Sunday, July 30, 2006

The Cursing Black Preacher

If this guy was at my local church I might actually think of going.



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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Staredown: Sport of Kings

Mockumentary, free to see on the website:

http://www.unflinchingtriumph.com

Saturday, July 22, 2006

TURTLE POWER

They're baaaaaaack:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/teenagemutantninjaturtles/

Man this movie is going to be sooooo sweet... I think by using the CG it can be more true to the original TMNT comic. The turtles a lot like they do as I remember them from the Eastman & Laird graphic novel I had in like the 80's. The turtle's aren't all muscular and buffed up - they're a lot more quick, ninja-ey, and turtle-like. AWESOME.

Bill Gates is a P-I-M-P

Thursday, July 20, 2006

TAKE DOWN THE ORPHAN WORKS BILL

a bill is going through the house RIGHT NOW that threatens the work of all American Artists, no matter if they are photographers, painters, illustrators, writers, or composers. It doesn't matter if you are an artist yourself - if you read the newspaper, watch TV, or consume any type of media at all, this should matter to you!

Imagine if you drew a piece of art and published it. A few weeks later, some company steals it to use in their own ads, without attributing the art to you or rightly compensating you for it. When you contact them about it, they say that they "made a reasonable effort" to contact you and you have almost no legal recourse against them. With this HR 5439, THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ARTISTS EVERY DAY.

the ORPHAN WORKS ACT (HR 5439) makes it easy for people to steal the original work of artists by allowing them just to say that they made a "reasonable effort" to contact the original artist and after that it would be considered an "abandoned work."

WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN (well, FAX them):

contacting them:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00175
http://www.asmp.org/news/spec2006/orphan_tools.php

target members + model letter:
http://www.asmp.org/news/spec2006/orphan_update.php

Cagle has a lot about it on his blog but he doesn't have permalinks so you may have to dig depending on the time when you read this:
http://www.cagle.com/news/blog/

an example of what it would do:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00235

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Genesis

I just found the new theme of the Democratic party for election 2008:

Genesis - Land of Confusion

(this came to my attention because Disturbed did a cover of it, and that would also suffice)

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56QSkTnTTDg
Disturbed video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW8DRSvEoQ

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

...

I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know, we'll never keep.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Project Runway: to soon?

The best show on television (imo) is Project Runway. After the second season ended a few months ago, it was sorta a sad thing because you know you had like 9 months of non-Project Runway time ahead.

Apparently the show was so popular, however, that Bravo immediately put the third season together - and it begins airing JULY 12! WTF?!

I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand, it's good that we won't have to wait for so long. On the other hand, the fact that they are churning these things out really cheapens it. It's at the peak of popularity - why ruin the exclusivity and specialness of each season?
  1. How will it end? The series traditionally ends at the spring NYC Fashion Week - if we end in the fall, where will it be? Was there enough time to tape the show and give the final 3 enough time to get their collections together?
  2. I hope the redo the whole model selection method, or revert it to the season 1 system. The keep-you-model-forever way of season 2 was LAME.
  3. Is the show becoming too fashion-centric? I realize that in general better clothes make for a better show, but with the comments in that article that there will be more older designers now, I'm sorta afraid the balance of personality and entertainment might not be there.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

OMFG

WHY DID I NOT HEAR ABOUT THIS EARLIER?!

A VIDEOGAME TO MOVIE TRANSITION THAT CANNOT FAIL

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398913/

Wow.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5150118.stm

And I though I got a hard time watching World Cup games.