Hilarious Post From John K.

I stopped reading John K's blog long ago because it made me feel bad about watching modern cartoons, but I was looking at the Racattack Junction blog list, I saw a title that made me visit the site once more: Smokey the Pectoral Bear Raises Your Children Right. This is honestly one of the funniest John K posts. Enjoy

RIP Paul Newman

I only just learned today that Paul Newman is dead, and I had no idea what to say. He was such a major American figure and so much more than just an actor. But as I was spreading some Newman's own tomato sauce onto a french bread pizza and thinking about the news, I knew I had to post something. Rest in peace Paul.

The full article on his death is available on rotten tomatoes .

My deviantArt

With all my involvement online as far as cartoons go, I decided to get a deviantArt . Its not much now, but its something, and I'm workin' on it. 

Also, (just to make this a less pathetic post) I revamped the look of this blog a little. I basically just switched a couple of colors, but whatever.

Some News

Ign's summer movie awards are out, unsurprisingly, The Dark Knight got the most awards and Heath Ledger got best villain. 

Homestarrunner.com has posted its 200th Strong Bad Email. Its awesome.

pretty weak post huh. 

In the Doldrums

I've been stuck creatively now that school is back full swing. I think its because once I'm in school I fall into this pattern of "just get it done" which, if  you think about it, isn't the best mindset to make movies. I've had tons of ideas, but they usually seem to pop up in class, and by the time I get home, the creative urge is gone. The Shak Budisen movie is still set for this winter, and I've got tons of ideas for a new webshow called SafetyNet, but its just not making it through. The only creative work I get done in all my classes except drama are lots of doodles, which I draw so fast I have more drawings than notes. I'll post a new character design that I really like soon.

Ghost Town, Another Film that Has Caught My Attention

This movie caught my attention for a couple of reasons: its 100% tomatometer (although it only has 5 reviews), the plot sounds fun but with a chance for plenty of deeper development, and it is the first directoral outing of screenwriter David Koepp (Jurrassic Park, Spider Man). Here's the RT page 

Finalized Designs

I'll get back to posting regular stuff later, but I've been on kind of a drawing spree, so here are the final designs for the host of my upcoming webshow SafetyNet, premiering in 2009 or once the Shak Budisen Movie is done, it will be a live action/animation combo, hosted by Bearded Cyclops, and featuring demos of safety principal's by the stunt man, as played in live action. Here are the designs for Bearded Cyclops.

Lotsa Drawings 3

The third and final upload of Sunday night's drawing spree

Lotsa Drawings 2

I made so many I couldn't post em' all at once. 

Lotsa Drawings

Thoughts on Ghost Rider: The Deterioration of Action Scenes

When someone goes to see a movie like Ghost Rider, the least they can expect is some good action scenes. However, it seems like a new trend in Hollywood action fodder: not much actual action. First of all, Ghost Rider is a movie that takes itself about 10 times as seriously as it should. It seems to think it is some emotional, deep, epic, exciting, ghost story, but it doesn't seem to actually deliver on the action. It seems like once Spider Man introduced super heroes with emotional problems to Hollywood, every super hero movie has tried to copy it. However, emotion is much harder to execute than action, but with the focus of the day set on developing emotional conflict, the action is shoved aside. Now in some cases that may be a good thing, but usually, when a movie is bad, it can fall back on action. Not so with Ghost Rider. Each of the villain's main henchmen fall prey to Ghost Rider within 7 seconds. It doesn't help that the titular character's powers turn him into a glorified special effect. If Hollywood can't do action anymore, than what can it do?

Awesomeness 3

I'll post some real stuff soonish.

More Awesomeness

Rotten Tomatoes: The Summer In Review

Read the article here
I personally think WB deserves more than third place.

Awesomeness