Archive for December, 2007

Transformers

Posted December 18th @ 9:48 pm by Gurt T. Luhrman

A day late and a dollar short… thats where I fall in my viewing and review of the action movie Transformers. Here is my reaction in a few simple lines.

* The girls… attractive but not as “hot” as everyone seemed to claim
* The CGI was amazing, simply put spectacular. It should be given it took 30 hours to render some of the frames (24 frames per second keep in mind), but then again I could render some sweet CGI if I had a billion dollar car company underwrite the 144 minutes car commercial. It was nice to see the Autobots were GM vehicles, too bad the Decepticons weren’t Fords. Oh wait, they were.

It could have had a better story, but it more than made up for lack of story with arguably the best CGI to date. Too bad John Turturro wasn’t wearing his purple spandex embroidered in ‘Jesus’, he might have got more respect from that damn punk kid and his trashy “why do I always sleep with the football team” lady friend. He should have said “stay away from my lady friend”, that might have kept him out of handcuffs.

links for 07-12-18

Posted December 18th @ 3:10 pm by kigis

From the Big Picture blog. (a truly excellent blog, I must say)

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Croatia Is Cool

Posted December 5th @ 9:49 pm by Gurt T. Luhrman

In 2005, architect Nikola Basic created the musical Sea Organ on the shores of Zadar, Croatia. It is the world’s first musical pipe organ that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside.

Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.

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