Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Arm Pillo Kickstarter Rejection

Edit: The Arm Pillo is available through www.simpleinno.com and through http://www.amazon.com

So, apparently, it's not as easy to get on Kickstarter.com as I thought. If you don't know what kickstarter is, well, basically it's a site that allows you to crowd-source funding for your project or product. You provide a video and different levels of rewards for certain amounts of money donated. We just had a normal Arm Pillo level and a fleece or leopard print level. They said the Arm Pillo didn't "fit" with kickstarter. I guess the Arm Pillo doesn't fit anywhere, except around your arm. This is a setback, but throughout my life, I've rarely fit in anywhere, so I will persist. Below is the video we made, there was an intro we made for kickstarter, but I decided to take it out, mostly out of spite, though it was pretty funny. We put up a website www.simpleinno.com that has the Arm Pillo along with a few other products for sale.



Sunday, March 25, 2012

Hunger Games

Yes, I, a twenty three year old male have read the Hunger Games Trilogy. And it was good. The movie of the first installment, however, did not live up to my expectations. I hated the cinematography, it was shot like a British sci-fi show, most of which I cannot stand solely for the way they are shot. The CGI was mostly terrible (the flames during the entrance of the contestants were uninspired). For a world that's supposed to be in the future, everything seemed like it was straight out of the 1950s. The lack of detail in the story was understandable due to the time constraint, but details such as the victors crown being split between Katniss and Peeta at the end would have added no time and needed no explanation. Rant, rant, rant. 7/10.