Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Vans Cup! March 18th and 25th - 3PM Nationwide Vans Cup at Tahoe on Fox Sports Net This Friday and Next Set your Tivo and VCRs for Fridays, March 18 and 25, from 3-4PM on Fox Sports Net, so you do not miss what many of the world's top snowboarders called "the best halfpipe contest ever held" at the 2005 Vans Cup at Tahoe, taped live from Northstar-at-Tahoe. See Danny Kass, Andy Finch, Keir Dillon and Todd Richards take it to the next level with 15-foot airs, back-to-back 1080s and the biggest inverts ever caught on film in a pipe. But Pipe is just one piece of the Vans Cup at Tahoe, which also hosted one of the year's most competitive rail jams, as MFM, Scotty Arnold, and all the freestyle wizards stepped up their technical stylings. And you cannot pass up the chance to see an all-new discipline, The B.A.R., a modified slopestyle built to determine the world's best all-around rider, incorporating two rails, a 60-foot kicker, and one of the biggest quarterpipes ever built. The Vans Cup at Tahoe, taped live from Northstar, coming on Fridays March 18 and 25, from 3-4PM nationwide on Fox Sports Net. Chris Overholser Marketing Vans 15700 Shoemaker Ave. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 562.565.8372 http://www.vans.com 10:01:06 PM

For Ralf (Reblogged) German Monster Post (for Ralf). When I was in high-school, I bought an old 8mm projector at a thrift store. It was a beautiful piece of equipment, but a nightmare to operate; it broke down frequently, and burnt holes in my film with frightening regularity. But what I really liked about 8mm films were the cool boxes they came in, so I was delighted to find this superb collection of Super-8 films with 6 galleries of high-quality front and back cover scans, along with film synopses (auf Deutsch). Note that many of these film titles have been changed from their English version, to something more suitable for the German audience. For fun, I ran a couple through Babelfish and got predictably hilarious results: English: Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again German: Das ausgekochte Schlitzohr ist wieder auf Achse Babelfish: The Expenditure-cooked Slot Ear is Again on Axle English: W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings German: Ein Supertyp haut auf die Pauke Babelfish: A Supertype Strikes on the Bass Drum Apparently, Burt Reynolds movies don't translate well. schönen Dank, Filmtagebuch! [Eye of the Goof] 9:10:08 PM

media italiani I servizi Blackberry sugli Smartphone. Chissà perchè i media italiani stanno parlando dell'accordo tra Research in Motion (RIM) e Yahoo! per i servizi del blackberry, e ignorano l'altro accordo importante annunciato un paio di giorni fa tra RIM e HTC (il piÃ' grande produttore OEM di device CE) che a me sembra altrettanto, o forse piÃ', importante. Ne ho scritto poco fa su mobileblog lo riporto qui in un taglio diverso chiedendomi il perchè di certe scelte. Capisco che il primo annuncio possa essere interessante per le aziende, che vedranno Yahoo! Messenger preinstallato sui Blackberry, ma quanti di questi apparecchi ci sono in giro in Italia, specie in realtà enterprise? Stando alla mia esperienza ci sono molti piÃ' cellulari normali (di solito Nokia) e ultimamente Smartphone Windows Mobile, per cui è sicuramente piÃ' interessante il secondo annuncio. Misteri dei media italiani. [qix.it] 9:07:15 PM

Cinema Minima Podcast Cinema Minima Podcast: filmmaker Debbie Aston interviewed by Joe Jabbar. Debbie Aston In this podcast, English filmmaker Deborah Aston is interviewed by filmmaker Joe Jabbar, Cinema Minima's Correspondent in the English Midlands. Ms Aston's films include THE SPORTS WIDOW (A Red Carpet Media production) and CRUSH. She is chair of Women in Film & TV, Birmingham, England. • Podcast audio file in MP3 format. • Podcast audio file in OGG format. Joe Jabbar's Cinema Minima blog. Subscribe to Cinema Minima's podcast RSS feed [Cinema Minima] 8:50:42 PM