It was raining yesterday, and I haven’t painted anything in years.
Yesterday’s art project: a portrait of Steve Zissou.
Acrylic on canvas, 12×16.
And it’s for sale, if the price is right (interested parties please comment below).
A clever trailer series for Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming film “Zombieland” (Oct 2009). [Note Jesse Eisenberg's excellent Michael Cera impersonation.]
Paper Towels – a must have for any melee with the undead:
Why zombies do not attack one another:
(via io9, via Susan)
Two weeks ago, at the 2009 Comic-Con and Nerd Breeding Festival in San Diego CA, new glimpses of the upcoming sequel to the 1982 film “Tron” were unveiled to a crowd ecstatically choking on their retainers. The new film, to be released in 2010, will be called “Tron Legacy” and will star Jeff Bridges (Flynn) and Bruce Boxleitner (Tron) from the original film.
From our secret insider source and at a considerable cost ($50.00), we at Blogadilla are proud to present to you a few exclusive production photos from the upcoming film (below).
Production shot of the main cast in costume.
Jeff Bridges (Flynn) fighting digital spiders or something.
The new redesigned “light cycle.”
Trailer/Teaser for “Tron Legacy”:
Reindeer Flotilla Bonus Round:
Tron Adidas Adicolor Stan Smith II Shoes
[I own a pair, and yes they kick ass]
MCP Shutdown Bonus Round:
FlynnLives.com
Home of Tron (remake of Flynn’s Arcade in San Diego)
Flynn’s Arcade T-Shirts
This is John Oates of the 80’s duo “Hall and Oates.”
This is John’s awesome heterosexual mustache.
Together, John and his mustache (”J-Stache”) fight crime in a Funny or Die exclusive series “J-Stache! Ride the Mustache!”
From industrial designer Aleksander Dultsev – design images of the new/upcoming Russian stealth fighter.
(via English Russia)
Yesterday was the 40 year anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing.
Here is Col. Buzz Aldrin (2nd man on the Moon) delivering an astronaut style punchout to a loudmouth conspiracy theorist:
The Eagle Has Landed Bonus Round:
“A Film About the Space Program (part 1)” and “A Film About the Space Program (part 2)” by Tom Sachs and The Neistat Brothers.
Ground Control to Major Tom Bonus Round:
Don Mitchell’s amazing gallery of images from the Soviet Zond and Luna series lunar probes; the Soviet Luna-9 was the first man-made craft to land on the Moon, on February 3, 1966.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ‘MERICA!!
You look good for 233 years old (not a day over 229 years old).
Watching a suburban neighborhood in Santa Cruz, CA attempt to re-enact scenes from “Apocalypse Now” with fireworks – drunk on gunpowder and patriotism – inspired me to look up a few things:
• AD 1044 - The Chinese Wujing Zongyao military compendium contains the oldest surviving recipe for gunpowder and also a description of how to use explosives-laden birds as weapons. [link]
• AD 1325 - The Chinese Huolong Jing military manual describes a weapon called Huolong Chu Shui “Fire Dragon Issuing from Water.” It had booster rockets that carried the dragon-shaped missile into enemy territory, then other charges ignited rocket-powered arrows which shot from the mouth of the dragon. [link]
• AD 1325 - The Chinese Huolongjing military manual describes a weapon called “Flying Crow with Magic Fire.” A crow-shaped wickerwork kite with rocket boosters beneath its wings – it delivered a tremendous explosion upon impact.
• Fireworks Colors - Modern fireworks are colored by mineral salts added to the explosive mixtures. REDS: strontium or lithium salts; ORANGES: calcium salts; YELLOWS: sodium salts; GREENS: barium or chromium salts; BLUES: copper salts; PURPLES: potassium salts or mixing strontium and copper salts; WHITES: barium oxide or powdered magnesium, titanium, or aluminum; GOLDS: powdered iron.
Thousand Fire Dragon Thunderclap Bonus Round:
The fury of 16,000 firecrackers
(images from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Semnoz)
