What if Star Wars: Andor was broadcast in 1975 instead of 2022?
Auralnauts — the people who’ve been remixing Star Wars scenes to great effect for years — have answered this question by creating their own title sequence for Andor, and from the downscaled video, cheesy title graphics, 1970s synthpop, and Very Serious Narrator providing a summary of the show, it’s 1970s-a-riffic!
Here’s the video. Enjoy!
Happy halloween! Also, tell your kids that this was Daft Punk.
Curious about the glasses? They’re “louvered”-style glasses lined with electroluminscent (EL) wire, a phosphor-coated wire that glows blue-green when you apply an AC current to it. The trick to making EL wire glow in different colors is a simple one: you cover it in colored plastic.
We won an Amazon gift card at a recent local tech event and bought these EL wire rave glasses for a mere US$13. They’re powered by two AA batteries that connect to the glasses via a cable. The batteries are in a pack that acts as a DC-to-AC transformer, as EL wire requires alternating current.
The glasses have three “on” modes:
First, there was the Spirit Venture Capitalist costume, and now there’s this one: “Freelance Recruiter Who Ghosted You.” I see more of these coming.
Thanks to Ken Nickerson for the find!
Leave it to Linus Akesson, 8-bit music maker extraordinaire and creator of other retrofitted instruments such as the Sixtyforgan and Qwertuoso to create an electronic accordion with two Commodore 64 computers, floppy disks, and duct tape: The Commodordion!
Writing about the Commodordion is like dancing about architecture — the best way to understand it is to watch Linus’ video below:
The person who came up with the phrase “quiet quitting” took the effort to incorporate alliteration, which made the phrase catchy. You’d think the author of the article 5 Signs You Are Being “Quiet Fired” From Your Job (shown above) would have put in a few seconds to do the same for its employer counterpart, but instead, they took the lazy route and simply replaced “quitting” with “firing.”
In my opinion, “furtively fired” — and its noun form, “furtive firing” — sound much better, are grammatically correct, and employ an underused word.
