In the same wonderful spirit as Wes Anderson’s Spider-Man, here’s a taste of what Tim “Frankenweenie” Burton might do with the noir classic Weekend At Bernie’s.
Johnny Depp features. But then, it’s a Burton piece.
It’s here. I’d have embedded it, but it won’t. So.
I wish I’d come up with this. Kudos.
As a Chan fan from years before most people in this country ever heard of him, I agree 100%.
Jackie with Michelle Yeoh, who still retains full mega awesome to this day.
Great cartoon from Matt Bors:
Sounds about right…
“President Obama says that Congress is very close to getting a new healthcare plan, but due to compromises it ‘won’t include everything that everybody wants.’ For instance, it covers everything except trips to the doctor or the hospital.”
—Conan O’Brien
This is an incredibly entertaining CGI short film from animator Lucas Martell.
Tom Tomorrow is by far one of the funniest and wisest editorialists drawing funny pictures…
A hilarious cartoon by Carolita Johnson at Huffington Post:
Now here’s something you really need to see.
A blog by Robin Burkinshaw relates the poignant ongoing tale of a homeless father and daughter trying to survive in a harsh world. But the harsh world in which they live is inside a computer, and the pair exist only in that virtual realm:
This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes…
I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over.
Apparently The Sims has evolved to a point in which the artificial intelligence and social dynamics systems are damned near organic. The Sims have dreams, goals, and emotions and their behavior is driven by those qualities, resulting in complex relationships and interpersonal drama.
This is Kev and his daughter Alice. They’re living on a couple of park benches, surviving on free meals from work and school, and the occasional bucket of ice cream from a neighbour’s fridge.
When you create a person in The Sims 3, you can give them personality traits that determine their behaviour. Kev is mean-spirited, quick to anger, and inappropriate. He also dislikes children, and he’s insane. He’s basically the worst Dad in the world…
His daughter Alice has a kind heart, but suffers from clumsiness and low self-esteem. With those traits, that Dad, and no money, she’s going to have a hard life.
I’m enjoying the latest meme-thingy on Facebook, which allows you to choose a list of 5 things (“5 Favorite Foods,” “5 Jobs You’ve Had,” “5 Best Comic Book Characters,” that sort of thing), and allows you to pick pictures to show those things. The results look something like this:
| Tim Byrd – Who would you want to play you in a movie? | |||||
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| Tim Byrd chose Viggo Mortensen, Aidan Quinn, Mel Gibson, george clooney, Tim Byrd. | |||||
| Tim Byrd – People you would like to Punch In The Face! | |||||
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| Tim Byrd chose George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, George W. Bush. | |||||
| Tim Byrd – biggest celebrity crushes | |||||
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| Tim Byrd chose Shania Twain, Salma Hayek, Kate Beckinsale, Shakira, Veronica Lake. | |||||
| Tim Byrd – books you love | |||||
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| Tim Byrd chose Winter’s Tale, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Lonesome Dove, The Stand. | |||||
| Tim Byrd – Where you have lived | |||||
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| Tim Byrd chose Jonesboro, GA, Chattanooga, TN, Treysa, Germany, Kassel, Germany, Decatur, GA. | |||||
(I searched for images that truly captured the heart and soul of each of these places).
I’ve been having a bit of fun coming up with my own versions. Here are two I liked doing:
| Tim Byrd – Ingredients You’d Mix To Make Me | |||||
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| Tim Byrd chose Indiana Jones, Groucho Marx, A Werewolf, Wyatt Earp, Joss Whedon. | |||||
| Tim Byrd – People I Should Have Married Instead. | |||||
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| Tim Byrd chose Felicia Day, Shania Twain, JK Rowling, Caroline Dhavernas, Mary Louise Parker. | |||||
