Over in the UK, Spotlight, a British casting and auction service, recently issued this casting announcement:
“male, 7 ft to 7.3 ft tall with a slim/thin build and upright posture. Not too worked out or too ‘thick set’ especially in the shoulders. Broad facial features would be a bonus”
for an “Untitled Studio Feature…[in] early 2014”.
What do you think: Wookiee casting notice for the upcoming Star Wars feature or perhaps casting for a different alien race? Or just a different movie altogether?
This is the video my friend Scott Painter and I made of my proposal to my lovely fiance. Andrea is a very big Harry Potter fan and we had even talked about possibly having a Harry Potter wedding one day, but always thought it out of the cards. Even though I have always dreamed of a Star Wars wedding. So I wanted to do something special for her and send her on a Harry Potter themed quest when she least expected it.
I am a wedding cinematographer and am booked most weekends, so when I told her that I had to film a wedding this fateful Saturday morning, she thought nothing of it. Plus, she had plans with our godchildrens’ mom, Erica. Little did she know that Erica would not be meeting her at the door, but instead my friend Scott, complete with video cameras.
Here is the heavily truncated quest of puzzled, trivia, and riddles that she had to solve into order to find me waiting for her at our favorite bar…. waiting with one last surprise.
The chap behind the Shitty Watercolour series is at it again, this time taking 101 pop culture TV and film characters and transforming them into sloths!
While bored in deep space (and nobody to play with), Darth Vader’s respirator malfunctions, his voice now resembling the shrill and prepubescent Anakin Skywalker.
On the eve of the Rebel Alliance’s epic assault upon the Empire, Vader desperately searches for a friend.
The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to most forms of medical-related mobile apps. It says it will normally only regulate those apps which replace or complement some standalone medical devices.
The FDA’s announcement aims to clarify the legal position of medical apps. Depending on how you interpreted the law, it was arguable that all medical apps were covered by the agency’s regulatory powers and had to comply with complicated technical restrictions. That created the risk that some app developers might be deterred from innovation.
After a consultation process that began more than two years ago, the FDA has now formally confirmed it will adopt a policy on enforcement discretion in most cases. That means that even where it may have a legal power to regulate an app, it usually won’t do so. The policy goes beyond simply having an unspoken agreement and part of the idea is that it should be enough to satisfy potential investors in app firms who want to be confident that regulation won’t be a risk.
The FDA will now only enforce the rules for two types of app. One is where an app effectively turns a mobile device into a regulated medical device, for example when combined with a case that turns a phone into an electrocardiogram machine.
The second is when an app is designed to work alongside an existing regulated device, for example as a tool for inspecting and interpreting an X-ray image.
In both these cases, the apps will be subject to risk-based review by the FDA in the same way as specialist devices. To date the agency has already reviewed and approved 75 mobile applications, less than half a percent of those available.
According to the FDA official responsible for devices, the principle is that the agency should be ” reviewing only the mobile apps that have the potential to harm consumers if they do not function properly.”
The agency also noted that it doesn’t have any regulatory powers over the manufacturers of phones or tablets (unless they have the relevant medical technology built in), nor does it have any control over app stores themselves (rather than individual app developers.)
