Drew Struzan has retired. (via)
Drew has provided artwork for over 150 film posters as well as many classic album covers, advertising, and book covers. He is best knows by his poster illustrations for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and can count film makers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg among his biggest fans.
It’s inevitable given the reduction in cost and production time, that the Photoshop hack-jobs will usurp the old illustrated posters. It’d be nice though to see the style return to use, outside of deliberate attempts to invoke nostalgia.
Hey everybody, laugh at the wanker
Every day my bus trip to university takes me past an Edge church. The location of this particular Edge church is both painful and hilarious. Prior to the arrival of this not-at-all-creepy franchise church, this building was the Investigator Science & Technology Center, a pretty cool place for school kids to learn and get excited about science. Now it’s a church. Hilarious.
Edge Church International (can’t you just feeeel God’s love in the name?) was founded by Danny Guglielmucci. It’s a member of Australian Christian Churches, like Hillsong and The Compound. Turns out Mr. Guglielmucci’s son Michael has been getting into a little trouble. He told people he had a terminal illness. On the back of this claim he released a single. Turns out he was full of shit.
It’s okay though, the explanation actually makes a lot of sense. Michael Guglielmucci doesn’t have cancer, he’s just addicted to porn. That’s why he said he had cancer. Porn addiction. That’s why he went around with oxygen tubes in his nose. Porn addiction. That’s why he led his family to believe that he was dying. Porn addiction.
I’m pretty sure the porn industry would like to tell Guglielmucci - both the lying dipshit of a son and the father who tosses off this explanation as if it makes a lick of sense - to go fuck himself. Maybe he can watch some more porn to get some ideas.
Apple has announced a media event for next Tuesday, September 9th. They don’t say it explicitly, but it’s new iPods. It’s always new iPods this time of year. More amusingly, the theme for the event is “Let’s Rock!”.
Presumably this will lead to a dramatically different stage presentation by Mr. Jobs.
The porn industry continues to churn out material funnier and more entertaining than 95% of Australian films:
But here’s something I hadn’t actually seen before: Kubrick porn. In The Sexxxing, a 2005 quickie from Danni.com, a young woman named Miss Torrent applies to be the winter manager of a porn company’s offices—and the place turns out to be haunted by horny, fake-breasted lesbians. Orgasms ensue.
I have a hard time with telemarketers. I hate the practice, but it’s unfair to direct that hate upon the person calling. They’re doing a job. It’s the jerks hiring these companies who deserve the vitriol. Oh, and my sympathies don’t extend to the callers based overseas who insist that they’re “John from Perth”. Once you start lying to me … well you can guess the rest.
2000 Olympics taekwondo gold-medallist Angel Matos of Cuba is probably going to receive a life-time ban from the sport after kicking a referee in the face following his disqualification from the bronze-medal bout. On the one hand I would agree entirely with a ban. Assaulting a referee in any sport is not on (and I say this as someone who has assaulted a referee: in my defense he was a cunt). On the other hand, this is hilarious. I want to see video. (via).
Thanks Youtube. Thoutube.
Behold Steve Coogan’s latest attempt at finding an American audience. Hamlet 2. With Jesus. Ebert thinks its alright though.
Roger Ebert tears into the 3D movies. Actual 3D movies that is, like the recent Journey to the Center of the Earth, and not “3D animated” movies like Wall*E. Which is good, because if he disliked Wall*E I’d question the existence of his soul.
There seems to be a belief that 3-D films are not getting their money’s worth unless they hurtle objects or body parts at the audience. Every time that happens, it creates a fatal break in the illusion of the film.
Following from its premiere at Leipzig, Blizzard have uploaded the new Wrath of the Lich King cinematic. I still haven’t watched it, because Blizzard are cheap bastards, and make everyone else transfer their files for them.
In somewhat related news, Mythic recently put up a new cinematic for Warhammer Online. Blah-ish female content aside, the video is definitely well put together and reflects at the very least a somewhat chaotic sense of humour which will work in the game’s favour if they manage to include it beyond pre-rendered animations.
Yahtzee reviews Soul Calibur IV. Watch it.