Monologue 5: LOST Season Five Finale

WARNING TO LOST FANS: This video contains some (in my opinion) mild spoilers about the two-part season five finale of LOST airing on May 13th. I mention the episode's title and discuss some information from the episode's press release (including guest stars).

Here is the link to the full set of promotional pictures.

Here is the link to the official press release from ABC.

And, as promised, here is the complete list of guest stars for this episode:
Guest starring are L. Scott Caldwell as Rose, Sam Anderson as Bernard, John Terry as Christian Shephard, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana, Brad William Henke as Bram, Jon Gries as Roger Linus, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Andrea Gabriel as Noor “Nadia” Abed Jaseem, Kevin Chapman as Mitch, Mark Pellegrino as man #1, Titus Welliver as man #2, Emily Rae Argenti as young Kate, Tanner Maguire as young Tom, George Gerdes as Mr. Springer, Agnes Kwak as Aunt Soo, Amy Stewart as mother, Rylee Fansler as young Juliet, Savannah Lathem as young Rachel, William Makozak as Captain Bird, Daniel James Kunkel as anesthesiologist, Sonya Masinovsky as Russian nurse, Keegan Boos as young Sawyer, Colby French as Uncle Doug, John Pete as prison clerk, Michael Trisler as father, Sally Davis as woman and Adam Bazzi as cab driver.

Again, thanks to DarkUFO!

Monologue 4: Flip Ultra HD

If I wasn't broke as a joke, I'd buy one of these! It is the new Flip Ultra HD, and it's very cool! Here is the link to Gary Gannon's unboxing of the camera: GAX Online.

Cribs with Lizz Weidenbach

This is the Cribs video project I made with Lizz Weidenbach for MCOM 225. I had never seen a single episode of Cribs before I began this project. Every step of this project went very smoothly, especially the filming. It was great working with Lizz. She performed each take perfectly the first time, every time. It was also cool to learn that she is a LOST fan too!

The video is nearly 10 minutes long, but it did not seem like it even took that long to film! The toughest part was finding the time to film that worked for both of us, but once we did, it was smooth sailing from there!

All music used in this video is from FreePlayMusic.com

Monologue 3: Hulu App

Here is the article from Gizmodo.com that I talk about in this video. And since I made this video, I've heard that LOST and other ABC shows may be coming to Hulu soon, so that's good news!

Final Practical for MCOM 225 - LOST 100th Episode Celebration (with Cake!)

I made this video for my MCOM 225 final in honor of the 100th episode of LOST, "The Variable," airing this Wednesday.

A huge LOST themed cake was made by Ace of Cakes for an episode on the Food Network airing May 9th.

Check out these links for more pictures of the cast and crew enjoying the cake!
Pictures from DarkUFO
Pictures from Jorge Garcia's (Hurley) blog

The music used in this video is my favorite track from the LOST soundtrack, "Life and Death" by Michael Giacchino. The sound used in the transitions is the flashback sound from LOST.

A Hairless Chimpanzee? or Gollum from the LotR?

Sorry to my 6 very loyal followers about the lack of LOST posts recently, but so far on this week-long LOST hiatus I have found a couple of very interesting things, including this!:

Yes, that's a hairless chimpanzee!

I found this first on Digg.com, which linked to the image on Flickr. I don't know anything more about this outside of the fact that it was uploaded by RedEyedRex, who had this to say about the image: "This chimpanzee has his home at the Mysore Zoo. The chimp has lost all his fur/hair, which makes him look almost human. Freaky..."
Freaky indeed, but also awesome, unless the baldness is caused by some kind of harmful disease or mistreatment, then not awesome.

And thanks to users on Digg.com, here are some more pictures of hairless chimps:
Ashes, The Hairless Chimp
Oh, and this:
Haha!

Braille E-Book Concept is Amazing

I found this article titled "Braille E-Reader Concept Raises Dots with E-Ink" on Gizmodo, which linked me to this article at YankoDesign.com.

Apparently a braille e-book, similar in size and design to Amazon's Kindle and Kindle 2, is currently in development. The potential this product has is astounding. Visually impaired people will now have access to portable books, a luxury that has long been denied, due the fact that translating a book to braille often doubles its thickness.



According to the article on Gizmodo, the braille e-book "uses an electroactive polymer to raise the braille dots when a charge is passed through certain areas of the screen."

The designers on this project are Seon-Keun Park, Byung-Min Woo, Sun-Hye Woo and Jin-Sun Park.

Considering that this is such an innovative and interesting technology, I was surprised and disappointed that neither article contained very much information. I look forward to more information on this in the future.