It only took Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta reshot two years to complete all 80 minutes of ‘Toy Story’ in live action using actual toys. More here. [Thanks, Lark!]
It’s basically the ability to search amongst your friends.
Graph Search and web search are very different. Web search is designed to take a set of keywords (for example: “hip hop”) and provide the best possible results that match those keywords. With Graph Search you combine phrases (for example: “my friends in New York who like Jay-Z”) to get that set of people, places, photos or other content that’s been shared on Facebook. We believe they have very different uses.
Another big difference from web search is that every piece of content on Facebook has its own audience, and most content isn’t public. We’ve built Graph Search from the start with privacy in mind, and it respects the privacy and audience of each piece of content on Facebook. It makes finding new things much easier, but you can only see what you could already view elsewhere on Facebook.
I’m dubious of the privacy claims and the feature isn’t available on mobile apps yet. But, if you aren’t building for mobile first at this point as a developer then you are woefully out of touch with reality. Facebook should consider changing it’s motto to: “Making it even easier to stalk old girlfriends.”
When it comes to Gary Busey, you’re guess is as good as mine. Here he is explaining what Hobbits are. Like this: “Imagine havin a team of hobbits come with you to clean cockroaches out of a house. They’d be gone in thirty minutes.”
Or this: “Can’t tell the boys from the girls, which must make it exciting for them. You know, just finding out what that apparitus (?) says. Girl or boy. And they travel in packs of four. Because you never know what a hobbit’s going to do, and you know he isn’t going to do it by himself.”
It is amazing. [via filmdrunk]
Trey Parker and Matt Stone decide the best studio for them and projects they care about is the one they control:
Parker and Stone will use revenue from their very successful South Park, now in its 16th season on Comedy Central, and their Broadway blockbuster Book of Mormon to fund Important Studios to produce TV, Theater and Feature film projects – like a movie based on their Tony Award winning musical. But it’s not just their money on the table. In a deal partially orchestrated by WME’s Ari Emanuel, boutique bank The Raine Group have reportedly $60 million in Important Studios for approximately 20% of the company.
Money quote: “Having worked with several different studios over the years, we came to realize that our favorite people in the world are ourselves,” said Parker and Stone. “We hope to work with ourselves for a long time and are excited to now work with ourselves in a much greater capacity.”
Now that Disney owns both ABC and LucasFilm, it seems the company is considering moving ahead with the long-gestating live-action Star Wars television series.
It sounds as if ABC believe the Star Wars show could be the equivalent of what a ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ TV show would be in the Marvel/Avengers movieverse. I wouldn’t hold your breath on this one — even if it does get made, what are the chances it will be any good?
The crazy thing about this meal, is that anyone could probably cook this for a few friends and family with little problems. Of course, it helps if you were as rich as Bittman and Sifton to afford this food and the incredible kitchen in which to cook it. [via doobybrain]
“Suit & Tie,” with production courtesy of Timabaland and a guest verse from Jay-Z, is Timberlake’s first new single in six years. Here’s his open letter to the world announcing the new song and album:
An Open Letter to you (the fans):
I hope this gets to you the right way. It’s the only way I know to do it. Some people may criticize me for the last 3 days. But it was fun, right?? Right?!?! Besides, I’d rather speak directly to all of you. And, who can knock me for having a little bit of fun with it?
Well… No more teasing. Although, it was A LOT of fun. (Did I mention that I’m having fun with this?? Ha!)
*Makes a serious face*
So, here goes:
This year is an exciting one for me. As you probably have heard through the “grapevine,” I’m gearing up for a big 2013.
Back in June of last year, I quietly started working on what is now, my next journey with that thing I love called MUSIC.
The inspiration for this really came out of the blue and to be honest, I didn’t expect anything out of it. I just went into the studio and started playing around with some sounds and songs. It was probably the best time I’ve had in my career… Just creating with no rules and/or end goal in mind and really enjoying the process.
What I came up with is something I couldn’t be more excited about! It is full of inspiration that I grew up listening to and some newfound muses that I’ve discovered along the way.
I’m calling it “The 20/20 Experience,” and it’s coming out this year.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.
That’s all I’m giving you for now… I know, I know! Again, with the teasing!!!
Get ready. This is going to be fun (well, at least it is for me).
As the gang at Uproxx point out: “For perspective, when FutureSex/LoveSounds came out in 2006, Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” was a hit and 30 Rock hadn’t premiered on TV yet.” Yowzas.
I like it though, it’s catchy and funky and kind of great for a Monday morning.
The circle of life my friends. The sad, harsh, and undeniable circle of life. [via 22words]
A Hunger Games parody to start the new season? Hellz yeah. Community Season 4 premieres Thursday February 7th at 8PM on NBC. [via filmthrasher]
Nearly 20 years ago, Art Spiegelman, Maus
author and illustrator, drew a cover for The New Yorker of a bunch of school kids getting off the bus armed to the teeth with guns. It doesn’t seem so far removed from the rhetoric being spewed by the gun lobby in the wake of the Newtown massacre.
Spiegelman said this recently about the cover on his Facebook page: “I did this New Yorker cover in 1993. Colombine happened in 1999, Newtown in 2012, nearly 20 years later. My wish for 2013: let Newtown be remembered as the turning point—I’m hoping that kids with guns can become ironic again.” [via dangerousminds]
