Some critics say the endless stream of hugely popular reality television shows are as dull as watching paint dry. Well, now they can test the theory with a live, eight-week round-the-clock Webcast of just that. Billed as the ultimate reality TV show
, British pay-channel UKTV Style promises a wall, some brushes and different types of paint in its program Watching Paint Dry
For all you Home Star Runner fans, be sure to check out this week’s update, including photos of The Cheatar, a giant fibreglass guitar with a sexy The Cheat design. The guitar will be auctioned off for charity along with other over-sized guitars, after being on display for a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame exhibition in Cleveland.
The Cheatar is modelled with one of those sexy 80’s hair metal band members from Limozeen.
Found a copy of the amusing Bollywood inspired Peugeot 306 sculptor ad — via boingboing
Another corporate 70s Bollywood spoof, this time by Absolut Vodka. A ten minute film, made in 2002 and filmed in India. Absolut Mulit is a Bollywood pseudo history of the mullet. Really well-crafted, with awesome songs and dancing. Low-level product placement — no actual bottles or mention of vodka — but the familiar Absolut shape makes subtle appearances — via boingboing
The BBC appears to be delivering on its promise of releasing its material to the public — they’re modelling their licensing on Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig is very excited and so I imagine, will a lot of other people be — rightly
In an enormous from scratch project, Piloux has recreated the HalfLife feel in his LAN PC. This UV reactive watercooled case features seven fans along side the meticulously texture painted contents
Four Bosnian convicts cut bars with a smuggled hacksaw and slid down knotted bedsheets to escape Sunday night, just like they do in the movies. This was the classic breakout,
prison director Miroslav Bem told the daily Dnevni List. He said the guards on duty at the Mostar prison were suspended for not spotting the escape
The Palme d’Or of the Festival de Cannes was presented this year by Charlize Theron to Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore. It’s the first documentary to win the top award at Cannes since Jacques Cousteau won in 1956 for The Silent World
My Invader Zim Volume 1 DVDs arrived this week. The commentary is Jhonen and a large chunk of the cast and crew thrown in a room talking about the episodes, but hearing the character voices commenting is hilarious
The Federal Opposition has accused the Government of intimidating the ABC into agreeing to ongoing monitoring of whether its programs and stories are politically balanced
Those radicals in Holland have protected the right of a search engine to search for MP3s — via Lawrence Lessig
Jason Eaton spent six months building this elaborate replica Ghostbusters pack, with powered blinkenlights and a multicoloured flashlight cannon and lots of other cool features, and now he’s selling it on eBay.
Tony Allenye, a UK science fiction fan and interior decorator, turned his 500²ft flat into a set for a Star Trek episode and is now auctioning it off for a starting price of $1,000,000.
A Norwegian guy is selling a fantastically detailed homebrew set of Star Wars Storm Trooper armour.
Activision and id Software have issued a press release announcing that Doom III will be released this summer. A Linux client has also been in development alongside the requisite Win32 version
I happened upon this site www.bootlegactionfigures.com you can’t buy any of these babies, just view ‘n’ chortle, but it’s worth a look see. One of my personal funny fav’s is this Telebabies set, scroll down to the second pic and you shall see.
For all you spandex super hero wannabes there is a comprehensive Spaderman set and Crappy Mexican Batman.
For the anime fans, there is disturbing Ranma 1/2 set, the panda (Genma) looks a bit like a dalmation. Then there’s New Centennial Evengelion.
Super cheap fun for all!
A Heap Of Trouble, a short film from ZeD, shows the seismic effect on a leafy housing estate when nine naked men come marching through, recruiting other men to join up. It’s very English and has naked people in it. Enjoy — via Die Puny Humans
Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it — via Die Puny Humans. Michael Moore explains the twelve month discrepancy. It seems Disney were narced with the film a year ago, but didn’t bother mentioning this to Miramax who kept parting with money for its production. Ah, the joys of bureaucracy
The lovely Feòrag has been hard at work with Photoshop, correcting the dubious moral moronity claims of Jack Chick tracts
Vincent Eaton’s tale of his encounter with a tapeworm is both amusing and educating. It comes complete with luscious illustrations from Chris Bishop.
For some, everything that occurs at the toilet bowl requires denying. After voiding their bowels, they scamper to a corner, kneel and pray. Then there’s the type that actually bends down to study the stuff like tea leaves. Then there’s me.
Businesses in certain US states are required by law to collect, among other privacy invasive information, the thumbprints of customers who want to sell their used video games, CDs, and books
An amusing guide to wading through some of the jargon that litters fan fiction. Love the description of the evil plot bunny.
Plot bunny: How a story starts: you’re innocently watching tv/film, and then you feel a strange sensation of… pain. You look down. A creature resembling the bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail has attached itself to your leg with three inch fangs, and you suddenly have an odd idea along the lines of ‘what if Legolas & Aragorn had been Full Monty style strippers before they joined the Fellowship?’. And it will stay there ’til you buckle down and write the story.
Habitat: depends on the bunny; a Merry/Pippin fluff bunny gambols about in the sunshire, eating lettuce, while a Frodo/Gollum angst bunny lurks behind the radiator, making horrible heavy breathing noises.
How to rid yourself of them: write the story. Suffer a head injury involving loss of memory. Get bitten by a better bunny. Rentokil (though for bunny extermination their rates are extortionate).
www.toondoctor.com has some interesting articles on flash animation and webisodes. It’s in my bookmarks, filed fiendishly under ‘toons’. Hopefully their articles will prove to be helpful in the not too distant future.
Fwak! Blog is a handy toon themed blog, populated with the rants of these guys over at www.fwakanimation.com.au
While you’re at it, check out www.woohoopictures.com, they have recently finished up a flick entitled ‘Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher’ and it looks very smashing indeed. Trailer can be seen here
P.S. This entry is the magical 500th entry in the Opinion section. Boy can we blog shit or what?
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