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WHO WORE IT BETTER?

On tonight’s exclusive edition of WHO WORE IT BETTER?, we compare two different equestrian portraits from two different time periods done in two different art mediums! To the left is the oil on canvas Malmaison version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps by French artist Jacques-Louis David (1800), and to our right is the CGI portrait of Claire Farron (codename “Lightning”) from Square Enix’s Playstation 3 title, Final Fantasy XIII (2009)!

We first take a look at David’s portrait of France’s first emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte! Won’t you just look at the detail on his orange cloak fit only for a self-proclaimed consul! The painting, which is an idealized render of Napoleon’s campaign through the Great St. Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps, renders Napoleon as focal point and as a means to symbolically boost his image, is depicted disproportionately large to his steed! But check out his famous, bare handed gesture, as if to say, “I, Napoleon, wish not for bloodshed, but for peace throughout all Western Europe!” Such propaganda was prevalent in royal portraiture to boost popularity with the public, and David executes the motif with such chic!

But Lightning is in a class all her own! Unlike Napoleon, the CGI team at Square Enix’s 1st Production Department shows her realistically proportioned to her Eidolon Odin, who in true Norse-based mythology style, is in the form of his horse Sleipnir (while Sleipnir in Norse mythology is actually six-legged, Odin in Final Fantasy XIII has the realistic four). But who needs propagandized body proportions when you have as much control over a wild steed as much as this former Guardian Corps soldier turned fugitive Pulse l’Cie! She remains steady on Odin’s reared back without even so much as a set of reigns, wielding his dual blades with ease and charging into battle with such confidence as if to cry out, “I’m no fal’Cie slave!” Lightning definitely strikes hard in this one! As she would have it, there are some things in life you just do!

Two famous takes on the ever so popular equestrian portrait, but we beg the question: WHO WORE IT BETTER?

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Cyberpunk Eyes 

University of Washington researchers have figured out how to implant semitransparent red and blue LED lights in contact lenses, for the purpose of receiving and displaying data in sharp visual images and video. This means wearers will literally be able to watch TV or view photos that are projected directly onto their eyeballs.

SCREECHING

THE FUTURE IS HERE YOU GUYS

Imagine watching a horror movie, you can’t close your eyes… NOPE!

I want this baddddd

holy shit

when did life become a scifi movie

what oh heavens

holy shit

tv today

jarvis tomorrow

jarvis tomorrow

I NEED THESE IN MY wEGG WEG BFG EYES

Want so fucken bad

can you imagine what the economy will go through.
all that business would be insane but at the same time the cost on any visual entertainment would be at risk. the cost of seeing a movie would skyrocket and im sure with technology to see and download video into a contact lens would be pretty simple for hackers to create more things to download and bootleg.

As it is it is incredibly easy to bootleg videos for your mobile device, for your laptop, for your iPod, your iPhone, your iPad, your zune or really any other hand held media device. I can go download a burning software from a secure site, then download the movie I want from another secure site and burn to a dvd, a bluray, send it to my game console, convert for a hand held device. In no real way is this going to change any of that. People expected to see a backlash like what you are predicting when iPods started to be able to do video, I would be very surprised to see a negative backlash on the entertainment industry, if they are smart they will get behind this now and back it with agreements out to support their movie downloading and renting sites.

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I will always reblog

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If every country in the world belongs to America, then how the bloody hell are we supposed to leave?

No one can escape freedom.

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