Monthly Archives: October 2015
The Time Space Levitated
“Arx Pax has some other pretty exciting real-world results to boast about as well. SpaceX will be allowing teams to use the MFA technology in its Hyperloop competition, and NASA even wants to use the technology to move microsatellites around in space, working on a scale of centimeters to move and control CubeSats.”
–Christian de Looper, Tech Times
The Hendo Hoverboard (made by Arx Pax) has a big debut tomorrow of its next generation hoverboard on everyone’s date for the future: October 21, 2015. The design is reported to be sleeker and improved control, along with a couple new bells and whistles for those who reside in the tech corner (USB connectivity, anyone?). Arx Pax certainly has promising plans in the days and years to come, which is a great sign.
Why?
Because their ingenuity and persistence confirms a future where hovering technology will not frustratingly remain as a crazy idea from the past/future, depending on your understanding of the space-time continuum. Achieving our ultimate dream of owning and riding a nimble hoverboard that glides on any non-water surface and turns on a dime in the town square may or may not happen, but living in a world with things that hover is revealing itself to be quite possible.
That makes for a pretty cool future.
Tomorrow is October 21, 2015!
Ohio Against the World
Jesse Owens ran in a lane nobody thought was possible.
Rarely are sports simply about the competition alone. The undercurrents run much deeper and the motivation for an athlete can reveal their character. In the case of Jesse Owens, a once-in-a-lifetime runner and jumper, his finish line was different and more profound than everybody else on the track. The risk-reward for Owens was so great it extended beyond Ohio’s borders and got the attention of Nazi Germany and Hitler himself at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Ladies and gentlemen, you’ll never look at track and field or Owens the same way again after watching this brand new trailer for Race.
While it feels like a marathon to get the story of Jesse Owens told on the silver screen, his life on-and-off the track will win over our hearts and minds in a matter of seconds.
10.3 to be exact.
The Key to Nostalgia
The following video clip justifies why “Throwback Thursday” exists.
Masters of the Universe features worlds from other dimensions, the epic battle of good vs. evil, exciting action and a cast that includes Dolph Lundgren (He-Man), Frank Langella (Skeletor) and the fresh-faced 23-year-old Courteney Cox (Julie Winston).
After helping shape the world of Asgard, “Thor” scribe Christopher Yost is now ready to head to Eternia to help He-Man return to the bigscreen.
Sony Pictures and Escape Artists have tapped Yost to do a rewrite on its reboot of “Masters of the Universe.”
–Justin Kroll, Variety (August 19, 2015)
The major motion picture Masters of the Universe (believe it or not) from the ’80s set a very high bar for the current reboot to reach towards.
It defined this story and characters for entire generations.
This is a treasured franchise and the movie did essentially everything right for the time it was written and produced. Its clever adaptation, perfect settings, optimistic innocence, danger in the form of shooting lasers and a floating throne and the casting of known and unknown actors and actresses are just a few reasons why this film is an important superhero classic.
As your blogging friend, I highly-recommend this movie from a past dimension/1987!
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