Its like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, meets Pole Dancing. Be sure and watch the whole video, because the really amazing stuff comes at the end.

We all know that Darth Vader is one of the most iconic villains in film history, but who knew he had such awesome dance moves?

You have to enter through the roof, the eight cylinder Chevrolet 350 engine won’t be giving you Prius-like fuel economy, and finding spares might be a problem. But who cares? It’s the Batmobile.

Here’s the seller’s description:

Na na na na na na na na na na BATMAN. That is what your neighbors will say when you pull into the driveway. How many people do you know that have a Ferrari, a Mercedes, a Lamborghini, or a Corvette? My guess would be there is at least one of these in your neighborhood. Now how many Batmobiles are in your neighborhood. None, because there were a total of 5 of these cars made.

Sure, it costs half a million bucks, but what’s that to a millionaire socialite like you?

Source: AutoBlog

Stop motion and animation is so cool. You just gotta love fellow geeks with too much time on their hands.

Tron is in my top 10 movie list for sure. I think tonight I’ll watch the DVD now that I’m thinking about it.

The father of the little girl had this to say about the making of the video:

She wasn’t coached to say anything, nor was she forced to make the video. She rarely stops talking.

Believe it or not, she has the seem the movie only once, and I spread it out over 3 days so it wouldn’t be too much all at once for her.

The video was edited to make it shorter, more cohesive and hopefully funnier. I did move some of the lines around so it would make more sense.

Amazing that she can tell the story about the movie and only saw it once over a 3 day period?!?! She’ll probably grow up to be a rocket scientist or something smart like that

The trailer sounds pretty exciting, so I went searching for it and thanks to YouTube, here is the trailer:

I’m really looking forward to seeing this movie. Watching this trailer makes me want to break out my Indiana Jones trilogy DVD box set and get back up to speed on all things Indiana Jones.

But over-the-top secrecy policies aren’t just an expensive governmental habit. They give the President, the military and intelligence agencies powers far beyond what our founding fathers intended.

At least that’s the case made in Robb Moss and Peter Galison’s documentary Secrecy.

Though apparently too heady and subtle for the demands of the marketplace, it hasn’t caught on with Sundance buyers yet, however the film shines valuable light on a particularly troubling trend in American governance.

The apparent goal of Secrecy, which consists of talking heads woven together with bits of archival and impressionistic footage, is to unravel the enormous, knotty and veiled system that keeps sensitive information out of view of American citizens.

Some of the experts, among them former NSA head Mike Levin, former Los Alamos National Lab director Sig Hecker and retired CIA officer James Bruce, argue that the classification system protects Americans, allowing, for example, surveillance on potential bad guys to continue.

Others adamantly describe the U.S.’s secrecy policies as undemocratic. What’s deemed sensitive info — info that intentionally keeps the public in the dark — is determined entirely at the whim of public officials.

Who decides what’s dangerous info to share and what’s just embarrassing? How can citizens protest or resist policies they can’t know about?

Particularly convincing subjects include Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, who helped break the no-WMDs-in-Iraq stories, and Lt. Gen. Charles Swift, who helped overturn the Bush Administration’s Guantanamo policies.

The methods of secrecy are troubling, and so is the amount of classified material. Here’s an excerpt from a Galison essay:

The classified universe, as it is sometimes called, is certainly not smaller and very probably is much larger than this unclassified one. No one has any very good idea how many classified documents there are. No one did before the digital transformation of the late twentieth century, and now—at least after 2001—even the old sampling methods are recognized to be nonsense in an age where documents multiply across secure networks like virtual weeds. … Some suspect as many as a trillion pages are classified (200 Libraries of Congress). That may be too many. In 2001, for example, there were thirty-three million classification actions; assuming (with the experts) that there are roughly 10 pages per action, that would mean roughly 330 million pages were classified last year (about three times as many pages are now being classified as declassified). So the U.S. added a net 250 million classified pages last year. By comparison, the entire system of Harvard libraries—over a hundred of them—added about 220,000 volumes (about 60 million pages, a number not far from the acquisition rate at other comparably massive universal depositories such as the Library of Congress, the British Museum, or the New York Public Library). Contemplate these numbers: about five times as many pages are being added to the classified universe than are being brought to the storehouses of human learning, including all the books and journals on any subject in any language collected in the largest repositories on the planet.

Secrecy begins with Pearl Harbor and the growth of the U.S. intelligence infrastructure, and moves briskly through 9/11, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

The biggest revelation involves a 1953 Supreme Court case. After a crash that killed nine servicemen, the U.S. Air Force argued that the files needed to remained closed because of national security issues.

The Supremes ruled in favor of the Air Force, and in the years since, the case has been cited in more than 600 state-secrets trials.

But wait, here’s the icing on the cake.

When those once-classified files were opened 50 years later, they revealed no state secrets, only overwhelming evidence of military incompetence and malfeasance.

Our national secrecy system, it turns out, may be based on a single dirty lie created to save bumbling officials from embarrassment.

The 1980′s were a great and fun time to be a kid. As they say on VH-1… I Love the 80′s

Animated by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank.

I’ve done a lot of good and I’ve done my share of bad… yes folks, I am human and have made my share of mistakes and bad choices… as Albert Einstein once said “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

The title of my post is Alphaville “Forever Young” and that’s what you’re about to experience… a grand piece of music from my youth and days gone by… I’ve even included the lyrics after the video if you care to sing along. Enjoy.

Let’s dance in style, lets dance for a while. Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies. Hoping for the best but expecting the worst – are you going to drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever. We don’t have the power but we never say never. Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip. The music’s for the sad men.

Can you imagine when this race is won. Turn our golden faces into the sun. Praising our leaders we’re getting in tune. The music’s played by the madmen.

Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever.

Some are like water, some are like the heat. Some are a melody and some are the beat. Sooner or later they all will be gone. Why don’t they stay young?

It’s so hard to get old without a cause. I don’t want to perish like a fading horse. Youth is like diamonds in the sun and diamonds are forever.

So many adventures couldn’t happen today. So many songs we forgot to play. So many dreams are swinging out of the blue. We let them come true.

Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever.

Lyrics and Music Copyright © 1982/83
Alphaville: Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens