3 more unknown facts about starwars

these are 3 more facts i've found about star wars that you probably didnt know. if you want me to continue posting, then subscribe! :)

1. John Dykstra and the FX team invented a great deal of technology including the now vastly used, motion-control camera to match motion of object to camera. Also used were traditional stop motion techniques, as well as rotoscoping (using mattes). In particular, if you have an old copy of the film on VHS, you can see the traveling mattes around the ships.


2. After the trilogy came out, and years before Parts 1-3, there was an allegedly accurate treatment for what the next film would be, floating around. It detailed how Vader became Vader, as well as the events leading up to “A New Hope”. One of the minor elements, was the “13 year old Correllian Cabin Boy” on Captain Antilles’ ship. This alluded to Han Solo being there before the events of “A New Hope”, which luckily did not get included in the new films, as it really wouldn’t have made sense. Too much coincidence – does everyone have to know everyone?

3. David Prowse, a weightlifter from Bristol, played the role on screen but the voice was that of James Earl Jones. He was so convinced the film would be a flop, he refused to allow his name in the original credits.

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3 unknown facts about the original star wars trilogy

1. Lucas got the idea for Chewbacca one morning in the early ’70s while watching his wife, Marcia, drive off in her car. She had their Alaskan malamute, Indiana, (the name sake for Indiana Jones) with her. Lucas liked the way the large shaggy dog looked in the passenger seat so he decided to create a character in the film that was a cross between Indiana, a bear, and a monkey.


2. Due to the limited budget the American cast members and crew (including George Lucas) all decided to fly coach class to England, rather than first class. When Carrie Fisher’s mother Debbie Reynolds heard about this she called George Lucas, complaining about how insulting it was for her daughter to be flying coach. Carrie Fisher was in the room with George Lucas when he took the call, and after a few minutes asked if she could talk to her mother. When George Lucas handed her the phone she simply said, “Mother, I want to fly coach, will you fuck off?!” and hung up.


3. While Lucas was influenced by the huge number of “Buck Rogers” reruns he watched while developing Star Wars, a much bigger influence comes from work of Akira Kurosawa. Much influence comes from the film, Hidden Fortress, as well as many of the characters from Seven Samurai. Just about every character Toshiro Mifune plays is Han Solo, and check out the little Yoda-looking dude!

VST: Itchy overdose suite

I was browsing VST's the other day, when i came across a pack of VST's known as ITCHY. I noticed that they were free and first thought 'nahhh these arent going to be any good!' but what do you know? they really are.

This pack of vst's pretty much have you covered for the synth side of drum n bass or dubstep. it includes:

- PUNCH

- RESONANCE 

- SEISMIK

- SKYSCRAPER
- SUBBSONIC

- WONKEY

personally, i love Resonance. It partly automates the wobble bass for you, which can come in very useful for beginners. There are also a lot of presets, meaning that you could play around for ever.

Wonkey already comes with a 'wobble' preset, meaning that you just have to tweak around with the octave and speed of the wobble if you're a beginner.

Punch is basically a bunch of bass lines, most of them are pretty good and suite almost any sound.

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iPhone 5 production rumours

when i read this article about the iPhone 5 rumours, i though to myself: thank god there isnt another iphone 4s coming out! a step in the right direction i think.

so according to 9to5mac, the 'iPhone 5' could be nearing completion. which means that it could be somewhere in summer that we see these incredible devices hit the shelves. 

The sample devices have a 4 inch screen, and are about half the thickness of the iphone 4!

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has technology gone too far?

in this post, i'll be explaining how i think technology has gone too far. Yes, it may have made life a lot easier in certain aspects - but what happened to the 'good old fashioned' way?

so lets start with the positives. firstly, it has made everything in life a lot easier. i'm quite interested in DJ'ing and lets just say that when this it started you needed a hell of a lot of equiptment, but now i can do it all from my laptop with simple things such as a DAW. this has made things a lot easier and cheaper (considering you can download these things illegally) also, you used to have to go out and buy CD's, but now, you can download the file with the song in. this means that certain resources dont get wasted to make the packaging or equiptment.
with things like Bluetooth, it means that you dont have the hassle of unravelling cables, with the same quality of sharing the information or file. i remember when i was 11, and all you had to do was download a song from somewhere like Beemp3 and you could send the song to anyone via bluetooth. oh, those were the days.
technology has also made keeping in contact friends a lot easier. first there was mobile phones, now there's mobile phones - with the same capabilities as a computer. there's also social networking. with hundreds of millions of people keeping in contact with things like Facebook and Twitter, communicating has never been so much easier.
travelling has also become much better thanks to technology. whether you want to drive more economically or faster - technology has enhanced everything. you have cars that can partially drive themselves, cars that can go as fast as a planes take off speed and many other things.

now, there's one thing that over shadows everything. and that thing is the amount of electricity that all of them use. yeah, there are ways of making all the technology use less... but the matter of the fact is that  more and more people buy high tech stuff, meaning that we consume more and more fossil fuels every day. at the moment, the world uses more than 90 million barrels of oil a day - expected to go up to 120 million by 2050. we've already reached peak oil, and the invention of sustainable bio fuels is slow.
everyone is also getting lazier with all of the tech. more and more people shop online instead of walking to the shops. what happened to the experience of shopping? wasnt that enough?
so, whether you think im right or not. everything im saying makes sense. the question is, what do we do?  there isnt anything really. theres no proper way of finding anything that will sustain the electricity hunger that we have.
after looking this stuff up, i prefer the old fashioned way. even if it means more work.

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