'9' is an Oscar nominated short by Shane Acker, soon to be adapted to a feature length movie produced by Tim Burton, with the voice work of Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Elijah Wood and John C. Reilly. The storyline for the short is about a rag doll creature that fights a monster that has stolen the rest of his people's souls. Although you can view high-quality Quicktime trailers for this short here, unfortunately at this time the only full version is a low-quality Flash version here, but will give you an idea as to how cool this movie may turn out to be. While you're at Shane Acker's site, be sure to check out his Mr. Grenade. And although it gave me a good belly-laugh, I do not suggest you watch his animaion called The Hangnail if you're at all squeemish. Enjoy!

posted by Kerig 8:28 PM
 

 

Krapooya is a delightful animation of what can only be described as a 'nut' that falls from a tree and grows up to realize his full potential. Sure, it's weird and slightly creepy, but it's a well-made animation that's funny to watch. I especially liked the 'dream' sequence! The Quicktime version is here (38Mb) and a DIVX version can be had on the website. I wonder where the name 'Krapooya' came from? It sounds like kiddie potty-mouth talk!

posted by Kerig 8:25 PM
 

 

Here's a YouTube roundup of the Nintendo Super Mario Brothers theme music as played by various musical instruments. Don't miss the A Capella version (scroll down), which also adds a coulple of extra game themes into their performance. A 'must-see'!
Shown: Played by a Balalaika...whatever the hell that is.

posted by Kerig 8:20 PM
 

Monday, February 12, 2007

 

Remember how that bizarre promotion for the Cartoon Networks' Aqua Teen Hunger Force program shut down the city of Boston on Feb. 1st? Sure, the authorities were a bit overly-jumpy about these blinking signs, but in a post-9/11 world can you really blame them? I mean, it's not entirely unlikely that these could have been the work of terrorists wanting to give the finger to America...




And when your done with that video, play the game to Save Boston, complete with a musical score by...Boston (of course) and New England-accented dialog! Freakin' Awesome!!!

posted by Kerig 8:50 PM
 

Pong, Anyone?  

The making of a homemade Pong wristwatch, with a build log of its creation and videos of the final prototype. This is so cool that if it ever gets mass produced, I'm gonna have to save up my allowance to get me one!

posted by Kerig 8:44 PM
 

 

This Old House's photo gallery of home inspection nightmares. More here and here...and...here. Scary stuff indeed!

posted by Kerig 8:42 PM
 

 

Here's Jared Hess' original short student film that lead the way to the feature film, Napoleon Dynamite. Notice he's not named Napoleon, but Seth. I guess Seth was too cool of a name.

posted by Kerig 8:41 PM