The Tron Lebowski

In an effort to keep our blog relatively, well relative to the world of film, counterculture and general awesomeness, I will be posting a shitton of more non-sequitir and internet mayhem that relates to us and our influences. And what better way to begin this again then to show this amazing real-life mash up of Jeff Bridges finest works "Tron" and "The Big Lebowski". Bridges shouted out via sattelite to the "Lebowski Fest Seattle" last night with a huge geek 'splosion by donning the old Flynn helmet while on-location finishing Tron 2. And seeing as the trailer premieres today in San Diego's Comicon, one can only sit back and wonder if Jeff Bridges is the greatest actor of all time.

Cheers to Harry Knowles and Crew for this one.

Also, this viral Kevin Flynn Site for Tron 2 just went up like hours ago...

Daft Punk goes to the Game Grid

The robotic duo sans helmets..

It's all happening. The film that made my childhood greta was not Star Wars. It was the one sci-fi fantasy flick I could relate to: As an Atari lover, an arcade junkie, and future futurist, Tron made more sense than Star Wars. It was deeper, with corporate sabotage and embezzlement at the center of a visual masterpiece that was created by combining black and white photography with nearly nine layers of animation and film effects (one of them unintentional) and throwing the infant known as Computer Generated Imaging in the mix. Oh, and did I mention its a role that Jeff Bridges still claims as one of his all time favorites? And he is starring in the new one as both Flynn and CLU (Flynn's younger avatar). Yes, The Dude abides. The whole movie is being shot in 3-D, a thing that Disney is getting VERY good at, and John Lasseter, (Head of Pixar, and now head of all Animation for the Mouse) is lending some of his team's talents to ensure that this cult classic's sequeal knocks it out of the ballpark in the summer of 2011. And with today's announcement of Wendy Carlos's job being filled by a certain French duo.... I think we're gonna see that more and more people realize that 20 years before the Matrix, Tron was killing it on the Game Grid.


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