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Star Wars Is Everywhere: Episode XXXVIII Posted By Mike on May 4, 2011
Star Wars is Everywhere...especially today! May the 4th Be With You!
Ever wonder what TK-421's computer desktop looks like? Matt Chase at Behance.net gives us a look and it appears that Imperials are still using Mac System 6.
GlobalPost.com references Star Wars in a recent story detailing the impact of Mideast uprisings on Tunisia's Berber population...
"The cavernous, underground homes chiseled deep into the orange boulders along this mountainous stretch of the Sahara certainly feel like they belong in another galaxy.
More than 30 years ago, Hollywood director George Lucas must have agreed.
In 1977, Lucas chose a whitewashed, troglodytic hotel in Matmata as the backdrop for the boyhood home of Luke Skywalker, fictional hero of the classic Star Wars films.
In the world that Lucas created, this desert wilderness covered the planet Tatooine, a land of lawlessness just beyond the grip of the evil galactic empire.
For the real inhabitants of Matmata, that kind of freedom and autonomy from dictatorial power belonged only in the realm of science fiction ? that is, until Tunisia?s recent revolution.
The ouster of president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who was toppled on Jan. 14 after a countrywide uprising, created political and social reverberations even in this vast expanse of Tunisian desert."
Are you excited for the upcoming film adaptation of Green Lantern and if so, are you comparing it with Star Wars in any way? Star of the film Ryan Reynolds recently did so with the L.A. Times, as reported by Movieline.com.
For those who wish we Star Wars fans had a music festival to call our own, Matthew David Brozik and Jacob Sager Weinstein present the Tatunes Music Festival.
Members of the women's club Esther?s Grace along with members of the 501st Italica Garrison paid an April 20th visit to children at the Padova, Italy University Hospital. Check out the write-up and picture at the U.S. Army Africa site.
Han Solo's DL-44 Heavy Blaster falls in at #3 on io9.com's list of the best sci-fi handguns. (Thanks Justin!)
Exercise your brain with a GFFA crossword puzzle this fine Star Wars Day. Visit Puzzlehub.com to get started! (Thanks Benjamin!)
The Art of Immersion author Frank Rose takes a look at the Star Wars Generation through a blog post at TribecaFilm.com...
Adam Horowitz blames the whole thing on Star Wars. Horowitz?who with his writing partner, Eddy Kitsis, was an executive producer on LOST and a screenwriter for Tron: Legacy?remembers seeing Star Wars in Times Square with his mom when he was five. As soon as it was over, he wanted to go right back in.
?But there?s no bigger Star Wars geek than Damon Lindelof,? he admits. Lindelof, the co-creator of LOST with J.J. Abrams, was only four when he saw the picture. Years later, when ABC?s Lloyd Braun paired him with Abrams as the show was in development, Lindelof showed up for their first meeting wearing an original Star Wars T-shirt he?d gotten when he and his dad joined the Star Wars Fan Club. Abrams was wowed.
Lindelof, Abrams, Joss Whedon of Angel and Firefly fame?for a whole generation of Hollywood writers in their thirties and forties, Horowitz quips, ?Star Wars was a gateway drug.?
It was also a precursor to what we?re coming to expect in movies and TV. Shows in the past, Lindelof points out, went to great lengths to avoid unanswered questions. LOST was deliberately ambiguous.
?The show became an excuse to develop a community? online, says Carlton Cuse, who headed the production with Lindelof. ?And the basis of it was that people were able to debate open-ended questions?questions that we insisted be open-ended, and that would get fans engaged in the show.?
But years before the Web, with its boundless connectivity and its endless cascade of hyperlinks, turned entertainment into a spelunking expedition, Star Wars was a saga you could immerse yourself in at will."
Click here for the full blog post which touches on LOST, the EU, and more. (Thanks Matt!)
Is the Death Star a viable investment? Seattlepi.com does a little fun "overthinking" on the subject.
LA Weekly's Kieth Plocek recently featured the political Star Wars-inspired street art of Free Humanity through an interview and a slideshow of his work.
LonelyPlanet.com takes a look at what Star Wars can teach us about travel.
The Springfield News-Sun of Ohio reports on a collector who had approximately $1,500 of Marvel and Star Wars collectibles stolen from his home last week. The theft occured while the victim was out of town and looks to have involved breaking and entering.
As we like to do, let's catch up with some posts from the always-entertaining Official Starwars.com Blog...
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