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Science of the Movies Episode 11: Building a Lifesize Transformers Robot!

Yeah, that’s me operating a giant crane (for the first time) to assemble a gigantic lifesize Bumblebee Transformers robot!!!

Tonight on Science of the Movies, I join my buddy John Frazier and his team at FXperts to take you step-by-step in building the Bumblebee robot used in Michael Bay’s Transformers movies!
Plus, I visit Image Metrics, the [...]

Pulp Science: Real (Scary) Transformer Tech

By now most of us have seen Michael Bay’s sequel to Transformers – and can agree that it’s the legion of cool looking robots that steal the show, right?
There’s a point in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen when Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are hiding out in an adobe hut from a host of Decepticons, [...]

Top 4 2009 Super Bowl Movie Trailers

Football’s great, but it’s the huge movie trailers that show in-between the game that made millions of geeks everywhere salivate. Here’s my top 4:
G.I. Joe
I’ve had enough of the internet naysayers — although it’s hard after this promo not to join them… Duke’s narration is lame and I really hope Snake Eyes doing a flip [...]

Fire at the Griffith Observatory and Nerdvana was THERE!

Last week there was a 5-acre brush fire in Griffith Park, immediately West of the famous LA landmark, the Griffith Observatory. It being a bastion of nerd-knowledge, my geeky-sense started tingling and I rushed over to get the scoop, shitty digital camera and press pass in hand. Here are a few vids I got of [...]