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Star Wars Episode III Trailer

… aired last night during the O.C. (what the!?). I missed it as I was in a free Final Cut Express workshop at the Apple Store (the many more Iuvales I could have won if I had had those toys back in the days – extra points to those that comment on what I’m talking about).

But Nathan Berdowsky gracefully Tivo’ed it and reencoded as MPEG4. It’s a small 10 MB file (I got the large high quality 50 MB DiVX version off BitTorrent too).

UPDATE (3/12/2005): A much higher quality 30 MB MPEG4 version of the trailer has been posted.
UPDATE (3/14/2005): The trailer is now available (and much nicer looking) in starwars.com. Click here.

I am now officially an uncle

Joana just gave birth a few hours ago to two (if they look anyhing like me) beautiful baby girls.

Congratulations to Jaco and Joana and the new grandparents and the new great grandmothers and the new great-great grandmother and everyone else.

Update (3/7/2005): Ok, the names are in. Oldest one (by a few minutes, anyway) is Joelle (Yohevet in hebrew) and the other one is Liat (Leah in hebrew). That was easy, right? In case you’re wondering, I’m Meir.

The Magic Dragon

dragon_illusion

To the untrained eye, it may look like an ugly paper dog. But trust me, it’s a dragon.
All you do is put print out the instructions, cut it and tape it together. When you look at the paper dragon and move around it appears like the whole head rotates and follows you. In reality it doesn’t move, it’s just an illusion (no magic!?).

Continue reading to check out the amazing video clip I took (Quicktime required, what else?) or make your own.

To those paying attention… yes, that is a perfect rubber band ball behind the dragon. Another one of my creations (I like to keep myself busy). More on that some other time.

Note: there is a 98% chance my brother Jaco will build his own.
Continue reading The Magic Dragon

SXSW 2005

Lots of mexican bands this year in SXSW:

Album (Monterrey)

Cartel de Santa (Monterrey)

Conspiracion Alga 5 (Guadalajara)

Divisi�n Min�scula (Monterrey)

El Gran Silencio (Monterrey)

Inspector (Monterrey)

Ni�o Astronauta (Ensenada)

Pilaseca (San Miguel de Allende)

Plastilina Mosh (Monterrey)

Seis Pistos (Chihuahua).

Sussie 4 (Guadalajara).

Vaquero (Monterrey).

Volovan (Monterrey).

See the complete lineup

This goes on from March 11 till March 20. Any recommendations?

Update: One colombian band (Superlitio) will also be there.
Update 2: Jaramillo points out that Andre Echeverry will be there as well (vocalist of Aterciopelados)