After some downtime lately, I’ve moved the site to wordpress.com hosting. All the articles and other content have been successfully moved. What remains is to move control over the www.br-insight.com domain to wordpress DNS servers in order to substitute the brinsight.wordpress.com domain. This is being processed right now, but I decided to go public before [...]
Redesign and Recover
This site has got a new “suit”. The new theme is based on one called Ambient-Glo and is designed by Nathan Parikh, I’ve only made some minor adjustments to it (see footer for theme link). The other piece of good news is that I’ve been able to recover all 2007-dated posts which I previously assumed [...]
Back Online!
Hello, once again, fellow runners. As some may have noticed, we’ve had a bit of a downtime lately. This is all due to a completely unprofessional and incompetent hosting provider with the name WebHostingAce who have hosted Blade Runner Insight for the past couple of years, but in late november 2007 “lost” all my data [...]
Mythbusters comments on the effects used in BR
A quarter-century after Ridley Scott’s dark vision of the future changed the face of filmmaking, special-effects maestro and Mythbuster Adam Savage offers an appreciation for Blade Runner. In this interview, in the July 2007 edition of Popular Mechanics, he provides details for various scenes in the movie and explains why he thinks the special effects [...]
Deal with the rain in true BR style…
Ever needed a light source integrated in your umbrella? No, not really you say… but this is still a must-have for a die-hard BR fan; an umbrella with illuminated shaft! It is the online shop ThinkGeek which sells this futuristic piece of technology. Thanks to Phillip for providing this information.
Video frenzy…
I search around on youtube.com for Blade Runner related material, and a wealth of clips was uncovered. Mostly user edited trailers and other simple creations, but still quite fun to explore. Here are some samples of what is available: Blade Runner trailer Blade Runner The Final Cut Fan-Trailer “Blade Runner: The Maria Edition” trailer (Expansion [...]
The Immortal Game
In lack of Blade Runner related news and updates on the upcoming Final-Cut version, I came a cross this very detailed Wikipedia article on the Immortal Game, the actual chess game which the game between Sebastian (and Batty) and Tyrell is based on. The real game was first played back in 1851 by Anderssen and [...]
A decade online…
This month (July, 2006) is the 10th anniversary for Blade Runner Insight. It’s been ten years since this web site was first published on the Internet, and I will do my best to keep it online and updated for many more years to come. Tor I. Skaar Blade Runner Insight
Reviews: The Blade Runner Experience
Recently a new book about Blade Runner was published; The Blade Runner Experience. I haven’t read the book personally yet, however here are two reviews of the book which gives it the thumbs-up. Blogcritics.org writes: “This book seeks to examine the film from a variety of perspectives; the series of essays included here consider not [...]
Vulnerable Electric Sheep
Since I have mentioned the “Electric Sheep” screensaver before, I thought it was prudent to inform users of this software that multiple vulnerabilites was discovered recently. In a posting to the Bugtraq-list the vulnerabilities are described, and may in worst case enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code on your machine. An upgrade to the [...]
