Happy belated birthday to PixelYork’s mother country, USA! I hope everyone enjoyed the 4th of July, I certainly did. Unfortunately the weather didn’t hold up for a trip to the beach or having a BBQ, but I did partake in another summer tradition. Going to the movies. The warm-weather season always brings along some great movies and this year is no different with blockbusters like Harry Potter, Transformers, and Ocean’s Thirteen along with some great family friendly animated flicks like Shrek 3 and Ratatouille. One thing I noticed this past week at the theater was that some places are showing movies using DLP technology and charging you extra (up to $4 a ticket) to view them. Save yourself the few bucks and go to the legacy projection movies, because there really is no difference. All you get is a better quality projector, but remember you are still viewing the same “grainy” screen!

Speaking of movies, did you know you can add your own videos from everyone’s favorite video-sharing site, YouTube, into your own apartment in PixelYork? That’s right, you can customize your free apartments (as the mayor previously posted about) with some interactive furniture where you can drop an arcade system and play some games or hang a nice flat screen TV on your wall and share your favorite videos linked through YouTube.

A question for all you movie-lovers, how would you like CityPixel to better integrate movies into the website? How does a movie theater in PixelYork that you could enter to watch upcoming trailers sound? Just a thought of mine, but I would love to hear your ideas so please add a comment to this post with other suggestions!

I am expanding the weekly question, where you can earn additional ‘pixels’ for your account, to include trivia questions as well as brain teasers. So in the spirit of this post, I will pose a movie related trivia question. The first three people to email me the correct answer will receive some free ‘pixels’!

PixelTriva of the week (In the spirit of Hollywood):
Name one of the two 80’s movies whose casts feature two actors who went on to be elected US State governors?

Good luck to all. Stay cool and enjoy what films Hollywood still has to offer this summer, like The Simpsons.

-The Commish