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Super Shogun Stormtrooper
Sep 15th
Although this 24inch/60cm Imperial Stormtrooper is not equipped with the new helmet it still looks rather impressive and cool.
The stiff movements of this awesome toy remind me of the sentry robots from The Black Hole, but maybe that’s just the Ritalin wearing off my memory playing tricks on me.
A cool feature that can be seen in the video is that it can fire its fist like the Shogun Warrior toys that I always wanted (and never had).
The only thing missing is Darth Vader’s sinister voice saying “ROCKET PUNCH!”. You know, because Darth Vader has experience with hands flying off and all.
Read more about this Super Trooper over at the underwire.
[via the whole fucking internet, e.g. Topless Robot, Nerdcore, Superpunch, Toybot Studios and your Mom. Probably.]
STASIS by Christian Swegal
Sep 14th
Stop what you’re doing right now (except for the important things like breathing, etc) and watch this:
In the future, an Ex-Soldier is placed in virtual exercises to cure his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the simulations, he sees glimpses of a mysterious girl, presumably someone from his past. When a Stranger appears in his facility offering answers, the Soldier finds himself once again asked to kill, this time for her…
Starring Reshad Strik, Beau Bridges, Ernie Hudson, and Rachel Specter
Directed by Christian Swegal
Produced by Ian Colhoun
Written by Benjamin Murphy
Executive Produced by Adam Hendricks
Cinematography by Max Goldman
Production Design by Zach Matthews
Costume Design by Marta Villalobos
Sound Design by Jamie Hardt
Edited by Christian Swegal & Tom Muldoon
Music by Cyril Morin
[via changethethought]
The Empire Strikes Back Cuteness Cards
Sep 14th
The other day I saw these rather cute Chewbacca the Pooh cartoons over at Robot’s PJs and I almost got a diabetic shock, that’s how sweet it was. Now I have an extra insulin-pack with me and can look at these Empire Strikes Back cuteness cards from Katie Cook without health risk.
[via geekpr0n]
The Emperor will be pleased: Stormtroopers get new helmets
Sep 13th
Everybody knows that even highly skilled stormtroopers have problems hitting their target with their helmets on. It must be a nightmare to go into battle with the knowledge that even if you empty your blaster rifle at close range there is a good chance that you didn’t hit the target even once. For the average stormtrooper this makes for a quite frustrating experience. If they manage to survive the battle.
In any case, this new model takes a different approach. Instead of fitting the helmet with the usual gadgets like automatic polarizing and anti-flash blinding lenses, MFTAS, a comlink and other nonsense that didn’t work half the time, the Empire went for a complete redesign. So now if they can’t shoot their enemies, then maybe this new helmet will at least distract them long enough for the troopers to throw a couple of thermal detonators their way.
[via Dressed Like Machines]
Street Fighter: Ryu 3D Pavement Art
Sep 13th
Wow, this is pretty cool! Sad thing this brilliant piece of pavement art will be washed away when the apocalypse rain starts.
[via CptMunta on Deviant Art]
AT-AT Ice Cream Truck Shirt
Sep 11th
This design reflects one of the many failed attempts by the Galactic Empire to compensate for blowing up planets by handing out free ice cream.
UK T-Shirt designer CHUNK commemorates this event with a T-Shirt that is available in a galaxy far, far way and from the official Star Wars Shop.
Click Here to see Star Wars Clothing & Accessories at StarWarsShop.com.
How to make the Olympics more interesting: Grenade Ping Pong
Dec 10th
This great music video by director Matt Devine picks up an idea I had many years ago while watching the Olympics on TV by mistake.
I was sitting there, watching and wondering. Why on Earth would anyone want to watch a game of ping pong (or if you’re rather posh you might prefer table tennis)? Why? Maybe because their lives are so empty that only the clicky-clacky sound of a plastic ball being hit by two “athletes” on a mini-sized court reminds them of what once was a beating heart inside their chest but now only echoes the emptiness inside them.
Yeah, that’s probably one reason to watch a ping pong game.
To make this niche sport more exciting and have it watched by millions you’d probably have to play it with a live hand-grenade, I thought to myself. And only 15 years later someone makes a music video with my idea. And my idea alone!
So… here’s Metal on Metal with Bastard.
via The Daily What.
Youtube snip:
Creative Concept: The Glue Society
Director: Matt Devine of The Glue Society
Production Company: Revolver
Executive Producer: Michael Ritchie
Producer: Caroline Barry
DOP: Danny Ruhlmann
Production Designer: Margot Wilson
Editor: Stewart Reeves for Guillotine
CG Supervisor: Bryn Morrow for Fuel
Lead Flame Artist: Chris Scott for Fuel
VFX Producer: Claudia Lecaros for Fuel
Cast:
The Red Team: Belinda Lee
The Blue Team: Micky Lung
Host: Austin Hollister
JEDI JACKASS
Dec 8th
Now here’s a a fine specimen of what the young people these days call a “mashup”.
Take two sources that have nothing to do with each other and mix them in a video blender and out comes something new.
That’s how I would explain it. For a better definition you should look up the word in ye olde wikipedia in your local public library (if you still have one). Or “google it”, whatever that means. All this internet mumbo-jumbo is making my head dizzy. It also could be the fumes from the cans of paint in the garage I’m sitting in as I can’t afford a decent office. The life of a freelancer, what a joy! Thank you, world economy, for making my life even more miserable than I could possibly imagine.
But I digress.
This video features well known Star Wars characters doing crazy things that you would normally see on the MTV show Jackass (also available on DVD, you know.) That’s why it’s called Jedi Jackass and it works suprisingly well. I can imagine that this is what the people in the Star Wars universe are up to when there’s nothing to watch on holonet, or all the womp rats have been shot but there’s still time to waste.
Can these reviews from well-renowned papers lie?
“A new low”
-Bespin Star
“A plunge into depravity”
-Mos Eisley News
No, they can’t. So you know it’s good. Because it’s bad. And this Star Wars/Jackass mashup is tantalisingly awesome. Really.
