Graduation season is upon us. Across the nation, countless hungover students are sitting through long and drawn-out speeches that stress the importance of working hard, integrity... blah blah blah. And dotted throughout the sea of monochromatic graduation caps and gowns, bright spots of color catch the light like stars in a velvet sky—personalized graduation caps that tell America no, dammit, you will not break my soul and force me into conforming to your soulless and corporate ways. I’ve seen some pretty creatively decorated graduation caps, but this one that reader Mitchell Burton tweeted at me was the best. It’s inspired by a drifting scene from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the third movie of the Fast and Furious franchise and arguably the best. Burton, who just finished his Master’s in Aerospace Engineering, created the scene from craft supplies from Michael’s and toy cars: The terrain is a ReadyGrass from the model train section of the … [Read more...] about This Tokyo Drift Graduation Cap Is The Best Thing I’ve Seen All Week
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Fast & Furious
Swarmed by a crowd of VIPs with a smattering of journalists sprinkled in, I make my into a large building that's staged as a decades-old warehouse in San Francisco. I pass a chainlink fence housing NOS bottles and am greeted by familiar four-wheeled characters: a '12 Subaru WRX STI, a '97 Mazda RX-7, a '70 Ford Escort RS1600, and a '69 Dodge Daytona. If you've seen the third, sixth, and seventh outing of the $5-billion Fast & Furious franchise, these are the films co-stars, appearing in the queue for Universal Studios Florida's latest attraction, Fast & Furious - Supercharged. The cars all look authentic, and they should. The WRX and Daytona are actual prop vehicles from their respective films. Dennis McCarthy, the Picture Car Coordinator whose company Vehicle Effects built all of the automobiles for the Fast & Furious films, post-Tokyo Drift, provided 15 of them for the ride. For cars McCarthy couldn't source from production, replacements were built to look just like … [Read more...] about Fast & Furious
‘Fast & Furious Live‘: Car movie mayhem, packed into an arena
LONDON — The roaring engines and burning rubber of "The Fast & The Furious" films — one of cinema's highest-grossing franchises — are skidding off the screen and into the real world, as a live stunt show based on the movies opens in London on Thursday before touring Europe."Fast & Furious Live," held in London's O2 arena, aims to re-create the elaborate stunts for which the films are known, everything from the bank heist from the first movie to the car airdrop."We talked about a live show, but we'd never imagined it in the way that Rowland (creative director, Rowland French) imagined it," Vin Diesel, one of the films' main stars, told Reuters. Diesel is not in the live show, which introduces all-new characters. French, who once worked on BBC's "Top Gear," similarly did a "Top Gear Live" arena show featuring car stunts.The show features around 40 vehicles, including tanks, trucks, a submarine and dozens of fire-spitting, customized muscle cars. It uses 3D … [Read more...] about ‘Fast & Furious Live‘: Car movie mayhem, packed into an arena
‘Fast & Furious Live‘: Movies’ cars and mayhem, contained in an arena
LONDON — The roaring engines and burning rubber of "The Fast & The Furious" films — one of cinema's highest-grossing franchises — are skidding off the screen and into the real world, as a live stunt show based on the movies opens in London on Thursday before touring Europe."Fast & Furious Live," held in London's O2 arena, aims to re-create the elaborate stunts for which the films are known, everything from the bank heist from the first movie to the car airdrop."We talked about a live show, but we'd never imagined it in the way that Rowland (creative director, Rowland French) imagined it," Vin Diesel, one of the films' main stars, told Reuters. Diesel is not in the live show, which introduces all-new characters. French, who once worked on BBC's "Top Gear," similarly did a "Top Gear Live" arena show featuring car stunts.The show features around 40 vehicles, including tanks, trucks, a submarine and dozens of fire-spitting, customized muscle cars. It uses 3D … [Read more...] about ‘Fast & Furious Live‘: Movies’ cars and mayhem, contained in an arena
‘Fast & Furious Live‘ arena show: Vin Diesel’s on hand for opening night
LONDON — The roaring engines and burning rubber of "The Fast & The Furious" films — one of cinema's highest-grossing franchises — are skidding off the screen and into the real world, as a live stunt show based on the movies opens in London on Thursday before touring Europe."Fast & Furious Live," held in London's O2 arena, aims to re-create the elaborate stunts for which the films are known, everything from the bank heist from the first movie to the car airdrop."We talked about a live show, but we'd never imagined it in the way that Rowland (creative director, Rowland French) imagined it," Vin Diesel, one of the films' main stars, told Reuters. Diesel is not in the live show, which introduces all-new characters. French, who once worked on BBC's "Top Gear," similarly did a "Top Gear Live" arena show featuring car stunts.The show features around 40 vehicles, including tanks, trucks, a submarine and dozens of fire-spitting, customized muscle cars. It uses 3D … [Read more...] about ‘Fast & Furious Live‘ arena show: Vin Diesel’s on hand for opening night