"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted." - Arthur Miller

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Olympics Opening, 400M Relay, Indiana Jones DVD, Dark Knight and Barack Roll

Olympic Opening Ceremonies - Click the link for NBC's first half coverage of the opening ceremonies (before the long and boring Parade of Nations). It was truly astonishing effort of thousands of performers working together to near perfection. It was just visually fun to watch and be in awe of. An excellent start to what has been a very entertaining Games.

Men's 400M Freestyle Relay - Click the link to watch what is currently one of the best moments of the Olympics so far as the US men's team won gold. It didn't look like it was going to happen either until Jason Lezak on the last 10 or so meters somehow found the extra bit of will to pull ahead and touch the wall 8 hundredths of a second ahead of France's Alain Bernard. He swam the fastest 100m freestyle ever recorded and helped break the previous 400m relay record by a full 4 seconds.

Indiana Jones DVD/Blu-ray Details - October 14th is the release date. The DVD will be the usual one disc set or two-disc rip off set with extra features that include the long development period (probably glossing over the strife), productions diaries (that aired online), and info on makeup, FXs, and the skull props.

The Dark Knight Trailer for Kids - Click the link to watch the Dark Knight trailer as done by kids and their toys. Its actually both hilarious and very well done.


Barack Roll - A spin on the Rickroll, it's Barack Obama "singing" Never Gonna Give You Up" by cutting together clips from his many speeches.

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