Not that I truly give a crap; I can dig this type of fictional appropriation (when credit is given of course):
Katy Keene character created by cartoonist William Woggon (1911-2003). Does this officially make her a cosplayer?
Katy Perry’s Been Taking Fashion Cues from Katy Keene, an Archie Comics Character from 1945
•July 6, 2018 • Leave a Comment Botched Canadian Convenience Store Robbery Set to METAL GEAR SOLID Evasion Music [mashup]
•July 5, 2018 • Leave a Comment
The Canadian convenience store robbery that has now become infamous for its poor execution got a Metal Gear Solid makeover. Here is what it feels like to watch people who are bad at video games…and life:
Metal Gear Solid 2 Version:
My Tall Shorts Film Festival Entry [F]
•June 20, 2018 • Leave a CommentWell, I did end up making a short, silly little thing for the competition after all. It was judged last month and no, I did not place anywhere. The rules were simple; entries must be under 2 minutes long, be presented in a vertical format (cell phone screen dimensions), and incorporate the theme of light. Coming in as one of the shortest of all the 63 entries, here is 46 seconds of ghost hunting silliness, FIRST CONTACT/HADOUKEN:
References — STAR TREK; run that start date number through a Julian Calendar converter and you will get 20/05/2018, the date the competition was judged / Snorricam; opening camera angle (and those sparks were made by my sis and bro spinning burning steel wool) / SILENT HILL; radio sound on that Sangean ghost box / STREET FIGHTER; Hadouken, a special attack in the Street Fighter video game series / SONG OF THE SOUTH; song reference from 1946 Musical/Animation (Mum used to sing this when I was little and we would go out for walks).
I’m not OCD or anything, I just, do more with my time than most. It’s a blessing and a curse, believe me. I’m bound to get paid one of these days though for all my effort and randomness lol! Believe it or not, I actually wrote a 5 page script and story boarded the whole thing. Come the night of the impromptu shoot, however, my sister, brother, and I, just ended up winging most of it, two days before the competition closed.
One-takes and plenty of lolz later, we made something enjoyable together. I mean, it still would have been nice to have known what Taika Waititi’s reaction was to seeing it and $10,000 in the hand would have also been swell, but overall it was a neat, cheap, let’s shoot-the-shit-and-see-what-we-make weekend short. Thanks, Spark!
Sevendust — “Medicated” [music video]
•June 19, 2018 • Leave a CommentStill going hard; love this band so much!
Two Wild Lynx in Ontario Having an Intense Dialogue
•June 1, 2018 • Leave a CommentNicole Lewis and her partner Ed Trist captured this rare encounter between two Canadian Lynx screaming at each other — their funny vocal standoff coming close to blows:
Aww, fluffy. I don’t know why but, that reminds me of my sister so much. This one too:
Metro Manners PSA — Anime-Style Magical Girl Video Series Promotes Good Subway Manners in… Los Angeles
•May 17, 2018 • Leave a CommentMusical public service announcements are quite rare, maybe due to their tricky nature to convey an important message in a fun package, in this case, transportation etiquette. The bilingual Japanese/English videos star a woman dressed as an anime-style magical girl, which is sort of strange considering it is for the Los Angeles Metro.
Aisle Blocking ブロキング
Eating イーティング
Seat Hogging ホギング
Super Kind’s opening attack is always to launch into a song, in English, imploring Rude Dude, or Meiwaku Boy (meiwaku being the Japanese word for “nuisance” or “annoyance”), to be more considerate. But the musical interlude never manages to correct Rude Dude’s behavior, prompting Super Kind to Resort to more extreme, often super-powered methods.
Japan has public transportation down, and everyone seems to understand the importance of acceptable behavior while in transit. If the video below is anything to go by, I see no problem in emulating their standards and paying homage in a fun way.
It was some time ago but I think New Zealand’s musical PSA attempt was rather successful:
…Oh, that’s why musical PSAs are rare, they are *campy af (*noun: camp
1. deliberately exaggerated and theatrical behaviour or style.)
Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time – Launch Trailer
•May 16, 2018 • Leave a CommentJoin Akko and her friends as they explore dungeons and uncover the mysteries at Luna Nova Academy in this action RPG, available now.
Ariana Grande, Jimmy & The Roots Sing “No Tears Left to Cry” w/ Nintendo Labo Instruments [♬]
•May 16, 2018 • Leave a CommentNintendo released an accessory pack for their new Switch game system — Nintendo Labo — which is a bunch of build-it-yourself cardboard controllers. Pretty niche, but also pretty neat. Until this video, I haven’t seen anyone actually do anything out of the ordinary with Labo (even if it’s a glorified commercial, it’s still impressive). As it turns out, Jimmy Fallon is a huge Nintendo Mario Kart fan, and with the Roots Crew playing on his show, they really made a funky pop hit with these Labo instruments :
Ariana Grande – Vocals Jimmy Fallon – Guitar, Piano Studio Questlove – Robot Kit Black Thought – Electric Guitar Fishing Rod Kamal Gray – Toy-Con Piano x2 (Organ) James Poyser – Toy-Con Piano x2 Captain Kirk – Acoustic Guitar Mark Kelley – Bass Guitar Stro – Toy-Con Garage Drum Machine.
Noice! Though I feel the reality of Labo, for me at least, would be closer to this:
Ryan Reynolds Makes Lowkey Appearance on South Korean TV Singing Contest “King of Masked Singer” [♬]
•May 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentIf Ryan Reynolds aint just the hardest working self-promoter in Hollywood right now, well, I just don’t know self-promotion. Deadpool 2 opens this week and everyone knows about it, especially here in New Zealand because the second installment of the merc with a mouth stars 15 year old Kiwi actor, Julian Dennison. Here is Ryan doing karaoke wearing a unicorn mask:
I appreciate him working for our affection with all this interesting marketing, but he should give playing hard to get a try, right? I’m not super hyped, but I mean, I am going…
Tall Shorts Film Festival (NZ)
•May 8, 2018 • Leave a CommentThe Festival’s call for entries asks that submissions be no longer than two minutes, that they are shot in portrait format and that they incorporate the theme of light.
Award-winning director Taika Waititi will judge entries, with the entire showing and judging conducted through the Facebook Live platform. Waititi will be looking for films that embrace the format for storytelling and composition.
Not only will the winner have their work seen by the film icon and promoted by Spark, they will also take home a prize of $10,000.
Says Andy Blood, creative strategist at Facebook: “Orson Wells said something like, ‘The enemy of art is the absence of limitation’, so it’s nice to see a film festival with a new limitation: that entries must be shot in portrait format (9:16).
Entries are open from April 1 to May 13. To enter, contestants must post their films to the Festival’s Facebook page Facebook.com/SparkTallShorts, where it will be checked against the competition rules before appearing on the wall. Live judging will take place on the evening of May 20.
So I went to the Fb page, looked at the Visitor Posts submissions (so few), and found that this person was the competition:
This is such a cool initiative, but why the heck is there no/so little marketing for this? Like, zero! I found it by accident for goodness sake scrolling Reddit.
🎭 