First Rule of Flying is Good Advice For Entrepreneurs

I just finished watching Joss Whedon's sci-fi epic Serenity from 2005 on Blu-ray. A wonderful movie, it features a roguish Captain, styled after Han Solo, who offers some advice on flying. His words struck a chord with me and seemed like good advice for entrepreneurs, as well as, spaceship captains. The First Rule of Flying, he says, is “Love.”

You can learn all the math in the universe, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down... tells you she's hurting before she kneels… makes her a home.

Words worth considering for company builders and would-be captains of industry everywhere on the eve of a new decade. Happy 2010!

Will Terminator be the Same Without Arnold?

Movie buffs are obviously taking note that Terminator Salvation, the fourth installment of the series, is just around the corner, and S. James Snyder has written a great feature on MetroMix about the evolution of robots on the big screen.

Beginning with the great silent film, Metropolis, to Robby from Forbidden Planet, and of course, the robots in the first three Terminator films, Snyder describes the continuously evolving nature of futuristic technology.

Cool stuff. I wonder what robots will look like in another 80 years...exactly like us is probably a decent bet.

How to Create a Digital Human in 18 Minutes

An detailed explanation of how state-of-the-art facial analysis technology transformed Brad Pitt in to an 87 year old man...then aged him backward.



Wow!

More from the Folks at Image Metrics

This video is impressive...and a bit creepy: