We’ve discussed the Hulk here before.
This time he gets the photoshop treatment from the Something Awful folks:
found via Laughing Squid
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It isn’t just basement dwellers, hyper productive CEOs, and information age hipsters who are creating online projects these days. Famous people from traditional media are also trying their hand at creating something new and different. Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy and Firefly, is turning his hand to the online world, with his newest effort: Doctor Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog. Here’s what we know so far:
It’s the story of a low-rent supervillain (Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible), the hero who keeps beating him up (Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer), and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to (Felicia Day as Penny).
Did I mention it’s a musical?
This isn’t the first time Joss has delved into the waters of genre musicals. The Buffy episode “Once More With Feeling” was an amazing mix of plot and song. More than that, the sudden outburst of singing is actually explained in the context of the show.
It’s also the last truly great episode of the series; the perfect shark:
Here’s Neil Patrick Harris Singing:
via the newborn DoctorHorrible.net
13
Mar
Here comes Speed Racer
Speaking of vintage anime, there’s a new Speed Racer trailer up, and it’s amazing:
There was an article a few years back that discussed some of the digital camera tricks that they’re going to be using in this film that could, I think, be more ground-breaking than bullet-time. Unfortunately I can’t find that link.
Suffice it to say it’s about using digital trickery to allow you to move between shots without a traditional “cut”. You can see a great at around 1:50, and again right at the end, around 2:23.
If you know the article I’m talking about please post a link in the comments.
10
Mar
The Election in Pokemon
Proving that Videogames can be effective as narrative…
The Nerdosphere has had a few days now to let the impact of Gary Gygax’s death sink in, and there’s a growing realization that not only has the current flourishing culture of geek has grown out of that curious game, but that a generation of us owe our friendships, work, and passions to a fantasy simulation.
It’s also almost shocking just how far and wide it has spread; Far enough that the New York Times has just published an article about it.
We live in Gary Gygax’s world. The most popular books on earth are fantasy novels about wizards and magic swords. The most popular movies are about characters from superhero comic books. The most popular TV shows look like elaborate role-playing games: intricate, hidden-clue-laden science fiction stories connected to impossibly mathematical games that live both online and in the real world. And you, the viewer, can play only if you’ve sufficiently mastered your home-entertainment command center so that it can download a snippet of audio to your iPhone, process it backward with beluga whale harmonic sequences and then podcast the results to the members of your Yahoo group.
There’s also a nifty chart that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the way D&D changed everything.
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