Wow. WOW!

What an amazing night last night! Barack Obama CRUSHED John McCain nearly 2 to 1. I called it: over 3 years ago, I attended a painful family event where 12 of us sat around a table and wrote down who we would vote for for president. Many wrote Kerry, Clinton & Liberman. My brother's idiot girlfriend wrote Harry Potter. But I wrote Barack Obama. I butchered his name at the time, but my Uncle was able to decipher and state, "Ah, junior Senator from Illinois Obama!". Brilliant.

Much will be said about this win, so I will let others more poignant with their words do so for me. I'm going to talk about what I know, and that's damn cool effects.

Remember the holograms in Star Wars? They were used in all six films, ma. Probably the most memorable, because it was the first, is below.



Last night CNN use the damn same things! I nearly fell out of my chair. I wanted to call Tom K & rave about them, but Tom gets passionate about elections and I didn't want to hear a diatribe about Democrats.

Holographic images have come a LONG way and last night it was just damn cool. Anderson Cooper spoke to Will.i.am via hologram, and it was amazing. He appeared in color and had depth to his body. There were no scan lines, nor rolling waves. Nearly 35 HD cameras were used to shoot the interviewee. Something like 20 computers crunch the data and render the image in real time- it's cool, but it's gotta be expensive.