This time lapse video cleverly puts LA inside a snow globe to create a wintery feel. I love it. The video was created by Colin Mika using 4000 pictures taken with a Canon 5D Mark II, tilt-shift lens, light bulb filled with water and paper cut outs. Happy holidays.
In what has become a part of racing memorabilia auction history, the Steve Mc’Queen suit which the star wore in the ‘Le Mans’ movie, has been sold to a bidder for $984,000. When one bars the sale of cars, this piece of racing memorabilia happens to be the most expensive single piece of automobile memorabilia ever sold at an auction. When one considers the fanfare and status of the movie, and that of Steve McQueen’s character, Michael Delaney, this suit would always have fans’ eyes fixed on it. Way back in 1971, Solar Productions had donated this suit to the British Newspaper, ‘The Independent’ for a Le Mans contest which took place shortly after the main parts of the movie was filmed. It was won by the then 12-year old Timothy Davies at the contest based, who had eventually put it up for auction again this time. The person to present the suit to him was Richard Attwood, who had won the Le Mans in 1970, and even gets a few moments in historic racing based movie. After being on the auction block then, the suit makes reappearance before finally landing up at the hands of a lucky winning bidder, who paid a total of $984,000 for it, thus making it the most expensive ever as a single piece of automobile memorabilia.
From all the specialties of the suit, it comes with Steve McQueen’s character’s name ‘Michael Delaney’ stitched on the side. So the current wearer, would perhaps ‘get into the skin of the character’, as some of the classic method actors would say.
Beats by Dr. Dre is getting ready to launch a new collection, the Beats Executive line of headphones. When their current offering was speaking to a younger consumer, the new Beats Executive headphones are sleeker in terms of design and just overall more premium in construction and of course also sound.
Features include noise cancellation, brushed metal finish, automatic shutoff feature to save battery life and pure, crisp audio integrity with soaring highs, deep bass, and true mids. It looks like they want to compete with Bose and the likes with this new collection.
Just to let you know these are the Bond Girls to star in the new Bond epic “Skyfall” to be released end of 2012. Always nice to know what we are going to wait for!
There is just no end to offering the heights in luxury and allow the world to be pampered to the highest levels. Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas is converting the tradition of movie-watching into something of a fantasy experience. Leather recliners we have heard of, but waiters and sushi? Well, that is what the Latin American theater chain plans to offer that with the Laguna Niguel theater in Southern California which follows Del Mar and La Costa. The Cinemas will screen movies in seven auditoriums which will boast a series of amenities like state-of-the-art digital equipment, HD, 3-D and Surround Sound technologies, custom-designed, high-back, leather recliners with plenty of foot space and a waiter service button where you can order gourmet finger-foods, artisan sandwiches, wine and cheese besides your regular popcorn and candies.
“The Takabisha roller coaster features a 130 foot drop at 121 degrees. Including seven major twists over 1000 meters of track, and a nerve-jangling drop of 43 meters.” It opens in mid-July at Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park in Japan.
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James Bond is a legend. So when Christie’s held its poster artwork auction in London recently, and when it broke a few world records, it didn’t come as such a big surprise. The 1971 Diamonds are Forever poster starring Sean Connery was grabbed up by an American collector for a whopping $129,970. It was hand-painted by Robert E McGinnis and signed by him. Another one that gained the record breaking limelight was a single sheet poster of the classic 1942 Casablanca which gained $49,020. The third one was the poster of the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia which attracted $30,638. Other record prices include Breakfast at Tiffany’s which sold for $20,228 and The Sting for $14,160.
Having always been a huge fan of the animated work of Pixar, we show you today the official HD trailer of their upcoming sequel to Cars, simply entitled ‘Cars 2′.
Charlotte Motor Speedway and Panasonic held an event yesterday to celebrate the completion of the new world’s largest HD screen, which measures at 16,000 square feet (200 feet wide and 80 feet tall). Of course, the only natural thing to do when face with a screen this size is to play videogames on it, and CMS got very meta by bringing out NASCAR driver and simulation racing fan Dale Earnhardt Jr. to turn a few laps on the track in iRacing on the brand new display. The 720p display, located on the backstretch, is big enough for fans seated along the front stretch of the track between turn four and turn one to have a clear view of replays, standings and stats all the way across the track. Its official debut will take place May 21st during the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race and will also take a turn as a massive HDTV airing clips of Top Gear USA during a History Channel sponsored race the week after
If Steve Jobs had a secret DJ alter-ego — DJ Vegan Monk, perhaps? — he’d probably do his spinning on the Hoerboard Scomber Mix Table (€1,700; roughly $2,300). Mixing a CNC-designed MDF top deck — customized to hold your gear, and sporting a built-in power point to eliminate unsightly cables — with a laser-cut, powder-coated steel support, the Scomber looks more than a little like an iMac that’s looking straight up at the sky — in a good way, of course.