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Zombie Skateboarders: They’re Undead AND Rad!
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 9, 2009 in Hobbies and Collections
This weekend at New York Comic Con I heard the line “if you add a zombie to anything it will get better!”; And these skateboarding zombies by Tsuchiya Shobu are proof of that concept. These beautiful (but undead) vinyl figures are 8″ to 10″ tall and have a wonderful amount of detail in them: Read more… New York Comic Con 2009: Toys and Collectables Gallery
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 8, 2009 in Hobbies and Collections
The ATMs at the Javits Center charge a whopping $3 fee — however this may not be a bad thing as the New York Comic Con could empty your wallet rather quickly. The showroom floor is so packed with goodies it’s as if the Mall of America were run by fanboys — every inch is crammed with everything from arty urban toys to rare collectables. I’m also always blown away with the wide variety of trinkets, there’s something for everyone from anime hats to punk rock stickers.
Chocolate Milk and Atari: What More Could You Ask for in 1983?
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 8, 2009 in Videogames
That old Jesuit quote of “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man” always comes back to haunt me when I see old commercials like this for Nestle Quick from 1983. Years later as a elder fanboy I find myself addicted to mocha flavored coffee drinks and still playing with computers day and night. By the way the bunny is playing with an Atari 2600 VCS: Read more… New York Comic Con 2009: Cosplay Photo Gallery
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 7, 2009 in Fandom
The Ghetto of Geeks vs. the Geriatric Wards of Success
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 7, 2009 in Comic Books, Fandom
Editor’s Note: This essay is the result of my walking about the New York Comic Book Convention this year and asking myself the question “What brings you here?” While escaping the New York Comic Book Convention I came across a series of Watchmen posters in the street, saturated by the orgy of the show I naturally assumed that the posters were aimed at folks entering and exiting the mega gathering of geekdom. However several blocks I realized that I was only kidding myself as I came across the same set of posters again — what was once the realm of fanboys twenty years ago was the mainstream of Hollywood today. In this way Watchmen is no different than Oprah or any frat boy focused reality TV show on MTV that’s a hit. Read more… Latest Land of the Lost Trailer
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 6, 2009 in Cinema, Television
This latest Land of the Lost trailer goes into a bit more detail than the Superbowl spot — I have to say that I love the idea that the producers have decided to make this a comedy instead of trying and botching up a more serious film. While I loved the fact that the original series had some A+ science fiction writers on board Hollywood just doesn’t have what it takes to pull that off, so it was smart move to do what they do best. Our Galaxy: 37,964 Habitable Planets and 361 Advanced Civilizations
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 6, 2009 in Science
Our galaxy is big, really big — so the odds are in our favor that Earth is not a fluke. Of course this thinking is old news at this point, however what’s new is that astrophysicists are starting to crunch numbers on the subject based upon what we currently know from the field of astronomy. Once such fellow is Astrophysicist Duncan Forgan who has been crunching the numbers based on what we know about the currently discovered 330 known exoplanets. His estimate took into account factors like temperature, availability of water (so yes it’s “life as we know it”) and the size of the Milky Way. Read more… Star Trek Meets Monty Python
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 5, 2009 in Star Trek
I forgot just how much dancing was in the original Star Trek series — it’s rather amazing that thee was so much there that you could edit an entire music video out of it and hardly repeat a scene! Here’s another fan made video which isn’t as well choreographed but still entertaining: Read more… Robin as Batman: Travale Turns the Tables on the Dark Knight
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 5, 2009 in Comic Books
In this illustration Ontario based artist Rosemary Travale depicts Nightwing (i.e. Dick Grayson who’s best known as Robin) taking up the role of the Dark Knight. Travale did this illustration for a competition, but in our book she’s already fanboy approved: The two things that I love about what she’s done here is how she brings the spirit of youth into Batman (that special unsure quality about yourself) without being too cute about it — and her gouache technique really allows the texture of the paper to come through which is something that you would just never get in a Photoshop coloring job. Nintendo Training Video from 1991: The Pesky Problem of Returns!
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 4, 2009 in Videogames
When was the last time that retail employees wore a tie? The year is 1991 and this training video show retail employees how to dodge problem customers who want to return their Gameboy and NES Sports Sets. My favorite example in the video is the “nice customer” who is using the wrong port and is so grateful for the help that she offers to bring the store employee a pie. By the way notice how the customer is always at fault in this video as if Nintendo would never ship a defective product. |
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