After watching Inception I think I have an easy way to explain what complex object oriented programming can be like.
Next time someone asks “What is Programming like?” I’ll say something along these lines:
“Did you watch that movie “Inception”? Programming is similar, you build your own worlds, with your own rules (and worlds that can only exist in the abstract, sometimes very hard to explain in words), but now imagine that instead of dreaming in 4 levels (dreams inside dreams) you could be dreaming in about 12 levels down, but not only that, you could be having several dreams at once (each with several levels down), and most of the times some of these dreams have to share things with one another in order to make sense or they break.
So Programming is like Inception, but Deeper, In Parallel and Synchronized.”
I learned the trick from a couple of other videos in youtube, however I thought they were badly shot and I decided to make my own version from the point of view of the person taking the bra off.
Wish I someone had taught me this trick years ago, thanks Internet for being such a great teacher.
This week finally Joost launched their new web based version of the P2P Free TV platform. Since their last launch they’ve added loads and loads of new content. I happened to stumble across one of my favorite anime mini series Death Note yesterday. I had to pay for this content around february when I bought the DVDs on ebay (shipped from Japan), now everyone is lucky enough to view all the episodes for free on Joost.
Hats off to the Joost team for a re-launch that went way better than I expected. Thanks for listening to all the suggestions, I know I’ve been a pest.
About Death Note
From Wikipedia
Death Note is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook dropped on Earth by Ryuk, a shinigami (“death god”), that allows Light to kill anyone by writing the victim’s name in the notebook. The story follows Light’s attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him and his opponents.
Hope you get to read this post in the morning and you play it in your house while having breakfast (I can suggest, a baguette, orange juice and a coffee).
Will make you feel like in Paris, if you saw the movie Amelie.
Also, I must say I enjoyed Jumper, however it made me feel stupid when I had to walk out the theater and take a subway ride back home, let’s hope mankind can come up with a teleporting solution during the next millenium.
Or what I’d call, the Last Man Standing. I saw this trailer in the movie theater last night and really felt like going to see this movie. Being a New York resident its always impressive to see the city you live getting destroyed or changed so much after something that seems world war three or some kind of mankind elimination, specially when the trailer tells you something you often joke about with friends, which is “What would you do if you were the last man on earth?” (I like to put it more if it was me being the last man on earth with other 10 women and it was up to me to populate the earth)
If you don’t have quicktime, just hit play below to see it right here:
The misterious trailer right before transformers
But then I saw another trailer, which I could not get the name of the movie. It was shot with a home video camera, people were at an apartment somewhere in Broadway (Manhattan), they were basically like saying goodbye to a guy that was going to leave to Japan, and if I remember correctly, the lights go out, it feels like an earthquake, the camera goes to the window (it’s night time), and then there’w a HUGHE explosion coming from South Manhattan, people start running out of the apartment, sound goes in and out (the sound gets a lot better in the theater at this point If I remember correctly), then they go out the street, and swarms of people are running from south broadway, and you can see like a bunch of balls of fire falling everywhere, the camera runs, its really scary (I couldn’t help to think how scary it’d be if we were at war, the trailer with that camera made it feel more real), and then a Big metal piece, like the size of car falls on broadway, the camera turns, its the head of the statue of liberty, then I was so amazed I couldn’t tell the name of the movie, but a friend told me they didn’t put it, if somebody knows, please let me know what the name is.
UPDATE
So this is why the internet is beautiful, yesterday at lunch I told my friends about this trailer, and they were like, ah sure, whatever, but with the internet you get geeks like you that get excited about these really cool things, that in the end will make billions of dollars (like for example, the same thing happened to me the first time I read about The Matrix and nobody gave a shit when I told them about it, and now its a classic trilogy), so maybe this will be one of those things.
Thanks to RoRRO, Sebastian and JM for the info. They tell us this misterious trailer is an unwrapped project by J.J. Abrams, people have begun to take their cellphones to record the trailer on the movie theather, and all we have is this misterious website.
Ayer fui a ver Grindhouse y para mi sorpresa, en el primer feature de la funcion, Planet Terror, aparecen 2 chicas gemelas, en un sofa haciendose las uñas la una a la otra, y en medio del dialogo escucho las palabras:
“Ese carajito es una ladilla”, “No hables asi delante del carajito vale”, “Esta bueno”… y otras venezolanadas que no dejaron duda en hacerme saber que eran 2 chicas venezolanas.
Estas son las 2 bellezas Venezolanas, hacen de BabySitters pero sus rolls estan llenos de accion, sus nombres son Elise Avellan y Electra Isabel Avellan (y esos enlaces las muestran en IMDB que orgullo tan grande!)
Elise Avellan
Planet Terror es el primer feature de Grindhouse, y es la mejor pelicula de Zombies (o mejor burla de pelicula de Zombies) que he visto. Cabe destacar que me dio mucha lastima la gente ignorante que salio del cine cuando se acabo Planet Terror sin saber que habian pagado por un “Double Feature”, se perdieron un intermedio que me saco las lagrimas de la risa y tambien dejaron de ver “Death Proof” la pieza de Tarantino para Grindhouse. Esta pelicula sera tan o mas memorable que Pulp Fiction o Kill Bill, es demasiado demasiado comico lo que hicieron este par de locos, con un estilo sesentoso barato, exagerado, pero con mucho dinero, tremendo cast y ademas arropados por la produccion ejecutiva del monstruo Weinstein. (Se van a cagar de la risa con el trailer de “Machete” antes del primer feature, se van a acordar de mi)
En el primer feature las gemelas tienen varias lineas que hacen reir al publico (Una agarra una ametralladora y dice “Fucking Cool” y el publico se fue en carcajadas).
TroubleMaker Studios / Elizabeth Avellan + Robert Rodriguz Production Company
Elise Avellan aparece en Wikipedia y ambas son sobrinas del director de Planet Terror, el Mexicano/Americano Robert Rodriguez, quien se divorcio en Abril de 2006 de la Productora Venezolana Elizabeth Avellan. Ella y Robert fundaron Troublemaker Studios, que es la empresa productora de nada mas y nada menos de peliculas como Sin City (por eso creo que pueden meter en Grindhouse gente como Bruce Willis que saliera en Sin City), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (el final de la trilogia el Mariachi con Antonio Banderas y Salma Hayek), Spy Kids, y Sin CIty 2 que esta aun realizandose para cuando escribo este articulo. Que orgullo saber que una empresa productora de tal Calibre tiene en una de sus bases una mujer Venezolana, que orgullo!. (Para los estudiantes o profesionales de tv y cine, Troublemaker studios trabaja con Avid y ProTools 🙂 )
Y sino tienen idea de que carajo es Grindhouse, aqui les dejo el Trailer. No se la pierdan.
PS
Y a los que me vengan con la estupidez de decirme que esta pelicula es mala, o que Kill Bill fue mala, o que Pulp Fiction fue mala, o que Natural Born Killers fue mala… como dice el amigo Iracundo, EL CONO E TU MADRE MALDITO BURRO ILETRADO SIN CONCEPTO DE LO QUE ES IR AL CINE, simplemente no entiendes de que se trata ver un film de Tarantino, y jamas lo vas a entender, por que no entiendes lo que es un ejercicio de retro-film y post produccion. La pelicula fue filmada en HD y post producida para parecer un film viejo, esto se le agradece a los poderes de Robert Rodriguez y su casa de produccion.
Creo que fue bien, pero no como para verla dos veces.
Los graficos muy arrechos, la pelea brutal, excelentes slow motions, pero no veo motivo para volverla a ver en el cine de pana. No te deja picado en lo absoluto, es una historia muy sencilla, supongo que es lo que se espera de una pelicula de batalla.
En algunas partes pude hacer analogias de contexto politico, pero nada que ver, cualquier debate o rumor que sale en las noticias que la pelicula tiene tinte politico me parece que son interpretaciones de fanaticos.
Mi veredicto seria el siguiente para cerrar:
Buenos efectos especiales, composicion y fotografia
Buena Pelea
El publico gay se va dar banquete, puro macho papeao y depilado corriendo en interiores, y el rey de los persas es un rolo e negro marico que se saca las cejas.
PS: Una anecdota al mejor estilo Larry David en Curb Your Enthusiasm. Cuando venia de vuelta, entra un pordiosero a pedir real en el metro, se para en frente de mi, y pillo que en un bolsillo del pantalon el carajo tiene un celular, le digo a mi novia, pilla la vaina, tiene un celular, cono e su madre, para verificar que es la parte de arriba del celular se me ocurre sacarme el celular del bolsillo, justo en ese momento, el carajo voltea y me dice “Thank you brother”, y yo no tenia ni un centavo en el bolsillo y le digo “Sorry, I’m just taking out my cellphone”, y en eso el carajo me dice “Another Fucking Pretender”… y yo por dentro “EL CONO DE TU MADRE MALDITO MOJONERO TIENES UN CELULAR TU TAMBIEN”, en eso el tren se mueve, y se le caen los reales en mis pies… jeje, recojo los reales y se los pongo en la mano, y el hijo de puta no me da las gracias, me vuelve a decir “Fucking Pretender”… de vaina empieza a sonar el theme song de Curb Your Enthusiasm.
El ano pasado tuve la suerte de ver el trailer de 300 en el cine (mas abajo linkeado desde youtube), y por supuesto se me olvido el nombre de la pelicula.
Luego salio por ahi una pelicula llamada The Fountain que me recordaba al trailer de 300 a cada rato, pero era una tortura no recordar el nombre “300” pq no podia contarles, pero de todos modos, ese trailer no se le acercaba ni por las patas a las imagenes de 300.
Total que anoche viendo Heroes en NBC en uno de los cortes pusieron el trailer y tuve que venir a escribirles este post antes de que se me olvide.
De los creadores de Sim City, la historia de 300 Espartanos que pelearon contra un ejercito de un millon, contada al estilo de un comic book (Basada en el Comic Book 300 de Frank Miller), con imagenes y colores brutales. Que alguien me diga por favor cual es la cancion del trailer.
Death Note is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook dropped on Earth by Ryuk, a shinigami (“death god”), that allows Light to kill anyone by writing the victim’s name in the notebook. The story follows Light’s attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him and his opponents.
