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deantrippe:

comicsalliance:

Dana Delany & Tim Daly Reprise ‘Superman’ Roles For Animated ‘Man Of Steel’ Trailer

By Andy Khouri

Repeating the formula from its highly bloggable Batman: The Animated Series Rises video, The Hub has enlisted the original voice cast of Superman: The Animated Series to help recreate the Man of Steel theatrical trailer almost shot for shot using clips from the classic cartoon. In the video below, Tim Daly and Dana Delany return to their fan favorite roles as Superman and Lois Lane, respectively, to perform in their own styles such lines as “How do you find someone who has spent a lifetime covering his tracks?” and “It’s not an ‘S.’ On my world, it means ‘hope.’”

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my heart is leaking out of my eyes.

thedissolve:

Behold the photo above. It is from Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, my favorite movie of the year so far, which debuts today on Netflix Instant. (Advice to first-time viewers: Don’t get hung up on trying to figure out everything that happens in it. The film is best navigated intuitively, like a poem, and Carruth places enormous faith in viewers to find their own way through it.) That image—a pitcher of ice water, an empty glass, a dog-eared paperback copy of Walden, a notebook, a pen, and someone seated almost entirely offscreen—is not some random screengrab from Upstream Color. It’s an official publicity photo. 

Now, there’s some degree of marketing strategy at play with that photo. The fact that other press kits don’t feature images of inanimate objects gives it novelty, and the film actively encourages a “What the heck was that all about?” reaction from audiences. And one of the reasons that Carruth opted to distribute the film himself was the opportunity to set expectations for something offbeat and enigmatic, rather than have a distributor pull a bait-and-switch by making the film seem more conventional and accessible than it actually is. But to me, the photo has taken on an almost totemic significance. The pitcher means something in the movie, but outside the movie, it symbolizes independent filmmaking at its essence. In addition to serving as writer, director, producer, co-editor, composer, cinematographer, and star, Carruth, the ultimate auto-didact, handled the distribution himself, premiering the film at Sundance without a For Sale sign on it and keeping his base on operations at home in Dallas. 

“There isn’t a molecule of Hollywood that touched this,” Carruth said in a great profile for Wired magazine. If the dream of digital filmmaking was to democratize the medium—to have “some little fat girl in Ohio [become] the next Mozart,” as Francis Ford Coppola indelicately phrased it in Hearts Of Darkness—then Upstream Color is its best realization. —Scott Tobias

talk about burying the lede!

Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color…debuts today on Netflix Instant.

Is this real life?

destroycomics:

The Summer of Battling Boy Give-Away

BATTLING BOY PRINTS!

For June, First Second is giving away three Battling Boy prints, assumedly signed, through Destroy Comics as the second installment in a series of give-aways (posters, prints, shirts, COMIX) we’re running up until Battling Boy’s October release.

Lifted from a panel in the book, the print is sized overall at 9.75” x 12”.

If you’re an artist, prepare yourself for an announcement next month.

Pre-order the book here.

Rules and Guidelines:

1.Like and/or reblog this post and encourage your followers to do the same. The more your name is in the notes to this post  or associated to the winners who didn’t follow the rules, the higher your chances of winning.

2. Follow Destroy Comics. I check to see if the winners are following this blog.

3. Make sure your ask is enabled!

4. If you have multiple blogs, make sure I can reach your primary blog. This makes the verification process easier.

5. You have two weeks. 

Three winners will be selected randomly on June 20th.

Good luck!

anotherallnighter:

thecoolsumist:

Anti-Designer Posters Poke Fun At Design Trends 

by Camila Carmody

“It is currently a trend to produce and sell typographic posters illustrating witty or inspiring quotes.  As a designer, I am tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. These posters are a lighthearted way for me to poke fun at this particular trend.”

YES

(via oxboxer)

melodicexpectation:

∜♡MDISCS 2K13 & ∜♡MDISCS 2K13 X (stream 2K13 & 2K13 X Part)

VHS Wave Vol. 1, 2, 3

Chillwave has mutated. It’s grown quite a bit since warpy synthpop emerged from the Postal Service and relative death of the lap-pop burst that started out this century of Internet music. Elements of bass and hip hop have crept in, with relative stars like Clams Casino and Friendzone emerging. Noise and glitch have reigned in some, dubstep in others, and spaced-out ambience in still more. Time-damaged electronic music, born of Boards of Canada, has finally emerged as its own thing. Genre names are not 100% solidified yet, but I think there is a strong case for “VHS Wave” as the name of this alternately glitchy/poppy/bassy multi-genre morass. Since it’s multiheaded and difficult to quantify, what better than 8+ hours of music spanning 5 compilations to encompass it? Inscrutable netlabel AMDISCS turns in their 2K13 and 2K13 X compilations comprised of their own artists as well as pals while rad blog TSQ Dance turn in 3 escalating compilations of the best of the best. 

Direct download links and streams after the break:

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What’s that? 8+ hours of weirdo Internet music?

tmntpartyvan:

[BREAKING] Whoopi Goldberg’s Role Confirmed by ComicBookMovie.com

“I was contacted by a source, KrispinWah, who informed me that Whoopi Goldberg (“Ghost”) will be playing Bernadette Thompson, an editor at Channel 6 News and more importantly, April O’Neil (Megan Fox) and Vernon Fenwick’s (Will Arnett) boss. 

Right away, fans of the the popular 1987 animated series should be able to recognize that name… sort of. See, in that series, April O’Neil’s boss was Burne Thompson (voiced by Pat Fraley & Townsend Coleman). So, for Michael Bay’s TMNT the character will be switching genders, and I’m sure she’ll be referred to as Burne/Bern, short for Bernadette.” - ComicBookMovie.com

It’s pleasing to see big names attached to this film. The more TMNT hype, the better for the franchise!

What are your thoughts on this casting decision?

I’m certainly not at all stoked on Michael Bay’s destruction of another beloved childhood franchise, but I’ve been watching Star Trek: The Next Generation a lot lately and my respect for Whoopi has grown significantly.

Gorgeous twinkling magic from Candy Claws/ new album “Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time”, out 6/25 on twosyllable records

LP pre-order available here, Digital Preorder Here.

mattsbrickgallery:

Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana (by spablab)

Arrested Development Day.-MBG

“There’s always bricks in the banana stand.”

merlin:

Hawkeye (2012) #6

Why we love Hawk Guy.

mrhipp:

I’m bad and that’s good, I’ll never be good and that’s not bad…

tears

This is what it’s like to chat with me on the internet.

brotherbrain:

Super Castlevania IV (SNES) Konami 1991.

Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve never played a Castlevania game.

Phonetic description of annoying sounds teenagers make (by James Harbeck)