In 1951, Fred Astaire per­formed a grav­ity defy­ing dance that left every­one scratch­ing their heads. 60 years later, Incep­tion’s hall­way fight daz­zled audi­ences with the same effect.

Check out this cool video show­ing how the room rotated through­out the scene. There are two things in this scene that I haven’t fig­ured out. First, the photo seems to stick to the desk and chair, how did they do this? Glue? Mag­nets? Sec­ond, the film shows the cam­era fol­low­ing Fred around the room, but the the shot on the right seems to be taken from one angle. Did they just crop a wider shot or did they actu­ally fol­low Fred around with the cam­era? Guess I’ll have to wait for the 2-disc special-edition blu-ray behind-the-scenes making-of bonus-materials.

Another cool Incep­tion poster from Frodo Design Store. Check out their web­site, they did some Lost and Star Wars posters too. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!!

BEWARE OF SPOILERS (JACOB)
This very well done info­graphic out­lines the final mis­sion of Incep­tion. I espe­cially like the two cross sym­bols which indi­cate Saito and Cobbs death and sub­se­quent falling into uncon­structed dream space. This con­fused me the for a while because I couldn’t fig­ure out where the first scene took place. [via deviant art]

Check out this design video from 1960’s San Fran­cisco. I espe­cially like the cof­fee and cig­a­rettes time lapse. And now, we cel­e­brate by sam­pling the product!

Just watched this trailer for The Ore­gon Trail movie. I really hope this movie is real because it looks like the most epic video game movie ever made. [via Kotaku]
JUST THE BULLETS!

Just fin­ished Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pil­grim graphic novel (in six vol­umes). Now I’m really look­ing fore­word to see­ing the film.

It was the best thing I’ve read all sum­mer, pos­si­bly the best thing I’ve ever read, ever. Which isn’t say­ing much, see­ing as I’ve read less than your aver­age 3^rd grader.

But seri­ously, this could be the most epic love story ever told. Scott is the ulti­mate lover/fighter.

Keep in mind, these books aren’t for every­one. You def­i­nitely have to be young and some­what geeky to appre­ci­ate it. Take my test to deter­mine whether or not Scott Pil­grim is for you.

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Here is some new Daft Punk to break up the sum­mer silence. P.S. prob­a­bly fake. but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it!

Today marks the 49^th birth­day of Wally Pfis­ter, the man who brings Christo­pher Nolan’s dreams to life, one frame at a time.

With films like Memento, Insom­nia, Bat­man Begins, The Pres­tige, The Dark Knight, and now Incep­tion, Nolan and Pfis­ter have proven them­selves to be one of best com­bos since Spiel­berg and Kaminski.

Below is a com­pi­la­tion of Pfister’s work that I found on Youtube. If you haven’t seen any of these films, they’re all worth check­ing out.

So this is actu­ally a Chris Nolan com­pi­la­tion, but it might as well be Wally’s reel.

I’m happy to see that Christo­pher Nolan’s Incep­tion is com­ing out on IMAX next month. Any­one who has seen The Dark Knight on IMAX should know what Nolan and Pfis­ter are capa­ble of.

Still, one ques­tion remains, will it be a 35mm con­ver­sion (like 99% of com­mer­cial IMAX releases) or did they actu­ally shoot some scenes using IMAX cam­eras (like they did with The Dark Knight). The answer lies some­where in between.

Unfor­tu­nately, no IMAX cam­eras were used dur­ing the film­ing of Incep­tion. Instead, key scenes were shot in 65mm. What is 65mm? Allow me to explain.

Most movies are shot on stan­dard 35mm film. Some­times they are blown up in post pro­duc­tion to fit on IMAX screens, like with Harry Pot­ter or Trans­form­ers.

65mm is a large for­mat film, which offers a higher res­o­lu­tion than stan­dard 35mm. Each frame of a 65mm print has a height of 5 per­fo­ra­tions. But when you take the same film and run it through a cam­era hor­i­zon­tally, so that each frame has a width of 15 per­fo­ra­tions, you get IMAX, the high­est res­o­lu­tion of any film. This is how all those Dark Knight scenes were filmed.

So, no, Incep­tion did not shoot any scenes with 15-perf IMAX, but they did shoot with 5-perf 65mm, the next best thing. The dia­gram below shows the rel­a­tive sizes of 35mm, 65mm, and IMAX.

Check out this inter­view for more info on Incep­tion [Col­lider]