So I was watching Family Guy on the telly last night when Brian started doing the “It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time” song & dance to cheer-up Peter. Hilariously comical:
Here’s the original:
Peanut Butter Jelly!
APPETIZING BENTO! Game/Anime/Movie Inspired
•December 11, 2008 • Leave a CommentAnnaTheRed makes these delicious lunches for her boyfriend, who might very well be the luckiest guy in the world:
…I’ve discovered a love for making bento (lunchbox in Japanese)!
In Japan, a lots of moms wake up early to make bento for their kids and their husbands. And often, they make cute animals or characters from anime shows out of food, so that kids will enjoy eating healthy food. Those bento are called “Kyaraben” or “Charaben” (character bento).
So, I’m going to write about bento, plush, food and anything I create in my blog. Nothing serious, just for fun.
I made a list of video game characters my boyfriend liked first, and looked at each character to see which ones could be made out of food.
I knew that he LOVED Yoshi from Super Mario World when he was young (and still does!)
The hardest part of making a bento isn’t actually making it. It’s how the food/color is placed in a bento, so I drew some sketches before making this bento, and tried to visualize it in colors.
![Spirited Away - No Face, Kodama and Makkurokurosuke [Awwwesome]](https://darkintheboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/spirited-away-no-face-kodama-and-makkurokurosuke-bento.jpg "Spirited Away - No Face, Kodama and Makkurokurosuke [Awwwesome]")
![Bioshock - Big Daddy & Little Sister [this chick, Anna is officially, awesome]](https://darkintheboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bioshock-big-daddy-little-sister-bento.jpg "Bioshock - Big Daddy & Little Sister [this chick, Anna is officially, awesome]")
Flickr: Obento! / Blog: Bento Factory
Celestial Threesome: The Moon, Venus and Jupiter
•December 10, 2008 • 1 Comment
The moon shines over the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the scenes of a terrorist attack last week, in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008.
The planets Venus, top left, and Jupiter, top right, came in close proximity with the moon as seen from Earth Monday. In reality, Venus is almost 100 million miles way and Jupiter nearly 550 million miles from our planet. The moon is 252,000 miles away. The exact combination of planets and the moon in the right place to appear together, even when they aren’t high enough in the evening sky to be appreciated, won’t happen again until 2052. [AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade]
Terminator Salvation Trailer
•December 10, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Finally!
Earlier today a Japanese trailer leaked for Terminator Salvation. Well now Warner Bros has released the Official second domestic trailer for the film, and its an extremely different cut. We get a better look at the Moto-Terminator and the gigantic transformer-like Harvester. Even the detractors need to give McG some credit, this film is looking better and better:
Haha, Man I am getting sick of having to change to a new Trailer every 10mins. They keep getting removed by Skynet I MEAN, YouTube.
Flickr: Trailer Screencaps
ROBOTS: The First Robot That Can Jump Like a Grasshopper and Roll Like a Ball
•December 9, 2008 • Leave a Comment
There are robots that can jump and there are robots that can roll, but the Jollbot is the first robot that can do both. These skills could be vital for future space exploration.
The University of Bath’s work on the Jollbot was first brought to light last year by PhD student Rhodri Armour, but it appears that their design has evolved considerably in that time. Not only can it roll and jump over difficult terrain, it can do it without the awkward drawbacks of leg-based contraptions—which makes it ideal for space exploration. Plus, it is super light [making the logistics of getting it into space that much easier] and cheap to produce.
One of the major challenges that face robots designed for space exploration is being able to move over rough terrain. Robots with legs are generally very complex, expensive to build and control, and encounter problems if they fall over. Wheels are a simpler solution to this, but are limited by the size of obstacles they can overcome.
To solve the problem, Rhodri and colleagues in the University’s Centre for Biomimetic & Natural Technologies have been looking to nature for inspiration – designing a robot that jumps obstacles in its path like an insect.
Read Full Article: Global News Network
Watch This Space: Dweller R 1 3
•December 8, 2008 • 6 Comments
If You Like Your Hip Hop Conscious, Hardcore,
Political, Independent and Underground; Watch This Space!
My Moroccan-Portuguese brother Ray, since completing Film School in 2006 mastering in editing, has gone onto work for Lucasfilm Animation Singapore in the Visual Effects Department as a 2D/3D Motion Graphics Artist. [Yeah, Star Wars: The Clone Wars]
If that isn’t ambition enough, R 1 3 [R ONE THREE] [Ray] is soon to be releasing his debut EP entitled: Dweller
“At the moment I’m going under my own record label – Thirteenth Worrier Recordz – [Dweller]’s got 6 tracks and will have two guests [Also Independent from USA] Can’t give the names yet bro but I will as soon as I get the clearance.”
Awesome.
Keep Your Eyes & Ears Open and I’ll Keep You All Posted.
Wilhelm Scream
•December 7, 2008 • Leave a Comment
What is the Wilhelm Scream you ask?
You’ve probably heard the Wilhelm Scream dozens of times in different movies and television shows without realizing it, but it’s one of those things that once you hear, you’ll always be able to identify afterwards.
It’s now become a delightfully obscure in-joke amongst sound editors/mixers who try to insert it into their films whenever there’s a perfect moment that just needs an over-the-top scream.
It began as a Warner Bros. stock sound effect, but was revived and put to serious use by LucasFilm [Star Wars] sound effects designers Ben Burtt and Richard Anderson. Now the thing just won’t die: Enjoy!
The individual who recorded the scream is unknown. Sound designer Ben Burtt named the sound after “Pvt. Wilhelm”, a minor character in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River [pictured], who emits the famous scream after being shot by an arrow [although the recording actually originated in the film Distant Drums in 1951]
Recent movies include: Cloverfield, Transformers, Juno, Speed Racer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Panda, Tropic Thunder, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and The Day the Earth Stood Still [2008]
And as far as Video Games are concernd; The biggest repeat offender on the list is the LEGO series [Star Wars and Indy] and various other Star Wars titles, which is no coincidence, as sound effect designers Ben Burtt Richard Anderson were the pair credited with starting the trend. And apparently even Halo 3 got in on the action.
List of Wilhelm Scream Games: Giant Bomb
So freaking cool!
You’ll never be able to un-hear it again,MUHAHAHA Ahhh!!!
Uwe Boll: The Movie …Jks
•December 6, 2008 • Leave a Comment
VISITING UWE: The Uwe Boll Homestory
German filmmaker Fabian Hübner picks the brain of UWE BOLL for over 50 minutes in Visiting Uwe. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the man behind the movies, well, now’s your chance.
Visiting Uwe: The Uwe Boll Homestory goes behind the embarrassing megalomaniacal Boll quotes for a look at how the director of The House of the Dead, Blood Rayne, Alone in the Dark, Far Cry and Postal lives, loves and plays with his dogs. And it gets better than that … Fortunately, not only is the film available on DVD but the producers are streaming the entire thing for free on their website right now. Get to it.
Watch It All: Visiting Uwe / Visit Site: Avant Garde
Also Check Out:
This great clip below, shows Mr Boll in fine directing form. The clip is when noted chef Anthony Bourdain gets a cameo on Uwe’s production FAR CRY – yet another video game adaptation. There is one line of directorial authority from Uwe that just kills me everytime – see if you can hear it in the clip:
Anthony Bourdain on the set of Far Cry
Hehehe good stuff! …A small Uwe crush yes.
Black Mesa Source Trailer
•December 6, 2008 • Leave a CommentSome games get a following. Some games get a fanatical following.
Some games get a following fanatical enough to recode the entire thing for an updated graphics engine and get it released on Steam!
It may have been ten years since the original Half-Life was released but we can all still remember just how influential and important the game was.
So influential in fact that ever since the release of Half-Life 2 [wicked awesome game] a team of very dedicated modders have been making a remake of the game in Half-Life 2s Source engine. [a proper remake too with new models and textures, not like the disappointing Half-Life: Source from Valve]
To help ramp up excitement this holiday season the team has released a new trailer which shows off some of the most exciting and dramatic moments in the original game – everything from the tentacles in the rocket lab to your cliff-side descent in Surface Tension.
What’s most exciting of all is the vague 2009 release date which has now been set for the project, meaning that a chance to relive the original Half-Life experience may finally be upon us:
The original Half-Life is still regarded as one of the greatest games of all time.
Damnit I heart FPS’s!!!
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