the hunger games posters the hunger games pictures The Hunger Games
Genre:Action and Adventure, Drama Official Site:http://www.thehungergamesmovie.com/ Director: Gary Ross Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Wes Bentley, Toby Jones, Amandla Stenberg, Alexander Ludwig, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jacqueline Emerson, Paula Malcomson, Dayo Okeniyi, Jack Quaid, Leven Rambin, Willow Shields, Lenny Kravitz Writers: Gary Ross, Billy Ray, Suzanne Collins
The former army captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), brought to the region on Mars Barsoom, where he was involved in an epic conflict among the world's population, including tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe), Princess Dejah Thoris and Liberation (Lynn Collins) of enemy prisoners. In a world on the edge of destruction, Carter realizes that the life of Barsoom and its inhabitants in hand
Lifted from the classic science fiction novel A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Produser : Colin Wilson, Jim Morris, Lindsey Collins Produksi : WALT DISNEY PICTURES Sutradara : Andrew Stanton
Nah, just kidding. What I meant to say is that The Simpsons show had an opening sequence parodying the Game of Thrones opening. I'm a big fan of the Simpsons and Game of Thrones. I absolutely love the Simpsons for their parodies and seeing their version of the Game of Thrones opening just amazed me. They did a great job, making the animation with great similarity and homage to the original sequence, right down to using the original score, the flaming rings transitions, buildings rising from the ground, the spinning gears and machine parts, the aerial view of the map, the growing tree and even some of the names (eg. Burns Landing a parody of Kings Landing). You have to see the videos together to appreciate the amount of effort they've put in. It's stuff that this that keeps me addicted to the show.
I've embedded the Simpsons opening, Game of Thrones opening and just for fun, a rock-violin cover of the highly cinematic Game of Thrones theme. Enjoy.
Opening Sequence of The Simpsons - Season 23 Episode 15 - 4 March 2012
Opening Sequence of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones Theme Covers by Jason Yang and Roger Lima
A simple meme comic I made regarding the New iPad name.
After many, many rumours of a new iPad for months after the release of iPad2, Apple has released their new iPad and named it, well, "The New iPad".
The internet has been abuzzed with rumoured names like: 1) iPad 3 - a direct sequel to iPad 2. 2) iPad 2S - following the naming sequence of the iPhone 3G-3GS and iPhone 4-4S. 3) iPad HD - following rumours of a Retina Display screen.
Apple officially unveiled their new iPad and just called it that, The New iPad, showing everyone time and time again that Apple rumours are what they are, rumours. This new iPad is essentially the iPad 3rd generation, going by the same naming convention as their iPod, iPod Nano and iPod Touch lines. It'll probably just be released as iPad, further adding to the confusion.
With that out of the way, here's just a quick summary of what the new iPad is all about:
1) 9.7" Retina Display (3.1million pixels, 2048x1536 resolution) 2) 5 MP BSI camera 3) Dual Core A5X processor w/ quad core CPU 4) 3G/4G LTE antenna 5) 652g (heavier than iPad 2) 6) 9.4mm thick (thicker than iPad 2) 7) iOS 5.1 8) 10 hr battery life (claimed by Apple) 9) 16/32 GB storage (non-expandable)
And that's about it. If you're wondering, what's so special or ground breaking about this new tablet, the answer is nothing, or unless you want to count the Retina Display. It has a nice screen, good colours though artificially saturated by the GPU, high resolution display. It is a worthy upgrade from the original iPad but it hardly warrants the upgrade from the iPad 2.
With Apple setting the benchmark (whether good or bad, you decide), the competition will find ways to try to best it. Android tablets are coming out strong, with some tablets already better than the new iPad specification-wise. In terms of performance, Android is not as smooth or may not have the same eye-candy as iOS, but apps on Android are more stable and crash less often according to a recent study. Furthermore, Windows 8 tablets are just about to show themselves later this year and are already looking pretty good themselves, as can be seen in the demo below. Also Windows 8 has the advantage of being able to run in both a tablet mode and a desktop mode on the tablet, thereby allowing more flexibility and possibly heralding the true tablet PC though this still remains to be seen.
In the end, tablets are still a new commodity and their future is still yet unpredictable. It will still be as exciting to see how they will turn out to be a year later as it is now, 2 years after Apple released the first iPad.
Early summer of 1956, the American film star Marilyn Monroe set foot in England for the first time. For the honeymoon with her husband, Arthur Miller, Monroe came to England at once for the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl which unites him with the flick of Sir Laurence Olivier, legend movie theater and the England players legend has it that he directed and also played in the film
The same summer, Colin Clark, 23, was assigned to the kalianya for the first time on film. He had just graduated from Oxford, Clark was inspired to work as a director and the crew of the Prince and the Showgirl. Forty years later, he recounted his experience, six months, wrote in his diary, entitled The Prince and the showgirl
But not a week newspaper has disappeared from his diary Less than a year later, Clark reveals the reason. In a report entitled Through Sunday told me that it tells the true story of a special week to spend its own with world class stars .... week with Marilyn
Now that the SOPA fever has died down.. Let me remind everyone that there is another more dire bill coming up in the European Union and this is the one to watch. This bill will not only destroy the web, but also the individual, you and me. It is called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The supposed reason behind ACTA is similar to SOPA, to protect intellectual property. It was first drafted in 2008 and has gained many signatures including from Singapore on 1 October 2011.
Now this is what ACTA does: 1) forces Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as Singnet and Starhub to scan and track every single data packet to and from every internet user. 2) any counterfeiting of copyrighted materials detected will allow the ISPs to deny internet service to the user 3) furthermore, the ISP is required to inform the publisher of said copyrighted material, who will then decide if the user will be charged in court
You may think you're safe but wait.. ACTA gives permission to all ISPs to monitor every single user. Everyone will be under constant surveillance. There is no more privacy, every single website you visit, facebook posts, tweet, youtube video, etc etc, will be under scrutiny. ACTA grants so much power that even if you were to buy a single MP3 song online and transfer over email or MSN to a friend, BOTH you and your friend will be prosecuted.
Some examples that will get you prosecuted under ACTA: 1) Sharing copyrighted material online, through MSN, Skype, Dropbox, etc. 2) Uploading copyrighted music, videos or homemade videos with copyrighted music on video sites like YouTube, Facebook video, etc 3) Quoting a line out of a copyrighted song, novel, newspaper article, etc.
NO ONE IS SAFE
If you had thought SOPA is bad, ACTA is worse. SOPA only has the power to shut down websites that are suspected of copyright infringements. ACTA attacks websites AS WELL AS goes straight to the individual, removes privacy and freedom of speech by constant surveillance. Like SOPA, ACTA also allows censorship of audio, video and text. Governments that signed ACTA can leverage its power to censor anything it desires such as politics. This results in the individual losing their civil rights. Any offenders can be prosecuted. What this means that in future elections such as the General Elections 2016, government critical tweets, facebook and blog posts can be censored.
This is just a very quick summary of what ACTA is about, there are many more underlying regulations that will be enforced. It also does not help that further discussions on the bill are kept secret. Bills such as SOPA and ACTA are favourable to governments since it can be used as a weapon. SOPA may have been denied after last week but ACTA has gained momentum and quietly.. As of now, countries such as Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United States have already signed the bill. The bill will be negotiated after 31 March 2013 by the European Union. If the bill should pass, get ready to be very afraid.
PS: We can't do anything since Singapore has already signed it. We just have to wait till next year to find out the future of our online privacy and civil rights. In the meantime, all we can do is keep each other informed.
