Disney's Fantasia 2000 - Firebird Suite

I always said that animation was an artform, and here is an example of that being true. From Fantasia 2000, Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, the 1919 version.

Movies and TV Shows I Saw Over the X-Mas Break

Over the Christmas Break, when I was travelling to and from my OS' family in Cincinnati, I ended up catching up on a lot of movies that otherwise I probably wouldn't have seen for one reason or another. And for the most part... I was actually pretty suprised. Even the ones that weren't great were actually still in the least fairly good.

Saw a good mix, and here are some brief reviews of what I ended up seeing.

Spoilers

Pingu's THE THING

EspanolBot's Opinionated Bests and Worst in Comics of 2011

Due to moving house, I unfortunately have been unable to make any Casstoons to cover this, so here is a prose semi-list of things I thought were good and bad about comics (mainly DC) that happened in the year 2011.

EspanolBot's New Year Message

Well, I'm back from America, and what are my hopes for the new year?

Well I hope that this is a year with less earthquakes, tidalwaves and meltdowns. And hope that any revolutions to replace dictatorial regimes are actually successful, rather than installing someone worse.

I hope that there slightly less terrible people being around, following the deaths of Bin Laden, Ghaddafi and Kim Jong-Il, and again the hope that no one rises to fill their places.

Here's to a sane American general election, and the hope that Obama remains in the job and isn't replaced by a crazy person who doesn't know that Europe isn't a country or something.

Here's to people realising that humans are actually kind of awesome, to good entertainment being released, and the hope that people can make the world a little bit better in their own small ways, by not being dicks for no reason.

Here's to a happy new year, I hope you all have a good one.

NGE One-Shot - Card Games For Charity

Channel Awesome and SOPA

The people behind Channel Awesome go to Washington to appeal the upcoming SOPA legislation, which not only will kerb free speech around the world but also put potentially hundreds of people who earn their income by producing online content out of work.

Being in and from the UK I'm not really sure what I can do to help out my TransAtlantic compatriots, but please give the video a watch and try to help stop SOPA if you happen to live Stateside.

Peace out.

Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed -- [original version]

If I Wrote Actual Comics: the Bad Samaritan Comes to Gotham

One of the things that I've always liked about superhero comics is the wide range of characters that, though obscure, could change the playing field if used in the correct manner. An example of this in recent comics could be the current Madame Xanadu binge that DC is currently undergoing at the moment, what with her appearing in two main books at the moment, Demon Knights and Justice League Dark, as well as numerous appearances in things like the Batman: the Brave and the Bold tie-in comic.

So I as I was musing about storylines for Casstoons, I wondered if there was a way to incorperate the character of the Bad Samaritan, a character from the first series of the Outsiders way back in 1986 who later made another appearance in Checkmate a lot more recently, into the current continuity?

Well, I thought of a story concept that I thought might be interesting to explore or possibly write out in full later on if I have the time which involves the Samaritan, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain and other members of their respective casts.

It's still kind of vague, but the basic idea is behind the cut.

Keloid Trailer

A short trailer featuring some of the more rad robots I've seen in a movie in recent years,

Keloid Trailer - A Short Film by BLR from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.