Satoshi Kon is the man. If you’re not into Anime, and you may have very good reason not to be, I can tell you now that if you watched just one of Satoshi Kon’s films your mind will change from this to this His surreal works are the best and are always a saving grace for the  (sometimes cliché) anime genre.

Director Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Paprika, Paranoia Agent) is taking a crack at child-friendly fare with his all-robot road movie The Dream Machine. The film’s first images highlight Kon’s strange and lovely robotic creations:

The plot of The Dream Machine has yet to be revealed (at least in English), but Kon gave his overview on the film last year in an interview with Anime News Network:

“The title will be Yume Miru Kikai. In English, it will be The Dream Machine. On the surface, it’s going to be a fantasy-adventure targeted at younger audiences. However, it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy. So it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate. There will be no human characters in the film; only robots. It’ll be like a “road movie” for robots.”

The official site for the movie has launched, bringing with it the first images of Kon’s enigmatic robots, Robin and Rurico.

HAHAHaha…ah…huh… I’ve played most of these games…

Equal parts hilarious and cringe-inducing, the 50 Worst Videogame Voice Acting Lines is so packed with over- and under-acting it makes a preschool play look like Oscar material.

WARNING: This 5:54 minute video is mostly embarrassing and terrible as opposed to funny.

Totally makes me want to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 RIGHT NOW. That game is BADASS!!!!! Dystopian, post-apocalyptic future war campaign and don’t get me started about multiplayer…

…RIGHT I’M OFF

I love these images from around the world of people paying homage to the netherworld. Some really extraordinary pictures here that are sure to make you feel something.

From October 31st through November 2nd, a number of festivals, holidays and solemnities take place, all loosely related and revolving around remembrance of the dead.

Halloween, Samhain, All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, the Day of the Dead and other festivals trace their origins back to Celtic, Aztec, Roman and Christian traditions. Halloween is largely a secular observation these days, All Souls and All Saints remain mainly Catholic observations, and the Day of the Dead is still largely a Latin American tradition, its roots in Mexico’s Aztec heritage. Collected here are photographs over the past week from the varied observations of the Days of the Dead around the world.

A skull covered in marigolds rests in front of a wall of graves during preparations for a massive altar in the San Fernando Cemetery in Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Workers added thousands of marigolds, known in Mexico as “cempasuchil,” to giant skull images Tuesday as they prepare to observe the of Day of the Dead.

Women in fancy dress attend a charity Halloween parade in Hong Kong on October 31, 2009.

Four-year-old Dakota Magnuson, of Boise, Idaho, clutches her pumpkin while walking around the Wissel family pumpkin patch, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, outside Nampa, Idaho.

Performers greet local school children as they arrive for a Halloween reception by U.S. President Barack Obama and his family at the White House in Washington, October 31, 2009.

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet trick or treaters at the North Portico of the White House as they celebrate Halloween in Washington, DC, on October 31, 2009.

The First couple welcomed more than 2,000 children from Washington, Maryland and Virginia schools and their families to celebrate Halloween. (Awesome!)

Queens Ana Maria Sosof Pacach, 19, right, and Glenda Araceli Kua Ajsac, 15, pose for a picture prior to the ceremony in which the new Todos Santos’ Queen will be elected in Todos Santos, northwestern Guatemala, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, part of the local observation of the feast of All Saints, for which the town is named.

Giant kites made by residents of Sumpango, in the municipality of Sacatepequez, some 48 km west of Guatemala City, Guatemala, for celebrating All Saints day on November 1, 2009.

A woman visits the grave of her son in Mazatlan Villa de Flores cemetery, during the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico on November 1, 2009.

A Filipino family uses a makeshift raft to paddle their way through a flooded cemetery in suburban Angono district east of Manila on November 1, 2009. Millions of Filipinos across the country trooped to cemeteries to honour their dead on All Saint’s Day, a day after typhoon Mirinae slammed into the country and killing at least 14.

Mirinae’s rains and strong winds also compounded the emergency situation for tens of thousands already left homeless by two previous storms that had killed over 1,100 the past five weeks.

A view of Nueva Esperanza cemetery during “Day of the Dead” celebrations on the outskirts of Lima, Peru on November 1, 2009. Every year thousands of people visit cemeteries in Peru to honour their dead.

Carlos Estrada of Santa Rosa, entertains motorists under the Highway 12 overcrossing at Olive Street as he brings up the rear of an immigrant march that started on Sebastopol Road and ended at Santa Rosa’s city hall, Saturday Oct. 31, 2009 in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Candles light up graves in the San Gregorio cemetery during Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, Mexico early Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. According to tradition, candles are lit to guide wandering souls back to their families.

I love that last photo. The cemetery looks so beautiful with lights, and not in a tacky pre-planned sort of way.

Remember the Dead. Fight for the Living.

2 Girls 1 Fails as she tries to slide but ends up slipping on well waxed Hardwood Floors Bitch!!! [in-joke]

How do these videos end up on the internet? I guess they can laugh at themselves enough to want to upload them. Ouch though.

Print Magazine explores the over usage of the device cliche known as the “A-Frame”

The “A-Frame,” a cutoff-torso-spread-leg framing device, is the most frequently copied trope ever used. From steamy paperbacks designed in the ’40s, hardly a year has gone by without at least one ham-fisted advertisement using this perspective.

The earliest known uses were 19th-century engravings that showed spread-legged, Simon Legree–type slave masters lording over cowering victims. In Westerns, the quintessential showdown frames one duelist through the legs of the other, and mid-20th-century pulp magazine covers were known for their noir images of recoiling women seen through the legs of menacing men. Eventually, designers used the conceit to frame all manner of things…

View slideshows of individual categories: Pulp fiction covers, movie posters, DVD covers, advertisements, Western book covers, comics, theater posters, book covers, album covers, and magazine covers.

Another pole fail, although this one seems too good of a set-up to be real:

Yup, 100% fake, but I like the idea of some foreign chick getting hammered at a wedding reception and ruining the occasion with her pole dancing. Good make believe times.

This video is actually a Heineken Know The Signs video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIENUUaWBAA. See more videos here – http://www.youtube.com/knowthesigns2

http://knowthesigns.com/ - Socialmedia8

Cheers for that Socialmedia8

The view shared in this next paragraph is not my own:

“I just had an argument with a girl I know. She was saying how it’s unfair that if a guy fucks has sex with a different girl every week, he’s a legend, but if a girl fucks just two guys in a year, she’s a slut. So in response I told her that, if a key opens lots of locks, then it’s a master-key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it’s a shitty lock. That shut her up.”

I think you’re both shit and deserve each other HA!
What ever happened to the good old days of ‘one and only true love’?

It’s so strange; today, I found myself reading the bible. First thing I did when I got out of bed was walk to my sister’s bookshelf and picked it up. Odd… 

I opened the book to a random page that went on to speak of virginity, and about how, if a man suspects his newlywed wife is not a virgin than he must bring this to her father’s attention.

If the man is wrong he must continue to live with her till death do them part. But if the man is right, then the woman is taken into town where all the men from both sides of the family stone her to death… They stone her for disrespecting and committing prostitution while living under her father’s roof… Are you shocked to hear such a thing? Did that actually happen? Maybe it still does.

I might actually start reading the bible. Not from any religious standpoint of course. I tend not to want to make up my mind when it comes to fact or fiction - Ambiguity in story is what I like.

Watch the first eight minutes of Evangelion 1.01 courtesy of Funimation; it’s to promote its DVD release on 11/17, which is part one of a four-feature retelling of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

And if you’re into Anime you would ready know about this series. Hands-down one of the coolest & best animes to grace the earth:

Evangelion: 1.01 You are (Not) Alone – The Movie

The rebuild of the ground breaking anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Tokyo-3 still stands after most of civilization was decimated in the Second Impact. Now the city endures the ceaseless onslaught of the deadly Angels, bizarre creatures bent on eradicating the human race. To combat this strange and ruthless enemy, the government agency NERV constructs a fleet of towering humanoid machines the Evas and Shinji Ikari is called into action, reluctantly taking his place at the controls of Eva Unit 01.

*sniff* I thought I had missed out on something special, and here they go and make a kick-ass DMC-12 DeLorean Time Machine with working lights and authentic sound effects, officially making this the coolest Back to the Future toy EVER!

10 sound/light combos, gull-wing doors, and fold-up wheels, plus time circuits, a flux capacitor, and Mr. Fusion! TIME CIRCUITS ON!

Limited Edition: Once these sell out, the only way you’ll be able to get one is to travel back in time…

[If only It came with matching remote control]

Left to Right: 1899 – 1900 – 1915 – 1916 – 1957 – 1986

Those be some mighty fine bottles. I have a friend who used to be gaga for coke. I have another friend who I suspect might be gaga for glassass… HA! Seriously though, that’s a nice evolution of design work. Looks like they got a bit skimpy in the 50’s huh.

At last, here’s the droid we were all looking for. In this frame you can clearly see R2-D2’s cameo in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. This time there’s absolutely no doubt about it: It’s been confirmed by ILM. [Click on the image to see the high-resolution version]

Wait. Since R2D2 is always stationed in back of Luke’s X-Wing, and Artoo is pictured floating orphaned in the void, then… Nero murdered Luke Skywalker!

In other Star Wars / Star Trek crossoverage, I found this:

A M A Z I N G ! ! !