Week Links is a collection of some of my favourite links from around the web that I stumbled upon during the past week. You may already be familiar with some of them, but I think they’re worth checking out if you haven’t already.
Lego Millennium Falcon Animated Build
If you’ve ever built a Lego model or worked with 3D modelling software, this is a pretty interesting video. A step-by-step animation of the building procedure for the 5000 piece Lego Millennium Falcon. It really doesn’t need any more explanation than that – just watch it and enjoy.
Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Greatest Movie Ever Sold) and Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, The Avengers) team up to create this documentary on the San Diego Comic-con. If the film lives up to the recently released trailer, it should be a very interesting look into the convention and geek culture in general. The fact that the creators are bona fide geeks themselves surely helps prevent this from being another “hey, look at the freaks” documentary and instead take an honest look at the people and the culture.
Fox News Attacks “Obama’s Liberal Agenda” in The Lorax and The Secret World of Arrietty
After attacking The Muppets for trying to indoctrinate our children with the “Liberal Agenda” Fox News has now gone after two new films: The Lorax and The Secret World of Arrietty. Of all the coverage this story has received, The A.V. Club’s is my favourite because they are least afraid to come right out and show how ridiculous this claim is. Fox warned parents about the liberal agendas “so disgustingly pervasive, they were first planted over half a century ago by “the president’s liberal friends in Hollywood” such as Dr. Seuss and English author Mary Norton, then brought to life by Obama’s super-duper liberal pals in Japan.” The fact that so many other “news” organizations tip-toed around Fox’s blatant fear mongering and distortion of the truth, and that there are so many viewers that let both Fox and the other news outlets get away with such shoddy, pseudo-journalism is fairly terrifying. As it says in Seuss’ “ultra-liberal” Lorax “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
Sleep well,
DTE
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