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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Marvel's first family of superheroes, The Fantastic Four, meets their greatest challenge yet in "Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer" as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.


watch the trailer! looks great




Tuesday, December 26, 2006

New TMNT pics






Leonardo gets ready for a fight.


The garden fight: Karai and the Foot Ninja prepare to face the Turtles.


The Turtles, Splinter, April and Casey reflect on the battle they've just fought.

Monday, December 25, 2006

Talking about the weather

Melbourne's crazy weather continues as today it got pretty cold even though this is the middle of summer and only three days ago it was 40 degrees celcius. The victoria region sees this cold front as a belssing as it helps them with the fires that have been burning out of control all over victoria...

Second time it has hailed and i got another video which im going to post here. enjoy!

Merry Christmas

Sunday, December 10, 2006

300 latest trailer

This just keeps getting better and better...

TMNT

I have always been a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. First there was the cartoons and then there was the live action movies. At that time I did not know there were comic books on the characters. This new animated movie which is coming out on 30 March 2007 will derive its tone from the original comic-book series and will be slightly grittier than the previous live-action pictures. The animation will be created in Imagi's state-of-the art facility in Hong Kong.



View from the Animal Womb

A couple of weeks back I saw these amazing pictures of animals still in their wombs when they showed it on the news. Today I cam across the pictures again and I googled and found that these pictures are going to be in a movie showing on the National Geographic Channel in December. The two hour movie will show tiny pink elephant embryos, a teensy dog fetus with glowing blue eyes, and mini-dolphins swimming in their mother's belly. It will show in the United States on December 10 and in Germany on Christmas Day.

The film is made possible using technology developed at the beginning of the decade by veterinary scientist Thomas Hildebrandt, from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin. In addition to providing clear 3D images, his team was able to advance ultrasound techniques so as to make it possible to penetrate further than the 15 centimeters technology had allowed.

The result is a look inside the wombs of a wide variety of mammals, even including giants like elephants. Hildebrandt's system involves inserting an ultrasound scanner's head into the empty intestine of the pregnant elephant. When the fetus is visible, the ultrasound then goes into 3D mode, which produces up to 70 cross sections, which are then pieced together by a computer.

And viola! One can see the tiny eyes, trunk and wrinkles of elephant fetuses as young as 17 weeks. The technology is perfect for vets and for researchers.

Here are some of the pictures;



Monday, December 04, 2006

The Sun Sleeps in my Bed



I met a man who asked me
"Why are your arms so white?"
I told him I have sunscreen on.
He replied, "But its still night..."

I told him that was true; he asked me,
"Why are there sunglasses on your head?"
I told him the reason for all this is because
You see the sun, she sleeps in my bed!

Yes the sun sleeps in my bed!
Outrageous as it sounds, it is true!
She sleeps in my bed each night
And keeps me warm through and through!

The sunscreen keeps me from being burnt
By her brilliant heat; the glow she radiates,
Requires the use of sunglasses, though I am
Tempted to go without and leave it to the fates.

The man told me "you are very lucky!"
I replied that I am aware of what he said.
At the end of the day, when everyone sleeps
The sun, she goes to sleep in my bed!

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Pic of the day




Old Boy

I was at a friend's house sometime ago when he showed me some of the movies that he had and he showed me a trailer for a hindi movie called "Zinda" which starred Sanjay Dutt. Now the trailer actually brough back memories of another movie trailer that I had seen sometime ago and since Bollywood is notorious for taking more than its share of movie ideas from hollywood and other countries I was reminded of this movie "Oldboy" which I had heard a lot about some years ago.

This morning I finally got to watch "oldboy" and it was by far the best movie I had seen in quite a while. The only disappointment was at the very end of the movie; the last scene should not have been there and they should have just stopped the movie at the point where the "villain" dies after revealing everything. I am not going to go into details here for fear of spoiling things for those who havent watched the movie yet. But suffice to say that this is a movie worth watching.

As for the Indian version, I am hearing news that the producers are facing a lawsuit for "borrowing" the storyline from Oldboy scene to scene. Those who want to can read an indepth comparision of Oldboy and Zinda from wikipedia. I cannot do the comparision as I have not watched the indian version. And I don't have any intention of doing that anytime sooner.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Hail

Last wednesday was a day for freaky weather here in melbourne. This is a video I shot with my digital camera out of the indow in my apartment. It is five clips, each 30 seconds long and all have been joined together to make this video.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Bollywood in Melbourne

They are filming a bollywood movie in Melbourne at the moment and who else but the "great" Shah Rukh Khan is starring in it. They are looking for crowds for the hockey matches that are going to be staged for the movie. The hockey stadium where they are filming is pretty close to where I am residing and yesterday when my wife and I took the tram upto the city we passed the stadium. I was expecting lots of people there but there was only a handful on the audience stages. There were a lot of film crew and they were filming a India vs Australia match I think. Sort of like a hockey world cup.

Anyways if you are living in or around Melbourne and like to be part of this movie take a look at the flyer and go there. They are filming till the end of November so there is still some time.


Thursday, October 26, 2006

300 trailer

Take a look at the 300 trailer! It looks so frigging good. I cannot wait for this movie to come out...