ultra laser

picture by walky

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:31:00 -0700

this chest cold is fantastic.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:20:43 -0700

tv’s zorak rendered in spore, dancing to ‘hit...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:19:00 -0700

tv’s zorak rendered in spore, dancing to ‘hit single’ by the late great sonny sharrock

(holy crap, i could make a planet of zoraks, then a planet of braks and moltars and ghostals… damn, i may have to pick up spore. can i reskin the ufo to look like the phantom cruiser?)

it's four o clock on MONDAY THE 29TH why are you shooting off fireworks already?

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:19:10 -0700

bbc asks a thirteen year old to trade his ipod for a vintage walkman and let them know how that goes

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:17:00 -0700

bbc asks a thirteen year old to trade his ipod for a vintage walkman and let them know how that goes: via engadget

the kid is not my son

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:10:00 -0700

it’s been kind of surreal watching people’s varying reactions to michael jackson’s passing. my own reaction was that if you wanted to mourn him, we had plenty of opportunity over the last 15ish years. as has been stated elsewhere, he stopped being the michael jackson of our youths a long long time ago.

what i hadn’t quite realized, until i saw the depth of the response to his passing, was just how much a part of his time he was. I mean, i was born in 1981. to a certain extent, from my point of view, star wars and michael jackson have always been there. he was huge already by the time i was really old enough to pay attention, and if his best work was behind him, he was still michael jackson.

so while his fading relevence always struck me as kind of a tragedy, it wasn’t a loss to me in the sense that something once given had been taken away. it was just the inevitable march of time. michael jackson was, already from the day i was born. he had had his run, his time, and it was ending, and i had missed it’s peak. but at the same time, his work was still there, would always be there. and whatever else happened to him afterwards, he’d still have made thriller and bad and captain eo and so on.

so while i personally don’t mourn his death as excessively worse than any other, and while i don’t entirely like that his death has overshadowed the iranian election among other important stories, i do understand why people are having such a massive and public catharsis and why it’s so contradictory to our own expressed feelings over the last ten years or more.

we’d be having nearly the same conversation if george lucas had died. he’d stop being a tragic figure, and go back to being the man who made star wars.

niiiiiice.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:34:09 -0700

niiiiiice.

twin rocks ftw

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:02:42 -0700

twin rocks ftw

talking about valkyries

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:24:00 -0700

ryan: (something about feminism)
sean: did you say communism or feminism?
ryan: commufeminism? femicommunism.
sean: ... famicommunism. nintendo for everyone.
ryan: that is correct.

nightmare armour just got pwned. by pixelninja, again via...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:20:00 -0700

nightmare armour just got pwned. by pixelninja, again via geekologie.

HELL YES. and he provided instructions so i’m totally...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:58:17 -0700

HELL YES. and he provided instructions so i’m totally making one. by arkov, via geekologie.

first (leilani took a picture, i took a picture of her taking a...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:08:00 -0700

first

(leilani took a picture, i took a picture of her taking a picture, and ryan and i tried to phoneblog them simultaneously.)

wall-e found a g1 prime

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:00:34 -0700

wall-e found a g1 prime

alameda with a little snow

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:46:22 -0700

alameda with a little snow

and again. i love alameda in fog.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:42:00 -0700

and again. i love alameda in fog.

going back a bit to january, but i hadn’t realized this...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:41:57 -0700

going back a bit to january, but i hadn’t realized this turned out as nicely as it did until just now.

accidental arty shots are my favorite. love the colors in this...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:23:00 -0700

accidental arty shots are my favorite. love the colors in this one.

one more

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:50:00 -0700

harry potter and the half blood prince looks fucking sweet. that’s going to have the good visuals and good plot ala star trek, compared to good visuals and ‘this doesn’t make a lick of sense’ for transformers and 2012.

i don’t even care that daniel radcliffe et al are going to be like 25 by the time they finish filming part two of book seven; keeping the insanely good cast the same for the whole series was about the best thing they’ve done on those movies, and those are excellent movies already, some quirks in the adaptation aside.

even the side character students who get like one line per movie are perfect. it’s ridiculous that potter can pull this off so magnificently down to the most obscure little people, but avatar can’t even find three asian kids. (haha, it always comes back to that!)

seriously, though. dragonball casting a white kid as goku? the movie looked terrible and was only marginally based on the manga. i mean, i love chow yun fat, but he doesn’t look anything like master roshi. so i’ll give them a pass.

speed racer? white ppl, fine. john goodman was a brilliant call, and speed was never explicitly japanese, at least in the american version. so that’s fine too.

the trick with avatar, though, is that speed racer didn’t spend the entire movie wearing chinese kung fu robes, doing kung fu based on chinese mysticism, and hanging out IN ANCIENT FUCKING CHINA.

if you’re going to nail all the details of the cultural elements of the show, except the race of the three main characters, you’re actually making it worse. you can cast white kids only if you take the complex tale of warring asiatic nations and reset it in new york city in the future or some shit. you can’t keep the medieval chinese setting and plug in your kid brother as magic bruce lee and expect that to fly.

i mean, you can and you do, but you shouldn’t.

like, maybe you can make a samurai champloo movie, and cast zachary quinto as jin, milo ventimiglia as mugen, and hayden panettiere as fuu. running around in an otherwise faithfully rendered edo-period japan.

assholes.

he didn’t buy the hat but he did buy the furry flip flops....

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:21:02 -0700

he didn’t buy the hat but he did buy the furry flip flops. win? i guess?

oops.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:38:10 -0700

oops.