Here’s To The Happily Married Couple
Congratulations, Christopher Lange and Katherine Beddoes!
[more photos to come]

Remember the movie Final Destination? I know that was a terrible way to start the story, but this whole Flight 447 disaster has been shrouded in mystery from day one. A tragic coincidence.
An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident, it has been reported.
Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.
All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.
The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.
It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.
My deepest condolences to the family that grieve her.
This Short ROCKS!!!
SCAD senior Bang-yao Liu’s Deadline is a stop-motion video made entirely using Post-It notes; it’s packed with numerous references that should please geeks and gamers alike. [Music by Röyksopp]
“This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.”
So I only just now figured out how to take files off my phone and onto the computer. Duh Fin, anyway, do I have some things to show you!

Firstly: I spotted this eye patch in one of those cheap any/everything shops and knew right off the bat what was so intriguing about it:
I use to play this game like I was tweaking on steroids. Then Iron Plague came out and by then I was an addicted TA junkie. Luckily I moved past the carnage of TA and only now venture into first person shooters. …Shit man, I’m getting and urge for alchemy again!
Secondly: My dad recently bought a small building to start a business selling organic foods and such:
Believe me when I say, I was dubious of the whole idea, but that was before I saw, and, remembered the place from childhood.
It used to be an old Video Ezy, and I remember going in there as a youngin and picking up a video case of Robocop and thinking this is the coolest robot I had ever seen (still haven’t seen the movie) Times have changed and the neighbourhood now is pretty fucking cool.
So cool in fact, that I managed to score a job right next door, at a swank fish & chip shop. I say swank because they serve gourmet salads and hamburgers – Compared to South Auckland fish & chip joints, this place is an oasis:

When I went back to the shop the next day, the front window had been graffitied over:
The funny thing is, neither me nor my dad are upset by it. Maybe because the message is cool:
Will do one day, will do.
ARRG! When my hardrive broke I lost all my web favourites and por… artsy pictures. My memory is slowly but surely coming back though.
Cartoonnist Chris Gine’s: 165 BotsWithStuff
They are now playing all of the final 48Hours Films on C4 at 11pm. This next comment will make me sound like a shitface critic but, some are very lacklustre, but awesome in the whole realm of 48Hours [biggest film comp in NZ] and the quality of films this year is amazing!

Saving the best till last; Filmmaking buddy Chris Tan will have his film played this Wednesday June 17, 11pm, so if you have a TV, you know where I’m going with this.
Episode Eight : City Winners – Wednesday June 17, 11pm
* Dunedin Winner : Line Men- Charlotte – Big Twist
* Christchurch Winner : TBALC- New Fish – Musical
* Hamilton Winner : Guerrilla Monkeys – Hardwood Floors – Parallel WorldsGrand Final Awards Show Sat June 20th, 9pm
The TV series and Grand Final are produced by Two Heads Production Company. Thanks guys!

Also, Directors Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro had a hand to play in this competition, choosing three films as wildcard picks for 2009. So what’s the bet they’ll be watching TV at the same time YOU’LL BE WATCHING TV!

Wired Magazine has a great interview with Hobbit Director Guillermo del Toro on the Future of Film: [click image]
Wired: With Pan’s Labyrinth, you proved you can indulge your love of monsters and seek artistic credibility at the same time. Do you still get push-back from an industry that believes the science fiction/fantasy genre and “serious filmmaking” don’t mix?
del Toro: People think because you love genre you don’t know anything else. It’s condescending. If the emotion is provoked and the goals are achieved, what does it matter? Is Thomas Pynchon a more worthy read than Stephen King? It depends on the afternoon. And I love Kurt Vonnegut. He threads the profane and irreverent with the profound and soul-searing.
Well made. From the same guy who brought us Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee, Bumblebee Boy turns our favorite Autobot into a breakdancin’ fool: