Cthulhu Garden Statue ; Apparat; Green Arrow's Blog; Team America Puppet Porn; Milla's Flat ; Hellboy; HDTV Screen Capture Archive; Got wOOt? 8/25/04

8/25/2004

It's The Beat day at Monkey + Robot, because virtually everything she wrote about in the last 24 hours was interesting:


Full Size Cthulhu Garden Sculpture:



"Admit it. You've always wanted a giant Cthulhu statue. Now you can have it. Nethercraft's interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft's Great Old One is perfect for home or office, and makes a thoughtful gift... just imagine their faces! When placed in the front yard of your home, it also does a great job of deterring door-to-door solicitors, and, well, almost everyone else too."

Nethercraft Cthulu Sculpture

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Warren Ellis' Apparat Comic Line revealed: Artbomb.net has released the cover art and teaser blurbs for the initial launch of four books written by Ellis and drawn by a host of talented indy creators. Most interesting to me is Frank Ironwine, both in subject matter (seemingly a cross between Authority's Hawksmoore, Planetary's Drummer and the better Constantine stuff) and artist: Carla Speed McNeil, my favorite of the Queen and Country artists, who's own book, Finder, is a consistently critically acclaimed read (and her original panels are beautiful in simplicity and grace, and are on permanent display at this robot's home.)



"Ellis on FRANK IRONWINE, featuring art by Carla Speed McNeil:

"The crime pulps were possibly the most influential of that whole publishing movement. Raymond Chandler. Dashiel Hammett. People who changed the face of literature published in the crime pulps. As pulps faded away, the crime writers moved to books rather than comics, and on from there to Hollywood. Crime is the map we build our houses around. Everything's based on crime. This is how Frank Ironwine sees the world. New York's built on the bones of the people who were murdered to make it happen. There are no new crimes in New York City, not really. They've all happened before, and understanding their patterns is a step towards understanding the city. But no crime is ordinary."

Apparat at Artbomb.net

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Green Arrow's journal of crime fighting and goatee maintenance:

"1. the history of j'onn's oreo obsession started when he watched the movie Rounders, where matt damon is a semi-pro poker whiz and john malkovich plays a russian mafioso-cum-poker hustler who eats oreos compulsively at the poker table. j'onn thought this was, as he said, "wicked badass." i must also note that j'onn has a history of imitating malkovich behaviours, such as drilling a hole into his own head after seeing 'Being John Malkovich.' lantern and i agreed that he missed the movie's point completely.

2. if you want to know how i feel about hawkman, here goes. he's been pretty pissy with me since he found out about the whole www.hawkgirlsshowerwebcam.com debacle, which was in no way my fault. i just showed captain atom how to set up a domain name. then, he accused me of being a lush and foppish dandy besides, just because i use product in my hair (both facial and otherwise.) the coup d'gras came when he told bullseye that i use a bronzer lotion, which i use to help give my muscles definition. so, in return for that, hawkman, here you go."

Green Arrow's Blog

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Team America to Feature Graphic Puppet Sex:

"The buzz for TEAM AMERICA, the Thunderbirds take-off by South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone is just getting louder and louder. The increasingly nerd-friendly New York Times ran a lengthy "making of" piece this weekend that featured many salacious tidbits, even if the writer was a bit surprised to find that Parker and Stone use four-letter words (Apparently having done no research for the piece). The big shocker -- puppet sex.

The current version of the film is a guaranteed NC-17, with surprisingly graphic scenes of puppet sex. The filmmakers will have to cut it to an R rating, but not before they have their fun torturing the ratings board.
But never fear, puppet violence will not be stinted on either.

As for the big disaster scenes, the special effects team that worked on "Independence Day" was brought in to create the flooding of the Panama Canal (in a 1,000-gallon tank) and the toppling of the Eiffel Tower, with almost no digital effects. After all this effort, the filmmakers decided to leave the puppet strings in the frame. "We don't want anyone to think we did it C.G.I.," said Anne Garefino, an executive producer, referring to computer generated imagery. "It was too hard to do it this way."

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Milla Jovovich and her F/X Enhancements:

"Sultry Milla Jovovich would love to star in a comic book movie but worries her tatas are too small. "I saw a cover of a Heavy Metal comic book, and it had this woman with fairy wings and big oiled muscles and no shirt on. Her breasts were huge," Jovovich said recently. "In my films my breasts are definitely computer-animated, because I don't have any. They spend most of the money in the film's budget just making my breasts. That's why producers never like me."

Mila Worries About Her Cyber-Breatage Requirements

That wraps up our wholesale swiping of Heidi McDonald's brilliant blog, The Beat, which was too cool for school today.

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Hellboy: Guillermo, Ron and Selmaaaahhhh were at a local film festival to do a Q&A about Hellboy, and discussed the prep for the sequel. The good part:

"Guillermo del Toro, Selma Blair and Ron Perlman presented Hellboy here in Berlin last night and were available for Q & A. Guillermo was very nice, funny and outspoken, but Ron and Selma (such a beautiful woman!) seemed tired (maybe after having given thousands of interviews before). They all confirmed that Hellboy 2 is signed and on the way, but Guillermo is at least making one other, smaller movie before that in spain. He told us, that The Devils Backbone is his personal favourite movie (mine too) and he was especially unhappy with Mimic and somewhat dissatisfied with Blade 2.

Abe Sapien was shortened for Hellboy regarding screen time for budget reasons (that's why he gets slashed by the demons underwater and cannot travel to Russia), and Hellboy himself was shortened for real for the same reasons, as initally he should have been much larger, which would have called for digitally enlarging Ron, who is in reality not as big as he looks on screen. So they just used the usual tricks (Camera angle, boxes, lower settings and smaller actors around him).

As for the story of Hellboy 2 Guillermo did not seem to have already made up his mind, but Abe and Selma's characters will get much more room and Kroenen seems not to come back in the first sequel (damn!). As they were not sure if there would be a sequel when making Hellboy, they tried to get as much good stuff from the comics into it as possible to have it on screen at least once. So many ideas were used up for Hellboy 1 and they seemingly have to search first for new ones to fill Hellboy 2."

Read the entire post at AICN which includes a lengthly slamma bamma of Franka Potente's latest film, the apparently unpleasant Resident Evil-retread, The Creep. I don't care how bad it is... Franka I say!

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HDTV Kicks Ass: While searching for a new Selma Blair pic to use in the above blip, I came across this archive of screen captures from HDTV. This particular page is of Alias starts Jennifer Garner and Michael Vaughn, but there are several other shows available on the site. That's the best marketing for HDTV to date. Note I used a tasteful image here (actually one of the cooler scenes from Alias) rather than simultaneously whoring and pimping my robotic self with images of Sydney in her lingerie/saddle crop/russian mobster killing type getup. You know what I'm talking about. Don't say you don't.

You do.

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wOOt: finally, I got tired of the guessing game. Is it a reference to root, or is it an amalgam of party anthem dance track rap catchphrases? I looked it up on the WikiPedia... and they dodged the question. Dodgy!

So says...Wrongrobot!

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