Imaginarium

Dang, Keanu!

The Lone Gunman

Now here's some great news for X Files fans. The Lone Gunman, the three conspiracy minded gentlemen who became Mulder's info harvesting shadow army will be back for the revisit next year. That's very cool, and one step closer to capturing the feel of the old show.

Welcome back Byers, Frohike, and Langly!

Logan's Run

It looks like this classic Sci Fi movie is headed for a remake.

This news pops up now and again, as interested parties have a discussion about it and leak to the public their discussions...to gauge interest of course (not a bad thing, you have to gauge interest). And so the leaking is happening again.

Not really sure how I feel about this one. Most remakes are usually pretty good, but Logan's Run was really a good movie. And very timely for its day and age, with a less dystopian view of the future than one might imagine. All is well in the end...

Any its going to be hard to find someone as pretty as Jenny Agutter.

Armor Up

Triggered Invasion Didn't Happen

Our forlorn hope for an invasion from Pluto, triggered by New Horizon's space craft didn't happen. Many scientists predicted that the probe would actually spark a reaction from the planet's inhabitants, sending them careening across the solar system in a mad cap fashion, hell bent on destroying planet earth and enslaving its inhabitants!

But it didn't happen.

Not  yet.

Honestly, that planet looks bad ass.

Also, I'm tired of calling it a dwarf planet, that's just obnoxious and unnecessary. I'm just going to call Pluto a planet.

Movie Trailer ~ Mission Impossible Rogue Nation

Opens this weekend I think...

The Alley

Ortsmor

Word of the Day -- Octothorpe, Number Sign, Pound Key, Hashtag

Number sign is a name for the symbol #, which is used for a variety of purposes, including (mainly in Canada and the United States) the designation of a number (for example, "#1" stands for "number one"). In recent years, it has been used for "hashtagging" on social media websites.

The term number sign is most commonly used when the symbol is used before a number. In the United States, it is sometimes known as the pound sign (particularly in the context of its use on telephone keypads), and has been traditionally used in the food industry as an abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois. Outside of North America the symbol is called hash and the corresponding telephone key is called the "hash key", and the term "pound sign" usually describes the British currency symbol "£". The symbol is defined in Unicode as U+0023 # number sign (HTML # · as in ASCII).

The symbol may be confused with the musical symbol called sharp (♯). In both symbols, there are

two pairs of parallel lines. The main difference is that the number sign has two horizontal strokes while the sharp sign has two slanted parallel lines which must rise from left to right, in order to avoid being obscured by the horizontal musical staff lines.

It is often claimed that the use of the number sign for pound derives from a series of abbreviations for pound, the unit of weight.

According to this suggestion, the symbol goes back to the abbreviation lb. for "pound" (Roman term libra pondo or "pound weight"); this abbreviation was printed with a dedicated ligature type, with a horizontal line across, so that the lowercase letter "l" would not be mistaken for the numeral "1". Ultimately, the symbol was reduced for clarity as an overlay of two horizontal strokes "=" across two forward-slash-like strokes "//". An alternative theory is that the name "pound sign" is a result of the fact that character encodings have historically used the same code for both the hash symbol and the British pound sign "£". It is sometimes supposed that the problem originated in ISO 646-GB, but it seems more likely that it has its origin in Baudot code in the late 19th century.


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Daily Cosplay

Shooting To the End ~ Short Film

Yesterday we began shooting the a short film, To the End. We are working with Litzwire Sound + Vision to bring this thing to life, and so far its fantastic.

We are working with the production company Litzwire Sound + Vision.

The commercial is basically in two parts, the first out doors, the second in an old cabin. We  started filming late in the afternoon to get some ambient light, but good lord it was hot. It actually wasn't even that hot, only about 90 something, but the air was thick in the woods, and not a scrap of wind blowing anywhere. The humidity was high and we were all, very quickly bathed in sweat.

But no complaints from anyone. The cast and crew worked crazy cool in the crazy hot and made the first part come to life.

It was new for me. Something different this way comes if will. I've never been on the set for anything like this.

I will be tweeting from the second day of shooting (today), so please take a moment and follow me on TWITTER.

Here are some shots from yesterday's shoot: