'Toy Story 4' in the Works According to Hanks

While out promoting his film Larry Crowne (out this weekend), Tom Hanks — the voice of Woody in Toy Story 1-3 said that a Toy Story 4 was in the works. After all of the promotions for Toy Story 3 being the last one of the loveable series, this announcement comes as a surprise.

Well, Hanks’ actual words were, “I think there will be yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think they’re working on it now. There you go.”

That doesn’t exactly strike a note of confidence into this film critic’s heart. Pixar already “toyed” (get it, get it?) with us in the Toy Story short that ran at the beginning of Cars 2. And while I love Toy Story, I felt like the third one ended like Titanic — in a way that made it pretty impossible to make another one. For those who haven’t seen the third one, it came out last year so don’t be offended by my spoiler in the next sentence. Toy Story without Andy is like jelly without peanut butter — the characters are still sweet but there’s nothing to hold them together.

What do you guys think? A welcomed addition to the Pixar family? Or just an excuse to have another $1 billion blockbuster?

PINT: How To Be a Playa 102

No bunnies, mice, or children were harmed in the making of this post it note Tuesday.

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Electric eel / Electrophorus electricus

Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)

Is a type of fish that can generate a strong electric current (up to 650 volts) to hunt and defend themselves. Although called the eel or eel, it includes members of the order Gymnotiformes, which does not include both. Electric eels are common in the river Amazon and Orinoco river and surrounding areas.

Body Size

He could grow to 2.5 m long (8.2 feet) and weighing 20 kg (44 pounds), although usually average size is 1 m.

Electric eels unique body shape. Nearly 7 / 8 body parts of the tail. At the tail of the batteries there is little in the form of small plates are horizontal and vertical.

Anatomy of the Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)

can generate electricity

Biomimetic systems to produce power will be modeled after specialized cells within the electric organ of Electrophorus electricus, shown above. These animals have stacks of specialized electrocytes (electroplax) each heavily laden with ion transporters capable of providing an intermittent discharge of ~150mV and a ~1 pA, resulting in a total power for the organ of ~600W (~600V and ~1A). The electrocyte membrane contains (at a minimum) Na/K pumps, Na channels, K channels, Cl channels, and Ca channels. Dissection of electric eels led AlessandroVolta to experiments with isolated galvanic cells of copper and zinc to form voltaic piles (Volta 1800) – he is credited with inventing the DC battery based on this work. Current understanding of the electrocyte has shown they are specialized cells derived from muscle cells and consist of a membrane packed with ion channels and ion pumps – they have little other function than to generate charge.

source How can Electric Eel can generate a strong electric.

There are huge numbers, more than 5,000 pieces. Small electrical voltage of each battery is not great, but if all the batteries are connected in a row (series), will be obtained voltage about 600 volts (compared with batteries that are only 1.5 volts).

Tip of the tail acts as a positive pole of the battery and the head end acts as a negative pole. Electric eels can regulate the relationship between the small battery in the body to get a small electric voltage and large electric voltages.

Appearance Electric Eel

Electric Eel Face

For navigation, electric eels requires only a small electrical voltage. But when it met the enemy or prey, electric eel will provide a voltage to the maximum extent possible through the head and tail attached to the body of the enemy or prey. About 1 ampere of electrical current generated by high voltage electricity will flow and kill them. Other animals are not disturbed because they are not in direct contact with the tail and head of the eel.

video Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) beat the crocodile

Creed lives by the quarry.

I managed to do some super serious epic thrifting this weekend, and emerged from Value Village unscathed with a few solid gold finds. Also, I apologize to any and all manifestations of summer for my complete and utter inability to wear colour.

1. Navy 'Modrobes' skirt, which is size Large and so huge on me that it makes a tulip shape when I adjust the best buckle waistband. It's a total throwback to 1999, when pretty much every kid in public school owned a pair of crayola-coloured Modrobes hospital pants. I conducted a short lived nostalgic experiment involving a thrifted pair of purple Modrobes in first-year University, but I think this skirt is here to stay.

2. 1990s throwback platform sandals. I've been scouring eBay for a pair of dark brown Kork Ease sandals in my size, but to no avail - not that it would matter with this bloody Canada Post strike. Anyways, these squishy platforms are almost exactly what I've been looking for. I wore them yesterday (with jeans) and they felt like walking on marshmallows, but today they chewed up my feet and spit them out.

3. The ORIGINAL Royal Wedding mug, with Charles and Diana. I was so excited to find this piece of retro Royalty kitsch, until my friend shot me down by saying; "Isabel, that mug is making me sad because they got divorced and now she's dead."

Coen Brothers Planning '60s Musical Biopic of Dave Van Ronk

Don't know who Dave Van Ronk is? If truth be told, neither did I. However, you've probably heard of the people he has inspired like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Van Ronk was an American folk singer who lived in Greenwich Village and eventually was called the "Mayor of MacDougal Street." He was very influential in the '60s coffeehouse movement in Greenwich.

The Coen Brothers have a very promising past with music. Their 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?'s soundtrack made it to number one on both the U.S. Billboard's Top Country Chart and Top Soundtracks Chart. According to Empire Online the film will only be loosely based on Van Ronk's life so I'll do my best to keep you updated as more information comes out. Interested?

First 'Brave' Trailer

True to what I reported earlier this week, this trailer seems a little more serious and dark than past Pixar films. I can't wait to see it though. The film is set to come out June 22, 2012.

Spielberg's Abe Lincoln Biopic Filmed in Richmond/Petersburg, Va.

Though my heart lies in NYC, my current summer home is in Richmond, Va. where my parents and I have lived for the last 11 years (when I'm not in school). Though little in the entertainment industry happens in Richmond, this year we do have something to keep us on the look out. I'm interning with Richmond Magazine this summer and they have just reported that Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Sally Field, will be filming in my home town and in Petersburg.

The film is a biopic of the 16th president and will also star Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln and Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens. It's set to come out in December 2012, so in the meantime I will just have to stalk Spielberg around Richmond. Though it would be great to meet a director/producer I admire so much, I have to admit that the cast of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is much more attractive and probably more exciting. That one is set to come out June 22, 2012 and stars Benjamin Walker as Abe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln. Yet another example of two films that try to different approaches to similar topics. Which will you go see?