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Check Out A Trailer For That Self-Transforming Optimus Prime Figure’s Trailer
Less than a year ago, Transformers fans’ mouths stood agape when Hasbro and Robosen Robotics revealed an absolutely amazing, fully programmable, 19-inch tall Optimus Prime figure that could transform from his robot form into his truck mode (and vice versa) with the touch of a button. But what’s Optimus Prime without that big-arse trailer he…
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Musician Arranges Jazz Set For Pro Smash Matches
Music student Nicholas Caleb Goss sees melodies when he watches Super Smash Bros. Melee champion Jose “Mango” Marquez flit across a stage. “He likes to style,” Goss said, describing a fight against Marquez as “energetic, surprising”. To Goss, Marquez’s playstyle is jazz, which is exactly what he turned it into.
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Guy Performs Free Jazz To Competitive Smash Bros.
Video: Here’s Caleb, doing a stunning drum performance. And it’s not just random drumming. All the different hits are in sync with all the Smash Bros. moves. You can hear light cymbal hits for Fox’s short hop lasers, for example.
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Miles Davis Hated Everything
Jazz trumpet genius Miles Davis had a lot of things going for him. He had a unique musical intelligence, an unparalleled instinct for musical innovation, and a reserved sense of compositional control that set his music apart from the many trumpeters of his day. And yet when you asked people to list his positive attributes,…