Watch creator Ant Timpson and co-producer Andrew Beattie talk about this second instalment of the successful feature film competition:
The Pitfall of Channel Surfing
•August 30, 2013 • Leave a Comment…I just saw Richard Gere’s junk (@_@) *shudders*
F U C K I N G G I V E I T T O M E !
I T ‘ S W O R T H T H E R I S K
TO RETURN TO A SIMPLER TIME WHEN CHANNEL SURFING WAS AN INNOCENT ANNOYANCE
I ‘ L L T R Y A N Y T H I N G, S E R I O U S L Y
F L U N I T R A Z E P A M ?
NO MEMORY OF ADAM SANDLER WOULD BE GREAT ALSO
Writing Wānanga Workshop [F]
•August 26, 2013 • Leave a CommentI just signed myself up to a three days, two nights writing workshop over the upcoming semester break. Not creative writing but academic.
I know I have a lot to learn; I need to hit the books and touch on some secondary readings, plus, from my understanding it will be on the campus marae in the city so that’s something to look forward to I guess (20 minute walk from Renkon, whoohoo!) My only question is, will antisocial behaviour be frowned upon? I’m not implying anything, it’s just a question (⌒_⌒;)
Make My [Horror] Movie Project 2!!!
•August 15, 2013 • Leave a Comment“Producer Ant Timpson, Greg Newman (EVP MPI/Dark Sky Films), and New Zealand Film Commission CEO Graeme Mason announced the return of MAKE MY MOVIE, the highly successful New Zealand feature film project.”
Can you see yourself as an indie horror filmmaker? That’s the spirit. The MAKE MY MOVIE project is returning after a successful inaugural run (How To Meet Girls From A Distance), only this time MMM has a focused criteria — it must be scary. Horror is the name of the game this time around, so get photoshopping your fake movie poster along with that dark and twisted synopsis and you could strike interest in the right people who in turn might see you behind the directorial chair turning your horror story into a reality… Of fiction… But in real life. FOR REALSIES!
Wow, its $2000,000 towards making a motion picture this time. Personally, the only horror films that I like are the ones where the deaths taking place serve under some otherworldly moral code. For instance, I don’t like slasher films (killing out of petty jealousy, revenge or thrills), but I can get into supernatural & bio/ecological horror, where a human’s life is seen as sustenance for something, or someone’s death — as gruesome as it may be — is a necessary evil in order to sustain an order or keep at bay an even greater evil. Damn straight I just broke that genre down for yall, while also carelessly giving away my freaking awesome thoughts on the matter ARGH!
Whatever you believe or don’t believe, if you’re the least bit interested in taking part in this year’s MMM competition then you should definitely give this a go, if not just to see how many people dig your idea; you may be genuinely surprised, or spooked. I’ll have more information for you when MMM2 officially launches. untill then, sweet nightmares.
At the Mercy of My Tutor’s Intellect [F]
•August 14, 2013 • Leave a CommentI am sick of having to analyse and discuss what someone else perceives as an important aspect of any given text, especially if I can’t help but see something differently to how they see. It would be nice to be graded based on my ability to express my own thoughts once in a while. It’s so annoying. I understand what’s wanted, but I don’t want to waste my time writing what they expect to read. What is the point of that?
‘This is a hoop.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘This is how you jump.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Show me you can jump through the hoop.’ ‘Yes.’ *Jumps.* ‘Good, although the way you jumped through wasn’t the way I was expecting you to. B-minus.’ ‘Piss off!‘
That was an abstract analogy, sure, but there is truth behind what I believe. I’m trying to avoid thinking that maybe it’s just me who has a problem with patriarchal authority, although that can’t be the only reason. I don’t agree with this grading process either way.
This Is Why We Love Comics
•August 13, 2013 • Leave a CommentFor YouTube Geek Week, BuzzFeed paid tribute to one of the most accessible yet influential art forms. Its pioneers must be in disbelief at how mainstream and successful their creations have become. From comic strips and comic books to graphic novels and webcomics, see why we can’t stop reading:
From the flip of the page to the musk of old paper. For Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman. Because Peanuts taught us how to read, Batman taught us how to draw, and Superman taught us how to be brave. Whether we’re readers, collectors, or creators, there’s a million reasons why we love comics.
Coco Solid’s Got The “Hook Ups” [+ music videos]
•August 12, 2013 • Leave a Comment
Jessica Hansell, aka, musician Coco Solid, is a multi talented hip-hop-elctro-disco-pop wonder woman who — is a kiwi no less — in collaboration with Illustrator Don Brooker and director Simon Ward, put together a neat 10 webisode mini-series that showcased on the NZHerald website. I’m not sure of its popularity due to my lack of knowledge of it’s running, but I think it deserves more attention, because I want to see more!
Musical twins Kowhai and Monty Hook have big dreams, but with bad judgment, the comical siblings live out the metaphors, tensions and clichés of the music industry.
My sister put me on this just as the series was ending. I was expecting something vulgar like that stupid cartoon set in Morningside that shall not be named, Hook Ups however is on par with Footroot Flats and Flight of the Concords — charming in its deadpan humour with no serious agenda besides pure unadulterated ambition:
HOOK UPS was initially a comic-strip Hansell made for NZ street-magazine VOLUME:
Pretty onto it, Hansell also voices the character Kowhai and is joined by actors Rizvan Tu’itahi (Monty), Scotty Cotter (#1 fan and cousin Ira) Madeleine Sami (the twin’s hippy Mum) and Frankie Stevens (their excessively macho ex-vet Dad).
Listen to some Coco Solid and you may get a solider idea of where she’s coming from, as well as get your electrik boogaloo on:
A Rare View of Earth Taken from the Dark Side of Saturn by the Cassini Spacecraft (July 19, 2013)
•August 11, 2013 • Leave a CommentThat beautiful blue star is our home:
Earth is 898 million miles away from the Cassini spacecraft and according to NASA this is only the third time that Earth has ever been photographed from the outer solar system.
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” ― Carl Sagan
LEGO Adventure Time Main Title [stop-motion animation]
•August 9, 2013 • Leave a CommentCreative people can do some amazing things with LEGO nowadays, and with pretty well everything, which has prompted me to form a sort of filtration system with my expectations so only things I find neat stimulate and engage my interests. …But this is Adventure Time so none of what you’ve just read really applies — TRUST POUND!
Awesome. Unfortunately I now want to see an official LEGO Adventure Time episode while I play with my Adventure Time LEGO sets that don’t exist outside of my own imagination. You see now, this is what happens when you show off. Your young fans are in tears now, probably.
Quite Possibly the Best Billboard Ever Constructed
•August 7, 2013 • Leave a CommentIngenious engineers implement infrastructure to tap into a renewable water source — Air (with help from the electricity powered inverse osmosis filtration system, of course):
Located in Lima, Peru, this billboard produces around 100 liters of water a day (about 26 gallons) from nothing more than humidity, a basic filtration system and a little gravitational ingenuity.
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The Subway Bragger – Pranks Entire Subway Carriage
•August 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentExcuse me ladies and gentlemen! This supposed panhandler (someone who approaches strangers and begs for money or food) has a life tale to tell, so listen up:
Not bad. With a little shameless promotional towards the end, I guess this prank will definitely bring in some money. Good inner-city prank, I wouldn’t feel like giving him money after that speech though. I suspect this was done over several trips and using cellphone cameras so as not to arouse suspicion.
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