I stumbled across the Star Wars Uncut project a couple years ago, then forgot all about it. Well, it’s alive and well and there’s some fantastic stuff being made for it, including Malcolm Sutherland’s great animated bits.
So, while you should go and watch the entirety of Star Wars Uncut, I heartily recommend that you spend some time at Malcolm’s site and check out his videos. I really dig his style and wanted to share a couple highlights here.
Let me start off by stating that I’m not one who advocates tossing garbage out the car windows, and I think it’s a good thing to recycle and simply accumulate less stuff. I’m also not one who is aboard the Greenpeace vigilante train, because I think they’ve got some priorities just as out of place as those they’re seeking to bring down (because of mis-placed priorities.) And with that out of the way…
Let’s enjoy a couple fun videos that combine my enjoyment of Volkswagen and Star Wars. In case you missed it, this VW spot was one of the most viewed ads of the year. It features a young Darth Vader unsuccessfully using the force all around his parents house. But he gets it right when he uses it to start his dad’s VW.
Next, Greenpeace parodies the VW ad. My only comment is that I’m happy to own two VW TDIs that get better milage than most other cars out there per litre of petroleum distillate.
And, kids dancing (badly) in StarWars costumes, the Danish version!
Now that we are somewhat used to the new addition to our family, I’ve been trying to spend more time with the Dude. Something that we’ve been doing together as a dad-and-eldest-son-exclusively lately is taking a “snow walk” in the evening. It started out just walking around the block, on neighbourhood streets covered with snow. Then it became walking down the back alleys (don’t worry, I live in a residential neighbourhood, I’m not taking my two-year-old dumpster diving or anything like that… yet.) Sometimes we (he) crawls along the boulevards/snowbanks.
Now that there’s enough snow, we’ve been hitting the sledding hill beyond our backyard. So, our snow walks have turned into sledding outings, and the Dude loves it! I shot some video one evening of him having a riot while hurtling down the hill in his little “baby sled.” That last slide still makes me smile and I’ve watched it dozens of times.
What do you think? Am I in for trouble when he gets older?
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I haven’t seen an Apelad cartoon since I (tried to) shut down my flcikr account. But one came across my view today that I had to share. I present, the seven deadly sins of Star Wars. Man, let me tell you, I’m totally guilty of Greedo.
But really, I’m thinking that George committed at least seven other sins in Star Wars, the least of them being Episodes I, II and III. No, maybe those are the greatest. That’s not true. I liked most of Episode III. But Jar Jar? Man.
What do you think George Lucas’ greatest “sins” in Star Wars are?
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I stumbled across the Star Wars Uncut project a couple years ago, then forgot all about it. Well, it’s alive and well and there’s some fantastic stuff being made for it, including Malcolm Sutherland’s great animated bits.
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