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The above action figures were designed in 1979, but for whatever reason, were never released. Thanks to the magic of vintage love and an offering of Ash’s milk blood, Super7 have unearthed the designs and have been cleared to produce the entire four-piece series. They launch in September, but pre-orders begin at SDCC 2013.
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The above action figures were designed in 1979, but for whatever reason, were never released. Thanks to the magic of vintage love and an offering of Ash’s milk blood, Super7 have unearthed the designs and have been cleared to produce the entire four-piece series. They launch in September, but pre-orders begin at SDCC 2013.
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Buy: Alien Anthology [Blu-ray]
You know how roommates often have little squabbles about things like who was supposed to take out the trash, or who ate whose food from the fridge? Well, this is what happens when two roommates take out their aggressions toward each other over a game of Magic. Let’s just say things get heated rather quickly.
Also, as soon as I’m done typing this I’ll be on my way to my local game shop for the Dragon’s Maze pre-release. Anyone else going? Let us know in the comments and tell us what cool cards you got!
FNM a.k.a Friday Night Magic is a new weekly column where we share fan-created shenanigans and other awesomeness inspired by Magic: The Gathering. Send your freshness to brownkidd@albotas.com to see them featured in a future installment!
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As camera gear becomes more advanced and affordable, skate videos are becoming increasingly gorgeous. Case in point: this high concept video shot by Brett Novak featuring the talented and Rodney Mullen-esque footwork of Kilian Martin.
(Source: hypebeast.com)
Microsoft, the damage is done. I’m never coming back. Except for when I want to play some PC games. But I’ve got to admit, your marketing has been pretty great. From the bold colors and minimalist, angular design of the Windows Phone 8 Mobile (or whatever you’re calling it) print ads, to this awesome, Webby-nominated ad for Internet Explorer, you’re actually out-Appling Apple. That said, most people who use IE have fond memories of the 1960s, not the ’90s. It’s a great video nonetheless.
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We’ve all seen clever action figure photography floating around the internet at some point, but this series, titled 1:1 Toys, by Daniel Picard is some top tier God Mode level craziness.
Check out more in the embedded gallery below.
(Source: mymodernmet.com)
::fart noise::
Gorgeous cinematography, heaps of violence, and groovy retrolicious synth tunes. Oh, and Ryan Gosling. Yeah, this should be good.
Here’s the first trailer for those who missed it.
Bro, did you ever see this movie called Avengers, though? The only logical conclusion my brain can come up with is that the Hulk is in the new Captain America movie, which probably isn’t true, but would be pretty awesome.
I grew up reading and obsessing over comics since the second grade, but as soon as I turned nine or ten, I stopped caring about most superhero comics. It was the 90’s and the whole “do-gooder in tights” thing was just boring and played out at the time.
If my mom gave me five bucks to pick out a comic while she was getting her nails did at the mall and I had to choose between Superman’s chisel-jawed, primp-haired exploits, or something as stylishly violent as Spawn or oversexed like Gen-13, I think you can guess nine-year-old wouldn’t pick.
Superman, like most superheroes, is at his most interesting when his origin story is being told. It’s the whole Heroes Journey thing. But after that story’s over and done with, it’s just a dude in tights fighting the same bad guys and saving the same people & planets from certain doom over and over again. Bleh.
But Man of Steel looks like it could very well be one of the best Superman origin stories - or at least the best one ever told on screen. I like that it seems to capture the human side of the story without seeming all mushy and Hallmark-esque.
You’re a father or a mother who raise a baby from space. It may seem silly on the surface, but, really, how do you deal with that sort of thing? And the same goes for Kal-El; you grow up thinking you’re just another normal kid, then all of a sudden you’re shooting lasers out of your eyeballs and bending crowbars like they were pipe-cleaner.
My favorite part about superhero stories isn’t so much when they’re punching bad guys in the face or using their fancy powers, but it’s watching how they emotionally deal with all the shit that gets thrown their way, and then use their powers to blow it all up, of course.
Here’s to hoping that this delivers on all fronts.
Less focus on the Starks? An earlier introduction to Daenerys who is played by a different actress? Why the hell hasn’t this pilot leaked online yet like that terrible American pilot for The IT Crowd?
This adequately sums up the Khaleesi’s plot from the majority of Game of Thrones season 2. It’s also my new ringtone.
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This theatrical trailer for the new Carrie flick starring Chloe Grace Moretz is basically a CliffsNotes version of the actual movie itself. Spoiler alert: her mom is crazy over-protective, mean kids pour blood on her, supernatural shit happens.
The original was a classic and a re-watched staple in my misguided, rebellious, angsty years. Definitely not the sort of movie that needs a sequel, but I guess they could explore how the main character has adjusted to adulthood or whatever, but I don’t think anyone really cares.
Oh, and the working title is Punk’s Dead. Ugh.
If you dig movies and punk rock and never saw SLC punk, you should go remedy that shit ASAP just in case the sequel ruins the original’s good name. Here’s a trailer.
Man. I haven’t seen this movie since Jason Segel got all mainstream, so I kind of lost my shit seeing him in this trailer. Kind of like when I re-watched Donnie Darko years later and realized Seth Rogen was in it.
(Source: moviehole.net)
Watch it below before YouTube takes it down. Just don’t blame us if your brain explodes.
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Damn. I remember watching Siskel and Ebert when I was like 5. I’d play this game where I’d try and guess what they’d give a movie before they started their review. I think it’s a big part of how I view movies as an adult. I didn’t always agree with all of his thoughts about particular movies or video games as art, the dude was one hell of a writer and paved the way for reviewers and critics of all mediums.
Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation’s most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago. He had been in poor health over the past decade, battling cancers of the thyroid and salivary gland.
He lost part of his lower jaw in 2006, and with it the ability to speak or eat, a calamity that would have driven other men from the public eye. But Ebert refused to hide, instead forging what became a new chapter in his career, an extraordinary chronicle of his devastating illness that won him a new generation of admirers. “No point in denying it,” he wrote, analyzing his medical struggles with characteristic courage, candor and wit, a view that was never tinged with bitterness or self-pity.
Always technically savvy — he was an early investor in Google — Ebert let the Internet be his voice. His rogerebert.com had millions of fans, and he received a special achievement award as the 2010 “Person of the Year” from the Webby Awards, which noted that “his online journal has raised the bar for the level of poignancy, thoughtfulness and critique one can achieve on the Web.” His Twitter feeds had 827,000 followers.
Ebert was both widely popular and professionally respected. He not only won a Pulitzer Prize — the first film critic to do so — but his name was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005, among the movie stars he wrote about so well for so long. His reviews were syndicated in hundreds of newspapers worldwide.
