These cameras/art pieces make me feel funny. In my pants. I love work like this. A description of my favourite piece: ‘4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Brass, Silver, Gem Stones and a 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl. Light and time enters at…
So Uwe Boll has stated that he will quit making movies if one million people sign a petition asking him to stop. I know I usually post funny or sarcastic stuff to my blog. But this is SERIOUS. It’s probably the case that Boll will ignore the petition, even…
I just read issue one through nine of All-Star Batman and Robin, written by Frank Millar with art by Jim Lee. It’s terrible. I actually literally checked the cover to make sure that it was the same Frank Millar that wrote Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns,…
I just watched The Colour of Magic, a live action movie based on the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett. It was better than Hogfather, but still pretty bad. Bad things: (1) It’s The fucking Colour of Magic. It’s early work, and not really very good…
One of Britain’s best-known children’s book series, Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, has been turned into a 21st century cartoon Oh this doesn’t fucking bode well, does it. A remake, AND a TV cartoon? I have bad feeling about this. They’ll be trying to make it…
An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet. Fuck me! NOT “THE INTERNET”!? CALL BATMAN! SAVE US FROM THE INTERNET! Go! Run! GET TO THE CHOPPER! I’m kinda sick of seeing this sort of vague blaming…
I have a moral quandary – actually, no, more a dichotomy in desires between my cerebral cortex and my lizard brain. You see, I like animals. A lot. They’re cute, and often fuzzy, and I’m an empathic soul (I cry in movies at the drop of a hat) and…
I saw a news item this morning stating that the NZ government had just passed legislation banning BZP-based drugs which actually made me ask Annette if there had been lots of deaths or incidents involving BZP that I had somehow missed in the news. She told me that she thinks…