Bob Moog Immortalized on Google

Bob Moog's Google Doodle:

On Wednesday the 23rd, Google's homepage doodle was a fully functioning version of a Moog Synthesizer.  Bob Moog is considered by many electronic musicians to be the father of electronic music.  He started making Theremin's in his spare time after college and then invented the analog synthesizer.  Moog Music is still in business today, even though the man behind it all, Bob Moog, passed away a few years ago.  The 23rd would have been his 78th birthday.

Amazingly, some dedicated fans and artists alike have created several tributes to the man by crafting entire songs out of the digital-analog synth.

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Moog's Chief Engineer talking about the google doodle project.

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GI Joe Retaliation Pushed 9 Months

The Paramount Pictures title was set to debut late June until yesterday.  Paramount is now delaying the release of the film until next March.

The reason for this?  Paramount says that it is going to convert the film into 3D.  There has been fan backlash for this, as 3D is still considered gimmicky by the hardcore fans.  3D also has a higher ticket price, so paramount might want to try and capitalize and maximize it's profits for this film.

Another puzzling aspect recently uncovered was a tweet from one of the films stars, The Rock.  The Rock tweeted "Designing new scenes to enhance 3D."  Sounds normal, but if one takes a moment, it sounds like they are doing reshoots.  Maybe the film is just bad?  Maybe after the mild success of the first film, Paramount realized it needs to do everything possible to keep this franchise alive.

Finally, in my opinion, I think Paramount realized the huge losses that might come from this film after the recent debut of Universal's Battleship.  Battleship is another one of the franchises based off of toys and boardgames.  Battleship sunk at the box office, earning in it's best weekend, only 25 million dollars.

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