Where the hell have I been some of you have asked. Well, nowhere really. I’ve been incognito due in most part to work, of which I kind of have to devote my attention to. But all in all things here will be just fine. I’ll be tweaking out the format a little here by making ZoMoPro a little more personal. So not only will there be the typical freaky-deaky posts you’ve come to love but there will be more journal-like posts of my doings and going-ons. It will be a kind of melding of all my online musings as it were. For my Twitter followers though there will be something of a change – I’ll be Tweeting these posts to my personal account soon, which I know almost all of you follow anyway. So it shouldn’t be any big deal.
In any case I’ll be making some slight changes to ZoMoPro, some of which are already done (like the new look, some new links and the addition of my Last.fm feed).
In the meantime enjoy a random image search of “zombie monkey” via deviantART…
Witness as a crack team of paratroopers investigate an icy base camp with a diabolical secret hidden deep within a sinister laboratory. There lying in wait are the most insidious and evil creations mankind has ever seen! Evil in the form of Nazi Dinosaurs! God save us all.
This snazzy little film was created by artist Alex Poutianinen in just five days and for just 20 bucks. Yeah, it shows but non the less it’s clever and funny.
The folks over at Haunted Dimensions have a free paper model kit of the Bates House from the classic Psycho. Created by the site’s owner Ray Keim, the Bates House is a 1/66 scale papercraft replica that would make Mother proud.
Some of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was filmed here in Philly, so I’m kind of interested in this sequel for that reason more so than the fact that it’ll probably have the highest Michael Bay Blowing Shit Up (TM) ratio than any other movie to date. And as many of you know I just love fiery explosions. The trailer definitely gives you a glimpse into what you can expect from this film – lots of things blowing up, being demolished and us puny humans cowering before our intergalactic robot interlopers.
The film is due to crush your theaters on June 29th.
Here’s something for all you hardcore Watchman fans – Nite Owl Dark Roast Coffee. Yes, you read that right and it’s an actual product tied into the movie, apparently a world’s first for coffee. It’s the brainchild of the film’s on-set photographer Clay Enos, and is produced by Organic Coffee Cartel.
For about $20.00 you can buy 10 ounce of this fanboy fuel. But you better hurry ’cause only (?) 10,000 cans will be produced as a one-time limited-edition run, with a portion of the proceeds being donated to charity.
The one part omitted from the film adaptation of The Watchmen is the subplot about the fictional comic book called Tales of the Black Freighter, which scenes appear throughout the Watchman issues. The story in the story is an allegory for the overall theme of the plot, but is more than able to stand on its own. So it’s no surprise that Warner Bros. is going to offer it as a stand-alone animated film to be released on DVD on March 24th. And from the looks of this trailer that premiered at MTV.com they are not changing much of the story, which is very good.
My fellow Half-Life fans, I present to you something awesome – Escape From City 17, a Half-Life 2 fan film. Directed by the Purchase Brothers, this is just part one of what will hopefully be a long series of shorts based on the hit video game from Valve.
From their YouTube profile:
The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.
I really hope they continue with this project since it’s far better than anything Hollywood could produce I’m sure.
This is indeed a working Nintendo GameBoy costume that an ingenious lad made for Ohayocon 2009. Puts a whole new spin to the phrase “Push my buttons.” Makes one hell of a pickup line at a convention though.
