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- Geek Trivia: Raiders of the lost art
- If you ever come into possession of a time machine and are thus faced with that famous chrononautic conundrum -- "what one person can I go back in time and eliminate to bring about the most significant change to the present?" -- a legitimate case can be made for altering...
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Indiana, Comic Book, George Lucas, Jim Steranko, Heston, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Lucas admits it: Han shot first!
- In a recent official Lucasfilm update on the production of Indiana Jones 4, we are presented with this photo of Harrison Ford betwixt director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas, the latter wearing a Han Shot First T-shirt! Subsequently, the photo has made the rounds all...
- Tags: George Lucas, Photograph, Lucas, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Photos: Getting the THX thumbs-up
- George Lucas' theater sound certification company is developing technology to automatically adjust consumer electronics' playback settings.
- Tags: George Lucas, theater, consumer electronics, electronics, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-07-20
- Geek Trivia: These aren't the stars you're looking for
- Which famous horror film shared casting sessions with Star Wars? An entire generation once proclaimed, "Never trust anyone over 30." That means that starting this week, you can stop trusting Star Wars. (That's if Episode I didn't already make this clear to you.) ...
- Tags: Star Wars, George Lucas, Jay Garmon, Geek Trivia Newsletter
- Technical articles 2007-05-22
- Geek Trivia: May the Farce be with you
- Which fan-favorite character debuted in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special? As citizens of the United States ready themselves for that rarified combination of food, family, and football known as Thanksgiving, equally rarified geeks across the globe prepare to mark one of the most obscure ...
- Tags: Star Wars, George Lucas, Jay Garmon, Life Day, Star Wars Holiday Special, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Jupiter
- Technical articles 2006-11-14
- Geek Trivia: Eagles over (Millennium) Falcons
- What other famous science-fiction spaceship forced a redesign of the original Millennium Falcon model for the original Star Wars film? This week's edition of Geek Trivia includes a special shout-out to CNET engineer extraordinaire Bryan Peabody, who put me on the scent of some of this week's...
- Tags: Star Wars, Jay Garmon, Falcon, Millennium Falcon, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., George Lucas, Science Fiction, Science-fiction Spaceship
- Technical articles 2006-03-21
- Geek Trivia: Episode 0: The Unseen Influence
- Besides THX 1138, what other numerically named film reference has George Lucas 'hidden' inside the original Star Wars? Test your command of useless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automatically sign up today! For Star Wars fans, it all ends soon....
- Tags: Star Wars, George Lucas, Jay Garmon, THX 1138, Geek Trivia Newsletter
- Technical articles 2005-05-17
- I've got to admit
- I've got to admitso would I, but it would be difficult now from the point of continuity, to produce another three episodes.Geek Trivia: Episode 0: The Unseen Influencearticle rootThe last episode?This is probably the last episode that Ge
- Tags: career, Lucas, New Hope, richard_pearsall@..., Star Wars
- Discussion threads 2005-05-18
Additional Resources
- Photos: At the Toy Fair, lots and lots of Legos
- The heavily guarded Lego camp arranges its blocks into Spongebob and George Lucas, dinosaurs and sharks, and a Martian colony.
- Tags: LEGO Co., colony, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-02-12
- George R. R. Martin: 8 sci-fi films better than Star Wars
- Better is SubjectiveWith all due respect to the great author George R. R. Martin, although those are great films, to a 10 year old in 1977, not one could capture the imagination better than Star Wars (The Original, without the Episode IV moniker).Les Miserable may be a better book than...
- Tags: Sean Mullin, Star Wars
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- Photos: 'Star Wars' goes pop culture
- Three decades after the original film was released, the George Lucas creation has left a lasting impression on pop culture.
- Tags: Star Wars, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-05-25
- Video: Star Wars super-parody on the way
- Geeks of Doom informs us that the producers of Robot Chicken have teamed up with George Lucas himself to create a 30-minute Star Wars parody special for Cartoon Network. For those who haven't seen it, Robot Chicken is a raunchy, irreverent claymation sketch comedy show that sends up the last...
- Tags: Star Wars, Robot, Video, Robots, Corporate Communications, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- How to shorten an epic movie to 30 seconds
- During my travels on the World Wide Web I came across a set of animations that made me laugh out loud. It is a whole series postulating on the how some famous movies should have ended. The Lord of the Rings, whether in book form or in the epic movie...
- Tags: Movie, Animation, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Lucas admits it: Han shot first!
- Lucas Needs to UN-Special Edition that Scene!!Out of all the post-1977 revisions to Episode IV, the scene where Greedo shoots first is almost as poorly done as Han stepping on Jabba's tail. These are two added elements that should be UN-added.I am astounded!There seems to be a bit of completely...
- Tags: mwrisner@..., Han, Lucas
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Everything wrong with 'Return of the Jedi'
- article rootMessage was edited by: Jay Garmonlistnice listlike it - antonio - http://www.songteksten32.comRE: Imaging in a better 'Return of the Jedi'Irvin Kershner should have directed it. The best movie of the entire series was The Empire Strike Back and he directed it. Leigh Brackett with Lawerence Kasdan wrote the screen...
- Tags: songteksten32@..., Jedi, screen play
- Discussion threads 2007-09-03
- Video: Indiana Jones 4 teaser trailer
- As a Valentine to all of geek movie fandom, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg released the first teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull yesterday. Apparently, the aforementioned skull is a strange artifact that bends the laws of physics to look a lot like Hong...
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- George R. R. Martin: 8 sci-fi films better than Star Wars
- George R. R. Martin, author of the seminal A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy book series which is getting turned into a series of miniseries by HBO, has some less than kind words for George Lucas' 800-pound gorilla of a space opera franchise: Unlike STAR WARS,...
- Tags: Star Wars, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Google to build 1 million square foot facility
- Google has apparently struck a deal to build on part of the large NASA Ames facility:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/28/GOOGLE.TMP&nl=topI love the comparison--at 1 million square feet it will be larger than the new George Lucas facility in the Presidio. With new huge facilities like these two it looks like the San Francisco...
- Tags: google, Google Inc., RexWorld
- Discussion threads 2005-09-28
- Video Mashup: Star Wars vs. Monty Python
- Some genius has remixed the audio from the Black Knight duel scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail, with Darth Vader standing in for the aforementioned Black Knight. Is it sad that watching King Arthur comically dismember the Dark Lord of the Sith is more entertaining than pretty much all of...
- Tags: Audio, Star Wars, Python, YouTube Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-07-12
- Stupid Web Tricks: Mysterious scrolling
- hello I am samgeorge gheorge george of the jungle strong as he can be
- Tags: george, rainern85@...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-24
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