johnke.meAwesome Kubrick/Miyamoto crossover. I hope this gets printed
Thanks to the Tao of Mac for pointing me to this incredible tutorial for using photoshop to give images a Lomo effect.
There’s a delicious irony in using a high-tech piece of software like Photoshop to recreate the look of a cheap, plastic lens.
It’s time-limited to 15 minutes per game, but still. This is one of the games that finally convinced me to buy an Xbox 360. Let’s hope it was worth it.
Get a coupon from today’s copy of The Ticket in the Irish Times. Bring it to UGC today and exchange the coupon for a ticket for two to see the preview of this amazing-looking movie.
I bought this because I’ve got such a boner for pirates right now, and this is the book that inspired Ron Gilbert to write the Secret of Monkey Island. It’s a huge story of pirates, voodoo and revenge. And lots of buckles being swashed, naturally. Also recommended: The Bumper Book of Pirate Stories, if only for the chapter entitled “How Half-Arsed Became Captain”. Half-arsed being a famous pirate who got half of his ass blown off by a cannon. They don’t make ’em like that any more.
More genius internet marketing from those Snakes on a Plane fellas. With this, you can send a personalised Snakes On A Plane email (or phone greeting if you’re in the US) “from” Samuel L. Jackson to your friends.
So good, I’ve even sent myself one.
As someone who is mortally afraid of bees, wasps and other flying, stinging insects, let me be the first to say FUCK YEAH! TAKE THAT YOU LITTLE FLYING BITCHES.
Notes: this picture, ripped from a copy of er… Empire (I think?) has been hung up on my bedside table for the past few months. Here’s hoping I’ll be the first hit on google images for ‘kinski gun dog’.
from fuckyeahdirectors
Okay, so it’s a far cry from supporting the miner’s strikes in the 1980s. but it’s still pretty neat.
The Wikipedia entry for “Palindrome” has a very cute URL
One hell of a publicity stunt…