District 9

You will go here and watch this NOW. Pretty sweet project.

You will then begin to weep because Neill Blomkamp is the guy who was tapped to do the Halo movie that never materialized due to legal wranglings. One day he may to it still… maybe this will generate the right kind of interest.

You should also check out “Alive in Joburg” which is Neill’s short film that District 9 seems to be based on:

And, just to make you cry, here is a couple of  short Halo projects Blomkamp put together for Bungie around the launch of Halo 3. They have been spliced together by industrious fans:

-Slothboy

P.S. Yeah, that’s a real working Warthog built by Weta.

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She dreamed a dream.

I heard a bit of this on the radio this morning so I dug up a vid on youtube. Simply amazing.

This to me is one of the GOOD things about the way people can instantly share and spread stuff via the web. Yesterday nobody had ever heard of this chick from someplace unintelligible. “I’m from wagney frogdown on the biscuit.” Today she has the attention of the GLOBE. Way to kick some ass Susan.

-Slothboy

EDIT: WTF? All the videos from this show have embedding disabled. What purpose does that serve? Whatever. Click the video and it will take you to the youtube page.

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Video Evidence: The Internetz SUx0r$$!!111!!!

Originally from here.

Via Slothboy

-EJ

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