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Review: Star Wars The Complete Saga (Blu Ray)
Oct 25th
One of the most successful film series of all time finally makes its way to blu-ray in a rather unremarkable 9 disc set that doesn’t so much explode onto the HD format as fizzle and pop with a faint smell of fart.
Read the full review at The Pulpaholic.
Blanka has a new job
Jun 1st
Did you ever wonder what all those Street Fighter characters did after appearing in a popular in a video game franchise?
No? Well… here’s Blanka, who is not best known for being polite and mild-mannered, working as a meter maid. At least he takes his job seriously.
STARPRISE ENTERSHIP
Mar 22nd
Cake: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starprise Entership. Wait, what? No it ain’t!
I love cake. I love geek cakes. And I love geek fail cakes.
The voices in my head Bothan spies tell me that what a first looks like a brilliant cake wreck is in reality a cleverly orchestrated prank on a Star Trek nerd. Imagine his face, waiting all happy for his birthday cake and then this blasphemous piece of dough, jam and icing makes its way onto the table …
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
Nerd rage – it’s not pretty.
[via failblog]
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
Tesla Coil Imperial March – old hat already?
Mar 19th
To answer this rhetorical question in the most journalistic way possible: YES.
Proof: posted to the ugc video sharing site youtube on 19th February 2009.
In internet terms this is, in fact, a very old hat. Or old cheese. Runny, old cheese.
Well, so much for our journalistic integrity on reporting just the facts. Of course we have to post this. It’s (yet another) Star Wars related video. And this is what this site, the safe haven for embedded Star Wars nerdism, is all about.
So without further ado, please do applaud these true heroes of our time for their bravery in, er, science. Or something like that. There’s a Tesla coil, so it must be something to do with science. Possibly.
Power! Unlimited power!
via Nerdcore
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.
Christian Bale is a lovely person
Feb 5th
You probably have already heard (again, we’re number one for old news!) that Batman actor Christian Bale went bonkers on the set of Terminator 4 and threw a tantrum.
Not because Batman he suddenly realised that the Terminator franchise has been squeezed to death by the previous movie and the horrible TV series (except that strangely hot Summer Glau Terminatrix chick), oh noes, something much more sinister happened: The director of photography walked on the set and was distracting Batman Christian Bale. Batman Poor guy couldn’t concentrate on the scene (probably something really important like pressing a button in front of a bluescreen) and had no other choice than to voice his anger. Also, I hear he had an upset tummy from eating too many bean burritos from the lunch van.
Now with stuff like that happening in the times we live in, sooner or later it goes viral on that internet thing the kids use. And then it gets mashed, remixed and put on youtube for the rest of us.
Final proof that threats, swearing and danceable beats mix so well together:
What the fuck is it with you?
You can get a free mp3 of the song here.
The Germans have taken over the Death Star!
Jan 23rd
Did you know that the Empire is having one PR disaster after another?
Blowing up planets and stuff with a moon-sized superweapon doesn’t exactly make you popular.
The general perception amongst senators is that its run inefficiently by a bunch of self-centered Sith Lords with no clear vision.
This is why the general management decided to hire some experts in efficiency and leadership to fix this situation – cue the Swiss Germans.
This secret video taken from an even more secret meeting about new ways in advertising (probably to avert the next PR disaster) shows just how ruthlessly efficient these Germans can be.
That’s no moon:
Crazy Cadbury Commercial – Eyebrow Dance
Jan 23rd
Cadbury’s make chocolate.
And chocolate is awesome.
Cadbury’s also make some crazy viral videos. You might remember the Cadbury Gorilla or the video with the airport trucks.
Well, do ya punk?
So this here is the latest video those Dairy Milk addicted advertising suits came up with.
For a lack of a better word: WTF?!
via Illegal Advertising
Patience you’ll need young Jedi when building Star Wars papercraft
Jan 23rd
OK. I wouldn’t make a good Jedi. That whole patience thing just doesn’t fly with me. So I can understand that Anakin guy – from a certain point of view.
A Jedi needs patience.
Patience.
But for what?
As it turns out it’s not for fighting the Sith or solving interplanetary conflicts but for building awesome Star Wars papercraft. And I’m not talking about your 5-minute-quick-folding stuff. We’re talking Jedi Master level here.
I lack any sort of skill and motivation for this kind of task. Any task, really.
To elaborate, here is a drawing of an AT-AT from me. It took me about 4 hours to get all the fine details done. You can clearly see how much effort I put into this.
He is as clumsy as he is stupid:
And this is how the papercraft looks like that I will never be able to build.
Impressive, most impressive:
As you can see, there is a slight difference in skill here.
So if any of you feel like spending the rest of your lives folding paper, be my guest. And send me one, please!
via Tomopop and Spanky Stokes
Download the Deathstar plans papercraft blueprints here.
