Do you remember “Back to The Future 2″? Do you remember when Doc and Marty go to the future, but then Old Biff steals the time machine from them to go back and change the past? Well there is something that has always bothered me about that. You see, Biff went from 2015 to 1955 and altered the course of time by giving Young Biff the sports almanac. Young Biff then wreaks havoc by making a million bucks and ruining Hill Valley. However, after Old Biff gives his younger self the sports almanac he then uses the time machine to go back to the future from where he stole it and gives the car back to Doc and Marty. BUT, we all know that this couldn’t have really happened, don’t we? Because by giving Young Biff the almanac, he drastically changed the course of time so that the time from which he stole the time machine, wouldn’t exist anyway would it?
Sorry for the long rant but that always really bothered me. However, for Al Cabino there was something else that bothered him. He wanted his own pair of those sweet kicks that Marty wore in the future. In fact, he wanted them so badly that he made an online petition about it that he hopes will one day sway Nike into mass producing the things for consumer use. Crazy? Not at all. I mean, I’d buy some. What’s crazy is that giant plot hole about Biff in the time machine, but whatev…
The romantic geek is a strange breed. One such example here shows a man proposing to his girlfriend through the live webcam Apple set up to monitor their upcoming 24×7 store in New York. I just hope his girlfriend happened to be watching the site at that exact moment or this whole act of public humiliation would have been for nothing.
This costume is simply amazing. The maker of this costume should probably get a job in Hollywood for special effects.
This Stone Golem was constructed using about 5 foam mattresses, over 50 sticks of hot melt glue, and 8 cans of grey and black spray paint. The foam is glued in large thick sheets (approx 20cm thick) to a fabric bodysuit, and the deep cracks are carved into the foam surface. The bodysuit has a zip up the back to allow the wearer to enter it, and the zip is concealed by abutting foam. The soles of the feet are made of corflute that has been sliced in half to expose corrugations that act as grip. The arms are about twice the length of the wearer\’s arms, and act as swinging weapons made entirely of soft foam. The golem took about 100 hours of work to construct, between 3 people. On its first appearance, the Stone Golem sent twenty bold adventurers into a hasty retreat without so much as touching them.
So this is what trendy NYU students do when they get bored. This project, perhaps inspired by the world’s largest Tetris game, combines alternate reality technology with public art as the classic arcade game Space Invaders is played out on the side of a building. Projected from the street below, alien space ships stroll across the building while the player uses his own body to interact with the game. Mix this public retro gaming with some techno music and the hipster experience is complete.
