TCM Remembers, 2011
Turner Classic Movies’ montage commemorating people working in the film industry who have passed away in 2011. And here’s how TCM’s annual memorial video comes about.
Comics-Themed Cocktails
Comics Alliance‘s Chris Sims has concocted his own comics-themed cocktails, including a comments section cocktail for comics fans.
The Tate Gallery Profiles Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak talks about his work and the art he loves, “My work has always been considered inappropriate, but the ones that I love, the ones that I think work as works of art and books are inappropriate.” There are also glimpses of his workspace and his dog. […]
Thieves who don’t thieve and other oddball behaviour
Shamus Young over at Twenty Sided takes a look at the odd Thieves’ Guild quest in Skyrim: “The Player is railroaded into accepting this idiotic sequence of actions, is prevented from asking reasonable questions, and is forced to ask stupid ones.”
The Blade Runner Sketchbook
100 pages of Blade Runner glory, out of print, but online and free. (Thanks, @matt_kay) (Fixed link!)
Taira no Kiyomori
Kenichi Matsuyama, who played L in Death Note, Masura Kato in Gantz: Light in the Dark and who Midnight Madness fans might remember as Negishi/Johannes Krauser from Detroit Metal City, is playing the 12th Century/Heian Era, Taira no Kiyomori, in an eponymous 50 episode NHK television series. The […]
The Cultural Gutter 