Industrial Light and Magic

Anybody hear of a company by the name of Industrial Light and Magic? Most people havn't. This company was started by george lucas around the late 70's. This company brought about the birth of a new generation of special effects in movies. Industrial light and magic used computers to generate images and textures and all sorts of effects that today we would laugh at, but back in the day it was absolutely breathtaking. Does this logo not remind you of the Lucas Arts video game logo? It should.

This company became extremely popular with film makers as they had the ability to creat what they called "the impossible" and that brought about a new standard for how good special effects needed to be. Star Trek II: The wrath of Khan became quite the buzz when it released its film that contained the first full scene completely created using CGI. Heres a trailer for that movie. Im not a Trek fan by the way, my heart beats in a different galaxy... far far away....

Whats even more awesome is that even though you havnt heard of this company, you actually have, you just know it by a different name. George Lucas sold his wonderful company to just some guy... by the name of Steve Jobs... that guy. You better know who Steve Jobs is. Jobs bought this company, improved it and named it PIXAR. now your starting to recognize this company. Pixars most famous work of art was the very first toy story. This movie became an absolute phenomenon and now is used every year to create animated films they bring in money and viewers galore. Later after Pixar started gaining some heavy popularity Steve sold it to Disney for an astronomical amount of dough. George Lucas has been kicking himself everyday for delling ILM for so cheap. Now Disney continues to use pixar and is responsible for the creation of countless animated films. Just though I'd share that with you. It truely is incredible to see how a company was created by a legend, purchased by a legend, and now owned by an even bigger legend within movie's history. Just to close this up here is a trailer for toy story, watch this and relive your childhood a little.... that is if you were of course born in the 90's like me.

 

Hope you all enjoyed halloween, I know I did. We had a trick-or-treater dressed as a pirate carrying around a live chicken in her arms.... She wanted a parrot since she was a pirate, so a chicken was the best she could do. Just thought I might share that with you. So to cool off your halloween fun-ness lets look at one of our favorite masked heroes! When I saw Batman.... you think of this guy!

Yes that was a trailer from Batman Dark Knight Rises. That was a beastly series now wasn't it? Would you believe it if I told you batman came from..... this.....?

Yes! Oh Yes! It's amazing! When TV started to become more of a common household item TV shows began to increase and flourish, eventually they made this into a show hoping to grab more attention and viewers from some younger fans. The man playing Robin is Burt Ward and Batman himself is the legendary one and only Adam West. For little kids this was awesome, but for adults they feasted upon its purposeful cheesy-ness. This movie/show inspired many more movies years later some good, others.... well we try to forget about them (George Clooney as batman just didn't work) unless of course you really liked and thats cool with me if thats your preference. I believe it's safe for all of us to say that batman has really come a looooong way! With some amazing progress too! Whats even more awesome? Is Batman and in the same production Bruce Lee. This actually happened.

Ohhhh really suspenseful scene huh? That fighting just puts shame to Dark Knight Rises. That small guy in the black kicking the daylights out of Robin was Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee got his start in the show Green Hornet playing as the trusted side-kick Kato. Thus began Bruce Lee's popularity and sparked more international influence in film with China and KungFu movies galore! Ain't that awesome?