The Incredibles Wins Two Academy Awards

Congratulations to Brad Bird, Pixar, and Disney! Keeping the momentum going, The Incredibles collected two more awards last night. The Disney/Pixar film which had four Academy Award nominations, won two of the four categories it was entered in. The action-packed superhero film won the Oscars for Animated Feature Film and Sound Editing. Add these to the numerous other awards the film has already received, and the statue shelves at Pixar are going to need reinforcement!

If you haven't pre-ordered your DVD already, head over to Luxo and support the site by purchasing the film through the Amazon links.

Note: The above image was inspired by the photo of Brad Bird in the 12.06 issue of Wired. You can find the article and photo online by clicking here.

Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

Not quite Minority Report, The Time Machine, or Back to the Future but certainly intriguing. Check out this link.

More on the project can be found here.

For the skeptics, this article, with one of the project members dismisses the prediction notions.

As suggested by some, if the 'device' can't provide any usable information before the events, is it really capable of predicting the future? Perhaps the whole thing is nothing more than humans looking for a correlation between the results and real-world events?

AirPort Card: Disable During Air Travel

I wonder how many people actually remember to do this on their wireless-enabled laptop computers?



Though it refers to Mac OS 9, I'm assuming it should be the same idea under Mac OS X and Windows.

Happy Valentine's Day from Dr. Tran!

Click here for the Dr. Tran Valentine Card! Flash required.

See a clip of the infamous Dr. Tran at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Gallery. "Noooooooo...."

While you're at it, head on over The Official Here Comes Dr. Tran website and order the DVD!!

The First Voyage of Ray Harryhausen

The insightful DVD news and review site The Digital Bits, features an interview with the legendary master of stop-motion animation and special effects pioneer. The First Voyage of Ray Harryhausen lets Ray discuss the recently released DVD that showcases much of his early work.

You can also read Adam Jahnke's review of the disc here.

Thanks for all the generous support!

Just a quick thank you to all of the readers who have been supporting my efforts by making purchases through the Amazon.com and Amazon.ca purchase links and search boxes. It means a great deal that you're enjoying the blog. Also, please keep the feedback and ideas for stories coming!

- Chad

G4TechTV - Ray Harryhausen

I'm a big Ray Harryhausen fan. His painstaking work has given us so many memorable fantasy films and characters, encompassing fairy tales, classical myths, and futuristic visions. From the epic tale of Jason and the Argonauts, to the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, to alien invaders in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, no filmmaker with a hand in the fantasy and adventure genre can say they don't know who he is. G4TechTV.com has an interview with the legendary stop-motion animation and special effects pioneer at this link.

There's also a video interview with some clips from the newly-released Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection DVD. It's nice to have Ray's early work included on one DVD, and a big thank you to the people responsible for putting it together. If you want to send me a review copy, I'd be very pleased to look at it!


Two different DVD collections have just been released with many of Ray's films. The packaging for the box sets are classy, yet adventurous, showcasing Ray's magical creations, like the Cyclops and Ymir, and characters from the films, like Sinbad. If you haven't picked up a few of these movies, the box sets are a good deal.

The Fantasic Films of Ray Harryhausen: Legendary Monster Series features Jason and the Argonauts, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver.

The Fantasic Films of Ray Harryhausen: Legendary Science Fiction Series features these classics: It Came from Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Mysterious Island, and H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon.

A new retrospective book on Ray's stop-mtion animation career was also recently released. Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life features over 300+ pages of history, never before seen concept sketches, movie production drawings, frame-by-frame deconstructions of special effect shots, and a foreword by Ray Bradbury.

Ray looks and sounds great for his age. He still does interviews, speaking engagements, and conventions, and I hope he's able to do so for years to come. If he's able to realize some of those ideas he's got floating around in his head, I have no doubt the final products would be nothing less than outstanding.
---
Amazon.com purchase links:


---
Amazon.ca purchase links: