Wednesday, December 27
bug bus hot rod
Tuesday, December 26
dead noon
A low-budget horror-camp festival with appropriated Rob Zombie soundtrack. What’s not to love?
Labels: video
BabyToupee.com
Some one please tell me this is a parody.
Sunday, December 24
CROSS BRONX #1 Now Free Online
The intriguing first issue of crime urban crime comic Cross Bronx is available for free online reading. The art style is somewhere between Batman The Animated Series and the Pander Brothers’ take on Grendel. The story hints at deep characterizations and a larger picture yet to be revealed. (warren ellis)
Labels: comic
Friday, December 22
AVAST, mateys!
A new MMOArrrrPG: Wiz Kids’ Pirates Constructible game has been recreated as an online game, by Sony Online Entertainment. There's a free demo available, as well. (via Penny Arcade)
Labels: games
beware mistletoe.
japan’s advertisements are better than most american teevee
Japan Probe - The First Annual Japan Probe Awards For Excellence In The Field of Japanese Commercials. Many interesting contributions, some with subtitles...
Tuesday, December 19
Warning Signs - a photoset on Flickr
Thursday, December 14
attention holiday travelers
The Transportation Security Administration wants you to know the “3-1-1 on Air Travel” - the weakest, least inspired mnemonic to come from government since “Stop, Drop, and Roll.” From the site:
Make Your Trip Better Using 3-1-1Just remember, by trying to pack amenities instead of buying them at your destination, fostering local economies, and abandoning them wastefully prior to return home, you have brought this on yourself.
3 –1–1 for carry-ons = 3 ounce bottle or less; 1 quart-sized, clear, plastic, zip-top bag; 1 bag per passenger placed in screening bin. One-quart bag per person limits the total liquid volume each traveler can bring. 3 oz. container size is a security measure.
Consolidate bottles into one bag and X-ray separately to speed screening.
Be prepared. Each time TSA searches a carry-on it slows down the line. Practicing 3-1-1 will ensure a faster and easier checkpoint experience.
3-1-1 is for short trips. If in doubt, put your liquids in checked luggage.
Declare larger liquids. Prescription medications, baby formula and milk are allowed in quantities exceeding three ounces and are not required to be in the zip-top bag. Declare these items for inspection at the checkpoint.
Come early and be patient. Heavy travel volumes and the enhanced security process may mean longer lines at security checkpoints.
TSA working with our partners. TSA works with airlines and airports to anticipate peak traffic and be ready for the traveling public.
Come early and be patient,indeed.
animated empire pwnership
see link title for backstory
Figment Of Blogger’s Irked Imagination Becomes Living, Breathing Song - Idolator. Go. Listen. Love it.
Labels: music
Friday, December 8
add to everyone’s wishlist for $holidayname
Frigits are little magneticized toys you can stick to your refrigerator to make Rube-Goldberg-machines. I am going to get my hands on these... somehow.
Thursday, December 7
cue strummed guitar; reveal hero, standing atop lamppost
The best action figure in the world, according to Bubblegum Fink and YT, is this 12" Kikaider figure from Medicom Toys. Add to my wishlist, mas pronto. (thanks, el Otro Miguel)
Monday, December 4
cosplay of popular fast foods
ワンダーフェスティバル2006夏のコスプレ: I like seeing the detail and passion that goes into cosplay, but I like it more when people break away from the mainstream game and anime stuff, and start cosplaying their favorite snackfoods. Here is the head-only hanbañero pepper snack, with the rest of the performer’s body ignored by consensual agreement through the black costume of kabuki and bunraku scene handlers.
Tonight he will visit you in your dreams.
The Tarako kewpie baby also makes an appearance.
(Warning, page contains cosplayers, and some links to not-work-safe toys and models)
Labels: games
the turning of the seasons
Monty’s got a new comic up at Planet Saturday. His comics are getting better each month. He might be eating something that is making him funny. OK -- Funnier.
Labels: comic
“one dolla”
For every time you click to light a candle at Light To Unite, Bristol-Myers will donate a buck to the National AIDS Fund. How enlightened. (thanks, Monty)
get your beat on. or off.
Fine linework, dry, documentary-style writing, and interesting event associations; check out &ldqup;The cartoon history of rock n’ roll” by mikael oskarsson at Webcomics Nation.
an in-depth interview with the South Park creators about “That World of Warcraft Episode”
Q: How would you compare making South Park’s traditional animation with making machinima ‘animation’? Was one method easier than the other, or more interesting, or...?
JJ: Well, as Trey said when we wrapped up the last ‘shoot,’ this is definitely where animation is headed. I know that there were frustrations, but most of them were mere technical limitations that can and hopefully will be addressed in the future. Things like the ability to record an individual character’s performance, and then have that character give the exact same performance each take would have been very useful because that way the performances could be treated almost like sound channels in an audio mixing program or video clips in an editing system. The ability to have full control over every single aspect of what is being seen in frame has got to be any director's ultimate dream. Combine that with the extreme flexibility of a virtual environment, and there quite literally is no limit to what could be done...
ES: The set up for machinima animation takes a lot longer. Originally we were going to try to produce our own video game that the South Park characters play. But we usually produce South Park in a week and there’s just no time to create our own backgrounds, props and characters. We were so relieved we could use the warcraft world to tell our story.
Machinima.com: Make Love, Not Warcraft (Thanks, Weezie!)
Labels: games
