Sure, you could do all of the projects in this book using regular origami paper, but what makes this book so extraordinary is the specially designed origami paper. Each of the 36 projects has two sheets of corresponding origami paper featuring art drawn from the movies, so your origami Yoda will look just like the wise Jedi master you know and love. The 72 sheets of origami paper is bound into the back of the book, and is perforated for easy removal. Bekijk item

Providing a guide to the Star Wars science-fiction universe, this book explores recent issues, news, films and television previews. It also includes articles on the special-effects secrets of Industrial Light & Magic, and interviews with actors, writers and directors Bekijk item

To borrow a phrase, the force is with Steven Spielberg. Almost everything he touches turns to gold. The master of special effects in the cinema, he has directed and produced some of the most imaginative and successful films ever made. Spielberg made his first film at the age of 12, it cost $10. His first real directing jobs were Duel (1971) and Something Evil (1972), two of the best-directed TV movies ever made. The huge success of Jaws in 1975 gave Spielberg the prestige to command the massive budgets reeded for the special effects extravaganzas Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), EX - the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Spielberg is nothing if not versatile, and his lush production of The Color Purple (1985) has achieved worldwide critical acclaim. Illustrated with over 135 colour and 18 black-and-white photographs, The Films of Steven Spielberg is a celebration of one of the cinema's most innovative directors. Packed with background information, it not only offers a behind the-scenes glimpse into the world of special effects and superstardom, but invites you to savour some of the most phenomenally popular moments in recent movie history Bekijk item

For almost thirty years, the words "Star Wars" have summoned images of spaceships, super-weapons, and futuristic visions of all kinds. But George Lucas's immensely popular, vividly imagined blockbusters of life in "a galaxy far, far away" have often anticipated real-life technology right here on Earth—and this fascinating, visually irresistible book probes the amazing interface between movie magic and practical science. Today's scientists are taking Star Wars fictions and turning them into fact; travel entrepreneurs are making plans for commercial space flight, and high-tech mag-lev trains defy gravity to zoom along like Luke Sky-walker's landspeeder. As the beloved C-3PO observes in his introduction to the book, robots are now a reality, and microscopic nanobots are already performing surgery internally. In the next twenty years, human soldiers will wear exoskeletal armor like Imperial stormtroopers and carry laser weapons as lethal as any light-saber, while orbiting satellites spy on the enemy and accurately pinpoint targets thousands of miles away. These exciting advances, often fraught with peril, are explored by the book's technological experts, who consider the risky implications and possible consequences of their inventions. A perfect souvenir for visitors to the exhibition, now on a three-year multi-city tour, as well as the millions who have made Star Wars one of the most successful epics in entertainment history, this is a book guaranteed to delight film fans and the technologically savvy alike. Bekijk item