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More Fun Seahawks Stuff

by wpmorse on February 10, 2014 at 7:35 am
Posted In: Test

Just stumbled over this bit of fun from Tom Tomorrow that I had to share. A quick note as a middling at best football fan who barely remembers the lineup of his own team I never really cared about Tim Tebow. Most of what I knew about him was from a handful of culture war feeds which would have people like Pat Robertson going on and on about how inspirational he was, how Denver was keeping him to “placate a Christian audience” and when he was traded for being a mediocre player that God would punish Denver. That’s right. We are divine retribution!

Addendum: To squeeze some of the humor out of this, according to one of those feeds some idiot at the WND believes this for real.

└ Tags: Football, Seahawks, Tom Tomorrow
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Friday Sketch

by wpmorse on February 7, 2014 at 8:14 am
Posted In: Art

FightingPitI’d forgotten I’d done this one.

It was one of those pictures at the very end of your sketch book where you’re trying to fill the last ten pages as fast as possible so you can start the new one. Sometimes this can make you ambitions in some very interesting ways.

Anyway this is from one of the side projects I work on from time to time. The scene involves two rather shady characters meeting to talk unobserved at an even shadier fighting pit. This is the bareknuckled boxing fight that is going on as they discuss business.

Looking at this puppy with fresh eyes I think I might just do a finished version of it.

└ Tags: Boxing, Fight, Sketch
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Fanfic Ideas I Need to Get Out of my System

by wpmorse on February 6, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Posted In: Test

I have a confession to make. I had a fanfic phase. I’m not particularly ashamed of it. I improved as a writer doing them (and one of my major side projects is a former fanfic with all of the anime and fanfic bits taken out) but the thing is I think working on stories that are mine are a much better long term investment and based on this writing fanfiction is a waste of time. Regrettably, however I keep getting ideas for them. Some with interesting possibilities, others that are just silly. I try to forget them as quickly as I come up with them but most of the time they just linger.

So I figured I’d share them as as a way of venting and who knows someone might actually use the ideas.

So here are some of my current batch I think I’ll put them in order of how sensible they are be warned most of them are rather embarrassing. So enjoy and try not to judge.

1. Game of Thrones: Tyrion Delayed.

For whatever reasons Tyrion’s stay at Castle Black lasts longer than expected. Perhaps as little as a couple of days or maybe long enough for him to be a witness to the whole wight incident. At the very least it means he doesn’t meet up with Caitlyn Stark and is not taken to the Eyrie which means among other things, Jaimie and Ned don’t fight so Ned isn’t injured and Tywin’s attack on the Riverlands do not occur perhaps delaying the War of the Five Kings.

Perhaps if Tyrion is delayed long enough that it is he who is the messenger who takes the Night Watch’s evidence and warning of the Others returning.

2. Sleepless in Ponyville: Epilogue.

This one I’ve actually done sketDaniel&Lunaches for as a comic book exercise and potential Deviantart material. The idea is that right after Luna watches Scootaloo’s dream at the end of the Sleepless in Ponyville she encounters an Alicorn version of Dream of the Endless (or more likely Daniel) who welcomes her back to the Dreaming.

3. Emberverse/MLP Crossover

For some reason this one just won’t go away and I keep adding notes to it. Instead of Nantucket’s transportation to the Bronze age, the event that begins Dies the Fire is a large chunk of the southwest being replaced by Equestria caused by Rainbow Dash’s first Sonic Rainboom. Most of Stirling‘s first trilogy and the first few seasons of MLP go on as schedule as Celestia tries to keep her subjects in the dark until she can do something about it. So far the biggest ideas I’ve had for this is a scene where a CUT army is taken out by a weaponized sonic rainboom and a reference to the Pony’s fanatical human followers… the Bro-Neigh.

4. Game of Thrones/MLP Crossover.

Okay, this one’s really stupid. What happens is the Starks find the Mane Six instead of the Dire Wolves. Happily I managed to stop myself before I could decide which pony each Stark got. (Well okay, Bran’s pony warned him about climbing anywhere near where the Lannisters were staying)

 

└ Tags: Deviantart, Emberverse, Fanfiction, Game of Thrones, Humor, MLP, My Little Pony, S.M. Stirling, Sandman
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Wednesday Double Feature

by wpmorse on February 5, 2014 at 11:03 am
Posted In: Test

Wellavalon-movie-poster-2001-1020291536 before I start this week’s double feature review I have to confess this one is going to be slightly incomplete. The DVD of my first film on my list Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon was scratched so I was only able to watch three quarters of it. So any thoughts I have about it are incomplete. I’ve always liked Oshii’s work from the Wolf Brigade, The Ghost in the Shell films, Beautiful Dreamer and most recently Sky Crawlers and I was looking forward to watch his live action films.

I enjoyed what I saw of Avalon. It’s a quiet lyrical science fiction film about a professional game player in a near future trying to find the truth behind the game that seems to dominate this future culture. Done in a sepia palate and skillfully using all of it’s shoestring budget, I enjoyed what I saw of Oshii’s signature style. (Including an adorable Basset Hound!)

The neZ-0004_Zardoz_quad_movie_poster_lxt  film on my list was John Boorman’s Zardoz. To be honest I’m mildly embarrassed that I’d never seen this one before. As a longtime science fiction fan I was certainly aware of it, it was in all my textbooks about science fiction films and we’d been making jokes about Sean Connery in a speedo for years.

To be honest I was completely surprised by this film. Based on everything I knew about it I was expecting a barbarian, post apocalyptic action film. What I watched was quiet and cerebral meditation on the meaning of life, immortality and death.   Scenes of armed horse riding “brutals” only appearing sporadically throughout the film, all in all far better than I ever imagined.

One thing I found interesting in both of these films it is with so many critics complaining about the modern viewer’s short attention span I was actually surprised to watch a movie with such a deliberately slow pace. Both Avalon and Zardoz were better for it.

 

└ Tags: Avalon, John Booman, Mamoru Oshii, Movies, Reviews, Science Fiction, Zardoz
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Attack on the Superbowl

by wpmorse on February 4, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Test

Sometimes it amuses me how groups of commercials can create narratives. Now obviously this is quite typical and frequently done on purpose  with various marketing campaigns sometimes building on past commercials building on past ones. (the current campaign for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish comes to mind)

But more often than not people link commercials that have nothing to do with each other together and come up with weird narratives that no one ever thought of… This is happening even more now with multiple media platforms such as the web have us viewing ads that were never intended to be seen together. If you are into this sort of things you might see advertising campagns from different countries back to back on Youtube and this makes things very interesting.

Case in point.

Recently I discovered the manga/anime Attack on Titan  (Shingeki no Kyojin.) Currently it’s the number two anime franchise in Japan now, right after One Piece. The basic premise is a giant zombie apocalypse… er that is to say giant zombies not zombie apocalypse at a giant scale… and not zombies… giant cannibal… well you get the idea and by all accounts it’s much better than what I just described. I’m looking forward to having the time to read and watch it, but my point is I first found out about it while watching this add for the Subaru Forester.

So I guess the purpose of having a sweet ride is to avoid being eaten. It’s directed by the excellent Shusuke Kaneko wh0 is apparently slotted to direct the live action version and this Subaru commercial is a bit of viral cross marketing for that movie as well as selling cars.

But getting back to  my point seeing that add so soon before had me seeing this Super Bowl add in a way the marketing department at Pepsi did not intend.

Did the fleeing Subaru Forrester lead the giants to New York to wreak musical havoc?

└ Tags: Attack on Titan, Commercials, Shusuke Kaneko, Super Bowl
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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by wpmorse on February 4, 2014 at 8:40 am
Posted In: Test

Today’s Rhapsody is Rhapsody in Horn by Gavin Lendt.

 

└ Tags: Brass, French Horn, Music, Rhapsody
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