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| June 2001 |
| June
27th 2001 |
Putting
Some Brothers up on th' Wall
Recently
picked up a Top 'o the Line? inkjet printer (known as
"bubble jet" printers there in Canon Country) for
outputting photographs. Currently the Station G1
is a digital camera roach motel - pictures check in, but they
don't check out. After a bit of research,
it's apparent that inkjet technology has approached the  point
where, using the recommended (read: expensive) photo-paper,
lab-quality results are possible. Enter the Canon
S800.
Thus
far the results are a little underwhelming, though to be fair,
we haven't had a chance to spend much quality time with her (a
sheepish three pictures-worth). Plenty of settings yet to be set,
optimizations yet to be optimized, and configurations yet to be
configured. Try and post up a POV
review once she's properly broken in.
QuickTime
Time
New
trailer at the official Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
website. This is, no doubt, the last we'll see before the film
opens (July 11th). The site is also offering some keen
wallpapers, screensavers, and the like.
Gotta
say, that official
movie poster is a little weak, considering some of the
elegant, highly-detailed imagery they've been flashin' around in
the trailers... We should be gettin' monsters and wraiths and
fantastic landscapes - not typical giant titles and mugshots.
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| June
25th 2001 |
Weekend
Movie Review
Something
for the a-dults, something for the shorties:
Pearl
Harbor - Four on the Chain Scale
Plenty o' flash, not much substance. Top notch combat sequences. Astonishingly bad dialogue and silly love-triangle storyline made this
flick about
two hours too long.
Nadia
Atlantis:
The Lost Empire - Six on the Chain
Scale
Fast paced and no singin'. Enjoyed that rich, full-bodied Mike Mignola
influence (credit as a product designer, as I recall - brief interview about it
right
cheer). Y'bet Hellboy is required reading
here at the Station...
No
Whammies
Cream
of the Press Your Luck crop.
That picture of "Karen" (#2) is the embodiment of your basic unbridled
enthusiasm. I imagine Conan the Barbarian having a similar reaction to victory in bloody combat. |
| June
19th 2001 |
The
Mighty Quinn
Mike
Quinn, the man behind the Nien Numb mask (and now ILM animation-fx
employee), spending a moment at the latest Toshi
Station entrance:
Mr.
Quinn originally hails from London, a part of the world that is
Carradine-deficient, and thus was not altogether hip to the Kung
Fu Theater inspired Entrance imagery. Still found it humorous.
Great guy.
Using
No Way as a Way
Jeet
Kune Do: Flash
style. Whaaaa-ta! Thank
the Maker
StarWars.com
has (at last) officially announced a Phantom Menace DVD,
slated to hit shelves October 16th. The production will include a
towering six+ hours of bonus material and a commentary track by
The Maker himself. Bone
up on it right here. Can the original trilogy and Indy be far
behind? |
| June
15th 2001 |
Thank
You, Glorious Master!
From
the latest Variety magazine:
| ``The Simpsons'' are coming to DVD.
On Sept. 25, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
will release an elaborate boxed set of the first season
of the 10-year-old animated hit that is TV's
longest-running current comedy series.
A follow-up set of the second season may be
released in time for the holidays, with two more sets
being released each year thereafter, according to Peter
Staddon, Fox Home Entertainment senior vice president of
marketing.
With only 13 episodes in the first season, the
first three-disc set will be fleshed out with loads of
extra material, including the original shorts that
debuted on ``The Tracey Ullman Show'' and a
never-before-seen lost episode.
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Read
the whole article
here. I'm too woozy to continue... |
| June
11th 2001 |
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Good,
Bad, I'm the Guy With the Book.
Actor
and litterateur
Bruce Campbell kicked off his first book signin' tour last
Friday evening at Borders Books and Music in downtown Ann Arbor,
Michigan. The man does not disappoint. He read a few passages
out of If Chins Could Kill - including some hysterical
hate mail - and commenced with laying out his John Hancock on
every book in the house.
Whilst
taking my turn at the plate I asked if, now that the book was
complete, we'd see the return of babblings
on the official BC website. With a chuckle he gave a firm
"no, uh-uh". He did say there'd be another book
though, at some point (heard it hear first, bubba). I was then
instructed to "have a good night".
GBA:
Gone Gold
Unleashed
today.
Into
the Cellar
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