Movies, Teevee, Webisodes, Clips, geeks, sportos, motorheads, dweebs, dorks, sluts, buttheads…
How many webcomickers have gone on to standup comedy? Adam Burke did a bunch of webcomics including The Grimbles and Diabolica. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p51he3KB7e0] Hampton Yount wrote with his brother Clay the just recently concluded Rob & Elliot webcomic. [vimeo 13745594 w=500 h=281]
I’ve been rereading the world’s funniest history nerd webcomic, Hark A Vagrant, and saw a link to this animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry. A simple but clever idea that really brings it to life: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGoBZ4D4_E]
[vimeo 43800150 w=550 h=309] POrtal: Terminal Velocity from Jason Craft on Vimeo.
Linda Holmes of NPR writes about how the last season of Moonlighting is actually NOT evidence that resolving romance will kill a show. In fact Moonlighting’s erratic wind-down is evidence that you can’t write half a season’s shows focusing on the secondary characters alone (which is what they did as Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd were barely onscreen for many episodes that year). But for the rest of Moonlighting’s run it was a great show – inventive, clever, and spirited. I was in highschool when it was on and it was our watercooler show — we rehashed, requoted and rehearsed what we’d seen …
Nina Paley’s animated Sita Sings the Blues looks amazing (all I’ve had a chance to see is the trailer though) but who knows when any of us will get to see due to copyright issues with the song compositions (not the performances – they are in the public domain). Check out more details on Nina’s blog here and watch the interview below to get the whole story. Actually click here for Nina’s post on her current effort to get the film out to the public — she still needs to raise about $50,000 dollars to pay off rights holders. UPDATE …
Pop Culture Rewind: writing about pop culture years after it was current. So I watch the movie Contact the other night. First off, I read the novel by Carl Sagan almost 10 years ago. I have fond, but mixed memories of that book that watching the film actually clarified (although I am not really sure how closely the film follows the book – obviously the film condensed the book’s plot considerably). The book’s strength is Carl Sagan’s account of how a “first contact” with an alien civilization might occur. Not what the aliens would be like or what they would say to …
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