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The feed seems to get better as the day goes on. However, the thing on the right is rather annoying and useless IMO.

Also, the top story for me is someone wishing someone else a birthday. Don't care.

He also tweets to Bieber, yikes!

I thought Obama was Kenyan though?

I already called dibs on being the ring bearer.

The last few seasons have been pretty boring.

Holy shit.

These sound amazing.

Put them on your Christmas lists.

iPhone 4.

Probably an iPhone 5 when it comes out.

They had open box M200s for $250, I got those!

Thanks guys. I've been reading a bunch of reviews today and the M200's look like the way to go. I have some old speakers now and regardless these will probably sound 100x better.

I'm planning on buying some 'higher' end speakers for my computer. I'm not sure if I should go 2.0 or 2.1 though. Any thoughts?

They'll mainly be for listening to music, not really much gaming. Maybe some Youtube videos of cats.

Basically, do I really NEED to own a subwoofer?

I'm debating between these two sets:

2.0:

http://www.theaudioinsider.com/product_info.php?p=swan-m200mkii&products_id=184

2.1:

http://www.theaudioinsider.com/product_info.php?products_id=167

The volume dongle on the 2.1s kinda bugs me, I like that the 2.0s have the volume on the speakers.

I was thinking the same thing, which may be why the suit looks funny also.

I'm sure once everything is said and done in post production it'll look fantastic.

I have total faith in Chris Nolan not to fuck up on the third installment.

I'm sure there will be some kind of filter or something when this is all finished. It'll definitely be darker... I hope.

It will be darker for sure. The movie is set in the winter, but it's 9000 degrees and sunny out this week.

I just found out Avengers is filming here too, Pittsburgh is going wild w/ movies lately.

Ok, so they're filming a couple of streets from my place today. I walked over this morning to take a look, but they've got it pretty well blocked off.

All I could see was a bunch of fake snow.

Spamming this thread, here is video of the Bat Mobile being moved from storage:

Fun fact, my apartment is one block over from those you see at the beginning of the clip.

I just saw this too... I wonder what vehicles will be there and if it's worth taking some pics...

Bigelow Blvd. to close in Oakland for Batman

Thursday, July 28, 2011

By Jon Schmitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Bigelow Boulevard will close between Fifth and Forbes avenues in Oakland tonight so it can be used as a base camp for vehicles used in the filming of the Batman movie.

The street will be closed starting at 8 p.m., through 10 p.m. Aug. 5, according to Port Authority, which will detour three bus routes: 54 North Side-Oakland-South Side, 81 Oak Hill and 83 Webster.

Numerous Downtown street closures are scheduled from Aug. 10 to Aug. 21 for the production of the movie, which has the working title "Magnus Rex" and also known as "The Dark Knight Rises."

Read more: http://post-gazette.com/pg/11209/1163581-100.stm#ixzz1TQY6jLxg

are any of you guys going to the filming next saturday? i cant think of anyone to go with.

I'll be Lollapalooza so I can't go.

They're filming 4 blocks from my apartment tomorrow. If I can get some more info I'll work from home and see if I get some pictures or something.

http://post-gazette.com/pg/11209/1163594-100-0.stm

The Batman has spoken -- and he predicts a hot time in Pittsburgh for the next couple of weeks. Literally, at least for him.

A bemused, casually dressed Christian Bale joked today that when "The Dark Knight Rises" blankets some Downtown streets with fake snow, he won't get any relief.

"Well, I hope that all of you guys are going to feel cooler 'cause of the fake snow, I certainly won't be -- stuck in that rubber suit all the time," he told a press conference at the Renaissance Hotel, Downtown.

The third and final picture in director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy brought a relaxed, bearded Bale -- clad in black cargo pants, with folded sunglasses tucked into his T-shirt and hooded jacket -- in front of the press a day before filming starts in Pittsburgh.

"I've never been to Pittsburgh before," he told a room packed with writers, photographers and select guests of the Pittsburgh Film Office. "There will be fighting on the streets a great deal," he predicted, although not a whit of detail about the story was leaked.

"Thank you so much for your generosity of spirit and hospitality ahead of time, and we'll try and stay out of your hair as much as possible and hopefully leave with good memories for everybody."

Mr. Nolan, director, co-writer and producer of the conclusion of the trilogy, confirmed shooting starts on Friday and apologized in advance for any inconveniences caused by road and building closures.

"I just want to take this opportunity before we start shooting -- we start tomorrow -- to thank really everybody in the city of Pittsburgh for the welcome that we've been shown.

"When you're making a large-scale action film that has to showcase, really, the vitality and the size of a major American city -- but also involves a certain amount of disruption to that city in order to make the action appear credible that we want to put on screen," Nolan said he really needs the sort of welcome and cooperation he's found here.

"I think the architecture of this city is a very beautiful city on a very impressive scale and yet one which has a community that hasn't lost its human scale. Those are two elements that are extremely hard to find and incredibly valuable to a production like 'The Dark Knight Rises,' where we're really looking to have the architecture of a major American city somewhat disrupted by what we're going to do."

Mr. Bale and Mr. Nolan were part of a welcome to Pittsburgh press conference that also included producers Emma Thomas and Kevin De La Noy; Dawn Keezer, director of the film office; Gov. Tom Corbett; County Executive Dan Onorato; and Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.

The trailer for the movie features the lines, "Every hero has a journey ... Every journey has an end" and shows an ailing Commissioner Gordon, played by Gary Oldman, insisting the Batman must come back. Someone sitting at his hospital bedside, who sounds like Bruce Wayne, asks, "What if he doesn't exist anymore?"

Also returning are Michael Caine as Alfred and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. Newcomers include Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, also known as Catwoman; Tom Hardy, as Bane; Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as John Blake.

If Ms. Hathaway's scenes require a trip to Pittsburgh, it will mark a return for the actress who made "Love & Other Drugs" here opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. Mr. Hardy's star has been on the rise since he came to Pittsburgh for "Warrior," scheduled for a Sept. 9 release.

Principal photography started in mid-May and Pittsburgh is just one of the locations for the film also shooting in Scotland, England, India and various cities in the states including Los Angeles.

Nolan has said he will use IMAX cameras more than he did on "The Dark Knight," which allowed moviegoers to sink into its wide-screen dark depths. He and his brother, Jonathan Nolan, wrote the screenplay for the movie scheduled for release July 20, 2012.

Christopher Nolan is having a press conference at noon today. Not sure what it's about.

The Bat Signal was up in Pittsburgh last night:

http://yfrog.com/h0ci9unj

I hate Skyler because of the character, the actress pulls it off perfectly. That's what helps make the show so great!

Spider-Man won't fit in the Avenger's movie universe since Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man now.

Plus Spider-Man was never really part of the Avengers in the first place...

I also agree with an earlier comment about how the first person sequence is probably just for the purpose of getting people excited for the trailer. I wouldn't doubt that that scene doesn't even make it into the actual movie.

I never really followed the Avengers, but doesn't he appear w/ them occasionally?

I thought the whole purpose of the reboot was to pave the way for an Avengers movie or series of movies to go along with Ironman, Thor, and Captain America. I guess they need to establish each character and the overal story arc before they bring it all together.

Emma stone is playing gwen stacy, not MJ. So blonde hair is spot on. Also, i think the biggest thing to get over is the presence of Dennis Leary, not the first person POV action sequences.

Spider-Man won't fit in the Avenger's movie universe since Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man now.

I wasn't really excited for this, but the trailer changed my opinion a bit.

I didn't even realize Emma Stone was in this, so I'm seeing this no matter what now, haha.

It seems to be a little darker than I thought it would be based on that trailer.

What a song, what a video. The full 30-minute one is good, but the ending... man WTF.

I really wanted to see them live sometime. Oh well. Still a chance to see Jenny solo I guess.

I love the Cleveland Lumberjacks jersey, haha. They used to be the farm team for the Penguins.

Going.

"Across the Sea" while ACROSS THE SEA!

"Surf Wax America" while on the surf.

"Holiday" on holiday.

WAVVES on WAVES!