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I’ve offi­cially begun the beta test for Ubi Soft and Cyan, Inc’s URU : Ages Beyond Myst. From what I’ve seen so far it is indeed a beau­ti­ful place con­sist­ing of lush envi­ron­ments, ambi­ent music and on the spot envi­ron­ment immersion.

While I can’t dis­cuss what this game has to offer, I can say that reveal­ing any­thing of the sort would “unbal­ance” the oth­er­wise organic flow of the game. True to it’s Myst roots, the puz­zles and inter­ac­tions in the game are abstract but fit into the world in a nat­ural and cohe­sive manner.

I look for­ward to what this game has to offer and so far it’s truly been an inter­est­ing and unique experience.

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Bran­don Lee, son of mar­tial arts expert and actor Bruce Lee, was grad­u­ally fol­low­ing in his father’s foot­steps in mar­tial arts and in Hol­ly­wood. From his ear­li­est begin­nings train­ing under his father’s guid­ance to the tragic end­ing to his life, Lee was devel­op­ing into an action star much like his father was back in the late 60s and early 70s.

The tragic end­ing to Brandon’s life occured dur­ing the film­ing of a scene in Alex Proyas’ film ver­sion of the Crow.

Accord­ing to the Bran­don Lee Library;

“At about 12:30 in the morn­ing on March 31, cam­eras began to roll on a scene in which Lee’s char­ac­ter, Eric, car­ry­ing a gro­cery bag, comes through a door and is shot sev­eral times. Alex Proyas, an Aus­tralian music-video direc­tor mak­ing his first Amer­i­can fea­ture, had cam­eras cap­tur­ing two dif­fer­ent angles on the scene, as well as a video cam­era record­ing the action for quick play­back. Actor Michael Massee, who played Fun­boy, was sup­posed to fire his .44-caliber revolver at Lee from a dis­tance of about 15 feet, at which point Lee would det­o­nate a “squib” (a small explo­sive charge) planted in the gro­cery bag to sim­u­late the rip-and-shred effect of the bul­let. As risky as that may sound, it was noth­ing com­pared with a scene that had been filmed just a week ear­lier in which Lee had been shot — and “squibbed” — about 50 times per take. The Crow’s special-effects man, J.B. Jones, had years of expe­ri­ence deal­ing with weapons on the TV series Miami Vice, and stunt coor­di­na­tor Jeff Imada was also on the sound­stage and had attended rehearsals of the scene, offer­ing advice. How­ever, since all the work involv­ing semi-automatic weapons on The Crow had been fin­ished days ear­lier, the film’s weapons spe­cial­ist had already left the set.

As a crew of between 75 and 100 peo­ple looked on, Massee fired the gun, the squib in the gro­cery bag det­o­nated on cue, and Lee fell to the ground. Not until the scene ended and Lee failed to get up did any­one real­ize he had been shot. “It didn’t really appear to the peo­ple on the set like any­thing was wrong,” said one eyewitness.”

? Read more about this tragedy at Bran­don Lee Library: The Brief Life and Unecce­sary Death of Bran­don Lee.

This Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day, I’m look­ing for­ward to this movie; Big Fish (directed by Tim Bur­ton). Ever since Beetle­juice, Edward Scis­sorhands and Night­mare Before Christ­mas I have been a big fan of Burton’s on-screen visions. To me, they remind me of elab­o­rate fairy tales meshed with con­trast and vivid imagery.

The premise to Big Fish is as follows:

“William Bloom (Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward (Finney), by piec­ing together the facts out of the var­i­ous fan­tas­tic tales and leg­ends of epic pro­por­tions he’s been told over the years (with McGre­gor play­ing the young ver­sion of Edward in these “retellings” of his sto­ries). Edward was a trav­el­ling sales­man, often far from home, and it’s those jour­neys through­out the South that are the seed of his son’s tales. There are four sep­a­rate tales told, each fan­tas­tic and wild, of Edward’s life, with each end­ing then with him at his deathbed, as William tries to under­stand his father’s great deeds, and fail­ures. The titles of the leg­ends (in the book) are “In Which He Speaks to Ani­mals,” “How He Tamed the Giant,” “How He Saved My Life,” and “His Immor­tal­ity.” Oh, and as you might guess from the title, one of them has a giant fish.”

Look for Big Fish to hit the­atres this Thanks­giv­ing holiday.