Are We There Yet?

Are we there yet? On a long car journey, do you have any idea how to stop the kids from saying those words twenty times a minute? Kinder-rocker, Joanie Leeds, sings about family vacations on the road and makes a few suggestions along the way about how you might placate those sweet little angels of yours who for some reason turned in to monsters at the start of the journey. It is accompanied by animation in a juvenile style by Glen Blitz.

Whatever Happened to the Back to the Future DeLorean?

Back to the Future, released in 1985 mixed up science fiction, adventure and comedy to become a movie which drew millions to the cinema and is still has a special place in the hearts of many to this day. Perhaps the most iconographic of the movie’s props, the actual time machine was a DeLorean DMC-12. It whisked Marty McFly back to 1955 yet what has happened to the car used in the movie? Where did that go after the movies were complete?

To be honest there were seven used all told, but it is thought that only three of these survive. Spanish website Sigue Al Conejo Blanco has tracked down one of the cars featured in the movie to a Madrid workshop. The site has a whole gallery of the car, which appears in tip top condition.  You can see the rest of the gallery by clicking on any of the pictures above or by clicking here.

Dalek Art Car at the Burning Man

Guest of honor at this year’s Burning Man Festival was this awesome Dalek art car.  As well as being several times larger than your average Dalek this one could pick up some speed too.  Although a number of festival goers swear that it could also fly – just like the ones in the TV series – we suspect that may have more to do with ingestion of dodgy substances than true aerial ability. 

You have to admit, though, that it looks pretty cool against the desert background – and it even has its own security guard from a galaxy far, far away.

Image Credit Flickr User laszy

First three images courrtesy of Flickr User Tirch

Treebeard is in the Car Park

There has been something slightly bothering me when I get to the car park for a for a while now. You know how it is - something at the back of your mind that makes you think that somehow you are being watched?  Well, I finally realised today what it was that had been bothering me for so long. Treebeard is in the Car Park.

Hobbit botherin'?  Not today.  Fast asleep is old Treebeard.

Look, there he is, in the center of this picture, as clear as day.  Ancient, sleepy and venerable, he has been there all this time, while I stagger in to work in a somnambulistic state.  I won't tell you how long I have worked there, but not to have noticed him before is a little shameful, to say the least.

Treabeard, perhaps I should explain, is from the Lord of the Rings.  He is the oldest of the species of trees called Ents and usually lives in the Forest of Fanghorn, when he isn't enjoying a sleepy sojourn in Lewisham, South East London.  And why not be sleepy?  After all his own motto is don't be hasty.

I can think of a few Orcs he can squish, right here, right now - if he would just wake up!

Still can't see the similarity?  OK, I don't do Photoshop (you will soon see why that statement did not really have to be made) but when Treabeard awakes, you may recall his features....

Bad?  What about this then?

OK, that is as good as it gets this end... can you do better?  I think so!  Crikey, I hope so.  All of you Photoshop experts out there - want to do something with Treabeard here?  Do what you will and email them to me - and they can take pride of place below!

Small hobbit sized prize to the best entrant!