Do Not Cross

This past weekend, Cheri and I got into a Lost: Season 2 marathon of sorts. I got the first disc of the second season of Lost while Cheri got the first disc of the first season of Veronica Mars. So we alternated watching each show (both of which I would highly recommend). We have gotten so addicted to Lost that after we finished the first disc, we ran out to Giant (a grocery store here in NOVA) and rented discs 2 and 3 from the new Redbox that has been installed there.The Redbox is a vending machine that you can rent DVDs from. They currently only have them in select locations across the US (mostly at McDonalds), but they happen to have just installed them in many Giants in this area. The concept is that you look through their inventory, pick a movie you want to rent, swipe your credit card, and it spits it out. It charges $1 per night and after 25 nights, you own the DVD. You can return the DVD to any Redbox (not just the one you got it from).

I think its a really innovative way to be able to rent DVDs and I think it will come in handy for Cheri and I when we’re in between Netflix movies. The only downside is that it only has new releases that have come out in the last month or two. So if you wanted to rent a gem such as Battlefield Earth, then you would have to go through a traditional movie rental service. Or your local scientology center.

(Photo taken from this article at Boston.com)

So I found a couple of articles about a French photographer who took pictures of Star Wars figurines and superimposed them into actual images of French scenery and architecture ^[1]. The result is both outstanding and intriguing. I think these scenes work excellent with the figurines he chose and look better (if not much, much better) than anything from Lucas’ movies. If only this guy was the art director for the film.

And if you like Star Wars, chances are you also like Space Invaders. And since we’re on the topic of space and the french, here is another cool website from a different French photographer. This one took a theater of people and took tons of still images to create a movie recreating the game Space Invaders. It is worth a look ^[2].

[1] Via this MetaFilter thread.

[2] Via this MetaFilter thread.