So I combined the 1977 and 2004 DVDs into the highest quality 1977 version of the film! I show all my scripts and techniques here, too, so you can make the same version from your two DVDs, too!
http://www.archive.org/details/reremaster

star wars comparison of two films

This is going to be at the Palace of Fine Arts on Wednesday and Thursday. It looks awesome. We should go!

Here’s a list of films that are playing (though I’m not sure which films are playing on which night).

Here is an acceptance speech that Fever Ray gave at an awards show in Sweeden. It is one of the best acceptance speeches ever given:

- Tom Waits, via reddit

I just found out about the Khan Academy in the news earlier this week and I think it’s one of the most inspirational projects I’ve seen in a while.

Salman Khan is a former hedge fund manager who single handedly created a whole library of YouTube videos to explain all manner of mathematical and scientific topics to kids in a way that’s easy to understand. He started doing them as a way to tutor his nieces and nephews. Now

…his 800-plus videos are viewed about 35,000 times a day, forming a virtual classroom that dwarfs any brick and mortar school he might have imagined. By using the reach of the Internet, he’s helped bring education to the information-hungry around the world who can’t afford private tutors or Kaplan prep courses.

I watched a few of them and I’m totally hooked! When I was in school I always learned just enough math to do well on tests, but then I’d promptly forget what I learned after a test was over. I wished I had someone like Salman Khan as a teacher…someone who made math relevant and interesting beyond a test and who spoke in plain english instead of abstractions.

He’s also got a series on economics and the financial system that I totally plan on watching since I know so pathetically little about how it all works.

There’s more about his project over here.

via reddit:

Ataque de panico! (Panic Attack!) Is a short film describing an invasion of giant robots. What is impressive is knowing that it was carried by two men from Uruguay in six months with $ 300 budget.

I used to have that awesome robot in the opening shot..

This film would have been scarier if it included this giant flame-throwing robot baby:

This one involves no crickets, but does have a giant millipede:

This one involves spoons!