The folks over at Worth 1000 (as in “a picture is worth 1000 words) recently had a Photoshop contest based on this member observation: I went to an art gallery the other day. The artworks were all right, I guess, but you know what they were missing? Wookiees. There wasn’t one Wookiee in sight. Also no Jedis, no Storm Troopers … in fact none of the artworks had any Star Wars elements at all! And so a call to arms was made to insert Star Wars elements into famous works of art…
Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles has new images of their up-and-coming Battlestar Galactica figures online, including the trio from “Razor” pictured above (click image for hi-res). Young Adama & Kendra Shaw have their own listings as seperate pieces, but it looks like the re-imagined old school Cylon Centurion will only be available in the three-figure set (all are slated for an 8/15 release). Another shot of the Cylon and a surprise product are only a click away…
Continue reading ‘Razor/old school cylon toys (and a surprise) unveiled’
My heart goes out to all those in Southern California today who may have had toiletries or nick nacks fall off a low shelf. The massively unremarkable earthquake had absolutely no effect on Battlestar Galactica. Click ahead for a video of a bunch of morons doing absolutely the wrong thing in a quake…
So I saw the new Batman movies last week (how’s that for timely posting?). For the most part, they live up to the hype, but naturally I have a few bones to pick. My friends tell me I manage to find fault with everything, and J-rod (yes that’s a real person) thinks I get some sort of perverse pleasure out of it. He might have a point, perhaps life would be better if my reaction to everything was “wow, that was neat!” Actually, I saw Thank You For Smoking over the weekend (starring Dark Knight’s Aaron Eckhart) and thought it was pretty much a perfect movie, so to my dear friends: bite me. I’ll stop finding faults in movies when Hollywood stops copiously providing them! Anyway, on to what I what I thought of the two new Batman movies…
Yes, it’s that time of year again – school’s out, burgers are on the grill and everyone gathers around at poolisde as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announces the finalists for the Prime Time Emmy Awards! Naturally, everyone skips to the Special Visual Effects nominees, since that’s where all our favorite shows reside. Duking it out this year for the little gold statue will be…
Today I heard about a fan-run convention that announced it was cancelling the event and no longer taking pre-orders; at least they closed up shop in advance of the con – about a month ago, another event shut down during the first day of the actual programming, leaving a whole bunch of people (and guests) high and dry. So what gives? Are sci-fi conventions fading away? I have a few theories about what’s been going on, and the answers may shock you… *
Every holiday season, I like to dust off the decks, dig into the Mojoplex archives and create a themed mix CD for my closest friends. It was only a few short years ago that I had spent nearly six months and my entire forture in search of the raw materials to create an epic that no DJ had dared to attempt: an entire mix of sci-fi dance music.
This is the most awesome thing I’ve seen since Bottlestar Galactica. It’s from the Flickr album of some cat called Trioculus and if you click here you can see the full snack bar from one of his BSG viewing parties (he’s also got an algae dip). Gods, I love this guy. If any of you think you can beat the Eye of Jupiter Nachos for sheer originality, send your own clever Galactica/food creations to BSGFood@aol.com and we’ll post them here. I guess we need a prize… hmmm… how about this: the winner will get an extremely rare, custom made, not-available-anywhere “Cylon Raiders” T-shirt (I can’t publish a picture of it because it’s based on a copyrighted design, but trust me – it’s frakking cool). Sound good? Well, what are you waiting for? Get cooking!
Some might say it was the most disastrous convention ever; the guest registry at the Sutton Place hotel in downtown Vancouver read like a who’s who of Battlestar Galactica – the writers, producers, cast and many behind-the-scenes artisans were on hand, ready to mingle and reminisce about their experiences on the show. But where were the fans? Continue reading ‘BSG wrap party (aka my canadian adventure) – part one’
Who would ever guess that this cheery image would become the poster-child for one of Battlestar Galactica’s finest moments? Now that the mid-season finale has been unleashed, fans across the internets have been closely examining the above image, scouring it for clues and hoping to unlock the secrets of what is to come. Well, I have good news for you! There are indeed secrets to be had and if you’d like to know the truth behind that image, click forward to read more. Go on, I dare you…
“Where are the frakkin’ posts?” I can hear you screaming… they’re coming, trust me. I’ve been really focused on previz for show 419 (the Galactica’s landing bay has been totally relit) and so blogging has been slow-going. I’ve actually written most of the next post (VFX for “Revelations”) but I’ve been having issues with my new video host. As soon as I manage to successfully upload video that doesn’t get re-processed into felgercarb, you’ll have something juicy to sink your teeth into. Since I’m heading to Vancouver on Thursday for a few days of R&R, if you don’t see it tomorrow look for it early next week. In the meantime, enjoy this lovely, hi-res image from Rougnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles. While I was working on Voyager, my fellow Foundation Imagers were toiling away on the first all-CG TV series in history (no, Reboot doesn’t count). Check out the DVDs, you’ll be glad you did! Maybe I can get the boys to put together a flashback of that series… anyone interested?
Happy Friday, nerds and nerdettes! I twisted my wrist pretty badly yesterday, so I decided on a weekend post that would involve as little typing as possible; that could mean only one thing – another tasty edition of Sci-Ficandy! Today we have a selection of never-before-seen images from Star Trek: Voyager. The one you see above is an alternate angle from the episode “Relativity,” which featured a flashback to Voyager being constructed at the fabled Utopia Planitia shipyards over Mars. Continue reading ‘sci-ficandy: voyager strikes back’
Saturday, June 14th was a day to remember here in Los Angeles – it was the day of the perfect Blade Runner experience. The one-time-only charity screening took place on the Warner Brothers backlot (where the film was made) and director Ridley Scott, co-screenwriter Hampton Fancher and a host of others were on hand afterwards to take questions from the audience. For die-hard Blade Runner fans, it was the event of a lifetime; not only was the film presented in reference-quality digital projection and sound, but during the Q&A we witnessed Scott and Fancher engage in a heated debate over whether Deckard is – or is not – a Replicant…
Continue reading ‘Ridley Scott compares “Blade Runner” to “little orphan annie”’
I don’t know what inspired German BSG fan Marco Scheloske to create what you see above, but I have to thank him for the huge laugh. To read more about the project and learn how he did it, check out his thread in the Hobby Talk forum here. At least one other nutty fan has followed Marco’s lead and tried his own hand at a starship in a bottle –clickhere to see what he came up with. And finally, “Bottlestar Galactica” makes an appearance on the environmental website Grist, but in a totally different context. Click here to see why someone over there must be a BSG fan…
Super Summer Movie Fun Club, Go! members did their duty last week and saw the latest new release, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. All we were expecting from Adam Sandler was a bad movie with a few genuinely funny moments, but Zohan skyrocketed past the Summer of Lowered Expectations to deliver a solid, two-and-a-half star behemoth, chock-full-o-laughs and a surprisingly ambitious story. The only thing weighing it down from reaching the coveted three-star rating was its hefty 113 minute running time, providing even more proof that Hollywood has forgotten its own words to live by, “less is more.” So what gives? Why have movies gotten so long in the tooth?
Continue reading ‘movie review: please mess with the zohan!’
The single most puzzling question no one has answered about Galactica’s triumphant return is why did it come back? When I explain the history to people, it still boggles my mind: it was on for one season thirty years ago. One. On top of that, it was never very popular and no one – not even the fans – regard it as high art. Yet it retained enough of a dedicated, passionate following to insure that one day she would return.
But why? What kept that mediocre one-season-wonder so near and dear to my heart that seeing it come back was literally a dream come true? I think the answer boils down to one word: Cheeseburgers.
Wednesday night was a rare treat – as part of their endeavor to increase visibility of Battlestar during Emmy judging season, Sci-Fi Channel had an advance screening of Friday night’s mid-season finale, “Revelations,” at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. More pictures and totally spoiler-free coverage inside…
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