I think this is a piss-take by Hannah Marriott for The Guardian, but you can never tell. So I’ll mostly be wearing orange and black this season Captain Phasma’s mask is sleek – very on-trend silver coupled with a sexy off-the-shoulder cape – but the storm troopers’ monochrome styling and dark glasses are unequivocally the […]
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Avoiding spoilers: 1977 v 2015
Like a lot of people I spent quite a bit of 2015 both anticipating the new Star Wars movie and trying (successfully as it turns out) to avoid any spoilers. And it amazes me no end, considering the times we live in, that the film makers managed to keep one of the biggest secrets away […]
A Darth Vader waffle maker? You really shouldn’t have…
David Mitchell (the funny one, not the novelist) writing for the Observer on the deluge of Star Wars merchandise, makes the point that not everything we make and sell needs to be ‘worthy’: I don’t mean it as a criticism when I call this stuff crap. Our civilisation cannot be sustained solely from the buying […]
Star Wars Battlefront and the art of retro sound design
Interesting article on the sound design of the Star Wars movies and the recent Star Wars Battlefront game. Did you know, for example that: The screech of the original TIE Fighter, for example, was the sound of an elephant, slowed down, and mixed with the sound of car rolling on wet pavement as recorded through […]
Shoes inspired by Star Wars – buy of the day
If you’re unconscionably excited about Star Wars: the Force Awakens – or if you simply harbour a desire to walk on an imperial stormtrooper’s head – this might be just be the fashion launch of the year. Read the full story here
Inside Industrial Light & Magic’s secret Star Wars VR lab
I’m on Industrial Light & Magic’s motion capture stage, standing inside what they call “the cave.” It’s not much to look at: two big screens angled at 90 degrees, awash in a smeary blur of images. But put on a pair of modified 3D glasses, and bam — it’s the Holodeck, and I’m on Tatooine […]