Lord Vader: Is your object round?
Almost a week after the tragic event, we still cant get Star Wars out of our minds, this from the Wang brother, play 20 questions with Lord Vader. This is probably rooted from the system thats behind 20Q.net. Here's a Boingboing story about 20Q.net and a new toy that has they whole question AI into an 8-bit chip. So in theory, Lord Vader's intelligence is the same as an 8-bit chip. Speaking of SW tech, they've also made vader's robotic hand.
SO i'm here surfing the blogshpere as usual, when i stumbled on Goldenfiddle's link to the infamous Paris Hilton Carl's Jr. commercial. The video is at Chris Applebaum's page. Chris Applebaum is a music video/commercial director. He's done a bunch of pop-tart videos for Britney and Hilary Duff. Most of time he's ur typical hormone suggestive director with spank material for 14 yr old boys. But i watched a few of his videos and noticed that he's really good at making things look hawt. Sure Paris with a six dollar burger at a car wash is ur typical blonde, car and water combo, but i found a video for Jewel's Stand to be quite cool to watch. I mean Jewel is pretty hot in my book. But Applebaum here takes this weird liberal social commentary video about current politics and still manages to slip in some scenes for Jewel to look 30s hawt.
Here we see this nice picture of Jewel in a dress, but the rear lighting really adds a level when it shines through her dress.
And here we have her in some sort of ribboned shoe in almost the same dress as above.
Overall hawtness i say. Cant quite say the Wang had much for Jewel since the olds days of Foolish Games, but its either the glory of Chris Applebaum or Jewel is still pretty hot. Even though her new albums are boring at best.
IN an odd moment of TV channel flipping i caught a weird bit of the Tom Cruise Oprah event. I tuned in just in time to see Dakota Fanning give the "Ilove uncle cruise" video segment. But still today leads to the entire blogsphere going after the broadcast. Uncle Grambo chimes in with his own take on the whole event. The Thigh master gives us the links to some of the animated gifs from all this weirdness. And of course the mother of all tabloid talking, Defamer has their Cruise-Oprah round up and a nice photoblog of the event. Of course this probably all due to the fact that after tapping katie Holmes, Tom realized that women are good.
Ok that was just way to gossip-y for the Wang's taste, so we have this as a palette cleanser:
Connan O'brien, only decent talk-show on latenight also is a great writer. He did this comical article on the future of entertainment technology for Newsweek. The man is on a role with comically gold stuff like this:
As reality television becomes ubiquitous, being unknown becomes cool. Oprah proclaims that "Anonymity Is the New Fame," and the hottest new program is a worldwide search for someone who has never been on television. The winner, an 80-year-old Maori tribesman, is soon on every magazine cover and is spotted canoodling in the bar of the Four Seasons with Tara Reid.
RAGE! Rage of the gamer! even better than Rage of the Wookie, with 20% less roaring.
A great commercial, Stunt City
And it is time for Weird videos about dolls. First we have Interpol's Evil and then this Japanese Anime-esque doll-thing called Kimono.
Thankyous:
Goldenfiddle
Defamer
Engadget
Joystiq
Waxy Links
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