Archive for February, 2009
9 Movies, One Character – Samuel L. Jackson = The Man.
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Geek, Movies, Sci-fi | No Comments
Jackson first appeared as the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in a cameo at the end of Iron Man. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he has signed a contract to play Nick Fury in NINE more movies. NINE. Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers and anything else Marvel does (up to nine movies) that Nick Fury is involved in. There are even talks of developing a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie which he will star in. So it’s kind of like that one summer when Helen Hunt was in almost every movie that was in theaters, except Samuel L. Jackson wont get annoying. And when it’s over he will still get movie deals.
Billy Idol’s ‘White Wedding’
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Funny Stuff, Videos, Weird | No Comments
I will never think of this song the same way again…
Weta Workshop not just for movies.
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Weird | No Comments
Weta Workshop (special effects studio responsible for Lord Of The Rings, etc.) took on a special project where they made a prosthetic mermaid tail for a woman named Nadya Vessey. She lost both of her legs below the knee as the result of a medical condition when she was young.
Rather try and tell you how awesome this is, see for yourself!
Halloween Costume
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Weird | No Comments
“By using a travel DVD player strapped to my stomach, with video coming from a digital camera strapped to my back, it creates the illusion that I have a very large hole in my stomach. ” – evanboot @ Flickr
Neo-Victorian Keyboard.
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Technology, Weird | No Comments
From the Deviant Art user ~ParadoxTentacles
According to the user: Almost 2 full sets of vintage Typewriter keys were used along with a hand carved wooden space bar! The frame was carved from wood, and functional colored LED indicator lights were added to designate Caps Lock, Number Lock, and Scroll Lock activation. This keyboard has been designed so that if for some reason, the electronics ever malfunction or breaks, a replacement keyboard’s internals can be swapped out fairly easily and cheaply. The completed keyboard types very smoothly and I can touch type on it with no problems!
Video game controller soap.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | Weird | No Comments
What better way to say: HEY get off the game and take a shower, you STINK!!!!
ACME Ray Gun Pen.
Friday, February 6th, 2009 | Gadgets, Geek, Sci-fi, Weird | No Comments
Order it from ACME.com
Sci-Fi on TV is where it’s at!
Friday, February 6th, 2009 | Sci-fi | No Comments
Fox has Fringe, Dollhouse and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Fox network is leading this new spur of programs with 5 pilots ordered with a Sci-Fi theme.
- Masterwork is about a race against time to recover the world’s most sought-after artifacts.
- There is an as-yet-untitled reincarnation project, about past-life investigators who use reincarnation to solve mysteries.
- Human Target, based on the DC Comics title, about Christopher Chance, a mysterious security-for-hire who assumes the identities of people in life-threatening danger, becoming the “human target” on behalf of his clients
- Eva Adams, about a male chauvinist who wakes up in woman’s body.
- Virtuality, from Battlestar Galactica’s Ron Moore, a sci-fi drama set in two different worlds, outer space and a seemingly limitless virtual reality.
So, kinda like an exploration of what we will see on Caprica? If you haven’t seen the sneak peeks online. Virtual Reality plays a part in everything going on around the creation of the first “skin job” Cylons.
ABC follows along with 3 pilots..
- Eastwick based on John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick, about three modern-day women who discover they have magical powers
- Flash Forward, where everyone in the world blacks out for two minutes and has a vision of their future
(WHAT?? Huh??)
- V, from The 4400’s Scott Peters and based on the 1983 miniseries, which chronicles human resistance fighters battling aliens.
NBC only has one pilot ordered up that is full of Sci-Fi fun.
- Day One from Heroes writer Jesse Alexander: In the aftermath of a “global event” that devastates the world’s infrastructures, a small band of survivors strive to rebuild society and unravel the mysteries of why the event took place.
With pilot season coming its nice to see major networks exploring the Sci-Fi option. Sci-Fi > Reality TV. CBS has no sci-fi pilots. WHY CBS, whats so important you cant be like the cool kids? Oh..political drama, family drama and comedy. Ok..at least it isn’t reality TV.
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