July 27, 2008
Flickr: 'Reno/Virginia City, NV, July 2008' (Fun long weekend.)
July 24, 2008
Boom Studios: 'Cthulhu Tales Vol 1' (Web version of Lovecraftian comic, yay.)
Boston.com: 'Recent Volcanic Activity' (More amazing pictures from The Big Picture.)
July 23, 2008
Comic Book Resources: Tilting At Windmills, July 18th ('Of my Top 20 best-selling books over the last twelve months, only six of them were released in the last twelve months.')
EW: 'Alan Moore Still Knows the Score!' (Great to see what he's up to - shame he's so disenfranchised with what might be a decent adaptation of Watchmen.)
Trends In Japan: 'McBakery Men in cook up McDonalds campaign' (Japanese European pastries are absolutely the best.)
July 22, 2008
AICN: 'Ricky Gervais Gets On with the Deceased in a Very Pleasant Trailer for GHOST TOWN!' (Interesting to see the Hollywood-ization of Gervais - looks fun, though.)
BBC News: 'Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer' (Wow, that techno piece is just amazing - via Warren Ellis.)
Satellite News: 'Jim Mallon interview' (The quiet controller of the MST3K franchise talks.)
July 21, 2008
The Muppet Newsflash: '"Studio DC: Almost Live" Moves to August Premiere' (Old school Muppet variety, sorta Disney-fied. Better than nothing!)
Reality Blurred: 'Animal Planet moves into edgier, compelling territory with Whale Wars, Grizzly Man Diaries' (Good to see some of that grittier stuff taking hold.)
Video: ‘Daruma-otoshi’ skyscraper demolition (Very scientific way of doing things.)
July 20, 2008
Turner Classic Movies: 'Hold On!' (TCM is awesome for screening odd ephemera like this, the second (!) Herman's Hermits movie, about... naming a spaceship after them?)
Film.com: 'Fritz Lang's Lost Metropolis - Rediscovered!' ('If the find is complete as they say it is, we'll see major scenes that have previously been a mystery.')
Archives Hub: 'Collections of the Month, July 2008: Stanley Kubrick' (Some really nice snippets here, would be awesome if the entire collection got digitized - via DVD Savant.)
July 19, 2008
Rope Of Silicon: ''Watchmen' Trailer to Comic Comparison' (Surprisingly faithful, then.)
Apple.com Trailer: 'Watchmen' (Oh my.)
July 14, 2008
Flickr: 'Obon Festival, San Jose, July 2008' (A pleasant Sunday!)
MST3K Satellite News: '“Hollywood After Dark” Now Streaming Online' (MST3K spinoff-ish stuff on Hulu - I've rented this and it's pretty good fun.)
EW: ''Hellboy II': Meet Luke Goss, the New Nemesis' (From Bros to this, indeed.)
July 12, 2008
Shots Ring Out on Vampire Weekend's 'Oxford Comma' video (Directed by Richard Ayoade from The IT Crowd and others, btw.)
July 11, 2008
YouTube: 'Common / People - a William Shatner, Kirk & Spock slashup' (Lest us forget, the Shatner album this cover from is AWESOME ('Has Been') - via everyone. Whoa, and there's a Shatner 'Has Been' ballet movie coming out?)
The Comics Report: 'CR Sunday Interview: Lynda Barry' (Awesome, on the state of comics on alt.weeklies and other things - via The Beat.)
Snopes.com: 'Ball Girl Makes An Amazing Catch' (More fun when you think it's real.)
July 10, 2008
Pitchfork: 'Jarvis, Peaches, Kills, Gary Numan Play Boosh Fest' (Hope they do a DVD of this, since I'm not in England, boo.)
Modern Mechanix: 'With plug-in programs, anybody can use these personal computers (Nov, 1979)' (Yum, Texas Instruments.)
Google Sightseeing: 'The Top Gear Test Track' (The finest celebrity car racing track of recent years.)
July 09, 2008
AICN: 'Learn Who Plays The Starship’s Engineer In Ronald D. Moore’s Fox Sci-Fi Pilot VIRTUALITY!!' (Nice to see more sci-fi on network TV, potentially.)
Guardian: 'Channel 4 recreates The Shining to promote its Kubrick season' (Very cool.)
The Beat: 'Who Is Number One?' (Still tracking The Prisoner remake closely.)
July 08, 2008
Pink Tentacle: 'Magazine photos fool age-verification cameras' (Oh, technology.)
EW PopWatch: 'Trailer Blazer: 'Quantum of Solace'' (Bond. Rocks. A. Lot.)
You Thought We Wouldn't Notice: 'You Will Soon…' (Interesting discussion of skate shoe inspirations.)
July 07, 2008
Cartoon Brew: 'Bedrock City' ('Bedrock City, the kitschy little theme park in Custer, South Dakota, was created in 1966 by a coalition of local concrete makers. Now, artist/photographer Todd Oldham has discovered the park’s inner coolness.')
Free Music Archive prelaunch blog (The WFMU chaps compiling CC-licensed music of all kinds - great idea.)
The Big Picture: 'Man on the Moon, Future and Past' (Space is great looking.)
July 06, 2008
YouTube: '24 Hour Garage People (in Lego)' (YouTube has some great fan Half Man Half Biscuit fan videos now - also see the Eraserhead/'Restless Legs' mashup.)
Media Matters: 'Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters' (Uhhhh. Via Waxy.)
YouTube: Reeves & Mortimer - 'Vic's Jacket' (More of these skits are appearing on YouTube recently, which is good news if I want to show you, dear reader, some of their surreal genius.)
July 05, 2008
Archive.org: Fedflix collection (Very undernoticed: 'Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.')
Live365: Six Degrees' online radio station (The world music folks who are releasing The Orb and Tom Middleton in the States nowadays have a podcast on Live365, a site I'd almost completely forgotten about.)
YouTube: Holy F*ck - 'Lovely Allen' music video (Absolutely crankin' electronica improvisation instrumental stuff - like a bleep Mogwai?)