GlobalPulse: Top 3 Interesting Events of the Week
By Angela Almeida Opinions Editor United States: Dubbed by The New York Times as an “adrenaline addict,” Journalist Carl Hoffman has few qualms. Over the past five months, Hoffman has traveled all over the world taking the airlines and other modes of transportation with statstically the worst ratings. Hoffman just returned back from Kabul, where he met a French woman doing virtually the same thing he was, that is, testing the world’s limits. To see more about Hoffman visit: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/04/23/lunatic.express.carl.hoffman/index.html South America: “Avatar” director James Cameron is teaming up with indigenous rights activists in Brazil to save the rain forest and stop the projected dam that would flood miles of it. Cameron claims he was…
Sidekick predicts Oscar winners
Video by Chris Nguyen Features Editor This year’ s Academy Awards has gotten more buzz than ever before with big blockbuster films, including Avatar, Up and The Blind Side, finally earning a huge number of nominations with an expanded nominations list. Ironically enough, the film looking to sweep most of the major categories is The Hurt Locker, a small-budget film that was quietly released in August. Oscar predicting is quite the complex science, which requires taking into account voters’ true movie favorites and their need to make big statements and repressing one’s own desired winners to think like an Academy member. But The Sidekick’ s Chris Nguyen will try anyways with his predictions for…
The Story behind “Avatar”
By Wren Culp Staff Writer What do movies like Terminator, Aliens and Titanic all have in common? What unites these movies together? The answer is Academy Award winning director James Cameron. Movies are always progressing with technology. Today’s modern technology is the backbone for everything on set and in the editing room, but what happens when the technology for your movie does not yet exist? Cameron took it upon himself to make technology catch up with him. He developed everything from new state- of- the- art cameras to innovative movie sets. He even changed the way actors look in a 3-D environment. All this for one movie. A movie with a $237 million budget and…