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La Tentacion de R2-D2
Mar 3rd
This is, by far, one of the bestest Star Wars picture mash-ups ever. EVER!!!!
Of course, as any art loving Star Wars geek will be able to tell you, this is a parody [or shall we say hommage (or dare we even say pastiche?)] of Salvador Dali’s The Temptation of St Anthony. Google it. Otherwise you might not get the full awesomeness of the hommage. Or maybe you do, WTF do I know.
If you’re click-lazy like me you’ll probably appreciate a link to it, including some sort of interpretation which you can find for example here.
Now. The following, absolutely mind-blowing, uber-awesome, re-imagining of the classic Dali artwork in Star Wars style, plus a cool bonus image, can be seen after the jump.
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Melt your brains! Melt them to mush!
Mar 2nd
Do you know what’s important in life?
It’s not how many friends you have, or if you achieve a state of mental bliss.
The most important thing in life is to watch crazy, stupid stuff on the internets. Obviously!
This short little video was done by Cyriak, animation genius with a demented sense of reality. Or maybe he has escaped from a mental institution. It really doesn’t matter.
After watching this video, all those years of therapy, self-reflection and analysis will be for nothing. Your brain will turn into a mushy mess. Lovely!
Baker’s “Racist Cookies” Prompt Furious Reactions
Feb 26th
Who says the evening news is boring?
Meet Ted:
Ted is a friendly neighborhood baker from Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Ted was so stoked by the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency that he decided to bake a tribute in his honour.
Here is Ted’s tribute:
I won’t say anymore – but the video to this story is a thing of beauty – a rare piece of natural comedy genius.
Fear and loathing at the NYC Comicon
Feb 13th
As a self-confessed geek with a lifelong love of all things Start Trek, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian etc. I figured it was past time that I visited one of the annual conventions for such people. I mean if I like stories about people in capes and masks beating and hacking each other with swords and shit it stands to reason that I should find things in common with other people who like those things?
Right?
WRONG!
Before I get into the meat of this – I should probably say that if you’re looking for insider info about upcoming movies and shit, you’re not going to find it here – and might want to stop reading about now. Nope – its not about that. Instead I’m going to have a bitch about my disillusionment of Geekathon and being cooped up in a crowded meeting hall with a bunch of spotty teenagers and the balding, beer-gutted bespandexed man-children that they inevitably turn into.
So I get to NYC hellishly early on saturday morning after a late night spent watching Mad Max 1 & 2 on and off in between a marathon session of EVE Online and numerous cups of increasingly rancid coffee (something in the coffee brings out the beast in me). I looked not unlike this:
Needless to say I wasn’t in a terribly great frame of mind and after struggling through a line so large that it would have done justice to a Charlton Heston bible epic – I was about ready to go home again. Well maybe not… I had paid $40 for the ticket after all… and at mimimum wage that’s a good 6 hours work to pay off. So I gritted my teeth and plunged into the crowds.
Comicon is basically one big tradeshow for people who want to buy merchandise at special discount prices that still manage to be higher than what you can find online. On the plus side – many of the authors and artists are there so you can get your shit signed (for an extra fee). The down side of this is that to see stuff – you’ve basically got to navigate crowds and make constant apologies for stepping on someone’s cape or making accidental contact with someone’s private parts.
Anyway so yes – I saw some cool shit, a few people from TV shows and movies:
If you look real hard - you might make out Lou Ferrigno in the back
A few people might recognise this guy - John Noble AKA the batshit scientist on "Fringe" and the batshit king from "Lord of the Rings.
Even so I couldn’t help but find the whole thing strangely underwhelming. This might have to do with my going by myself – but I just couldn’t work up the enthusiasm to identify with all the tubby balding guys dressed as Jedis or overweight Batmen. Its not that I don’t like the material – I still enjoy a lot of the stuff I did when I was a kid – Star Wars, Batman, Spiderman, Buffy, Transformers – its all good. I just don’t get why mature adults insist on dressing up in strange costumes to go to an indoor comic sale.
I mean… Ming the Merciless is a cool villain and all, but you don’t see him navigating the dairy aisle at the supermarket or vacuuming his carpet.
I can’t explain why but it made me feel a little dirty, as if everyone around me had some weird sexual fetish and spent their free time wearing oversize diapers and doing coke of a prostitutes buttocks.
I felt a burning desire to reassert my masculinity and to distance myself from the deviants. So without further ado – here is my personal highlight from the NYC Comicon. And what a highlight it is…
Its sleazy I know but can anyone blame me? Look at that.... Just look at it!
I don't know what she's selling and I don't care!
Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Possibly the best TV show in the world. Ever.
Feb 6th
This TV show comes from Japan.
Japan, mysterious and magical land of Nintendo, Godzilla, Mazinger, School Rumble, and fish-flavoured ice-cream – amongst other things that have improved all our lives beyond measure.
The show is called Engine Sentai Go-Onger which roughly translates to Engine Squadron Go-Onger. At least that’s what Wikipedia has to say about the show.
The motif of this series is animals, the motor industry, and (what else?) environmentalism. That’s good enough for me to rank it somewhere between Sesame Street and Carl Sagan. And instead of muppets, there’s talking, fighting robots. Footage of this show is going to be used for the new Power Rangers RPM series in the US. And it kinda looks a little like Power Rangers, which may be a little deceiving at first.
The awesome clip shows how a giant robot ist formed out of a dozen or so other talking vehicles. Sort of like Devastator from the Transformers TV show (and isn’t Devastator going to be in Revenge of the Fallen?), but much, much cooler. More awesomer.
This giant robot can take on any other robot there ever was: any Transformer, Mazinger, Mazinger Z, Mazinkaiser, that big one with the drill, Goldorak, any EVA, all of the GoBots, Robby … any other robot is doomed to fail. Fail and die. Or at least go home crying, like a little bitch.
The Death Star might have a chance. A small one.
This is not Thomas the Tank Engine:
via Botropolis
Wikipedia Entry on Engine Sentai Go-onger
Update the site ASSCLOWN!
Feb 5th
Oh it looks like there were no updates since last Friday.
Almost a whole week without any cool news, gadget stuff, stupid images or viral videos. What happened?
Lazyness. And stuff. Real life. Meh.
So there is, of course, no excuse for this miserable posting behaviour. Especially since there are at least two random people visiting this site. Every day. Oh yes, we are slowly building a strong random readership sent out there. BTW, if you are a real person, leave a comment, will you?
How about some old news? As many of you know, Super Bowl is like really important and stuff. And it happened again last Sunday. Apparently the whole world was watching, except me.
The best thing about this testosterone driven sports event is, of course, the commercial breaks. They give the audience some time to reflect upon what they just saw (yeah, right), go for a much needed wee, make manly grunting noises and get a couple of more beers from the fridge. Like many things, Super Bowl is just another cheap excuse to get drunk during the middle of the day.
The commercials are always a big hullabaloo for anxious ad executives that want to high-five themselves for coming up with the bestest idea for the ads.
Here’s a couple that made me laugh. In no particular order. I know that this is old cheese for most of you – but do I look like I care? Didn’t think so. Maybe just one more thing: MacGruber should be made into a TV series. Seriously. This could easily be the new LOST or HEROES. Trust me, I watch TV and know this.
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Friday Classic: Mary Poppins Recut
Jan 30th
Last week I totally forgot about the Friday Classic. I was busy, you know. With the booze work.
But seeing that it is Friday yet again, and because I don’t want to post too many Mark “Musical Genius” Gormley videos, I post old crap from many, many years ago.
It’s probably so old that you’ll have conveniently forgotten that you have seen this back in 2006. You might even think that it’s pretty awesome. And then you’ll tell all your friends about it, and about this great site where you found it and … oh well, it’s never gonna happen.
This Friday Classic is a recut trailer for Mary Poppins, that lovely old nanny from the ancient times when Disney still made movies with real people in it.
In this trailer Mary Poppins is not the child loving fun nanny we’ve come to know. But you know that, because this clip is ancient.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and – SNAP – the job’s a game!
Mark Gormley is my new hero. You heard me.
Jan 29th
Now, many of you young and hip internet people (yes, you with your shiny MacBook and your tall, nonfat decaf latte, wearing a black turtleneck sweater) out there have probably already seen the videos of one Mark Gormley. The thing is, those young and hip internet people don’t come here much. They only visit this site to show others how things on the web should not look.
So for all the other people out there that do visit this site, my fellow internet losers, let me explain what Mark Gormley is all about.
I first saw his masterpiece Without You about 2 weeks ago, laughed about it but found myself playing it over and over again. Seriously.
Mark looks a bit like your average science teacher. Or if you prefer, your average normal white guy, age 45plus with a moustache. He seems not to care too much about his appearance and ist just doing his thing. More or less, he appears to have given up on any sorts of prospects for the foreseeable future and is recording his songs and putting them out there for all of us to see as a hobby to disctract from a boring life. At least that is my interpretation of him. Or in short, he’s a bit like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but with a musical talent.
The videos themselves have little production value, mostly greenscreen with some cheapo effects and miserable CGI pulled from the archive of an old Amiga 500. Now, of course, this is just my interpretation and has by no means any validity. Like anything I say, really.
So that you know what I am talking about, let’s have a look at Without You. This is my favourite Mark Gormley song so far.
Now that you have seen that, what do you think? Is he a menacing predator or a nice guy?
Actually, he is a nice guy. After his videos on Youtube took off, unlike many other internet “stars” that go viral, Mark Gormley stays down to Earth (although he goes into space in many of his videos) and comes across as a rather nice guy. See here:
Godspeed, Mr Mark Gormley!
The Benefits of Laser Eye Surgery
Jan 27th
If Laser Eye Surgery went like this, I’d sign up straight away.
I have always dreamt of having eyes that could shoot lasers, or at least own a jet-pack like Boba Fett. I imagined how cool I would look. This was before I got beaten up in middle school for wearing a Star Wars is Forever T-Shirt, of course.
Now I am haunted in my nightmares by a bunch of school bullies with rocket powered jet-packs hunting me down an alley. But then out of nowhere appears Falkor, the luckdragon from Neverending Story and saves me. We then have ice-cream.
I tell you, looking into my mind is not pretty.
If I had lasers shooting from my eyes my dreams would look very different. And I would probably not need a Death Star after all.
You may fire when ready:
This awesome picture was made by Happy Toast from the b3ta community. All credits go to him.
Black Dynamite Trailer
Jan 23rd
Good news for all the blaxploitation fans out there pimping it like it’s the 70s: Black Dynamite, sort of a parody on Shaft or something like that is coming to the big screen. And the trailer is looking good.
I’m not a big fan of blaxploitation myself, mainly because I don’t really watch movies from the olden days (pre 80s) except for maybe Star Wars, Jaws and some others. I did get a kick out of I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, a blacksploitation parody from thelate 80s directed by one of the Wayans brothers who also starred in the movie. I watched it because I like the song by Boogie Down Productions. But do you care about that? No, of course not! What happened 20 years ago in my life doesn’t even interest me.
This is the red band trailer and people say that means there’s swearing and nudity and all sorts of stuff that might label it as NSFW. So if you are at work, relaxing with some hard liquor, just wait until the boss goes home and then watch it. It will look like you’re working overtime instead of looking for porn on your colleagues computer. You know the drill.
He’s supercool and he knows kung fu:
via Videogum
