“Hey, Doctor Jones, no time for love. We’ve got company!”
-Short Round
What better way to celebrate Singles Awareness Day than to geek out with the new trailer for the fourth Indiana Jones movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
Is Harrison Ford too old to eat solid foods? Will Shia Leboeuf pull off a convincing 50s greaser? Will this movie be more patriotic than Spider-Man 3? We’ll find out May 22nd.
As you wish, my unusually sized rodent friend!
We rang in the Chinese New Year by making some noodles, which oddly enough is how we celebrate Thanksgiving too. Noodles are supposed to symbolize a long life on Chinese New Year and on Thanksgiving it means that your parents don’t know how to celebrate American holidays. It is also the year of the Rat in the Chinese Zodiac, which comes around every 12 years, and signifies luck for everyone born on this year.
Also on Chinese New Year, CCTV has a huge variety show event that includes singing, dancing, comedy skits, and a lil thing called Wushu, which is more popularly known around the world as Kung Fu. Here’s the best clip I could find of yesterday’s performance:
UPDATED WITH BETTER QUALITY VIDEO 2/9/2008
The performers in the middle are some of China’s top competitors from the 2007 All China Games.
If you’ve ever seen some commercials that feature people jumping off rooftops and stairs in urban areas or watched the opening scene of Casino Royale, you’ve probably seen Parkour or Free Running before.
Usually these terms can be used interchangeably, but purists differentiate the two with the distinction of Parkour going from one point to another as efficiently as possible, while Free Running is a sort of philosophy where more freedom of movement is involved. I I have always been amazed at what these athletes could do but this video (via Digg) takes the cake - combining Parkour/Free Running and Soccer:
It seems to be viral marketing for the game, FIFA Street 3. Is this just extremely convincing CG or amazingly precise acrobats?