Rolling Thunder™ presents:

There’s obviously a lot of talk about Toyota these days, so we’ll be brief with this one, as we certainly dont want you to come down with a serious case of Toyota-overload.
Anyway, so Lazhar discovered yesterday that the Irish Toyota site had been hacked! We thought that was really funny..!

Now get back to work!

We are pretty sure that this weird Japanese TVC from ‘78 did not have George Lucas’ blessing..

Following up on last week’s ultra-awesome toaster-printer, check out BuzzFeed’s article about the 35 most ridiculous SkyMall Items! There’s a whooole lotta wacky gadgets out there folks… A few of the favourites are the Automatic Cereal Dispenser, the Wrist Cell Phone Carrier, and the Siamese Slanket.. Man, I’d love to meet the people who buy this stuff!

To start the year off with a zing of creativity, the popular interactive artistic forum Pecha Kucha returns for its sixth installment. Organized by traffic, S*uce, and The Third Line, the evening will include 9 presenters from various creative fields. Photographers, a traveling teddy bear, a graphic comic artist and a children’s art organizationton name just a few will be part of the line up.

Pecha Kucha follows a 20×20 format which allows each of the evening’s presenters to showcase 20 images ‚ each shown for exactly 20 seconds. This gives the presenter 6 minutes and 40 seconds of much deserved fame before switching over to the next participant. Originating in Japan, Pecha Kucha (pronounced-peh-chak-cha) is Japanese for ‘chatter’ and was devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture.

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If you are designer, tech-geek and a lover of toast, surely Othmar Muhlebach’s toaster-printer MUST be your wet dream..???

Simply hook it up to your laptop (we’re holding out for a WiFi version) – load up a picture and send to the toaster – “print” the picture on your toast – continue watching The Goonies while eating your toast. Genius.

You know how it goes.
“I’d like to thank my producer, God, mama & papa, and all my fans.. *sob-sob-botoxed smile*
Yawn… We’ve heard it before, a gazillion times.

But some people actually make an effort.
A recent example of a cool acceptance speech was Wes Anderson’s for his film Fantastic Mr. Fox, that he, naturally, did as a stop-motion animation. Obvious, yes, but still cool.

But without a doubt the best recent “speech” was delivered by Fever Ray, after winning the Swedish award P3 Guld’s dance category the other day. Like her music, her acceptance speech is sheer brilliance.

Tell us what your favorite acceptance speech of all time!

Over at Aetuts+ they have over time collected a respectable amount of articles, tutorials, tips and tricks etc. Something that I’ve found really cool were these articles where they list and briefly describe who’s who in post. Two of the articles are AE focused, where as the other two are geared towards the major international post and VFX houses. Obviously they missed listing one or two facilities, like this major, major, über cool place called Rolling Thunder, for example hehe. Anywho, lot’s of goodness to be had in the below links in the forms of reels, resources etc, so czech it outtah!

Who’s Who in the After Effects World
Who’s Who in the After Effects World: Volume II
Spectacular VFX and Design Studio Roundup
Who’s Who in the World of Design Studios and VFX Shops

A time long time ago – before Facebook, celebrity blogs and Twitter – the uncontended office timewaster extraordinaire was a small game, known as Tetris! In those days Tetris ruled supreme. I remember, fondly, how we used to have small tournaments when the boss looked away (sorry Magnus, but apparently Tetris increases brain activity, so maybe it wasn’t a complete waste hehe). After a while it got a bit out of hand, and we all had to quit, using the Tetris 12-step program, but that’s a different story.

Anyway, enough with the sentimentality. Today I came across a completely new form of Tetris, the First-Person Tetris, or FPT. Give it a try HERE, it’s definitely more of a challenge than the original! But in this economic climate you’re probably better off only playing during lunch hehe. And don’t play drunk.

Apparently Photoshop turns 20 one of these days! Here’s über-legend John Knoll (founder of Photoshop and VFX wizard at ILM) reminiscing about the good ol’ days. Oh you get some bonus comments about his views on stereoscopic cinema etc as well.