Batman Running Away From Shit [new site]

•March 14, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Apparently 60’s Batman is a coward. I think the dude just knows when it’s better to throw in the towel and live to fight another day, especially when up against T-1000!

Enjoy the novelty value before it dissipates, because once you’ve seen Batman and Robin run from the worst of it, you can imagine there isn’t anything they wouldn’t run from. Literally, anything. HOLY BANANA SPLITZ!

That freaky monkey I can understand. Feeling inspired? The site is now open to submissions. [Click the image above for the link]

FUN RUN TIME! “2012”

•March 12, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Net proceeds from this year’s fun run will go to the Child Cancer Foundation, Kidz First Children’s Hospital, the Make a Wish Foundation and the Garden to Table Trust.

One more week before the big run! If you’re free this coming Sunday 18 why not take a stroll along the Auckland coastline in support of good health and charity. But don’t do it just for the catch up and food, if you’re a part of a team with a BBQ camp set-up at the finish line, be prepared to have your expectations squashed…

…Let me just wipe this tear. Last year, the one food that kept coming to mind and accompanying my thoughts during my arduous attempt at running, haunting my gasping breath and tired mind, was the perfect picture of a cool, delicious, massive slice of watermelon! But alas what was waiting for me were bananas. Albeit a bottomless chilly bin of unlimited bananas, but not even the tastiest banana could quench my lust for the beloved melon. I love watermelon. Seeds and all. Hang on, what was I talking about here?

8.4km – MARCH 18 2012 – 9:30AM

START: on Quay St, between Tinley Street and the Strand Overbridge (no public access via the Overbridge)

FINISH: at Vellenoweth Green, St Heliers Bay

ADULTS: $15 / CHILDREN (16 and under): $10

h t t p : / / w w w . r o u n d t h e b a y s . c o . n z /

Found ‘Death Star’ Plans at Work [F]

•March 11, 2012 • Leave a Comment

I usually return found goods back to their respective owners, but I found this torn picture book under a cabinet and in the Adult Observation Unit, so whoever cool person it belonged to had long since been discharged. …Mine!

It’s actually rubbish, but for the life of me I can’t just throw it away, It’s Star Wars! And besides, how many people at work can say they have Star Wars memorabilia in their locker? Uno that’s how many. Now, will I look boss reading this during lunch?

Teens Litter Space With LEGO

•March 10, 2012 • Leave a Comment

This is a LEGO tribute to the end of the space shuttle era, courtesy of Raul Oaida, his team and the German Airtraffic Control. I wonder if there will ever be a time when launching stuff into space gets old?

The launch took place from central Germany (easy flight clearance) and reached a max altitude of 35000m.

A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367. We launched it on the 31st of December 2011, the equipment was recovered via GPS tracking 240 km S-E from a remote area.

SPACE STALLIONS [animation]

•March 9, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Quite possibly the greatest cartoon never existed! Space Stallions is a brilliant homage to 80’s cartoons and I could totally watch the box-set right now:

Created as a Bachelor film project for The Animation Workshop by these clever students, Thorvaldur S. Gunnarsson, Jonatan Brüsch, Ágúst Kristinsson, Arna Snæbjørnsdottir, Esben J. Jespersen, Touraj Khosravi and Polina Bokhan. The sweet synthtastic music was composed by Friðfinnur Oculus Sigurðsson. Do you love it?

“The Lick” Compilation [♬]

•March 3, 2012 • Leave a Comment

It’s sort of music’s equivalent of the Wilhelm Scream. A specific arrangement of notes performed (mostly at the same speed and duration) in a bunch of different songs that the makers of this video have dubbed, “The Lick.”

Dr. Seuss Published A Book Full Of Naked Ladies

•March 2, 2012 • Leave a Comment

March 2nd is both Dr. Seuss’ birthday (he would’ve been 108) and the release date of a rather lamentable adaptation of The Lorax which by FoxNews standards is subliminally brainwashing your children.

You’ll be flabbergasted to know as I am that in 1939 Dr. Seuss published an adult picture book with (nipple-less) nudie ladies in it called The Seven Lady Godivas:

The book was a twist on the legend of famed 11th century nudist tax protestor Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom, the fellow who was blinded after sneaking a peek at her birthday suit.

Apparently at the time of its release, it bombed with only 2,500 copies of Godivas being sold out of an initial print run of 10,000 books. This event turned Seuss off catering for adult readers. “I’d rather write for kids,” he later explained. “They’re more appreciative; adults are obsolete children, and the hell with them.”

Today however; I just went on eBay and found original editions of the book going for more than $700! Craziness. Is there a formula depicting what will eventuate into a collector’s item? Well lived sir, thanks for the stories Dr. Seuss and RIP.

STAR WARS: UNCUT!!!

•March 1, 2012 • Leave a Comment

WIZARD! The full-blown, not-blown-at-all, no-budget remake of the cult phenomenon sci-fi opera epic STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE is available for your viewing pleasure in all its entirety, online for free!

Here’s the run down – all around the world Star Wars fans were given the opportunity, the power, the privilege to retell and take part in this epic swede-ish project.

A New Hope was broken into 472 clips all 15 seconds in length. Fans/individuals/teams then reserved their moment in Star Wars history and went about recreating their clip however they wanted, be it animation or live action, CGI or miniatures, actors or geometrically shaped inanimate objects, high-production value or crap-house.

The whole thing is a confusing mess (obviously the point to its charm) and breaks every single gosh-darn cinematic rule ever established through history, but it looks fun and certainly comes with a lot of force:

I’m glad to hear the original score was kept; it binds the piece together. Anyone keen for a marathon then?

11-Year-Old Drew An Entire ‘ALIEN’ Comic from 1979

•February 29, 2012 • 1 Comment

30 years ago an 11-year-old, John White drew a comic of a film he wasn’t old enough to see. Armed with just some art supplies, the Alan Dean Foster novelization of Alien and a Cracked magazine parody of the movie, he put together “a sci-fi classic of classically sci-fi proportions.”

Now “Alien Age 11″ is being posted as a webcomic, one page at a time:

 

He also drew a badass Star Wars comic at age 9:

Great, kid! Don’t get cocky. Love your drawings, but your web layout broke my clicking finger bro.

15 minutes of Worf’s ideas getting shot down by everyone on Star Trek: TNG [montage]

•February 25, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Hahaha, so sad. Why bother keeping Worf around if the crew is just going to crap over him and his suggestions? Riker you killjoy, cant a Klingon get a little MF respect!

This cut kinda makes me feel sympathetic towards the Moro-bar headed son of Mogh!

worf

lol that smirk though.

UMBRA by Malcolm Sutherland [animation]

•February 18, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Just finished watching this amazing short about A space traveler who finds himself on a planet filled with tiny suicidal men. It’s brilliant!

I love this hand-drawn style. The title refers to the main shadow created by a blockage of light, and this concept plays a critical role in the plot of the film.

An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.

A short animated film directed by Malcolm Sutherland in 2010. With music by Alison Melville and Ben Grossman, and foley by Leon Lo. Sound design / mix by Malcolm Sutherland.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

•February 14, 2012 • Leave a Comment

A man is silhouetted as he fills heart shaped balloons with helium while waiting for customers on Valentine’s Day in Islamabad. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)