Moives and Shirts

Thank god Tropic Thunder is the #1 movie. And the first to take down Batman! When I saw it there was hardly anyone in the theater, so I was worried that maybe the idiots protesting the word retard would win. Seeing as how most Americans probably use the word on a daily basis, I was hoping they wouldn't turn themselves into hypocrites on this matter, like they do with so many other things.

Plus it's a good movie. Robert Downey deserves an Oscar.

You ever notice how the box office analysts are always 100% wrong? How do I get that job? I have a couple sites I check everyday, the IMDB news page being one of them. Most weeks there is an article about what films the analysts think are going to do well that weekend, followed by an article the next week about how they are "stunned" that they were wrong.

Really, pay attention to it, it's their entire job and they somehow can't seem to figure out the difference between a movie people will see and one they won't. Anyway, they were wrong again as they said that Tropic Thunder wouldn't be #1. And get their reasoning: It did fairly well on Wednesday but dropped off slightly on Thursday, so they figured the theaters would be empty by the weekend. Because, you know, 90% of people don't work throughout the week and aren't just waiting until the weekend to see it.

On another front, the creator of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Richard O'brien, is not behind the remake like it had been reported. Here's a little bit of the article:

"I have no view on whether it should be remade but it doesn't have my blessing," O'Brien told the BBC. "I'm not co-producing it and I won't be involved in any way. The first I heard about it was when people sent me cuttings from U.S. papers."

O'Brien said he thinks the new film's makers said he was collaborating on the remake "to suggest I've given the project my seal of approval."

"I don't know where they'll go with it really," he said. "I've even heard that they're going to put new songs in. I wrote the book, the music and the lyrics. Where are they going to get the songs from? Who's going to do that? That's a bit strange, isn't it?

So the creator hates it and the fans hate it. Who are they making this for again? That new generation of hipsters that apparently think transvestites are all the rage? I guess a lot of teenage males do wear women's jeans now.


Anyway, whether you agree with my rantings or not, vote for my new shirt! In a positive manor!



http://www.splitreason.com/design/design_48a853051f08e/1

Johnny Boy DVD for sale

http://johnnyboymovie.googlepages.com

Guns and Mushrooms

A few more of my shirt designs are up for sale. You can buy some.

I don't even know that guy. Isn't that neat?

Catch-all Update

Has anyone seen the Muppet viral videos on youtube? Rumor has it they are hinting at something like a possible new movie. They are easy to find once you realize that they all have the tag "virmup," which I guess also proves they are deliberate.

Here is a link to one, and the rest can be found in the sidebar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A


My one word review of the X-Files movie: Nope.

DVDs of Johnny Boy have gone into production! I created every aspect of the DVD from the menus to the packaging and learned a lot in the process so I'm pretty proud/excited. Go ahead and buy one from our site if you haven't already, and hopefully we'll be taking some measure soon to get word out to more than the two people who will read this.
http://johnnyboymovie.googlepages.com

And lastly, an article that may pass up 'Xzibit doesn't believe in aliens' as my favorite of all time. Some guy named "Rampage" Jackson (apparently a UFC champion, I could never get into that stuff) tried to get away from police and several traffic accidents he caused while driving a car with A PICTURE OF HIS OWN FACE plastered on it. I think only Seth can really appreciate this on the same level I do.
http://thesuperficial.com/2008/07/rampage_jackson_attempts_hit_r.php

My Molotov was posted yesterday, as well as Frank's Michael Myers. I don't think it looks anything like him though, not even from his SNL days. In fact If you colored the face pink it would look kinda like Shatner.

Not pictured is the little knife you stick in her teeth, the whole reason I made her to begin with.

My official Hellboy 2 Promotion. No, really.

To coincide with the release of the movie Hellboy 2, the Cubees that Chris Beaumont and I collaborated on are finally being posted today. I made Hellboy and Liz, and Chris made Abe and Johann.

Believe it or not these are officially licensed and an actual part of the Hellboy 2 marketing campaign.

To be more specific they are part of the UK campaign for the movie, which doesn't come out until sometime in August over there. So around that time these will be released "virally" outside of the Cubeecraft site. Exactly how that's going to go down I'm not sure. The versions I've seen previously have the Hellboy logo branded on them, so those will possibly make another appearance when they're released officially, we'll just have to wait and see.

http://www.cubeecraft.com/
http://www.cubeecraft.com/blog/

Wario Paint

Hmm...this is the biggest gap I've had between posts for a while. Busy as usual. First New York, then lots of work, then a really fun pool party/cook out. Business as usual.

There is a new game coming out for the Wii called Wario Land Shake that I'm sure I'll be picking up on the first day. You ever had a good idea that seems really obvious and you wonder why someone else hasn't implemented it yet? Thats exactly how I feel (and I'm sure plenty of other people) about Wario Land Shake. The game uses hand-drawn frames for it's character animation. In other words, it looks like you're playing a cartoon. I have always wondered why this has never really been used in a video game. I mean think about it...yeah you have bring in a traditional animator to do it, but he/she only has to animate all of the character moves once since they will then be used over and over throughout the game. I mean that's what...10 minutes of animation TOPS if your character has an enormous moves list. So kudos to the person who finally decided to use this technique in a first party side-scroller.






Oh, another obvious idea that took way too long to come to fruition? Pregnancy tests that actually display the word "pregnant." I mean come on, it took how long for those? Are you serious?