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newsweek:

David Frum, NewsBeast contributing editor, spots a rather hilarious bumper sticker in South Carolina.

starwarsuncut:

Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut

Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your viewing pleasure. The Director’s Cut is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.

The Story:

In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.

We can’t thank everyone enough for making this such a special project.

Watch it now.

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glyphjockey:

Holy McFuck! AWE!

kayfabe:

ianbrooks:

Movies from an Alternate Universe by Peter Stults

Inspired by Sean Hartter’s original concept, these movie posters have traveled through the wormhole from an Alternate Earth where the 60’s never ended. James Dean starred in Drive, Sean Connery continued to bang brightly-hued alien girls in The Fifth Element, and of course the Hangover featured the boozing Rat Pack. See the entire series at Pete’s behance.

I would kill to see those versions of Ghostbusters and The Fifth Element.

newyorker:

Among the Yakuza: Haruto Hoshi Photographs Jake Adelstein

For Peter Hessler’s profile of the American crime reporter Jake Adelstein in the January 9th issue of the magazine, the photographer Haruto Hoshi shadowed Adelstein through the Tokyo underworld about which he writes. Hoshi was an obvious choice to photograph Adelstein. While in his late twenties, Hoshi sold drugs for his best friend, who had recently joined the yakuza. Unhappy with the direction his life had taken, Hoshi was unsure how to right his path without abandoning his friend. Fate and the police intervened, and Hoshi was arrested and served time in prison. It was during his incarceration that he first considered becoming a photographer, and upon his release he enrolled in night school. The rest, as they say, is hisutori.

We asked Adelstein to caption Hoshi’s photos from their time together, and he kindly obliged. For more photographs, with Adelstein’s captions: http://nyr.kr/xjGJ3U

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Let’s see, 550GB+450GB+1.25TB+250GB = 2.5TB, which is roughly ten times my “excessive use” bandwidth allowance from Comcast. This might not be the best idea, Bitcasa, unless your plan was to illustrate exactly how bandwidth metering can stifle innovation, in which case you’re doing a great job.

Netflix <3 Closed Captioning

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Progress.

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