Family Guy Aliens Movie

Ok so I know that the writers strike still has all of American TV in a strangle hold, and some have chosen to abandon TV all together and go to other things, like Video podcasts, and TV networks run by people in their basements (my personal favorite is Tiki Bar Tv). The content that is being generated by these shows are defiantly things that you would not see on mainstream television. Anyways, I was watching Family Guy the other night with my roommate, and this showed up on tv

The first clip that is a parody of Aliens is what caught my eye. And I turned to him and said “They should totally make an Aliens Family Guy Movie”.

And no I don’t mean one like the Family Guy Star Wars flick that they aired on tv, instead I want to see the family guy animators recreate the Aliens movie shot for shot in an animated form, and then lay over the original dialogue from it, and then go to town. Maybe pull out all the alien sounds and put in that voice track. I’m not sure exactly how it would happen. All that I now is that it would be AMAZING!

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus & Heath Ledgers Death

So the news has broken, the actor Heath Ledger has passed on.

But really that’s not what has peaked my interest (not to say that it’s terrible that we have lost another great actor), it’s the fact that he was working on a movie titled The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus which was slated for a 2009 release. Now I’m sure that the film won’t be shut down completely, maybe stalled, or put on hold. But what I’m interested in seeing is where the movie will go from here, because Batman is finished, they’re in post right now so maybe we won’t get some killer ADR that needs to be finished up but what Happens to the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, were they far enough along to leave him in the film, or are they going to have to recast the role? From what I can gather about the movie from the wikipedia page is that it will probably be a heavy CGI film, so whether the practicals have all been shot and we won’t see the final Heath Ledger film until 2009 is a mystery that can only be decided by the people making the film. Hopefully the film won’t be scrapped because of this, I’m not saying this because I’m a huge movie fan, instead because isn’t that the entire point of making movies, to capture an imaginary world that really isn’t there, and what’s more imaginary than the dead coming back to us.

Embeding Quicktime in HTML

 So my friend was in need of embedding a Quicktime movie into her website, but of course all that Dreamweaver seems to support is Flash, and Flash videos. Anyways knowing it that at some point I’d need to do this same thing at some point, and I figured that I would blog about it here so that other people can see this as well!

<OBJECT classid=’clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B’ codebase=’http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab’>
This is a very basic, we use the Object to declare the video, and give it an id and a Codebase so that the browser can use the right codec.
<param name=’src’ value=”my.mov”>
So this is the actual movie, just replace “my.mov” with what ever your movie name is.
<param name=’autoplay’ value=”true”>
The autoplay is useful for portfolios and demo reels.
<param name=’controller’ value=”true”>
You can turn any of these parameters off, Controller just means that there is a play and pause button.
<EMBED src=”my.mov” autoplay=”true” width=”720″ height=”500″
controller=”true” loop=”true” pluginspage=’http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/’>
</EMBED>
So this is simply a recap of everything that we have set up in the parameters.
</OBJECT>

Amazingly it is THAT simple.

Pirates of the Caribean MMO

So I saw the ad for the new Pirates MMO that Disney had recently released, we both laughed about how it is probably really bad and neither of us would ever play it (because it wouldn’t be OS X compatible). Of course that changed quickly. I hopped onto the Disney site to see what was up with this game. Low and Behold it is OS X compatible so I quickly download the application. So here’s my first hand experience with Pirates. It Sucks!

Ok so I know that I didn’t pay for the application, and that I’m not paying for a monthly subscription, but there’s virtually no options for you. the first ship you get in the game, a Light Sloop which can hold only 3 crew members (including you) and can only store 3 cargo units, which trust me fill up pretty damn fast. There’s not much room for expanding your gun or swordman ship, even most of the loot you’re going to get is off limits unless you decide to fork over for the Unlimited Access in which case you’re loosing $10 a month but you get access to everything. Now don’t take my word for it, go ut, download the game, give it a try, and make the decision for yourself. In the games defense though, not everything is horribly pointless in the game, the ship to ship combat is AMAZING! But not if you’re navigating the ship, oh no, that’s pointless. Instead navigate to some Navy infested water, and hop off the steering wheel and run to your cannons, firing form your canons is the funnest part of the game. Now I can’t really talk about what it’s like to not be the captain of the ship because at the time of writing this I couldn’t get an invite to be in anyones crew so I don’t really know.  I’ve got a bunch of pictures in game on my  flickr if you’re interested. I hope to see you in game.

The Train Show – Lego Train

I’m not sure which is more amazing, the lego train, or the fact that there is a Tv show all about Trains….

I used to have a lego train set, a long time ago… I wonder what happened to it?

My Parent’s Are Dead

So I started to watch Batman Begins this evening on F/X, I’ve always liked this movie, from the very first time I saw it in the theater, anyways Scott Kurtz, who runs an amazing web comic titled PVPOnline. Anyways, Kurtz made this amazing short comic at the 24 comics in 24 hours event. I think that it’s very applicable to Batman Begins. And reading it makes me all that more excited for the new Batman! Here’s a Link to the comic as well as the comic itself.

In An INSANE DISPLAY OF UBUNTU’S UNLIMITED POWER!

So I’ve had my Macbook running OS X Leopard for a couple of months now, and I have to admit that I am being wooed by the operating systems interesting graphic display abilities, like time machines visual scrolling interface, the cover flow effect in iTunes is really amazing, because it’s so cool to be able to just do album scrolls, then having the insight to build that ability for all of your documents, genius! Also the entire ‘dock’ idea is so different because it eliminates the tediousness of having just 1 giant list of programs before. The entire reflection thing it’s crazy how that really influenced the Web 2.0 look. Anyways if you’re falling under the spell, take a look at this!

AMAZING!
I’m going to have to power up my Ubuntu laptop and figure out how to do some of these things!

2007 All Time Favorite Videos!

This is a reprint of a bulletin I posted on Myspace. It reflects my 5 favorite videos of 2007. I thought that this would be interesting to put on here.

And my All time favorite video!