CHS’ BACON (Best All-around Club Of Nerds) builds a giant pool of oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid created by mixing cornstarch and water, and then runs across it. Support our trip to CERN at www.indiegogo.com/BACONATCERN
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CHS’ BACON (Best All-around Club Of Nerds) builds a giant pool of oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid created by mixing cornstarch and water, and then runs across it. Support our trip to CERN at www.indiegogo.com/BACONATCERN
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Last May GaS revealed a trailer for a “crowdsourced” project that endevoured to re-create Star Wars IV: A New Hope 15 seconds at a time using whatever creative medium the contributor wished. The team behind the project gathered the submissions online and began to stitch together a feature film recreation.
Well, today the final product has been published online. If you have 2 hours or so to kill, it looks like a lot of fun.
This looks truly remarkable and incredibly creative. The style and imagery changes from children in makeshift costumes to cut and paste stop motion. If you find one particular segment to be not-to-your-liking then just wait 15 seconds!
One of the great things I love about the Internet is how we can find information on just about any topic. As a film geek, I find myself entrenched in movie news and exploring the official websites of films to see how they are promoted and just what trickery they will use to make me want to see their movies.
Of course, promotional websites are not new. Pretty much all big Hollywood studios are very eager for you to see their cleverly designed websites with tidbits and teasers of your favourite franchises. Some of the websites are pure entertainment in themselves. A lot of money goes into designing and promoting these visual extravaganzas.
But like the old adage says, you only truly learn from your mistakes. And a while ago I was introduced to what I think was the first in a long line of lessons. That mistake was the official Warner Brothers website for Space Jam – which is still online to this day!
You remember Space Jam right? It was an animated/live action scifi romp with the Warner Brothers gang of characters like Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny teaming up with basketball legends Michael Jordan and Wayne Knight in an epic basketball showdown…. in SPACE!
Visiting the easily memorized URL at http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm will bring you to the official website in all its HTML framed glory, with animated gifs, repeated tiled backgrounds and all suitable for viewing on your 640×480 resolution CRT VGA monitor.
This looks like something my 9 year old can design now, but at the time this was pretty awesome. I mean, they didn’t have much to work with in 1996 and it had to be optimized to download on your 9600baud dialup modem.
But think of the bright side here. There is no flash on the site, so it is fully functional on your iPhone!
Redditor GraphicPumpkin posted this with the following note a little earlier this week:
This is the level of stupidity I have to deal with at asda (UK Walmart)
Sigh… I can feel your pain, GraphicPumpkin.
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