Listen here all you Toys R Us kids. You’re going to have to grow the hell up to afford these toys!
Not only is this infomercial made with extra chunky awesome sauce, it also explains the real reason why the Girl Scouts are no longer allowed to go door-to-door.
THIS IS MY BOOM STICK!
This week we have Masked Rider 1 and 2 from Kamen Rider: The Next and an amazingly detailed 1/144 Super HCM Pro version of Char's Zaku II. Big thanks to HobbyLink Japan for once again hooking us up.
I’ve also set up a YouTube channel for the vlog, Angry Zen Movies, so if you like you can subscribe and get the latest AZM video madness when I update.
Apparently, you can pick up the PS3’s Blu-Ray laser for $40. This guy makes the conversion sound so simple. I know some people who might be able to hack this together, but for mere mortals, I suspect this will take a few sittings. Totally worth it! I’m sure you can adapt this technique to make some pretty sick Borg implants.
Thanks to reader Elliott Fox for the link.
I found this much more enjoyable to watch than the high end CG monstrosity of a Michael Bay flicky. Stop motion FTW!
It’s April 15 and boy does it suck! Let’s see if we can’t use your pent up rage for the forces of awesome!
Would you like to win the 1/200 HCM Pro “Military” RX-79(G) Gundam Special Painted that I reviewed back in March? Grab a camera, put on your angriest face, get someone to snap a pic, and send it to azmnews@gmail.com with “Angry Face Contest” in the subject. Send me your angry face photo by midnight EST April 22. A panel of expert judges will grade your photo on level of anger and creativity. Depending on the number of entries we receive, we will announce the winner by April 25. We’ll ship the review copy of the RX-79 to anywhere in the world!
One entry per person. No digital manipulation is permitted (color correction is okay, but no Photoshoping your head onto someone else’s body or any mess like that). We are looking for anger and creativity, not necessarily quality, so camera phones should be fine. If we can’t tell what the frak is going on or can’t see your face, obviously it’s going to make it difficult to judge. Oh, and no group shots.
By entering, you give me permission to post your picture. Other than that, you retain the rights to your photo.
Um… that’s all the legal mumbo jumbo I came up with. So grab that camera and get to snapping!
Want to help choose the faces of the next series of Monskeys? Head on over to the Monskey poll and vote for your favorite five designs to be included in Monskey series 3! Octopus Design will be collecting votes until the end of May. And if you’d like to design your very own Monskey for consideration in a future series, grab a template and some crayons and get started.
I think it might be high time for me to try to get these cute monsters on some cute toys.
Reader Kevin Bahrt tracked down some clips that almost make the Hummer somewhat appealing.
If Hummers actually transformed into robots, it would almost justify their existence as commercial vehicles. Almost.
Okay, not really. The title fulfills my April Fools’ quota of the day (I hate April Fools), but the rest of this is legit.
16-year-old Ryuki Omura was crowned Sunday as Japan’s first pen-spinning champion in a nationwide contest sponsored by the Pen Spinning Association Japan. Omura’s penjitsu (as I shall now and forever refer to the sport) was mightier than 16 other finalists chosen from 276 video entries.
Takara Tomy, who managed to keep Transformers alive and kicking in Japan while we forgot about them until recently, hopes to get in on the ground floor of penjitsu with its new Pen’z Gear line of specialty pens. They’re a bit longer and specially weighted for maximum jutsu.
For some truly amazing examples of this penjitsu, check out the PSAJ’s website. And look, I found an interview with the PSAJ on the YouTube (it’s in Japanese so someone is going to have to translate for us *cough* Pocky *cough*). My favorite bits are towards the end where they grab a high speed video camera to record the penjitsu action.
Congrats to Omura. I’m hoping to see more penjitsu state side. I’m willing to be we’ll be seeing lots of penjitsu this summer during the anime con season.
[Via Reuters]
Photoshop Express is a free, streamlined, online version of Adobe Photoshop. You can sign up for free and you can store up to 2Gigs of your photo goodness. It requires the Flash 9 plug-in which you’re probably running anyway and is, of course, cross platform compatible. You can create slide shows, share photos, embed photos in blogs and webpages, crop, rotate, color correct, shift hues, remove red eye, apply some basic effects, and do some other nifty things to your photos all online.
All very very cool and very web 2.0.
If you don’t use Photoshop for its intended purpose (you know, editing photos), Photoshop Express won’t be much use. No brush, no pen, no drawy. However, I imagine it will only be a matter of time before Adobe or someone else comes up with an online painting ap.
Give it a whirl. Share some photos. I think Adobe might be on the cusp of something big here.
[Via Photoshop Express]
Do you need a squadron of Valkyrie to defend your cubicle against Zentron invaders? Well get to clickin’ fan boys and girls for the Angry Zen Master Mighty Macross Giveaway Contest! You’ll get a full set of the seven Valkyrie (slightly opened for the review).
Here are the rules. To enter, simply add a comment to this post. Be sure to include your real email when filling out the comment form so I can get in touch with you. Comments will be collected until March 27, midnight EST. I’ll use a random number generator to pick the winner who will be announced March 28. One entry per person. Past winners, please sit this one out. Duplicate entries will be void. Anyone can enter. I will ship anywhere in the world!
Thanks again to HobbyLink Japan for the prizes.
Enter now to win!
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