What a simply brilliant marketing campaign to get us ready for the upcoming Prometheus. We we're wondering where the hell Guy Pearce was in the trailers we've seen. He's Weyland!!!! Peter Weyland at that and you can see him below at TED (genius, genuis!) discussing the future.
I am about 10 times more excited for this film now. I think this film is going to blow peoples minds. Ridley is has really given this some thought.
"Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade. For more info, visit www.weylandindustries.com"
UPDATE
Damon Lindelof (writer on Prometheus) confirms that the scene above will not appear in the film and that it was made just for TED.
These ads are a few years old now, but were just run in a post-superbowl wrap up article by AdWeek.
Here are some awesome ads from US Cable Provider Direct TV
The man who voiced Adam Jensen in Deus Ex Human Revolutions Elias Toufexis plays last years game whilst creating a commentary. Some interesting stuff here for people that have played it.
"Your Party isn't on the Sand. It's on the ice". A line from the brilliant movie Sand Sharks.
I know nothing about this film but it's probably directed by a genetically engineered super director made from gene splices of James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and Jesus Christ.
I've already forgotten Jaws.
Want more. Here's 11 minutes of it. BE WARNED. It's so good you'll probably go blind.
In what is probably the greatest marketing stunt ever, Bioware are launching a few copies of Mass Effect 3 into space today, the game will be tracked on its flight, you can follow the tracker here. unfortunately it seems they are only launching copies in a few cities around the world in the next few days. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there will be a copy launched in Australia.
You should probably BUY AND LISTEN to these tracks. Side effects may be a tightening of the pants.
Handbraekes - The Qat
One of the silliest most absurdly funktastic tracks ever made by humans. There's no middle ground here, you will hate this track or absolutely love it. I'm obviously the later. Oizo sounds, Boys Noize arrangement, HANDBRAEKES
The best track this year (so far). Just listen. This is the first track by the now solo project 'Light Year' (just Jordan).
No idea where to buy or when this will come out (watch this space)
Nickel - ZYGZM
(Jensen Interceptor Remix)
So what happened to the other half of Light Year? This..... Well done Mikey! This remix is solid. I love how it builds up to the 3.50 mark and dabbles in oizo-esque horn.
No idea where to buy or when this will come out (watch this space)
Disclosure - Flow
I hate how these brothers (aged 17 and 20) are so ridiculously talented. They sound like they're been producing music for 20 years. What a sound! Just listen.
We have posted a few times before about this upcoming show. On the 1st of March, the premiere episode will air on NBC in the U.S. If you would like to see the first seven minutes, NBC has officially released a clip publicly. Don't worry, there aren't any spoilers, in fact, it pretty much is the original trailer, without music.
For one reason or another, old kids TV shows from the 90's are starting to rear their nostalgic heads from the past.
More specifically, a show calledPingu, which funnily enough featured in a Shit Post Sunday a few weeks ago in light of a fan made re-enactment of John CarpentersThe Thing.
On Triple J recently, Pingu came up as a topic for discussion once more, and a list of bad claymation shows were rattled off, one of which being a hilarious running series that has fallen into obscurity.
The Shaun Micallef Programme was an Australian sketch comedy TV show hosted by Shaun Micallef.
Amongst other skits, it featured a recurring short animation called Attentione! Il Est Myron! which poked fun at overly pretentious, rudimentary, art house animations.
The title, in French, because the French are the centre of art and culture and therefore better than everyone else. Also, the title, Hey! It's Myron! is far less attractive in English.
Here is a montage of the episodes that featured throughout the Micallef Programme.
A while ago TimmehB reported on this awesome enigma. The Heart Attack Grill.
An American fast food joint, founded and run by a former nutritionist,
and one that serves the most gluttonous of meals to the most gluttonous of people.
A place where the cheese and paddies are stacked high and if you're enough of a fattie - you eat for free.
Burgers are named and ranked accordingly.
The By-pass, the Double By-pass, Tripple By-Pass & the grandaddy of them all, the Quadruple By-Pass.
Well, a few days ago some fattie couldn't handle the fatness and went and had himself a heart attack whist trying to finish his fattie burger.
I really want to go to vegas and demolish one of these burgers - then go play roulette with dribbled mustard in my beard.
God, this brings back memories, trying to look up images of naked women, as the image slowly loads i would go away and make a sandwich, only to have my parents come home and ruin the whole thing just as the image finally loaded. what a waste of 3 hours.
George R.R. Martin, writer of A song of Fire and Ice, best known from the first book in the series, A Game of Thrones, shows off his reading skills in this short video. I think i prefer his version of these beloved children stories.
Just to prove that the hottest 100 countdown doesn't need to be a tedious 9 hour countdown,
A few days ago some hipsters with iMovie did a mash up of most of the hottest 100 tracks.
All in all, it's pretty awesome.
The River, your new favourite show. imagine LOST mashed in together with a dash of Paranormal Activity and little bit of any nature Doco you have ever watched. It's a little exposition filled during the first episode, but that is to be expected of a new show. Directed by Oren Peli, the guy who directed Paranormal Activity, it is best viewed in the dark on your own. There is a HD version of the trailer available here.
This is easily the casting choice of the hobbit that makes the most sense.
Billy Connolly as a Dwarf. Not a regular dwarf though, Connolly will portray Dain Ironfoot, a great dwarf warrior, and if you've ever seen him in Boondock Saints, you know just how baddass Connolly can be.
In a few other LOTR / The Hobbit news, here is a video of Brett McKenzie, one half of Flight of the Concords, talking about his Oscar nomination and his new part in the hobbit.
Also here is a german video..... It's got some weird stuff in it (Safe for work), but if you skip directly to 10:50, you'll see a big piece on Wellington, New Zealand, where the Hobbit is filmed.
Some noteworthy timecodes:
11:29 - My mother lives on that street
12:31 - A terrible person to interview
13:15 - I got freaky with a girl there when I was 15.
The now one person act (just Jordan) Light Year is about to release another analog driven EP entitled Moderation. All I can say is that it sounds very 'Light Year' (perhaps a bit darker).
Moderation is super killa. Watch the what looks to be youtube ripped and cut video below.
UPDATE - After listening to Moderation a few times...
"MODERATION is the best track this year (2012) so far that my human ears have heard during my time on Earth".
So prior to the Super Bowl we started seeing teasers for trailers popping up all over the place, and now the full length trailers are airing during Super Bowl. good. very good. The avengers has given me a raging erection.
so you don't want to watch an incredibly long boring football game? me either. but you do want to know what ads are airing during said game. well don't wait, just go here and watch them all now. I'd have to say my favourite is the chevrolet ad, but I'm also partial to the Camry and Audi ads as well.
Update - Just found this one, which was awesome till LMFAO starts playing.
Here at Castle Awesome, we love beards.
Add Mike Rosenberg's beard to the list.
Not only does he have the kind of beard you just want to run your fingers through,
he is also an immensely talented individual.
Never heard of him? You're not alone.
When I was just finishing up in film school in early 2008, a good friend of mine who was working in Edinbrough, Scotland sent me an email saying that some of her girlfriends had dragged her kicking and screaming to a pub the night before, just to hear some guy bash away on a guitar and stomp the ground with his little hobbit feet.
She said that the guy went by the name of Passenger, & he was incredible.
She attached this YouTube video, and when I watched it, I was hooked.
So many of his songs are on high rotation on my iPod, Wicked Man's Rest and Flight of The Crow are easily amongst my all time favourite albums.
His new album All The Little Lights is about to launch here in Australia, which I'm extremely excited about. This is one guy that I still struggle to understand why radio stations like TripleJ haven't jumped in the passenger's seat with him.
If you're into indie-acustic-pop this guy is worth checking out.
This is hilarious. Another awesome RPG from College Humour. If you haven't seen Breaking Bad and you plan on watching it, this has some huge spoilers in it, so be careful.
So it seems like volkswagen are just being dicks about the fact that they can use star wars in their ads. The vader kid was mildly cute but wasn't the best ad ever, this one isn't even clever. fuck you volkswagen.
So apparently it has been a point of some humour to people lately that Siri is unable to understand a lot of peoples accents, particularly in scotland. so obviously this happened.
This is brilliant, i always needed this, i never made it past level 4 but that could be due to getting extremely bored with the game around that point.
So last year we introduced you to Air Swimmers, the awesome remote controlled flying fish/shark. well this is better.
you can buy an RC Superhero for US$350 from here. (Slow dub step music is not included.)
And then you too can scare your christian neighbours that the rapture is upon us.
So this is pretty sweet, i love the way it is presented in a CD case. The music would probably get annoying after a little while, but i'd still buy it.
