News Reaction
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Long-lost film by ‘Star Wars’ art director could be offered for download
A long-lost film directed by Roger Christian, who served as art director for the first Star Wars movie, could soon be made available as a download, according to a comment given to Wired. Titled Black Angel, the 25-minute film tells the story of a medieval knight returning from the Crusades — it was originally shown before screenings of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in Europe and Australia, but the negative was lost at some point following this 1980 debut. An archivist at Universal Studios rediscovered the film last year and informed Christian, who has been debating how to re-release it ever since.
I remember this!
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Juxtaposition
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“As soon as Facebook stopped hyper-promoting frictionless sharing in news feeds, usage plummeted. In April, The Washington Post’s Social Reader had 12 million monthly active users. Now, it has about 600,000 according to AppData, a decline of 95 percent. The Guardian had nearly 6 million monthly active users of its Facebook app in April. Now it has about 2.5 million, a decline of about 75 percent.
Most Facebook users didn’t want this, for all the reasons we’ve discussed before — thoughtless sharing means little to your friends, can lead to faulty assumptions about why you read something and have a chilling effect on what you choose to read.
Frictionless sharing was an idea we tried. It failed.”—‘Frictionless sharing’ is an instructive failure of 2012 (via courtenaybird)
Instructive is generous.
(via journo-geekery)“Is” is a bit too present tense
(via journo-geekery)
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Apple iWatch Rumors Surface Again I continue to have this suspicion that the most interesting Apple-related news in 2013 won’t involve a television, but a wearable computing device. It’s starting to make too much sense. And they know that. And have known that.
Agree. The time is right this year.
It could well include ‘remote’ functionality for controlling said TV and any other iDevices too I’d guess - it would save looking for the existing Apple TV down the back if the sofa *again*..,
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Beautiful London at Christmas
Superb time lapse video of the great Capital’s decorations.
Proud to live here!
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Best of both worlds
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3417565&olo=rss
Nice review of Apple vs Google maps. It’s great to have the backup of a good search system, but Siri integration and simplicity is putting Apple Maps at the forefront for me.
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A professional response from Instagram
