After months of speculation about who will fill the tights of the new Spider-Man, we may finally soon have an answer. The suits at Columbia Pictures have been watching screen-tests for their ultimate Spidey short-list. In a word: thwip!
According to Deadline the final few in serious Spider-Man contention are Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot); Anton Yelchin (Chekov in Star Trek and Kyle Reese in Terminator: Salvation); Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass); Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus); Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson, 3:10 to Yuma); and Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro). Harry Potter alumnus Frank Dillane could have been in there, but opted for drama school instead.
As you’ll know full well by now, this isn’t Spider-Man 4 per se, but a new start to the franchise, skewing younger, possibly by way of Brian Michael Bendis’ alternate plot and chronology in Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man comics. The script is by Jamie Vanderbilt (The Losers, Zodiac) and the 3D film will be directed by 500 Days of Summer’s Marc Webb: chosen because Avi Arad likes his way with a teenage drama.
Read more at EmpireOnline
For once you will be eager to hear your guests asking you what the time is, just to show off your new clock..and together figure out what time it is. Designer Sander Mulder, has created a wall clock, which challenges the conventional way to show time.
“Our office clock fell, causing the minutes- and second pointer to come off and they were just laying in the transparent cover. Witnessing the random patterns that occurred while the hour pointer still rotated, the concept for the Continue Time was born. On this Continue Time clock, two out of the three pointers rotate around another pointer, instead of the central point on the clock face, as with traditional clocks. The resulting kinetic artwork, and fully functional clock, is continuously changing its shape during a full rotation of twelve hours.”
“While creating mesmerizing patterns on your wall the pointers are still read as with any traditional clock. The widest pointer (attached to the clockwork) shows the hours, the medium sized pointer (attached to the hour pointer) shows the minutes, the smallest pointer (attached to the minute pointer) shows the seconds.”
Technical information:
Colour(s): Brass, Aluminum. Dimensions turning circle (Ø): 2100 mm.
Weight: 4,5 kg. Material: Brass, Aluminum.
Design: Sander Mulder
Photography: Niels van Veen & Sander Mulder.
Read more at daquedesign
John Lithgow has joined the cast of the new Planet Of The Apes prequel.Rise Of The Apes, which is chronologically set before Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of the original and stars Spiderman actor James Franco as a scientist who begins testing on apes to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
After an experiement goes wrong, a war between man and ape erupts.
Lithgow will play Franco’s Alzheimer’s suffering father, whileSlumdog Millionaire‘s Frieda Pintowill co-star as a primatologist.
Rise Of The Apes has been earmarked for release in June next year.
Read more at NME

Blue 3DS Prototype Console.
Coming up to last week my life was going to be busy.
Not busy with actual life things.. oh no.. but busy with anticipation.
See.. this was the week where the world was to finally get a glimpse of Nintendo’s new little handheld dubbed the 3DS by many.
However what I was about to see and hear was far beyond what I have imagined.
Not only did The Big N tell us about the actual console but they blew everyone away with the software lineup they announced for the handheld.
More on the software later, now I’m going to go over some details on the hardware.
As expected this thing actually runs in stereoscopic 3D, much like new movies that are out right now, it has one major difference though…… YOU DON’T NEED GLASSES!! [..]
The header says it all people.
Watch in amazement as Mr Fallon shows just how noob he is at Donkey Kong Country Returns and blow his load over the new 3DS consoles amazing Glasses-Free 3D below.
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The video also shows off some good co-op gameplay and that this is truly a return to form for the King of Swing.