I've been kinda slow, but I'll be catching up with the review posts on the over 10 shows I went to during the Festival(!). My hope is that it may help somebody find more information about a film they're ...Read More
Not in Taipei? Sucks to be you, but here is the chef lowdown on what was up on the screen. Chances are you may be able to find the stuff on YouTube or elsewhere depending on how the ...Read More
The Taipei International Animation Festival is in full swing, and right after work I zoomed down to the Shin Kong Cineplex (the map is a lie - it's on the south side of that road) to catch 2 shows: Taiwan ...Read More
This past weekend, I got to see King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary focused on two men, Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, and their efforts to get the world record high score for the classic arcade game, ...Read More
With a runtime of over 23 minutes, this is one of the more painful video captures I've ever seen, a Super Mario Brothers mod, apparently created by some masochistic Taiwanese. Hardest. SMB. Mod. Ever. One can just watch the first couple ...Read More
So I finally got my super8mm, black and white rolls developed and transferred to video. Yes, super 8mm film is alive and (for now) kicking, thanks to music video, skateboard films like Charnoski and Nichols' Fruit of the Vine or ...Read More
When not fixing other people's problems, MB creates earrings out of Apple logo medallions extracted from old Macintosh cases. MB sold a bunch of these at one of the MIT Electronic Swapfests we visited this past summer and is now ...Read More
Two weekends ago I went to the CCS Holiday Sale, a fundraising event for The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Tons of stuff to be had: original artwork for sale from such lumanaries as R. Crumb, ...Read More
Comics with Problems is an online collection of public service announcement-type cartoons focused on health-related issues. Compiled and edited by Ethan Persoff, the comics vary widely in topic and aesthetics, from Rex Morgan M.D. talking about abortion, to Dennis the ...Read More
Duck Fadar is what you get if George Lucas made out with a wildlife preserve during a 4th of July fireworks celebration, except this has a much lower chance of traumatizing your kids. A floating rubber ducky with beak-fitted ...Read More
