February 9, 2012
This is a personal "Activboard" that kids can plug into netbooks.
These have been in the building for months and I just found out about them today.
It's a big building.
Linkage:
by Angela Watercutter on Wired
There really aren’t enough words to describe how awesome Max Landis’ explanation of the death of Superman is. But we’ll try.
In the new video, Landis tries — with alarming dexterity, considering his Johnnie Walker Red Label consumption — to explain why The Death and Return of Superman was, well, kind of BS.
“The sacred suspension of disbelief as far as death had ended,” says Landis, son of director John Landis and writer of now-in-theaters superhero flick Chronicle. “The Death of Superman didn’t kill Superman, it killed death.”
But this short film isn’t about the conclusion so much as it is about the journey. As Landis goes on what could easily be one of the best angry nerd monologues of all time, his explanation of the events are acted out on screen with wonderful cameos from Mandy Moore (Lois Lane), Elijah Wood (Cyborg Superman) and Simon Pegg, who is disguised as John Landis and is explaining the crap rules that govern vampires in much the same way the director described werewolf laws to Wired not too long ago.
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