And in case you don’t already know it, you might also want to check out the first open movie the institute made. It’s called Elephants Dream (Project Orange) and the story is… well, not your average kind of story. More like the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey, even though much more enjoyable thanks to the eye candy.

Coming up from the institute is Project Apricot. Not a movie this time, but a game based on BBB, in collaboration with the Crystal Space Game Engine.

These projects are all great. They not only show nice results, but also lead to huge improvements of the open source software and show the work process/pipeline to anyone who is interested in the topic. Anyone working with 3D, movies, games and open source should pay attention to the projects, regardless if you use the software or not. One can learn very much from there.

Following that, I found out, that they’re going to do an A-Team movie. I wonder if it’ll feature Mr. T… maybe as a Nightelf Mohawk… who’ll never see much of the Outlands, since he’s afraid to fly. But I’m drifting off the topic.

And if that wouldn’t be enough, what do I have to see next? There’s a new Flash Gordon show running on Sci-Fi (yeah, such “news” aren’t as “present” here in Germany unless it’ll finally be screened here). Flash looks more like a golfer, than a football star (but never mind, they changed that anyway), Zarkov doesn’t seem to be a mad scientist, but some regular nerd, Ming is… what the fuck is he? Some guard of a sci-fi theme park? Ditched cast from space balls? And Barin? Well, there’s no Barin, but some chick named Baylin… And as far as I digged into the story, it’s a bad remix of at least half a dozen other shows and movies. As I see it, I’d even prefer Flesh Gordon over this one.

Somehow I have the bad feeling that they’re trying very hard to rape every childhood memory of tv and cinema I have. What’s next? Orlando Bloom playing the Godfather? Don’t get me wrong. I understand that changes have to be made, so it stays original. Take Miami Vice for example. The new movie was quite good (for a remake). But some things are just too far away to share the honorable title of the past.

And as the last bad news gift from Junkie today: One of my favourite authors, Terry Pratchett, stated that he got Alzheimer’s.

It’s late and I will go to bed now. Maybe when I wake up again, it’ll all turn out to be one big, bad nightmare. Either that or it’ll get worse.