Let the music play. Worries for another day. Dance your cares away. Down at the big screen debut of the Fraggle Rock movie!
The Jim Henson Company will produce a big screen feature of Fraggle Rock with the Weinstein Company distributing. How fun! And about freaking time. Okay, so I don’t hate all 80’s remakes. Such a perfect idea for a family feature, it’s a wonder why they haven’t made a Fraggle Rock movie until now.
Reader Michael Tricksey points out an obvious flaw to the Superhero Registration Act (you know, besides the fact that it’s dumb shit in the first fuck place).
Now, I realize that I might be a lot late with mentioning the Superhero Registration Act, but I just have to say this. What is it, THREE YEARS NOW!!! WHY DO WE STILL HAVE THIS!!!! I know it’s trendy for comics to reflect world events realistically, but sometimes you need to REMEMBER THAT IT’S A COMIC! Am I just not thinking, or should have some major villain like Doom or Red Skull or some random alien threat already KILLED half the Marvel roster. If super-humans have to register, then that means that they have to put their info into a database of some sort. How many super-villains are tech-savvy? How many kids are on the government’s watch list for hacking into their info-structure in REAL LIFE? I mean, relevance is great, but think about the environment. Forget about the Spider men and Daredevils of the world, and let’s focus on the fact that Tony Stark is a drinker, that the Fantastic Four are dysfunctional. These little quirks have been exploited before. Why not do it on a mass scale? Am I really the only one who sees this?
Stark would need to hire a team of super nerds just to work computer security for that database. That thing would be a hacker’s dream come true. Imagine the mad cash some thirteen year old could make by selling even just a small snippet of data from that database. You’d need some sort of software imbued with the power of plot to keep out all the script kiddies, hackers, and crackers.
Also, by creating a superhero agency under government control, that agency is now subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). They would need to hire an army of legal experts to deal with the deluge of FOIA requests sent by the media and watchdog agencies. Every communique the superheroes send while on duty would be subject to FOIA. Daily activities would be subject to FOIA. You’d have to create this whole cumbersome bureaucracy surrounding your superhero agency. There’d be paperwork, mandatory sensitivity training, swipe cards, procurement, contractors, and all sorts of official mumbo jumbo that would get in the way of the business of saving lives. FEMA with tights.
Oh man, now my head hurts. Maybe this stupid Skrull thing will end the Registration Act. It’s certainly ended my interest in giant crossover events.
I don’t have much info on this, but there’s an SD Gundam MMORPG, something from Netmarble. This is probably the only way to get me to try an MMORPG. Unfortunately, it’s in Korean. It might be fun to just sign up and muddle through it, but I suspect there’s money involved. If it ever comes out in English, I’m totally freaking there!
Since the release of Point Break, for the past seventeen years, hardcore fans of both Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze have vigorously petitioned for the two of them to work together again.
That sounds like load of festering donkey sperm I just made up in my brain meats, but it must be true because RGM Entertainment and Essential Entertainment are producing the sequel, Point Break: Indo. The sequel, written by W. Peter Iliff who penned the original, takes place 20 years after Swayze’s character escaped capture.
No word on casting or plot besides the fact that it will be filmed in Southeast Asia. Alls I know is, if Swayze isn’t there and Reeves isn’t there then I won’t be there either.
Reader Kevin Bahrt sent over this clip where the boys give a presentation on the savage hypocrisy of hate crime laws. South Park usually comments on current events within the context of the show, but I’m not entirely sure what event this episode was riffing on. Regardless, I think it’s a fairly sensible assessment of hate crime laws in general. Well, as sensible as you’re going to get from the tele anyway.
Did a quick tech test of Ustream last night to see if we could use it to stream the carnage of Art Fight. Have to say, I’m fairly impressed with the results. All I had to do was plug in my camera, hit record, and the little web app recorded my impromptu sketching session. This is great for little quicky vids like this. Once you’re finished, you can send your recorded video to YouTube. I don’t know how it deals with videos longer than ten minutes yet. May have to run another test sometime tonight. But if we get permission from the Ottobar and the musicians performing, we could be streaming Art Fight live so you can watch from the comfort of your own home.
I can’t imagine anyone sitting through me drawing or coloring an entire page, but apparently, Ustream is the webcartoonist’s new platform of choice. There are some nice encoding tools once you’ve recorded your show. It records your video as an flv, but you can request to have it dumped out as an mp4, mov, or wmv. You can then download the format of your choice and keep it on your machine to archive your show or upload to wherever. The help docs say you can upload to other sites like blip and such directly from the interface, but it wasn’t working for me last night. YouTube obviously worked like a charm, but the other services were unavailable (either I’m a moron which is more than likely, or this is something they’re trying to fix).
Overall, quite impressed. Very easy to just plug and play. Haven’t gone much further than that. At some point, I’ll want to figure out how to take video of my screen. Perfect solution if you don’t want to mess with editing and don’t care too much about high quality video.
Not only did Henshin Justice’s Keith Hayward get flown out to LA for the Kamen Rider Dragon Knight wrap party, get exclusive photos, be one of the first to view the first official trailer, but he also snagged an exclusive interview with Kamen Rider Wing Knight Matt Mullins and stunt man Mark Musashi AND saw the first four episodes!
As I told Keith, sometimes fandom is its own reward. And sometimes, you get flown the fuck out to LA for a Kamen Rider wrap party! AWESOME!
It’s all in R5 Central episode 51. Seriously, Dragon Knight is going to kick all kinds of Ameri Toku ass!
Also, if you’d like to get your hands on a Kabuto Zector, R5 Central’s Mike Dent is running a giveaway contest so be sure to head over to R5.
Dead of Summer’s Nick “Ghostfreehood” Borkowicz and your’s truly will go one on one with canvasses, markers, and paint to unleash artful destruction upon Baltimore, Maryland! Winner takes… um… stuff!
We’re hoping to get someone to film the art of mass destruction for those of you who can’t make it out. But for the rest of you, there’s no excuse! Who knows what madness will occur? Will we attack each other’s paintings? Will we call on audience members to help finish our pieces? Will we throw random toys into the audience? Will Baltimore ever be the same ever again?!
Mark your calendars! June 1st, art happens! Doors open at 8pm. Show starts at 9pm.
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.
Backyard FX (BFX) demonstrates how you can throw a knife into someone’s head without the aid of CG. It’s safe, it’s fun, and it’ll cost less than $20! I foresee random effects testing in the future.
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