Adherents has had a website dedicated to exploring the respective religions of various fictional characters for some time now and whenever I wander over there (which is very rarely) I find it fascinating. One of their side pages is The Significant Seven: History’s Most Important Superheroes. It is, for the most part, an excerpt from …
Yearly Archive: 2010
Nov 25
Avengers is the only good child of Disney and Marvel on television
Disney’s ‘Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!’ Is Better Than You Might Think – Starpulse.com. What surprises me the most is how literate Robbie Hays is regarding the Avengers. He might be as knowledgeable as me regarding the Silver Age Avengers. I wish I had time to go into this more but right now I’m still peeved …
Nov 25
even the dead still have birthdays and Hoagy Carmichael proves it
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Hoagy Carmichael: Happy Birthday to a Conservative American Patriot.
Nov 25
Can we see Joihn Wayne’s Alamo restored now around its 50th anniversary?
I never knew that the 50th anniversary of this epic picture has come and gone. I never knew that the celebration was coming and was never in a position to properly celebrate it regardless. Dan Gagliasso writes thus. The other weekend in San Antonio over 600 people gathered for the 50th anniversary re-premiere and celebration …
Nov 16
What Makes Lightning McQueen Run? (Tick? Turn Over?)
Someone cut open Lightning McQueen. This must be one vicious Disney chop shop. Although all told, he does look pretty happy. Click to make big. (Keep in mind that I’m stealing bandwidth here, and pray someone forgives me). Now since Pixar typically packs in a good number of (only necessary) details on how each world …
Nov 16
peel back the skin? They don’t look so animated anymore!
I like this: “Realistic Anatomies of Cartoon Characters“. Note that the “Sylvester the Cat” skull is another photo of Bugs Bunny’s skull, as cats don’t have buck teeth, Sylvester has canines. The skeleton models are by Hyung Koo Lee and yes is the most impressive of the bunch but there are a diversity of subjects, …
Nov 15
Microsoft Kinect hacked to expand its use
Oliver Kreylos reverse-engineered the recently-released Microsoft motion-tracking camera hardware “to capture video in 3D… Kreylos says that only with one camera it was not possible to capture all angles necessary for a full 3D reconstruction. Yet again Microsoft hardware proved its worth where it can be used well beyond its specifications and its scope of …
Nov 07
Plinkett Reviews Sith – coming soon!
I’m psyched! Are you psyched? I didn’t realize he’d done a Star Trek ’09 review. Here it is. Language warning, of course. http://www.redlettermedia.com/star_trek_09.html
Oct 31
So…is that the end of Homestar Runner?
The Brothers Chaps have never made it official, but it is looking like Homestar Runner is over. So far in 2010, following the birth of a new girl, they have posted a message that their production schedule would be infrequent due to the new baby…and followed that with only one new April Fools cartoon and …
Oct 21
It had to happen. A Smurfs CGI/Live Action movie.
Hey, Alvin and the Chipmunks made money. So it’s time for Smurfs. Oy.
Oct 21
Hiatus?
I didn’t mean to go on hiatus, but I’m working on a new Metro Med script and it’s taken up all of my evening writing time. I should be back with more posts and podcasts very soon.
Sep 03
Movies are now about: Movies
/Film points out that most of the movies out today are about movies.
Aug 31
Play Champions Online for free!
In honor of its 1st year anniversary, Cryptic studios, the makers of CO, are offering 1 week free subscription to the game. More info here. I will be writing my final review of the game soon, but in the meantime, why not try it out!
Aug 26
The Doctor visits MIT
Either that, or its an MIT hack just in time for freshman orientation I would have made a Dalek…
Aug 23
Emil Hamilton is ruined, all right (Spoilers for old Superman book)
Spoilers, I guess, if anyone cares. As I buy old trade paperbacks from Scott Beatty, it has allowed me to catch up on some comic books I wasn’t buying even when I bought comic books. (I haven’t been to a comic shop since Blackest Night ended.) So, I read this TPB that was all about …
Aug 03
My SKULLLLL!
Here’s the first movie that should be in the next MST3K boxed set. My votes for the other three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF9oBFFW9Qw And for the box set after that one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awC3Bb-uPMg Here’s one of my favorite moments:
Aug 02
Biggest educational time-waster ever
TV Tropes. You get linked there to learn about a literary trope in television, movies, comic books, etc. For instance, I’m writing about a female barbarian character, and in researching costuming I ended up reading about Chain Mail Bikinis. This leads to what the Most Common Superpower is, and how this often involves a Victoria’s …
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