Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

Welcome to Station 6: The Orchid

More on the Mysterious Casimir Effect, a principle of Quatum Field Theory.

Also, we're thinking of adopting a new dog and naming him Neils Bohr, is that too much?

Be Here Now... next week

We've gotten a few emails asking what we've thought of our beloved Lost now that everybody's favorite dramatic workhorse Heros is on another season stretching (although hard-earned) hiatus. Which brings us this new trend in television series: The "Mini-Season."

We're not big fans. Although television shows have been known to break a season into two parts in the past, we believe it's only recently that "the power that be" (read: 5 Jew Bankers) have had the audacity to split our favorite show's season into 3 parts.

In fact, we would point to the last "break" that Lost took as the main reason it squandered so much of it's momentum, not just on-screen, but in our collective consciousness. The last couple episodes of Lost have been really good, but they are totally playing catch-up. This week's "Par Avion" was really awesome, *spoiler* and they totally got us with that Jack running miss-direction at the end... */spoiler* at least for a second. Equally as exciting was the preview for next week's episode "The Man from Tallahassee." It's a John Locke centered episode, and it looks like Locke is ready to go on a kill-crazy rampage!

Another interesting thing about next week's episode, and this should be of particular interest to Matt-o over at Ablebody. The wikipedia page for the episode has actor Nestor Carbonell listed as playing Richard Alpert. Also known as Baba Ram Dass, the REAL Dr. Richard Alpert was best buds with Timothy Leary. Both of whom were fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting tests on their synthetic version of psilocybin, the stuff that makes certain mushrooms "magic."

Richard Alpert's book on spirituality: Be Here Now

In art school my best friend and roommate grew mushrooms in our closet in a meticulously cleaned styrofoam cooler. Despite the fact that my buddy was one of the messiest dudes I've ever known, his cooler full of mushroom spores was totally spotless, and painfully cared for. We used to draw pictures of him sitting atop his great trash heep holding only a sparkling clean cooler. Also, he used Lysol to disinfect the cooler (spores are finicky about bacteria) so anytime somebody cleans a bathroom I start tripping.
Just kidding... OR AM I?!?

Anyway, Back to Dr. Alpert... What significance does Richard Alpert's name have to the mythology of Lost? I hope we find out!

When good Shows go Bad.

On and on I go, about how great television is... Then out of the blue (sort of) two of our most favorite shows get all crappy. Seriously, what's the deal?

We are 3 episodes down the bad television rabbit hole with our beloved Lost. I keep waiting and waiting for something important to happen, and important things keep *almost* happening. But not quite... Tonight they have another opportunity to disappoint me, and I'll be there, waving my Lost 2006 TV Show of the Year Pennant like a true fan. Even the Stephen Hawking and Black Hole easter eggs haven't been enough for us, and they won't be until they are backed up with something of substance. Like a plot point!

Oh Battlestar Galactica! Why are you doing this to us? The first sign of trauma was the much hated "Boxing" episode. Where the entire cast takes a break from being hunted by killer robots to HAVE A BOXING TOURNAMENT?!?! We've even begun a meme in it's honor, anytime an episodic drama pulls the "one-off" episode that has painfully nothing to do with the overall story arc we call it a "boxing episode." Like when the SG-1 team on Stargate would go to "Hurricane Planet" or "Lord of the Flies Planet" Those are the Boxing Episodes. Battlestar has become NOTHING BUT BOXING EPISODES. And here's the really sad part, at least the original Boxing Episode had people hitting each other in it, the newer ones don't even have that!

What are we supposed to do, as children of Television? Thank the stars for Heroes, for without it, we would be reduced to watching reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central every day. Important things happen on Heroes in every episode. Almost every episode gives you what you want, and leaves you wanting more. It reminds us of Lost, when Lost was good.

One thing that's been helping us through this dark time in television is the prospect of Lost/Heroes crossovers. The creators of both shows have gone on record as being fans of the other. (having worked together previously) Even going so far as to say they wished they could do big crossovers, but that this would be impossible because they are on different networks.

Maybe not big crossovers... but what about small ones?
- While catching up on old episodes of Heroes, we noticed that the head of Mohinder's University in India is also the same guy who plays Desmond's Theoretical Physicist friend on Lost. Coincidence?

- The brochure that Nikki/Jessica gets in the "Run" episode of Heroes is from Gannon Car Rental. This same rental company can be seen making appearances in many scenes from Lost.

- Finally, more of a *nod* to Lost than a *crossover* When Simone asks Petrelli to go public about the Heroes powers, he says... "Don't you know what they'll do? They'll round us up and put us in a lab on an island in the middle of the ocean somewhere."

Tight.

Find the Rich Stuff

We're big fans of television here on the space station. You know... Good television. Not just because we have a vested interest in it, but because there's lots of great television on right now. The death of the reality show (slow and laborious) has lead to the re-birth of the drama. And we couldn't be happier.

We've been catching up on episodes of Heros while we wait for our beloved Lost to return to us.
Tonight our wait is over, Lost returns.

We watched the whole first half of the Lost "mini-season" and to be honest, it didn't blow us away. Splitting the season in half didn't help the show that much either. The mini-cliff hanger they left us with just didn't compare to the real season ending cliff hangers we're used to. But we haven't given up yet.

With the overwhelming success of Heros, it's up to Lost to regain it's rightful crown as Supreme and Greatest Show on Television.

"Accuracy and transparency above all"

C-dub and I have been working on prepping the character files for the Pleaseeasaur animation. JP and Tommy have been sending us files (via clunkrobot.com ftp) for all the characters in the Pleaseeasaur Universe. We have to cut them up in Photoshop and make them animatable, with 4 mouth positions and a blink, oldshcool Sealab 2021 style. So we asked Ed Mundy if he'd be available to help us animate it, cuz that's like his wheelhouse. He said yes, he was very even tempered about the whole thing. I'm glad he's available. With him and Mack, we'll have a handle on quality animation.

Oh, yeah.
I asked JP and Tommy if they'd be comfortable with me writing about the animation in my stupid weblog, and they were totally cool with it. So I'm going to try to keep up with the progress here... Hi tech style every Monday and Thursday. That's when C-Dub and I have our P-Saur planning meetings, we map out what stuff we have to get done for the week. We even set up a google calender (get the rss feed here), that way anybody who joins the project can check the calendar and see what needs to get done. I'm in comunication with JP and Tommy via an Instant Messager program for questions and direction. It's kinda cool... like the fuuuutuuuure.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

Drawing Tough Guy arms. He'll also have an "extreme" pointing animation... Time permiting. Which brings us to one of the reasons I'm tracking this project... It's a lot of work. The more I stay organized, the better the end product will be. As Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation Board of Director's is known for saying:
"Accuracy and transparency above all."

True that.

Alvar Hanso and his amazing foundation

**update**
We watched the show, I need to digest everything...
The foot!
yikes!

Tonight is the 2 hour season finale of our most beloved of television series, Lost.

The trailer for tonight's episode has been running the tag line: "Your Lost questions answered." And while that certainly is an enticing advertisement, it cannot possibly be true. Not if you've come to appreciate Lost the way we have... you never get straight answers. And if you DO get answers, they are always couched in an even bigger question. This, to me, is the beauty of the show Lost. These rules are fair to play by, and Lost has never broken their own unspoken set of rules.

Besides, do you REALLY want these answers? Well maybe you do, I dunno.

Until tonight: Good Luck, and namaste.

Breaking Strain

"The Hanso Foundation, where you can experience all of the social and scientific endeavors we are pioneering to make your world a better place."

Be sure to sign up for their news letter. Use any name you'd like. Then when asked, enter the password: breakingstrain

During last night's episode of Lost, the character Sawyer is reading a screenplay. The screenplay was for a movie called Bad Twin, based on a fictitious book written by a fictitious author named Gary Troup. You can even get it on audiobook, and from Amazon.

A creepy interview with the fictitious author can be watched here, where he talks about The Valenzetti Equation. A mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Guess what, Enzo Valenzetti had a Foundation also.

Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

Welcome to Station 6: The Orchid

More on the Mysterious Casimir Effect, a principle of Quatum Field Theory.

Also, we're thinking of adopting a new dog and naming him Neils Bohr, is that too much?

Be Here Now... next week

We've gotten a few emails asking what we've thought of our beloved Lost now that everybody's favorite dramatic workhorse Heros is on another season stretching (although hard-earned) hiatus. Which brings us this new trend in television series: The "Mini-Season."

We're not big fans. Although television shows have been known to break a season into two parts in the past, we believe it's only recently that "the power that be" (read: 5 Jew Bankers) have had the audacity to split our favorite show's season into 3 parts.

In fact, we would point to the last "break" that Lost took as the main reason it squandered so much of it's momentum, not just on-screen, but in our collective consciousness. The last couple episodes of Lost have been really good, but they are totally playing catch-up. This week's "Par Avion" was really awesome, *spoiler* and they totally got us with that Jack running miss-direction at the end... */spoiler* at least for a second. Equally as exciting was the preview for next week's episode "The Man from Tallahassee." It's a John Locke centered episode, and it looks like Locke is ready to go on a kill-crazy rampage!

Another interesting thing about next week's episode, and this should be of particular interest to Matt-o over at Ablebody. The wikipedia page for the episode has actor Nestor Carbonell listed as playing Richard Alpert. Also known as Baba Ram Dass, the REAL Dr. Richard Alpert was best buds with Timothy Leary. Both of whom were fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting tests on their synthetic version of psilocybin, the stuff that makes certain mushrooms "magic."

Richard Alpert's book on spirituality: Be Here Now

In art school my best friend and roommate grew mushrooms in our closet in a meticulously cleaned styrofoam cooler. Despite the fact that my buddy was one of the messiest dudes I've ever known, his cooler full of mushroom spores was totally spotless, and painfully cared for. We used to draw pictures of him sitting atop his great trash heep holding only a sparkling clean cooler. Also, he used Lysol to disinfect the cooler (spores are finicky about bacteria) so anytime somebody cleans a bathroom I start tripping.
Just kidding... OR AM I?!?

Anyway, Back to Dr. Alpert... What significance does Richard Alpert's name have to the mythology of Lost? I hope we find out!

When good Shows go Bad.

On and on I go, about how great television is... Then out of the blue (sort of) two of our most favorite shows get all crappy. Seriously, what's the deal?

We are 3 episodes down the bad television rabbit hole with our beloved Lost. I keep waiting and waiting for something important to happen, and important things keep *almost* happening. But not quite... Tonight they have another opportunity to disappoint me, and I'll be there, waving my Lost 2006 TV Show of the Year Pennant like a true fan. Even the Stephen Hawking and Black Hole easter eggs haven't been enough for us, and they won't be until they are backed up with something of substance. Like a plot point!

Oh Battlestar Galactica! Why are you doing this to us? The first sign of trauma was the much hated "Boxing" episode. Where the entire cast takes a break from being hunted by killer robots to HAVE A BOXING TOURNAMENT?!?! We've even begun a meme in it's honor, anytime an episodic drama pulls the "one-off" episode that has painfully nothing to do with the overall story arc we call it a "boxing episode." Like when the SG-1 team on Stargate would go to "Hurricane Planet" or "Lord of the Flies Planet" Those are the Boxing Episodes. Battlestar has become NOTHING BUT BOXING EPISODES. And here's the really sad part, at least the original Boxing Episode had people hitting each other in it, the newer ones don't even have that!

What are we supposed to do, as children of Television? Thank the stars for Heroes, for without it, we would be reduced to watching reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central every day. Important things happen on Heroes in every episode. Almost every episode gives you what you want, and leaves you wanting more. It reminds us of Lost, when Lost was good.

One thing that's been helping us through this dark time in television is the prospect of Lost/Heroes crossovers. The creators of both shows have gone on record as being fans of the other. (having worked together previously) Even going so far as to say they wished they could do big crossovers, but that this would be impossible because they are on different networks.

Maybe not big crossovers... but what about small ones?
- While catching up on old episodes of Heroes, we noticed that the head of Mohinder's University in India is also the same guy who plays Desmond's Theoretical Physicist friend on Lost. Coincidence?

- The brochure that Nikki/Jessica gets in the "Run" episode of Heroes is from Gannon Car Rental. This same rental company can be seen making appearances in many scenes from Lost.

- Finally, more of a *nod* to Lost than a *crossover* When Simone asks Petrelli to go public about the Heroes powers, he says... "Don't you know what they'll do? They'll round us up and put us in a lab on an island in the middle of the ocean somewhere."

Tight.

Find the Rich Stuff

We're big fans of television here on the space station. You know... Good television. Not just because we have a vested interest in it, but because there's lots of great television on right now. The death of the reality show (slow and laborious) has lead to the re-birth of the drama. And we couldn't be happier.

We've been catching up on episodes of Heros while we wait for our beloved Lost to return to us.
Tonight our wait is over, Lost returns.

We watched the whole first half of the Lost "mini-season" and to be honest, it didn't blow us away. Splitting the season in half didn't help the show that much either. The mini-cliff hanger they left us with just didn't compare to the real season ending cliff hangers we're used to. But we haven't given up yet.

With the overwhelming success of Heros, it's up to Lost to regain it's rightful crown as Supreme and Greatest Show on Television.

"Accuracy and transparency above all"

C-dub and I have been working on prepping the character files for the Pleaseeasaur animation. JP and Tommy have been sending us files (via clunkrobot.com ftp) for all the characters in the Pleaseeasaur Universe. We have to cut them up in Photoshop and make them animatable, with 4 mouth positions and a blink, oldshcool Sealab 2021 style. So we asked Ed Mundy if he'd be available to help us animate it, cuz that's like his wheelhouse. He said yes, he was very even tempered about the whole thing. I'm glad he's available. With him and Mack, we'll have a handle on quality animation.

Oh, yeah.
I asked JP and Tommy if they'd be comfortable with me writing about the animation in my stupid weblog, and they were totally cool with it. So I'm going to try to keep up with the progress here... Hi tech style every Monday and Thursday. That's when C-Dub and I have our P-Saur planning meetings, we map out what stuff we have to get done for the week. We even set up a google calender (get the rss feed here), that way anybody who joins the project can check the calendar and see what needs to get done. I'm in comunication with JP and Tommy via an Instant Messager program for questions and direction. It's kinda cool... like the fuuuutuuuure.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

Drawing Tough Guy arms. He'll also have an "extreme" pointing animation... Time permiting. Which brings us to one of the reasons I'm tracking this project... It's a lot of work. The more I stay organized, the better the end product will be. As Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation Board of Director's is known for saying:
"Accuracy and transparency above all."

True that.

Alvar Hanso and his amazing foundation

**update**
We watched the show, I need to digest everything...
The foot!
yikes!

Tonight is the 2 hour season finale of our most beloved of television series, Lost.

The trailer for tonight's episode has been running the tag line: "Your Lost questions answered." And while that certainly is an enticing advertisement, it cannot possibly be true. Not if you've come to appreciate Lost the way we have... you never get straight answers. And if you DO get answers, they are always couched in an even bigger question. This, to me, is the beauty of the show Lost. These rules are fair to play by, and Lost has never broken their own unspoken set of rules.

Besides, do you REALLY want these answers? Well maybe you do, I dunno.

Until tonight: Good Luck, and namaste.

Breaking Strain

"The Hanso Foundation, where you can experience all of the social and scientific endeavors we are pioneering to make your world a better place."

Be sure to sign up for their news letter. Use any name you'd like. Then when asked, enter the password: breakingstrain

During last night's episode of Lost, the character Sawyer is reading a screenplay. The screenplay was for a movie called Bad Twin, based on a fictitious book written by a fictitious author named Gary Troup. You can even get it on audiobook, and from Amazon.

A creepy interview with the fictitious author can be watched here, where he talks about The Valenzetti Equation. A mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Guess what, Enzo Valenzetti had a Foundation also.

Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

Welcome to Station 6: The Orchid

More on the Mysterious Casimir Effect, a principle of Quatum Field Theory.

Also, we're thinking of adopting a new dog and naming him Neils Bohr, is that too much?

Be Here Now... next week

We've gotten a few emails asking what we've thought of our beloved Lost now that everybody's favorite dramatic workhorse Heros is on another season stretching (although hard-earned) hiatus. Which brings us this new trend in television series: The "Mini-Season."

We're not big fans. Although television shows have been known to break a season into two parts in the past, we believe it's only recently that "the power that be" (read: 5 Jew Bankers) have had the audacity to split our favorite show's season into 3 parts.

In fact, we would point to the last "break" that Lost took as the main reason it squandered so much of it's momentum, not just on-screen, but in our collective consciousness. The last couple episodes of Lost have been really good, but they are totally playing catch-up. This week's "Par Avion" was really awesome, *spoiler* and they totally got us with that Jack running miss-direction at the end... */spoiler* at least for a second. Equally as exciting was the preview for next week's episode "The Man from Tallahassee." It's a John Locke centered episode, and it looks like Locke is ready to go on a kill-crazy rampage!

Another interesting thing about next week's episode, and this should be of particular interest to Matt-o over at Ablebody. The wikipedia page for the episode has actor Nestor Carbonell listed as playing Richard Alpert. Also known as Baba Ram Dass, the REAL Dr. Richard Alpert was best buds with Timothy Leary. Both of whom were fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting tests on their synthetic version of psilocybin, the stuff that makes certain mushrooms "magic."

Richard Alpert's book on spirituality: Be Here Now

In art school my best friend and roommate grew mushrooms in our closet in a meticulously cleaned styrofoam cooler. Despite the fact that my buddy was one of the messiest dudes I've ever known, his cooler full of mushroom spores was totally spotless, and painfully cared for. We used to draw pictures of him sitting atop his great trash heep holding only a sparkling clean cooler. Also, he used Lysol to disinfect the cooler (spores are finicky about bacteria) so anytime somebody cleans a bathroom I start tripping.
Just kidding... OR AM I?!?

Anyway, Back to Dr. Alpert... What significance does Richard Alpert's name have to the mythology of Lost? I hope we find out!

When good Shows go Bad.

On and on I go, about how great television is... Then out of the blue (sort of) two of our most favorite shows get all crappy. Seriously, what's the deal?

We are 3 episodes down the bad television rabbit hole with our beloved Lost. I keep waiting and waiting for something important to happen, and important things keep *almost* happening. But not quite... Tonight they have another opportunity to disappoint me, and I'll be there, waving my Lost 2006 TV Show of the Year Pennant like a true fan. Even the Stephen Hawking and Black Hole easter eggs haven't been enough for us, and they won't be until they are backed up with something of substance. Like a plot point!

Oh Battlestar Galactica! Why are you doing this to us? The first sign of trauma was the much hated "Boxing" episode. Where the entire cast takes a break from being hunted by killer robots to HAVE A BOXING TOURNAMENT?!?! We've even begun a meme in it's honor, anytime an episodic drama pulls the "one-off" episode that has painfully nothing to do with the overall story arc we call it a "boxing episode." Like when the SG-1 team on Stargate would go to "Hurricane Planet" or "Lord of the Flies Planet" Those are the Boxing Episodes. Battlestar has become NOTHING BUT BOXING EPISODES. And here's the really sad part, at least the original Boxing Episode had people hitting each other in it, the newer ones don't even have that!

What are we supposed to do, as children of Television? Thank the stars for Heroes, for without it, we would be reduced to watching reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central every day. Important things happen on Heroes in every episode. Almost every episode gives you what you want, and leaves you wanting more. It reminds us of Lost, when Lost was good.

One thing that's been helping us through this dark time in television is the prospect of Lost/Heroes crossovers. The creators of both shows have gone on record as being fans of the other. (having worked together previously) Even going so far as to say they wished they could do big crossovers, but that this would be impossible because they are on different networks.

Maybe not big crossovers... but what about small ones?
- While catching up on old episodes of Heroes, we noticed that the head of Mohinder's University in India is also the same guy who plays Desmond's Theoretical Physicist friend on Lost. Coincidence?

- The brochure that Nikki/Jessica gets in the "Run" episode of Heroes is from Gannon Car Rental. This same rental company can be seen making appearances in many scenes from Lost.

- Finally, more of a *nod* to Lost than a *crossover* When Simone asks Petrelli to go public about the Heroes powers, he says... "Don't you know what they'll do? They'll round us up and put us in a lab on an island in the middle of the ocean somewhere."

Tight.

Find the Rich Stuff

We're big fans of television here on the space station. You know... Good television. Not just because we have a vested interest in it, but because there's lots of great television on right now. The death of the reality show (slow and laborious) has lead to the re-birth of the drama. And we couldn't be happier.

We've been catching up on episodes of Heros while we wait for our beloved Lost to return to us.
Tonight our wait is over, Lost returns.

We watched the whole first half of the Lost "mini-season" and to be honest, it didn't blow us away. Splitting the season in half didn't help the show that much either. The mini-cliff hanger they left us with just didn't compare to the real season ending cliff hangers we're used to. But we haven't given up yet.

With the overwhelming success of Heros, it's up to Lost to regain it's rightful crown as Supreme and Greatest Show on Television.

"Accuracy and transparency above all"

C-dub and I have been working on prepping the character files for the Pleaseeasaur animation. JP and Tommy have been sending us files (via clunkrobot.com ftp) for all the characters in the Pleaseeasaur Universe. We have to cut them up in Photoshop and make them animatable, with 4 mouth positions and a blink, oldshcool Sealab 2021 style. So we asked Ed Mundy if he'd be available to help us animate it, cuz that's like his wheelhouse. He said yes, he was very even tempered about the whole thing. I'm glad he's available. With him and Mack, we'll have a handle on quality animation.

Oh, yeah.
I asked JP and Tommy if they'd be comfortable with me writing about the animation in my stupid weblog, and they were totally cool with it. So I'm going to try to keep up with the progress here... Hi tech style every Monday and Thursday. That's when C-Dub and I have our P-Saur planning meetings, we map out what stuff we have to get done for the week. We even set up a google calender (get the rss feed here), that way anybody who joins the project can check the calendar and see what needs to get done. I'm in comunication with JP and Tommy via an Instant Messager program for questions and direction. It's kinda cool... like the fuuuutuuuure.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

Drawing Tough Guy arms. He'll also have an "extreme" pointing animation... Time permiting. Which brings us to one of the reasons I'm tracking this project... It's a lot of work. The more I stay organized, the better the end product will be. As Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation Board of Director's is known for saying:
"Accuracy and transparency above all."

True that.

Alvar Hanso and his amazing foundation

**update**
We watched the show, I need to digest everything...
The foot!
yikes!

Tonight is the 2 hour season finale of our most beloved of television series, Lost.

The trailer for tonight's episode has been running the tag line: "Your Lost questions answered." And while that certainly is an enticing advertisement, it cannot possibly be true. Not if you've come to appreciate Lost the way we have... you never get straight answers. And if you DO get answers, they are always couched in an even bigger question. This, to me, is the beauty of the show Lost. These rules are fair to play by, and Lost has never broken their own unspoken set of rules.

Besides, do you REALLY want these answers? Well maybe you do, I dunno.

Until tonight: Good Luck, and namaste.

Breaking Strain

"The Hanso Foundation, where you can experience all of the social and scientific endeavors we are pioneering to make your world a better place."

Be sure to sign up for their news letter. Use any name you'd like. Then when asked, enter the password: breakingstrain

During last night's episode of Lost, the character Sawyer is reading a screenplay. The screenplay was for a movie called Bad Twin, based on a fictitious book written by a fictitious author named Gary Troup. You can even get it on audiobook, and from Amazon.

A creepy interview with the fictitious author can be watched here, where he talks about The Valenzetti Equation. A mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Guess what, Enzo Valenzetti had a Foundation also.

Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

Welcome to Station 6: The Orchid

More on the Mysterious Casimir Effect, a principle of Quatum Field Theory.

Also, we're thinking of adopting a new dog and naming him Neils Bohr, is that too much?

Be Here Now... next week

We've gotten a few emails asking what we've thought of our beloved Lost now that everybody's favorite dramatic workhorse Heros is on another season stretching (although hard-earned) hiatus. Which brings us this new trend in television series: The "Mini-Season."

We're not big fans. Although television shows have been known to break a season into two parts in the past, we believe it's only recently that "the power that be" (read: 5 Jew Bankers) have had the audacity to split our favorite show's season into 3 parts.

In fact, we would point to the last "break" that Lost took as the main reason it squandered so much of it's momentum, not just on-screen, but in our collective consciousness. The last couple episodes of Lost have been really good, but they are totally playing catch-up. This week's "Par Avion" was really awesome, *spoiler* and they totally got us with that Jack running miss-direction at the end... */spoiler* at least for a second. Equally as exciting was the preview for next week's episode "The Man from Tallahassee." It's a John Locke centered episode, and it looks like Locke is ready to go on a kill-crazy rampage!

Another interesting thing about next week's episode, and this should be of particular interest to Matt-o over at Ablebody. The wikipedia page for the episode has actor Nestor Carbonell listed as playing Richard Alpert. Also known as Baba Ram Dass, the REAL Dr. Richard Alpert was best buds with Timothy Leary. Both of whom were fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting tests on their synthetic version of psilocybin, the stuff that makes certain mushrooms "magic."

Richard Alpert's book on spirituality: Be Here Now

In art school my best friend and roommate grew mushrooms in our closet in a meticulously cleaned styrofoam cooler. Despite the fact that my buddy was one of the messiest dudes I've ever known, his cooler full of mushroom spores was totally spotless, and painfully cared for. We used to draw pictures of him sitting atop his great trash heep holding only a sparkling clean cooler. Also, he used Lysol to disinfect the cooler (spores are finicky about bacteria) so anytime somebody cleans a bathroom I start tripping.
Just kidding... OR AM I?!?

Anyway, Back to Dr. Alpert... What significance does Richard Alpert's name have to the mythology of Lost? I hope we find out!

When good Shows go Bad.

On and on I go, about how great television is... Then out of the blue (sort of) two of our most favorite shows get all crappy. Seriously, what's the deal?

We are 3 episodes down the bad television rabbit hole with our beloved Lost. I keep waiting and waiting for something important to happen, and important things keep *almost* happening. But not quite... Tonight they have another opportunity to disappoint me, and I'll be there, waving my Lost 2006 TV Show of the Year Pennant like a true fan. Even the Stephen Hawking and Black Hole easter eggs haven't been enough for us, and they won't be until they are backed up with something of substance. Like a plot point!

Oh Battlestar Galactica! Why are you doing this to us? The first sign of trauma was the much hated "Boxing" episode. Where the entire cast takes a break from being hunted by killer robots to HAVE A BOXING TOURNAMENT?!?! We've even begun a meme in it's honor, anytime an episodic drama pulls the "one-off" episode that has painfully nothing to do with the overall story arc we call it a "boxing episode." Like when the SG-1 team on Stargate would go to "Hurricane Planet" or "Lord of the Flies Planet" Those are the Boxing Episodes. Battlestar has become NOTHING BUT BOXING EPISODES. And here's the really sad part, at least the original Boxing Episode had people hitting each other in it, the newer ones don't even have that!

What are we supposed to do, as children of Television? Thank the stars for Heroes, for without it, we would be reduced to watching reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central every day. Important things happen on Heroes in every episode. Almost every episode gives you what you want, and leaves you wanting more. It reminds us of Lost, when Lost was good.

One thing that's been helping us through this dark time in television is the prospect of Lost/Heroes crossovers. The creators of both shows have gone on record as being fans of the other. (having worked together previously) Even going so far as to say they wished they could do big crossovers, but that this would be impossible because they are on different networks.

Maybe not big crossovers... but what about small ones?
- While catching up on old episodes of Heroes, we noticed that the head of Mohinder's University in India is also the same guy who plays Desmond's Theoretical Physicist friend on Lost. Coincidence?

- The brochure that Nikki/Jessica gets in the "Run" episode of Heroes is from Gannon Car Rental. This same rental company can be seen making appearances in many scenes from Lost.

- Finally, more of a *nod* to Lost than a *crossover* When Simone asks Petrelli to go public about the Heroes powers, he says... "Don't you know what they'll do? They'll round us up and put us in a lab on an island in the middle of the ocean somewhere."

Tight.

Find the Rich Stuff

We're big fans of television here on the space station. You know... Good television. Not just because we have a vested interest in it, but because there's lots of great television on right now. The death of the reality show (slow and laborious) has lead to the re-birth of the drama. And we couldn't be happier.

We've been catching up on episodes of Heros while we wait for our beloved Lost to return to us.
Tonight our wait is over, Lost returns.

We watched the whole first half of the Lost "mini-season" and to be honest, it didn't blow us away. Splitting the season in half didn't help the show that much either. The mini-cliff hanger they left us with just didn't compare to the real season ending cliff hangers we're used to. But we haven't given up yet.

With the overwhelming success of Heros, it's up to Lost to regain it's rightful crown as Supreme and Greatest Show on Television.

"Accuracy and transparency above all"

C-dub and I have been working on prepping the character files for the Pleaseeasaur animation. JP and Tommy have been sending us files (via clunkrobot.com ftp) for all the characters in the Pleaseeasaur Universe. We have to cut them up in Photoshop and make them animatable, with 4 mouth positions and a blink, oldshcool Sealab 2021 style. So we asked Ed Mundy if he'd be available to help us animate it, cuz that's like his wheelhouse. He said yes, he was very even tempered about the whole thing. I'm glad he's available. With him and Mack, we'll have a handle on quality animation.

Oh, yeah.
I asked JP and Tommy if they'd be comfortable with me writing about the animation in my stupid weblog, and they were totally cool with it. So I'm going to try to keep up with the progress here... Hi tech style every Monday and Thursday. That's when C-Dub and I have our P-Saur planning meetings, we map out what stuff we have to get done for the week. We even set up a google calender (get the rss feed here), that way anybody who joins the project can check the calendar and see what needs to get done. I'm in comunication with JP and Tommy via an Instant Messager program for questions and direction. It's kinda cool... like the fuuuutuuuure.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

Drawing Tough Guy arms. He'll also have an "extreme" pointing animation... Time permiting. Which brings us to one of the reasons I'm tracking this project... It's a lot of work. The more I stay organized, the better the end product will be. As Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation Board of Director's is known for saying:
"Accuracy and transparency above all."

True that.

Alvar Hanso and his amazing foundation

**update**
We watched the show, I need to digest everything...
The foot!
yikes!

Tonight is the 2 hour season finale of our most beloved of television series, Lost.

The trailer for tonight's episode has been running the tag line: "Your Lost questions answered." And while that certainly is an enticing advertisement, it cannot possibly be true. Not if you've come to appreciate Lost the way we have... you never get straight answers. And if you DO get answers, they are always couched in an even bigger question. This, to me, is the beauty of the show Lost. These rules are fair to play by, and Lost has never broken their own unspoken set of rules.

Besides, do you REALLY want these answers? Well maybe you do, I dunno.

Until tonight: Good Luck, and namaste.

Breaking Strain

"The Hanso Foundation, where you can experience all of the social and scientific endeavors we are pioneering to make your world a better place."

Be sure to sign up for their news letter. Use any name you'd like. Then when asked, enter the password: breakingstrain

During last night's episode of Lost, the character Sawyer is reading a screenplay. The screenplay was for a movie called Bad Twin, based on a fictitious book written by a fictitious author named Gary Troup. You can even get it on audiobook, and from Amazon.

A creepy interview with the fictitious author can be watched here, where he talks about The Valenzetti Equation. A mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Guess what, Enzo Valenzetti had a Foundation also.

Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

Welcome to Station 6: The Orchid

More on the Mysterious Casimir Effect, a principle of Quatum Field Theory.

Also, we're thinking of adopting a new dog and naming him Neils Bohr, is that too much?

Be Here Now... next week

We've gotten a few emails asking what we've thought of our beloved Lost now that everybody's favorite dramatic workhorse Heros is on another season stretching (although hard-earned) hiatus. Which brings us this new trend in television series: The "Mini-Season."

We're not big fans. Although television shows have been known to break a season into two parts in the past, we believe it's only recently that "the power that be" (read: 5 Jew Bankers) have had the audacity to split our favorite show's season into 3 parts.

In fact, we would point to the last "break" that Lost took as the main reason it squandered so much of it's momentum, not just on-screen, but in our collective consciousness. The last couple episodes of Lost have been really good, but they are totally playing catch-up. This week's "Par Avion" was really awesome, *spoiler* and they totally got us with that Jack running miss-direction at the end... */spoiler* at least for a second. Equally as exciting was the preview for next week's episode "The Man from Tallahassee." It's a John Locke centered episode, and it looks like Locke is ready to go on a kill-crazy rampage!

Another interesting thing about next week's episode, and this should be of particular interest to Matt-o over at Ablebody. The wikipedia page for the episode has actor Nestor Carbonell listed as playing Richard Alpert. Also known as Baba Ram Dass, the REAL Dr. Richard Alpert was best buds with Timothy Leary. Both of whom were fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting tests on their synthetic version of psilocybin, the stuff that makes certain mushrooms "magic."

Richard Alpert's book on spirituality: Be Here Now

In art school my best friend and roommate grew mushrooms in our closet in a meticulously cleaned styrofoam cooler. Despite the fact that my buddy was one of the messiest dudes I've ever known, his cooler full of mushroom spores was totally spotless, and painfully cared for. We used to draw pictures of him sitting atop his great trash heep holding only a sparkling clean cooler. Also, he used Lysol to disinfect the cooler (spores are finicky about bacteria) so anytime somebody cleans a bathroom I start tripping.
Just kidding... OR AM I?!?

Anyway, Back to Dr. Alpert... What significance does Richard Alpert's name have to the mythology of Lost? I hope we find out!

When good Shows go Bad.

On and on I go, about how great television is... Then out of the blue (sort of) two of our most favorite shows get all crappy. Seriously, what's the deal?

We are 3 episodes down the bad television rabbit hole with our beloved Lost. I keep waiting and waiting for something important to happen, and important things keep *almost* happening. But not quite... Tonight they have another opportunity to disappoint me, and I'll be there, waving my Lost 2006 TV Show of the Year Pennant like a true fan. Even the Stephen Hawking and Black Hole easter eggs haven't been enough for us, and they won't be until they are backed up with something of substance. Like a plot point!

Oh Battlestar Galactica! Why are you doing this to us? The first sign of trauma was the much hated "Boxing" episode. Where the entire cast takes a break from being hunted by killer robots to HAVE A BOXING TOURNAMENT?!?! We've even begun a meme in it's honor, anytime an episodic drama pulls the "one-off" episode that has painfully nothing to do with the overall story arc we call it a "boxing episode." Like when the SG-1 team on Stargate would go to "Hurricane Planet" or "Lord of the Flies Planet" Those are the Boxing Episodes. Battlestar has become NOTHING BUT BOXING EPISODES. And here's the really sad part, at least the original Boxing Episode had people hitting each other in it, the newer ones don't even have that!

What are we supposed to do, as children of Television? Thank the stars for Heroes, for without it, we would be reduced to watching reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central every day. Important things happen on Heroes in every episode. Almost every episode gives you what you want, and leaves you wanting more. It reminds us of Lost, when Lost was good.

One thing that's been helping us through this dark time in television is the prospect of Lost/Heroes crossovers. The creators of both shows have gone on record as being fans of the other. (having worked together previously) Even going so far as to say they wished they could do big crossovers, but that this would be impossible because they are on different networks.

Maybe not big crossovers... but what about small ones?
- While catching up on old episodes of Heroes, we noticed that the head of Mohinder's University in India is also the same guy who plays Desmond's Theoretical Physicist friend on Lost. Coincidence?

- The brochure that Nikki/Jessica gets in the "Run" episode of Heroes is from Gannon Car Rental. This same rental company can be seen making appearances in many scenes from Lost.

- Finally, more of a *nod* to Lost than a *crossover* When Simone asks Petrelli to go public about the Heroes powers, he says... "Don't you know what they'll do? They'll round us up and put us in a lab on an island in the middle of the ocean somewhere."

Tight.

Find the Rich Stuff

We're big fans of television here on the space station. You know... Good television. Not just because we have a vested interest in it, but because there's lots of great television on right now. The death of the reality show (slow and laborious) has lead to the re-birth of the drama. And we couldn't be happier.

We've been catching up on episodes of Heros while we wait for our beloved Lost to return to us.
Tonight our wait is over, Lost returns.

We watched the whole first half of the Lost "mini-season" and to be honest, it didn't blow us away. Splitting the season in half didn't help the show that much either. The mini-cliff hanger they left us with just didn't compare to the real season ending cliff hangers we're used to. But we haven't given up yet.

With the overwhelming success of Heros, it's up to Lost to regain it's rightful crown as Supreme and Greatest Show on Television.

"Accuracy and transparency above all"

C-dub and I have been working on prepping the character files for the Pleaseeasaur animation. JP and Tommy have been sending us files (via clunkrobot.com ftp) for all the characters in the Pleaseeasaur Universe. We have to cut them up in Photoshop and make them animatable, with 4 mouth positions and a blink, oldshcool Sealab 2021 style. So we asked Ed Mundy if he'd be available to help us animate it, cuz that's like his wheelhouse. He said yes, he was very even tempered about the whole thing. I'm glad he's available. With him and Mack, we'll have a handle on quality animation.

Oh, yeah.
I asked JP and Tommy if they'd be comfortable with me writing about the animation in my stupid weblog, and they were totally cool with it. So I'm going to try to keep up with the progress here... Hi tech style every Monday and Thursday. That's when C-Dub and I have our P-Saur planning meetings, we map out what stuff we have to get done for the week. We even set up a google calender (get the rss feed here), that way anybody who joins the project can check the calendar and see what needs to get done. I'm in comunication with JP and Tommy via an Instant Messager program for questions and direction. It's kinda cool... like the fuuuutuuuure.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

Drawing Tough Guy arms. He'll also have an "extreme" pointing animation... Time permiting. Which brings us to one of the reasons I'm tracking this project... It's a lot of work. The more I stay organized, the better the end product will be. As Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation Board of Director's is known for saying:
"Accuracy and transparency above all."

True that.

Alvar Hanso and his amazing foundation

**update**
We watched the show, I need to digest everything...
The foot!
yikes!

Tonight is the 2 hour season finale of our most beloved of television series, Lost.

The trailer for tonight's episode has been running the tag line: "Your Lost questions answered." And while that certainly is an enticing advertisement, it cannot possibly be true. Not if you've come to appreciate Lost the way we have... you never get straight answers. And if you DO get answers, they are always couched in an even bigger question. This, to me, is the beauty of the show Lost. These rules are fair to play by, and Lost has never broken their own unspoken set of rules.

Besides, do you REALLY want these answers? Well maybe you do, I dunno.

Until tonight: Good Luck, and namaste.

Breaking Strain

"The Hanso Foundation, where you can experience all of the social and scientific endeavors we are pioneering to make your world a better place."

Be sure to sign up for their news letter. Use any name you'd like. Then when asked, enter the password: breakingstrain

During last night's episode of Lost, the character Sawyer is reading a screenplay. The screenplay was for a movie called Bad Twin, based on a fictitious book written by a fictitious author named Gary Troup. You can even get it on audiobook, and from Amazon.

A creepy interview with the fictitious author can be watched here, where he talks about The Valenzetti Equation. A mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Guess what, Enzo Valenzetti had a Foundation also.

Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

Welcome to Station 6: The Orchid

More on the Mysterious Casimir Effect, a principle of Quatum Field Theory.

Also, we're thinking of adopting a new dog and naming him Neils Bohr, is that too much?

Be Here Now... next week

We've gotten a few emails asking what we've thought of our beloved Lost now that everybody's favorite dramatic workhorse Heros is on another season stretching (although hard-earned) hiatus. Which brings us this new trend in television series: The "Mini-Season."

We're not big fans. Although television shows have been known to break a season into two parts in the past, we believe it's only recently that "the power that be" (read: 5 Jew Bankers) have had the audacity to split our favorite show's season into 3 parts.

In fact, we would point to the last "break" that Lost took as the main reason it squandered so much of it's momentum, not just on-screen, but in our collective consciousness. The last couple episodes of Lost have been really good, but they are totally playing catch-up. This week's "Par Avion" was really awesome, *spoiler* and they totally got us with that Jack running miss-direction at the end... */spoiler* at least for a second. Equally as exciting was the preview for next week's episode "The Man from Tallahassee." It's a John Locke centered episode, and it looks like Locke is ready to go on a kill-crazy rampage!

Another interesting thing about next week's episode, and this should be of particular interest to Matt-o over at Ablebody. The wikipedia page for the episode has actor Nestor Carbonell listed as playing Richard Alpert. Also known as Baba Ram Dass, the REAL Dr. Richard Alpert was best buds with Timothy Leary. Both of whom were fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting tests on their synthetic version of psilocybin, the stuff that makes certain mushrooms "magic."

Richard Alpert's book on spirituality: Be Here Now

In art school my best friend and roommate grew mushrooms in our closet in a meticulously cleaned styrofoam cooler. Despite the fact that my buddy was one of the messiest dudes I've ever known, his cooler full of mushroom spores was totally spotless, and painfully cared for. We used to draw pictures of him sitting atop his great trash heep holding only a sparkling clean cooler. Also, he used Lysol to disinfect the cooler (spores are finicky about bacteria) so anytime somebody cleans a bathroom I start tripping.
Just kidding... OR AM I?!?

Anyway, Back to Dr. Alpert... What significance does Richard Alpert's name have to the mythology of Lost? I hope we find out!

When good Shows go Bad.

On and on I go, about how great television is... Then out of the blue (sort of) two of our most favorite shows get all crappy. Seriously, what's the deal?

We are 3 episodes down the bad television rabbit hole with our beloved Lost. I keep waiting and waiting for something important to happen, and important things keep *almost* happening. But not quite... Tonight they have another opportunity to disappoint me, and I'll be there, waving my Lost 2006 TV Show of the Year Pennant like a true fan. Even the Stephen Hawking and Black Hole easter eggs haven't been enough for us, and they won't be until they are backed up with something of substance. Like a plot point!

Oh Battlestar Galactica! Why are you doing this to us? The first sign of trauma was the much hated "Boxing" episode. Where the entire cast takes a break from being hunted by killer robots to HAVE A BOXING TOURNAMENT?!?! We've even begun a meme in it's honor, anytime an episodic drama pulls the "one-off" episode that has painfully nothing to do with the overall story arc we call it a "boxing episode." Like when the SG-1 team on Stargate would go to "Hurricane Planet" or "Lord of the Flies Planet" Those are the Boxing Episodes. Battlestar has become NOTHING BUT BOXING EPISODES. And here's the really sad part, at least the original Boxing Episode had people hitting each other in it, the newer ones don't even have that!

What are we supposed to do, as children of Television? Thank the stars for Heroes, for without it, we would be reduced to watching reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central every day. Important things happen on Heroes in every episode. Almost every episode gives you what you want, and leaves you wanting more. It reminds us of Lost, when Lost was good.

One thing that's been helping us through this dark time in television is the prospect of Lost/Heroes crossovers. The creators of both shows have gone on record as being fans of the other. (having worked together previously) Even going so far as to say they wished they could do big crossovers, but that this would be impossible because they are on different networks.

Maybe not big crossovers... but what about small ones?
- While catching up on old episodes of Heroes, we noticed that the head of Mohinder's University in India is also the same guy who plays Desmond's Theoretical Physicist friend on Lost. Coincidence?

- The brochure that Nikki/Jessica gets in the "Run" episode of Heroes is from Gannon Car Rental. This same rental company can be seen making appearances in many scenes from Lost.

- Finally, more of a *nod* to Lost than a *crossover* When Simone asks Petrelli to go public about the Heroes powers, he says... "Don't you know what they'll do? They'll round us up and put us in a lab on an island in the middle of the ocean somewhere."

Tight.

Find the Rich Stuff

We're big fans of television here on the space station. You know... Good television. Not just because we have a vested interest in it, but because there's lots of great television on right now. The death of the reality show (slow and laborious) has lead to the re-birth of the drama. And we couldn't be happier.

We've been catching up on episodes of Heros while we wait for our beloved Lost to return to us.
Tonight our wait is over, Lost returns.

We watched the whole first half of the Lost "mini-season" and to be honest, it didn't blow us away. Splitting the season in half didn't help the show that much either. The mini-cliff hanger they left us with just didn't compare to the real season ending cliff hangers we're used to. But we haven't given up yet.

With the overwhelming success of Heros, it's up to Lost to regain it's rightful crown as Supreme and Greatest Show on Television.

"Accuracy and transparency above all"

C-dub and I have been working on prepping the character files for the Pleaseeasaur animation. JP and Tommy have been sending us files (via clunkrobot.com ftp) for all the characters in the Pleaseeasaur Universe. We have to cut them up in Photoshop and make them animatable, with 4 mouth positions and a blink, oldshcool Sealab 2021 style. So we asked Ed Mundy if he'd be available to help us animate it, cuz that's like his wheelhouse. He said yes, he was very even tempered about the whole thing. I'm glad he's available. With him and Mack, we'll have a handle on quality animation.

Oh, yeah.
I asked JP and Tommy if they'd be comfortable with me writing about the animation in my stupid weblog, and they were totally cool with it. So I'm going to try to keep up with the progress here... Hi tech style every Monday and Thursday. That's when C-Dub and I have our P-Saur planning meetings, we map out what stuff we have to get done for the week. We even set up a google calender (get the rss feed here), that way anybody who joins the project can check the calendar and see what needs to get done. I'm in comunication with JP and Tommy via an Instant Messager program for questions and direction. It's kinda cool... like the fuuuutuuuure.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

Drawing Tough Guy arms. He'll also have an "extreme" pointing animation... Time permiting. Which brings us to one of the reasons I'm tracking this project... It's a lot of work. The more I stay organized, the better the end product will be. As Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation Board of Director's is known for saying:
"Accuracy and transparency above all."

True that.

Alvar Hanso and his amazing foundation

**update**
We watched the show, I need to digest everything...
The foot!
yikes!

Tonight is the 2 hour season finale of our most beloved of television series, Lost.

The trailer for tonight's episode has been running the tag line: "Your Lost questions answered." And while that certainly is an enticing advertisement, it cannot possibly be true. Not if you've come to appreciate Lost the way we have... you never get straight answers. And if you DO get answers, they are always couched in an even bigger question. This, to me, is the beauty of the show Lost. These rules are fair to play by, and Lost has never broken their own unspoken set of rules.

Besides, do you REALLY want these answers? Well maybe you do, I dunno.

Until tonight: Good Luck, and namaste.

Breaking Strain

"The Hanso Foundation, where you can experience all of the social and scientific endeavors we are pioneering to make your world a better place."

Be sure to sign up for their news letter. Use any name you'd like. Then when asked, enter the password: breakingstrain

During last night's episode of Lost, the character Sawyer is reading a screenplay. The screenplay was for a movie called Bad Twin, based on a fictitious book written by a fictitious author named Gary Troup. You can even get it on audiobook, and from Amazon.

A creepy interview with the fictitious author can be watched here, where he talks about The Valenzetti Equation. A mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Guess what, Enzo Valenzetti had a Foundation also.

Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

Welcome to Station 6: The Orchid

More on the Mysterious Casimir Effect, a principle of Quatum Field Theory.

Also, we're thinking of adopting a new dog and naming him Neils Bohr, is that too much?

Be Here Now... next week

We've gotten a few emails asking what we've thought of our beloved Lost now that everybody's favorite dramatic workhorse Heros is on another season stretching (although hard-earned) hiatus. Which brings us this new trend in television series: The "Mini-Season."

We're not big fans. Although television shows have been known to break a season into two parts in the past, we believe it's only recently that "the power that be" (read: 5 Jew Bankers) have had the audacity to split our favorite show's season into 3 parts.

In fact, we would point to the last "break" that Lost took as the main reason it squandered so much of it's momentum, not just on-screen, but in our collective consciousness. The last couple episodes of Lost have been really good, but they are totally playing catch-up. This week's "Par Avion" was really awesome, *spoiler* and they totally got us with that Jack running miss-direction at the end... */spoiler* at least for a second. Equally as exciting was the preview for next week's episode "The Man from Tallahassee." It's a John Locke centered episode, and it looks like Locke is ready to go on a kill-crazy rampage!

Another interesting thing about next week's episode, and this should be of particular interest to Matt-o over at Ablebody. The wikipedia page for the episode has actor Nestor Carbonell listed as playing Richard Alpert. Also known as Baba Ram Dass, the REAL Dr. Richard Alpert was best buds with Timothy Leary. Both of whom were fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting tests on their synthetic version of psilocybin, the stuff that makes certain mushrooms "magic."

Richard Alpert's book on spirituality: Be Here Now

In art school my best friend and roommate grew mushrooms in our closet in a meticulously cleaned styrofoam cooler. Despite the fact that my buddy was one of the messiest dudes I've ever known, his cooler full of mushroom spores was totally spotless, and painfully cared for. We used to draw pictures of him sitting atop his great trash heep holding only a sparkling clean cooler. Also, he used Lysol to disinfect the cooler (spores are finicky about bacteria) so anytime somebody cleans a bathroom I start tripping.
Just kidding... OR AM I?!?

Anyway, Back to Dr. Alpert... What significance does Richard Alpert's name have to the mythology of Lost? I hope we find out!

When good Shows go Bad.

On and on I go, about how great television is... Then out of the blue (sort of) two of our most favorite shows get all crappy. Seriously, what's the deal?

We are 3 episodes down the bad television rabbit hole with our beloved Lost. I keep waiting and waiting for something important to happen, and important things keep *almost* happening. But not quite... Tonight they have another opportunity to disappoint me, and I'll be there, waving my Lost 2006 TV Show of the Year Pennant like a true fan. Even the Stephen Hawking and Black Hole easter eggs haven't been enough for us, and they won't be until they are backed up with something of substance. Like a plot point!

Oh Battlestar Galactica! Why are you doing this to us? The first sign of trauma was the much hated "Boxing" episode. Where the entire cast takes a break from being hunted by killer robots to HAVE A BOXING TOURNAMENT?!?! We've even begun a meme in it's honor, anytime an episodic drama pulls the "one-off" episode that has painfully nothing to do with the overall story arc we call it a "boxing episode." Like when the SG-1 team on Stargate would go to "Hurricane Planet" or "Lord of the Flies Planet" Those are the Boxing Episodes. Battlestar has become NOTHING BUT BOXING EPISODES. And here's the really sad part, at least the original Boxing Episode had people hitting each other in it, the newer ones don't even have that!

What are we supposed to do, as children of Television? Thank the stars for Heroes, for without it, we would be reduced to watching reruns of Scrubs on Comedy Central every day. Important things happen on Heroes in every episode. Almost every episode gives you what you want, and leaves you wanting more. It reminds us of Lost, when Lost was good.

One thing that's been helping us through this dark time in television is the prospect of Lost/Heroes crossovers. The creators of both shows have gone on record as being fans of the other. (having worked together previously) Even going so far as to say they wished they could do big crossovers, but that this would be impossible because they are on different networks.

Maybe not big crossovers... but what about small ones?
- While catching up on old episodes of Heroes, we noticed that the head of Mohinder's University in India is also the same guy who plays Desmond's Theoretical Physicist friend on Lost. Coincidence?

- The brochure that Nikki/Jessica gets in the "Run" episode of Heroes is from Gannon Car Rental. This same rental company can be seen making appearances in many scenes from Lost.

- Finally, more of a *nod* to Lost than a *crossover* When Simone asks Petrelli to go public about the Heroes powers, he says... "Don't you know what they'll do? They'll round us up and put us in a lab on an island in the middle of the ocean somewhere."

Tight.

Find the Rich Stuff

We're big fans of television here on the space station. You know... Good television. Not just because we have a vested interest in it, but because there's lots of great television on right now. The death of the reality show (slow and laborious) has lead to the re-birth of the drama. And we couldn't be happier.

We've been catching up on episodes of Heros while we wait for our beloved Lost to return to us.
Tonight our wait is over, Lost returns.

We watched the whole first half of the Lost "mini-season" and to be honest, it didn't blow us away. Splitting the season in half didn't help the show that much either. The mini-cliff hanger they left us with just didn't compare to the real season ending cliff hangers we're used to. But we haven't given up yet.

With the overwhelming success of Heros, it's up to Lost to regain it's rightful crown as Supreme and Greatest Show on Television.

"Accuracy and transparency above all"

C-dub and I have been working on prepping the character files for the Pleaseeasaur animation. JP and Tommy have been sending us files (via clunkrobot.com ftp) for all the characters in the Pleaseeasaur Universe. We have to cut them up in Photoshop and make them animatable, with 4 mouth positions and a blink, oldshcool Sealab 2021 style. So we asked Ed Mundy if he'd be available to help us animate it, cuz that's like his wheelhouse. He said yes, he was very even tempered about the whole thing. I'm glad he's available. With him and Mack, we'll have a handle on quality animation.

Oh, yeah.
I asked JP and Tommy if they'd be comfortable with me writing about the animation in my stupid weblog, and they were totally cool with it. So I'm going to try to keep up with the progress here... Hi tech style every Monday and Thursday. That's when C-Dub and I have our P-Saur planning meetings, we map out what stuff we have to get done for the week. We even set up a google calender (get the rss feed here), that way anybody who joins the project can check the calendar and see what needs to get done. I'm in comunication with JP and Tommy via an Instant Messager program for questions and direction. It's kinda cool... like the fuuuutuuuure.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

Drawing Tough Guy arms. He'll also have an "extreme" pointing animation... Time permiting. Which brings us to one of the reasons I'm tracking this project... It's a lot of work. The more I stay organized, the better the end product will be. As Hugh McIntyre of the Hanso Foundation Board of Director's is known for saying:
"Accuracy and transparency above all."

True that.

Alvar Hanso and his amazing foundation

**update**
We watched the show, I need to digest everything...
The foot!
yikes!

Tonight is the 2 hour season finale of our most beloved of television series, Lost.

The trailer for tonight's episode has been running the tag line: "Your Lost questions answered." And while that certainly is an enticing advertisement, it cannot possibly be true. Not if you've come to appreciate Lost the way we have... you never get straight answers. And if you DO get answers, they are always couched in an even bigger question. This, to me, is the beauty of the show Lost. These rules are fair to play by, and Lost has never broken their own unspoken set of rules.

Besides, do you REALLY want these answers? Well maybe you do, I dunno.

Until tonight: Good Luck, and namaste.

Breaking Strain

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Be sure to sign up for their news letter. Use any name you'd like. Then when asked, enter the password: breakingstrain

During last night's episode of Lost, the character Sawyer is reading a screenplay. The screenplay was for a movie called Bad Twin, based on a fictitious book written by a fictitious author named Gary Troup. You can even get it on audiobook, and from Amazon.

A creepy interview with the fictitious author can be watched here, where he talks about The Valenzetti Equation. A mathematical equation that predicts the end of the world. Guess what, Enzo Valenzetti had a Foundation also.

Lost in Love

Are you cheap, or do you not believe in corporate sponsored holidays?

Maybe you could ironically send one of these cheesy Lost themed Valentines Day e-cards:

Or maybe not. Today is not only Valentines Day, it's also Lost day. Tonight we get our third new episode. Here's hoping it's a doosy. Until tonight, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with this awesome map:

WebUrbanist has put together a guide detailing much of what we know about the Dharma Initiative's 7 underground stations. This map shows where they think each station is located, including the mysterious and yet-to-be-seen Orchid Station.

What's the orchid station?
Why not watch the orientation video from Dharma:

Then, after you've watched that, find out the the Casimir Effect is. Unless you already know... How'd you get so smart?

God Loves you as He Loved Jacob

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