Out This Week – FELL: FERAL CITY
May 21st, 2007 | Work
Released from Wednesday. Templesmith’s gotten his comp copies already:
ENGINE Block
May 21st, 2007 | comics talk
* REMAKES/REMODELS: Buck Rogers – Carnacki The Ghost-Finder – Captain Marvel (the incredibly goofy one)
TOMB RAIDER: Re/Visioned
May 18th, 2007 | Work
GameTap, the first-of-its-kind broadband entertainment network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), announced today the launch of a new GameTap Retrospective series and a new original animated series, “Re\Visioned,†that pays homage to one of the game industry’s top franchises of all time – Tomb Raider.
To create “Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider†GameTap commissioned Peter Chung, Jim Lee, Warren Ellis, Cully Hamner, Gail Simone, David Alvarez, Michael Stackpole, Brian Pulido, and Christos Gage, among others, to provide their ‘Re\Visioned’ view of the famous video game heroine. The first episode in this original animation series will debut on July 10th with new episodes running through August 23rd. There are 10 episodes in total and they will be available to view for free at GameTap.com.
The dedicated site is at http://tombraider.gametap.com/. If you click all the way through to the Re/Visioned preview section, look for the two episodes scheduled for the end of July called ANGEL SPIT. The design work for my story was done by Cully Hamner.
FUCK YOU, YOU HOLLYWOOD SELLOUT PILES OF WALKING WOMBSHIT
May 18th, 2007 | brainjuice
BECAUSE THIS IS JUST WRONG;
A remake of the classic British crime film The Long Good Friday is being planned, it has been confirmed.
The 1980 original starred Bob Hoskins as an East End gangster whose criminal empire comes under attack from a wave of mysterious bombings.
Production company Handmade Films said the story would be “refreshed” with a modern setting.
Filming is due to start in Miami in 2008 under the direction of Paul W S Anderson, who made Resident Evil.
CALVIN & HOBBES Animated
May 18th, 2007 | comics talk
This is just astonishingly well done, given the resources — an Italian animation student created a short CALVIN & HOBBES cartoon as his final exam piece:
DRIPPING WET
May 17th, 2007 | comics talk
Stacy Garratt and Nikki Cook go from filth to horror to funny in 28 panels. Not for children of any age.
Sleepless Radio 01
May 17th, 2007 | music
SLEEPLESS RADIO
01: testing
Songs made freely available for download on the internet by the artists, put into a single file and released as a podcast mixtape for whoever might be listening. Fresh files as time and content allow. (Subscribe.)
“Bitter” – Meaghan McLaughin
“No Quiero Morir – Cois
“Faustmo” – Carnation Tree
“Electromance” – A Station Story
“konflikt” – “Clockwork Harpsichord
“Little House Of Savages” – Achtung Anton
“The Soil Is Dead” – Tara Vanflower
Stelarc’s Ear PORTRAIT taken by nina sellars
May 17th, 2007 | photography, researchmaterial
Stelarc’s Ear PORTRAIT taken by nina sellars
Originally uploaded by k0re.
From Karen Marcelo’s Flickr, as found by “Dartt!” (who appears to have ganked it from Xeni). Marcelo (aka k0re) writes: “Stelarc implanted an ear into his arm (he’s been talking about doing for several years! good he found a surgeon to do it) he’s going to implant a mic that will connect to a bluetooth transmitter to connect the ear to the internet! and another surgery to give the ear more definition.”
