I might even buy one. RT @_Snape_: Apple has announced that Siri will now be voiced by a man. It needs to be Alan Rickman. #SiriMaleVoice
Category: Harry Potter
Sherlock, Snape, and the Doctor walk into a bar
Well, not quite. But Benedict Cumberbatch doing impersonations of Alan Rickman and David Tennant is almost as good.
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Heh.
Not your local toy store's Harry Potter LEGO
What's remarkable about this is not the exteriors (which are pretty cool) but the interior work. Fantastic.
Alice Finch builds massive LEGO Hogwarts from 400,000 bricks [Photos & Interview]
Last October at BrickCon 2012, Seattle-area builder Alice Finch unveiled what just might be the largest LEGO structure built by a single person, a near-complete minifig-scale rendition of Hogwarts ……
To act recursively you must act recursively
It is a pretty funny scene. (h/t +Derrick Mims)
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harry potter #bellatrix #harrypotter #bella #emmawatson #helenabonhamcarter
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Mischief Managed: The Harry Potter Retrospective
All of the Harry Potter movies in 13 minutes. Very, very well done. And if I didn't already have them, I'd sure be hankering to get the new big set of 'em. (h/t +Kate Testerman)
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Father-Daughter Movie Week
While the wife’s away (on business), the family will play (movies):
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Ladyhawke
- Dr. No
- G-Force
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Wild Wild West
- Shrek
- Mission: Impossible 1
- Addams Family
It wasn’t quite Cannes, but …
The Hobbit … Trilogy?
As far as I'm concerned, Peter Jackson can keep cranking out Tolkien movies for as long as he likes. I'll buy tickets every Christmas season, like very happy clockwork.
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Is Peter Jackson Thinking About Splitting the Final Hobbit Into Two Films?
Well, now we have further proof that the splitting of final films has become an epidemic in the film industry. We saw it with Twilight, with Harry Potter, and recently with The Hunger Games. Now, joining in on what seems to be becoming a veritable rite of passage for fantasy films, Peter Jackson ‘s The Hobbits are joining the ranks of final films being split into two…Maybe.
Right now there are two Hobbit movies on the roster: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and The Hobbit: There and Back A…
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It makes me wonder, woman
… why the guy who wrote another recent super-hero movie, Green Lantern, which was "critically panned and a box office disappointment," and who has not been able to get green light (so to speak) for a sequel … is being chosen to write a new Wonder Woman flick. It is a puzzlement.
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I wonder if her new parentage will carry over into the feature film world?
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Wonder Woman Movie Gets Harry Potter Writer
When it rains movie development news, apparently it pours. Yesterday ComicBook.com brought you the news that Marvel was close to announcing a Black Panther feature film, followed by the report that Ju…
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A lot of people Assembled for "The Avengers"
As another article I read put it, $200MM is a good opening weekend for all films playing combined. And it's way more than Thor, Iron Man, and Cap earned total in their opening weekends.
Well done. Don't know quite how they managed it (beyond putting out a good film that was a combined sequel of some well-received flicks), but congrats.
And if that means a sequel … I do hope Joss is involved in it.
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‘The Avengers’ Breaks All-Time Domestic Box Office Opening Weekend Gross
Take a seat Harry Potter. Step back Batman. Put away that arrow Katniss. There’s a new king of the box office world and it’s a throne shared by several superheroes. Early reports say Joss Whedon ‘s The Avengers will end the weekend grossing $200.3 million, setting the all-time opening weekend domestic box office record by a large margin. It crushed the previous record held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 by almost $30 million thanks in part to the second biggest Friday gross of…
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Always amusing when actors cross paths in different places
We watched the Cybermen two-parter from Series 2 of Doctor Who last night, and were trying to remember where we'd seen the actor playing John Lumic, the mad creator of those cyborg menaces. Knew we'd seen him before, but couldn't remember where.
And it was only today, tracking him (Roger Lloyd Pack) down, that I discovered that the year before he'd played Barty Crouch, Sr., in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. And, of course, playing a delightful tongue-flicking Barty Crouch, Jr., was David Tennant, who was the Doctor on that episode.
(Roger Lloyd Pack was also the delightful Owen Newitt on The Vicar of Dibley, but I don't think David Tennant ever made it onto that series. Pity.)
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Doctor Who: Rise Of The Cybermen
When the TARDIS becomes trapped on a parallel Earth, it soon becomes clear that sinister forces are at work. Roger Lloyd Pack talks about playing the evil John Lumic – creator of the Cybermen, working…
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Harry Potter Cocktails
Maybe an idea for the next Margie Gras (with the movies playing in the background, of course).
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The Backyard Bartender: Harry Potter
It's that time again, y'all. Time for EVEN MORE Harry Potter cocktails. If you're looking for the big 3 (that would be Harry, Ron, and Hermione), get yourself over to this post and check o…
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Music, hark!
So Kay is continuing on with her flute-playing. One of her friends got this, and she begged for it, and I decided it was a worthwhile investment.
It's a collection of sheet music for flute for the LotR movies, with an eye toward that player as the lead whenever possible (there are also sets for trumpet, saxes, horn, clarinets). The music book also has a CD for each song, both a demo of how it should sound, and an accompaniment for the rest of the music for the piece (all that lovely harmony and counterpoint and so forth from these tunes).
Not only is she really enthusiastically trying this stuff out (it's at a higher level than she is as a player, but she's diving into it with a will), but it's a hugely fun concept. In theory, you could get the other instruments going along with it live, and there's even, for teachers, a piano accompaniment book.
Hearing her play LotR tunes is just a hell of a lot of fun. (Whistling the along to the counterpoint is, too.)
There's a similar Harry Potter compilation that might just be appearing for her birthday, too.
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Amazon.com: Lord of the Rings Instrumental Solos: Flute (Book & CD) (The Lord of the Rings; the Motion Picture Trilogy) (0654979081159): Howard Shore: Books
Amazon.com: Lord of the Rings Instrumental Solos: Flute (Book & CD) (The Lord of the Rings; the Motion Picture Trilogy) (0654979081159): Howard Shore: Books
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Tweets from 2012-04-12
- Back fared the night pretty well, as I. Great timing, I guess, for my annual physical this afternoon. #
- Dagnabbit, I hate it when Kay loads weird music videos onto my PC. Link , if you can believe it. Kids these days. #
- RT @neiltyson: On N. Korea's Rocket: To fail in what you've yet to achieve is more the spirit of exploration than to make no attempt at all. #
- RT @_Snape_: We all know who the stars of Men in Black 3 SHOULD be: Link #
- I have no desire to see "The Three Stooges." I don't even want to see the commercials. Or know they exist. #nonyuk #
Potter Pics
A drawing of the cast of Harry Potter characters, done in 1999 by J. K. Rowling.
It's actually remarkable how closely some of these resemble the characters in the movies (the first of which came out in 2001). Partly it's that they are somewhat generic, part of it is that the movies drew at least from the book descriptions, but also I'd guess from Rowling's drawing as well.
I'm glad Dumbledore didn't have the pointy wizard hat, though. #ddtb
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Harry Potter et al. Hand drawn by J.K Rowling in 1999
A tribute to reddit
You! Shall! Not! Pass! By This Infographic!
I disagree with a couple of the evals, but … heh. #ddtb
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I lol'ed.
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The Horrifying World of Harry Potter
Actually, you could do a really interesting class lesson with kids by making them puzzle out then think through some of these implications. Just learning about unintended consequences would be hugely valuable for most people. #ddtb
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Yeah, a couple of these occurred to me as well.
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6 Horrifying Implications of the Harry Potter Universe
By Micah Kolding,Michael Greenbrier Published: March 14th, 2012
We have a feeling that Harry Potter is never going away, in the sense that franchises like Batman and Star Wars never went away (and Star Wars never got its own amusement park). And why not? It's the perfect storm of wonder, charm and innocent, famil
Tweets from 2012-03-09
- So my home machine bluescreened this afternoon, and has been unsuccessfully going thru Startup Repair since. Not a happy camper. #
- RT @matociquala: You know it was a bad typo when it takes you four rereads to figure out what the hell you meant. #amediting #
- System Restore informs me there was a checkpoint made at 2:20pm due to a "Critical Update". Thanks-frickin-lot, #Microsoft … #
- RT @_Snape_: #BecauseOfGaga I now know whatever happened to Luna Lovegood… Link #
- Trader Joe's confirms their rumored Boulder location. Link #
- Well, two System Checkpoint Restores have not … done anything for the system. I am NOT pleased. #ddtb #
- So I guess question is, do I take the PC down to (?) Best Buy and let the Geek Squad hammer on it? Or just buy a new one? #dagnabbit #
Harry Potter in Sixty Seconds
Well, that certainly clears some things up.
(via http://www.themarysue.com/harry-potter-in-60-seconds/) #ddtb
Because, y'know … it has ELVES! And, um, a QUEST!
Why Warner Bros. has canceled early plans for an Elfquest movie. Audiences might get confused. Or something.
(Rolls eyes.)
#ddtb
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Warner Bros. Nix ElfQuest Movie, Pin Blame On The Hobbit
I would assume that the success of The Lord of the Rings and the huge interest in The Hobbit, not to mention the extraordinary, eight-film success of the Harry Potter series, would encourage Warner Br…
The theme of the Harry Potter books
And, no, it's not that "witchcraft is cool and you should sell your soul to Satan," no matter what people think. Though I suspect many of those same people would be just as aghast at what Rowling says she's trying to convey. #ddtb
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JUST A THOUGHT
The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
-J.K. Rowling, novelist (b. 1965)