The Cyclotrope Created and animated by Tim Wheatley
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Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Amazing... a visual effect of animation by matching the speed of an object to the speed a camera records, to simulate animation
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Good stuff on Netflix instant download
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Love_the_Beast/70117051?trkid=2692263#height2225
Love The Beast
Eric Bana making a rally racecar of his Falcon XB
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Super_Speedway/15856634?trkid=2361637#height1259
Super Speedway
Mario Andretti and Paul Newman
Not on instant, but on Youtube
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Once-Upon-a-Wheel/70002931?trkid=1481020#height1530
Once Upon A Wheel
Paul Newman
Robert (ClassicDragsters) let me know of movies he has ready to view
Dust to Glory: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Dust_to_Glory/70027113?trkid=496624#height1335
Hod Rod Gang (and other 1950s teen exploitation films): http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Hot_Rod_Gang/70147224?trkid=496624#height1065
Early Days of the Automobile with Grouch Marx narrating: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Merrily_We_Roll_Along_The_Early_Days_of_the_Automobile/70022937?trkid=496624#height1756
If you know of some other awesome, gotta see it because Netflix has it on instant download, let us know, I'll add it to this post so everyone can save time looking or more good stuff to watch
Use the comment feature, or email me direct at jbohjkl@yahoo.com
Love The Beast
Eric Bana making a rally racecar of his Falcon XB
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Super_Speedway/15856634?trkid=2361637#height1259
Super Speedway
Mario Andretti and Paul Newman
Not on instant, but on Youtube
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Once-Upon-a-Wheel/70002931?trkid=1481020#height1530
Once Upon A Wheel
Paul Newman
Robert (ClassicDragsters) let me know of movies he has ready to view
Dust to Glory: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Dust_to_Glory/70027113?trkid=496624#height1335
Hod Rod Gang (and other 1950s teen exploitation films): http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Hot_Rod_Gang/70147224?trkid=496624#height1065
Early Days of the Automobile with Grouch Marx narrating: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Merrily_We_Roll_Along_The_Early_Days_of_the_Automobile/70022937?trkid=496624#height1756
If you know of some other awesome, gotta see it because Netflix has it on instant download, let us know, I'll add it to this post so everyone can save time looking or more good stuff to watch
Use the comment feature, or email me direct at jbohjkl@yahoo.com
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Cars 2 "Agents on a Mission" tour of US cities, and you can see the lifesize remote controlled real vehicles
Above are the real cars, below is a scene from the movie
Above posters are from http://wearemoviegeeks.com/2011/03/state-farms-cars-2-agents-on-a-mission-multi-city-tour-coming-to-st-louisUpcoming cities and dates:
Orlando May 13th -15th Disneyworld
Miami May 18th - 19th Childrens Museum
Atlanta May 22nd Perimeter Mall and 23rd Studio Movie Grill
Charlotte May 26th -29th Coca Cola 600 race
Dallas June 1st
Pheonix June 5th
Las Vegas June 8th
San Diego June 11th
Los Angeles June 17th
San Fran June 24th
the last 6 cities don't have exact locations, they aren't listed yet
Dates and locations information from http://disney.go.com/cars/?int_cmp=cars_fran_lightning_charaport_thumb_Intl#/events
Friday, April 8, 2011
The cars of movie stars and celebrities before 1980
Above, Miss America Teen Ager and the 1969 Dodge Charger 
Friday, March 25, 2011
My Cousin Vinny hysterical comedy bit, and the awesome positraction Tempest defense
Vinny Gambini: Maybe you didn't twist it hard enough.
Lisa: I twisted it just right.
Vinny Gambini: How could you be so sure?
Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10 to 16 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 16 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
[She rips a page out of a magazine and hands it to him]
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.
Vinny Gambini: [tosses paper away] I guess the fucking thing is broken.
Lisa: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!
Vinny Gambini: And why not? What is positraction?
Lisa: It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
[the jury members nod, with murmurs of "yes," "that's right," etc]
Vinny Gambini: Is that it?
Lisa: No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60's, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.
Vinny Gambini: And because both cars were made by GM, were both cars available in metallic mint green paint?
Lisa: They were!
Lisa: I twisted it just right.
Vinny Gambini: How could you be so sure?
Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10 to 16 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 16 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
[She rips a page out of a magazine and hands it to him]
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.
Vinny Gambini: [tosses paper away] I guess the fucking thing is broken.
Lisa: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!
Vinny Gambini: And why not? What is positraction?
Lisa: It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
[the jury members nod, with murmurs of "yes," "that's right," etc]
Vinny Gambini: Is that it?
Lisa: No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60's, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.
Vinny Gambini: And because both cars were made by GM, were both cars available in metallic mint green paint?
Lisa: They were!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Chris has posted the ultimate list of the top 20 car chase scenes (but is still open to ammending his list)
http://chrisoncars.com/?p=2343 to see his top 20
You can email him your opinions or list of your favorites at raymondcj@aol.com or chris@chrisoncars.com
I haven't seen all of the movies that have these chases, but I have seen most and the variety of movies with a car chase is quite broad... from Sci Fi like the Matrix Reloaded, to old cop movies that were normal investigation style detectives like The French Connection... I can't remember any part of the story line of the French Connection, just Gene and that car chase scene, but Chris has the scoop on what was really going on with the chase scene, and I've never learned this stuff before, it's all news to me!
Bad Boys (Will Smith) had the best collection of muscle cars in a single scene, 70 Superbee, Firebird, Yenko Duece, 67? Chevelle, 76? Trans Am, and that was just until the gun fight.... the chase reconvened with the bad guys dropping cars off a transporter one at a time. Best scene is at the top of Chris' list
Watch the "Masters Touch" to see a 62 Savoy mistreated like no other
You can email him your opinions or list of your favorites at raymondcj@aol.com or chris@chrisoncars.com
I haven't seen all of the movies that have these chases, but I have seen most and the variety of movies with a car chase is quite broad... from Sci Fi like the Matrix Reloaded, to old cop movies that were normal investigation style detectives like The French Connection... I can't remember any part of the story line of the French Connection, just Gene and that car chase scene, but Chris has the scoop on what was really going on with the chase scene, and I've never learned this stuff before, it's all news to me!
Bad Boys (Will Smith) had the best collection of muscle cars in a single scene, 70 Superbee, Firebird, Yenko Duece, 67? Chevelle, 76? Trans Am, and that was just until the gun fight.... the chase reconvened with the bad guys dropping cars off a transporter one at a time. Best scene is at the top of Chris' list
Watch the "Masters Touch" to see a 62 Savoy mistreated like no other
Thursday, March 17, 2011
the Parking Lot Movie, a documentary movie looking at how people act in parking lots, it's good.
The film follows a select group of parking lot attendants and their strange rite of passage. The eccentric brotherhood of attendants consist of grad students, overeducated philosophers, surly artists, middle-age slackers and more.
They hang out at the lot even in their spare time, shooting the breeze or playing a spirited game of "flip cone," just because...they like it there. They conduct their own private "war" against the elites, the pretentious and obnoxious customers who park their BMWs, Hummers, Suburbans and other vehicles.
They study the art of doing nothing and the knack of getting even with rude, SUV-driving dolts who treat them like inferior beings. The gradual devolution from enthusiasm to resentment in the psyches of guys self-aware enough to notice it is an interesting process; in an attempt to distract themselves from the rapidly mounting bitterness, the attendants amuse themselves any way they can-stenciling random messages on the parking gate, writing songs, even dancing for tips.
Through interviews with former attendants who have moved on - you can see that their time at the lot has clearly provided rites of passage and afforded them Zen-like perspective. Most were college students while working there, some are still college students.
This is on instant download on Netflix, and a better preview is at http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2759262745/
Friday, March 11, 2011
the documentary of street graffitti art from the icons, Exit Through the Gift Shop... intriguing movie, lots about Banksy
It's an instant download on Netflix. For Banksy outdoor art: http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/outvarious/horizontal_1.htm
Saturday, February 19, 2011
George Lucas during the filming of the movie "American Graffiti"
For some more stills from the movie American Graffiti: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/great-movie-american-graffitti-cars.html#links Friday, February 18, 2011
Looks like Anthony Hopkins on the movie set for "World's Fastest Indian"
The license plate is close, but not the one on Burt's trailer http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/burts-trailer-simple-and-effective.html , and the tall guy is wearing new sneakers, nothing looked like those in the 60's, and Burt was skinnyfound on http://ihatemotorcycles.tumblr.com/
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