaulted from storyboard to screen?
But Fury Road somehow is. In the era of greenscreened blockbusters, we have an R-rated studio release on which a 70-year-old director blew hundreds of millions of dollars crashing real cars into each other in Namibia. You know the charge that Furious 7 feels like what you would get if you asked a Hot Wheel-loving ten-year-old to work out the beats of a screenplay? Fury Road is what the kid might dream up at fourteen, stoned at the motocross, keyed up on Mountain Dew and old Conan comics, except instead of writing a script he’s lighting those Hot Wheels on fire and chucking them at your face. He’s also, touchingly, a feminist and eager for you to know it. Plus he’s tireless, touched with some genius, and you would not believe just how many of those cars he has to throw.
If that doesn’t sell you, well, you must be dead inside.
(Image from ToplessRobot)
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