May 24, 2005

• The big thing that strikes me about this story is if it happened at a frat house it wouldn't even make the news. Is it the dork factor? Anyway when I was a kid we used to dig up 4-foot florescent tubes from the school dumpster and re-enact great Star Wars scenes. Yes, with glass shards flying everywhere. Life was great.
• I know what to think about this.
• mothninja beat you to it. Sort of.
• /hazy memories of playing with fluorescent tubes under power line towers. The suckers flickered, just barely. No Jedi battle that day. Other reports mention they used some gasoline/soap mixture. Freakin' home-made napalm... gosh. No wonder they're struggling for their lives with extensive body burns. Sheez. Talk about life imitating art...
• Unca Darwin still stalks the earth with his double barreled evolver...
• Wow. Those kid's've got moves.
• Wow. They went all-out. The photo of the injured fans next to the story looks EXACTLY like Obi-Wan and Anikan. I am impressed.
• It's great how "light sabre battle" can now be written in a mainstream article without any need to explain the phrase at all. strictly speaking it's a lightsabre duel, tho
• Don't they know that light sabres in the original Star Wars were just wooden sticks with fluorescent paint? The paint chipped when the sticks hit and that caused a nice effect. Of course this effect is now upgraded into the digital realm, but I don't even want to see it.
• is it wrong that this made me laugh hysterically?
• medusa's back! yay!
• If laughing along with Medusa is wrong, I don't want to be right.
• My roommate think I'm really weird for laughing at this.
• wow. I don't think anyone on monkeyfilter has ever noticed one of my absences before...*sniff* I feel all warm and filled with bananas on the inside...thanks bone!!
• "Don't they know that light sabres in the original Star Wars were just wooden sticks with fluorescent paint?" What? Who told you this? Load of bollocks. The first sabres were metal rods covered in reflective tape that spun round in the hilt (which is why Obi-Wan's had a power cable in the duel with Vader) then later rotoscoped (light blades animated on top of the film footage then composited). In Empire & Jedi they were just metal rods that were rotoscoped. In the current movies they've used 2 different techniques, laterly a metal rod with several colours on it to enable animators to actively make the 'blur' effect more realistic.
• The Idiocy is strong in this one. In all seriousness, I hope they recover from their injuries. But what were they thinking? You can get software that paints the light sabers for free [via boingboing].
• Do light sabres come from the Snark Side?
• In "star wars" you can see the metal rods several times, or at least you could before the inumerable remasterings. Also, in that one part, it sounds like the Jawa says "hey, butthole!"
• They do.
• Or it did. Whatever.
• There's a video of it. I can't wait. I do hope they're all right. That doesn't stoop me front wanting to watch the video, though This one time, I karate chopped a flourescent light bulb. I cut my palm so deeply that I lost tactile sensation in two* of my fingers, though I still retained motor control. Sensation slowly returned, but only after 3+ years. The sensations that finally returned aren't quite the same as they used to be. They're kinda hard to describe. Kinda like five minutes after hitting your funny bone really hard. *actually, it was one and a half fingers. The pinky went completely numb, and exactly half of my ring finger did too (the half closest to the pinky). It was always kinda cool that exactly half of a finger was numb. It was fun to trace down the line between feeling and non-feeling, I did that pretty much whenever my hands weren't occupied. I still do it, actually, out of habit.
• It was fun to trace down the line between feeling and non-feeling, I did that pretty much whenever my hands weren't occupied. You sick fuck.
• The force is not so strong in....oh fuck it, Flagpole wins.
• What's that gas that they put in fluorescent tubing that makes people stupid?