Album: All Possible Futures — Out April 21st, 2015
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Miami Horror “Love Like Mine” feat. Cleopold [♬]
•April 16, 2015 • Leave a CommentAlbum: All Possible Futures — Out April 21st, 2015
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON — APRIL 22nd!!!
•April 15, 2015 • Leave a Comment
One week left to go! The movie is officially set for release May 1st, but my brother being into tales of superheroes at the age he is, prompted me to seek out seats to the AVENGERS theatrical release premiere, which fortunately is being hosted by my local comic shop, Heroes For Sale, in April. Yes, the premiere tickets double as fridge magnets:
AGE OF ULTRON has been marketed as the biggest action-packed superhero movie to grace the big screen since the beginning of the Marvel cinematic universe cannon. The Avengers’ (2012) opening weekend box office (ticket sales) gross is the highest on record in Hollywood history, so it will be interesting to see how the sequel fairs by comparison:
| Studio | Opening* | % of Total | Theaters | Avg. | Total Gross^ | |
| Marvel’s The Avengers | Buena Vista | $207,438,708 | 33.3% | 4,349 | $47,698 | $623,357,910 |
Personally, I can’t imagine mentioning any spoilers that haven’t already been hinted at in the trailers, but If there are, I will TRY not to brag too much about them here. Only on Facebook. Reddit. 4Chan. There, I may drop some mad troll material for the all too eager.
I did try looking for my Ultron comics earlier, but I just wore myself out sorting through the pages and pages of pages…
Screw it, I tried. Here, enjoy some videos:
All I ask of AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON is someone better freaking DIE! Pleeeaaassse
In Joss Whedon we trust.
GAME OF THRONES: Season 5 is Looking Exceptional
•April 14, 2015 • Leave a CommentPivotal characters dying is part of what makes this series narratively progressive and very entertaining. The writers know what they are doing, and I am so grateful to their craft of keeping the characters that do live on, consistent to their nature. One character in particular that I’ve liked since 2011 is Jon Snow. No spoilers here (even though I could be very sneaky if I wanted to). Every decision he has made is one I end up rooting the most for. Yes, dragons, angry mobs and vindictive rulers present their own harsh circumstances to bare witness to, but Jon Snow; the man knows nothing, and yet, SO MUCH WIN! Watch the first (#41) episode (“The Wars to Come“) and you will get it.
I could go on about other characters, but, meh. Episodes are coming. Actually, the first four are already in circulation over the interwebs, through probably illegal channels keep in mind. I don’t get pleasure from trolling or blatantly dropping spoilers, so consider this a solid — your patients will be rewarded. Episodes are coming.
1 Guy 4 Cups — Plastic Cups Mix-&-Match Dressup
•April 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentSimply draw your character and dress options on some clear cups and have a blast! Next time you have some clear plastic cups and a Sharpie lying around, try this clever idea from Redditor toper-centage — a mix-and-match game that lets you make a variety of goofy characters. More cups = more options:
Hmm, should I be concerned that cup man has more clothing options than I do?
The Likeness of Woman
•April 9, 2015 • Leave a Comment
Since the daylight hours are shortening, one of the outdoor life drawing sessions I enjoy attending had its final get-together on Tuesday. I normally leave during the final pose, I guess to avoid meeting people, but this time I stuck around to applaud the dancer come life model, the DJ, and Cleo Barnett the organiser, for hosting this neat event. I had a word with her afterwards and she gave me her details should anything similar take place throughout the year. Cleo is quite well known among creative circles apparently.
I’d like to think that I have a distinctive style. Not sure. I have always started from a person’s eyes, but I want to change that and learn how to begin from a basic line structure, while also getting better at drawing hands:
Afterwards, while unwinding my earphones at the lights, readying myself for the uphill walk to another drawing session in town, I ended up doing the very thing I most avoid and met someone new, a fellow artist named Janette, who I figured was pretty skilled simply by the look of her, not to mention simply pretty, and taking a note from Cleo’s previous act, I too shared my details. Although I’m not holding my breath over Janette hitting me up, I hope she looks into the sketch session I mentioned — speaking of:
It was a good night. Wondering to myself, if I don’t drive into the city next time and partake in the consumption of an alcoholic beverage of some sort, would that equal a fantastic night?! …Or, just, really shitty art-not-works?
I felt obliged to put an extra effort into my sketches that evening, primarily because I’m quite certain I was sitting next to Maree’s (life model) husband. I know right. Mind you, he was drawing too. So no dick pics or Roman orgy scenes graced the pages of my book.
Assorted photos taken by myself / Peter Jennings / Andrew Hales
TAME IMPALA “Cause I’m A Man” [♬]
•April 7, 2015 • Leave a CommentThe first official single, ‘Cause I’m A Man’ released today (Tuesday 7th April), off ‘Currents’ – the band’s third album – that will be released later this year.
Calcio Fiorentino — Italian Gladiator Football
•April 7, 2015 • Leave a Comment
Whoa, and I thought Chessboxing was intense, this game is straight batshit. The city of Florence, still plays an early form of soccer called Calcio Fiorentino, that originated in 16th century Italy. In it, players are allowed to hit each other, but no kicks to the head, surprise attacks or ganging up. Think of it as a modern-day gladiatorial game, only, more threatening to the players’ braincells than the game is to their lives. Also you have to wear silly shorts:
Who said that men were terrible multitaskers. To be honest, I didn’t see much in the way of game dynamics happening there. Mostly men beating the shit out of each other. There is also a female team, less physical brutality, but still. Isn’t equality grand.
The Gaming Culture of eSPORTS
•April 6, 2015 • Leave a CommentVIDEO GAMES! I can shout it aloud and no one will bat a lash. It is crazy to think that even just those two words were only uttered among friends back when I was a kid, but now, the neighbours, possibly everyone you pass on the street, babies is diapers, heck, the whole world has been shown the light of how amazing video games can be, which brings us to an unprecedented moment in our history where we the gamers can celebrate said amazingness on a scale of household LAN-party skirmish mode, to stadium global-super-stardom-career-survival-horror-mode — I’m talking eSports, babies in diapers!
VICE (they are the best, really, subscribe to all their channels) had their investigative host Matt Shea delve into the still relatively exclusive world of competitive online gaming, to uncover the secrets of digital youth culture abroad, gaming cafés, cosplay, fame, and the millions of dollars worth of materialised wealth that gamers have amassed for themselves by simply playing good and merchandising, all in this five part mini-documentary series:
Millionaire Gaming Prodigies: Welcome to eSPORTS (Part 1/5)
Today, there are more people in the world who play the online multiplayer battle game League of Legends than there are people who live in France. VICE host Matt Shea flew to South Korea, a country where competitive gaming—also known as eSports—can either make you rich and famous or land you in rehab.
Inside Korea’s Gaming Rehab Clinic: eSPORTS (Part 2/5)
In Part Two of the five-part series, we get a crash course in how to be a professional commentator—or “shoutcaster”—at the studios of one of the most popular eSports YouTube channels. After that, Matt gets his brain zapped by a neuropsychiatrist at one of South Korea’s gaming addiction rehab centers, and we try on character costumes at the HQ of the country’s best cosplay team.
Meet KSI – Gaming’s Celebrity Anti-hero: eSPORTS (Part 3/5)
In Part Three, we head to London to meet KSI, a millionaire gamer who became rich and famous by vlogging his FIFA matches. At a VIP gaming party we have our first encounter with the One Direction of Europe’s eSports scene: Team FNATIC. We follow them to Gamescom, the biggest gaming event in the world, to see them take on Team Alliance for Europe’s top title.
The Dark Side Of Non-Stop Gaming: eSPORTS (Part 4/5)
In Part Four, a group of college gamers take us on a night out in Seoul, where we stop by at the city’s famous PC cafés before heading to its biggest superclub—an experience that blows the mind of one of the gamers, who is a nightclub first-timer. Through the haze of a soju hangover, we get invited behind the scenes of a Korean gaming house. Later that evening, we meet an e-athlete who got caught up in a match-fixing scandal that drove him to a suicide attempt.
The Million Dollar Game: eSports (Part 5/5)
In the final part of eSports, we join 40,000 screaming fans at the League of Legends world final—the highest-attended eSports match in history. As we watch the future stars of the competitive gaming world ascend to glory, we’re left wondering how physical sports will ever catch up.
XD jks. I make fun only because I love my first person shooters and don’t play League of Legends. Just looks like a massively multiplayer online waste of time to me. Speaking of love and pro-gaming, I was the first New Zealand gamer to sign up for and pay to kick butt at a gaming event held back in 2004. Yes, I really was that eager/good. But everyone I knew never played the things I liked .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·. now I just blog …oh the feels!
Can’t wait for eSports to catch on around the world though, only because after eSports is made accessible, we may finally see some real ultra-pornographic death-match tournaments happening, yeeeahhh, Double Kill, Multi Kill, Mega Kill, Ultra Kill, Monster Kill, Ludicrous Kill, HOLY S**T!!!
Nature by Numbers
•April 5, 2015 • Leave a CommentThis neat 3D animated infographic illustrates the complexity of nature to the naked eye, through the simplicity of one mathematical equation. I’m sure everyone touched on Fibonacci and the golden ratio sequence back in high school, but I bet no one actually took in how amazing it was. I know I didn’t.
A movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila. / Visit etereaestudios.com for more info. / Music by Wim Mertens – “Often a bird” from the album “Jardin Clos”, 1996 – © Usura – Published by Usura 2010.
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