Of Holograms
November 6th, 2008 | Jonathan Gray
Bob Rehak has a really good post at his blog, Graphic Engine, all about the odd CNN hologram that premiered a few nights ago. Like Bob, though, it’s hard for me to hear “hologram” without thinking of cinema’s most famous hologram of all — Leia asking Obi-Wan for help. But perhaps you didn’t see the new version on offer in Lucas’s 52nd rerelease of Star Wars: A New Hope:
Jon: I rarely use the word — er, the trio of letters — “LOL,” but this clip made me do just that. Thanks.
You know, sometimes I meditate on our shared love of Star Wars (love, hell, it’s bound into our DNA) and fantasize that we’re fellow Rebel pilots attacking the Death Star. I call shotgun on the Y-Wing!
I’d opt for the B-Wing if those trenches didn’t look so hard to navigate in an upright starship, and if I could still wear the X-Wing pilot uniform
Actually, there’s a whole casting thing to be done here. My first experience meeting Stuart Hall had him very Yoda-like, old and with cane, yet so obviously the guy you didn’t want to (discursively) mess with in the room. I wonder who else in media studies is who in the SW universe?