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29th
Jun

Saudi Arabia Really Likes Flight Of The Navigator

Posted by Bradley under News

The King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture is Saudi Arabia’s new cultural center. And it’s future-gorgeous.

The design competition sanctioned by Saudi Aramco (see worlds largest oil company) featured five internationally recognized architectural firms — Snøhetta ultimately getting top billing. Wow indeed.

Now if only the United States could be inspired by such elegant architecture.

Larry Moore Loves His Melons

Posted by Bradley under Entertainment, News, Personal

Here are the hilarious screen grabs from last night’s station break during the Lost season finale! (OMG, BTW!) The look on the guy’s face in the background is priceless!

Seriously, did the producer set this up? Was Larry in on it? Cloverfield monster? Thank you TiVo!

Tags: Cloverfield Monster, Larry Moore, LOST, Melons

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27th
May

Mayor Releases Light Rail Plan, Favors Northland

Posted by Bradley under News, Personal

Thoughts?

http://www.kcmo.org/mayor/transit.pdf

Tags: Funkhouser, Kansas City, Light Rail, Mayor

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18th
May

The Godfather Negatives

Posted by Bradley under Movies, News

Paramount recently began a 4K (that’s twice 1080P resolution for you nerds) digital restoration of The Godfather — but finding the negatives was the first step.

More pics and the fascinating tale of discovery from American Cinematographer magazine at the link.

http://www.ascmag.com/magazine_dynamic/May2008/PostFocus/page1.php

Tags: 4K, American Cinematographer, Paramount, Restoration, The Godfather

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14th
May