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John the Rogue Demon Hunter has issued the call!
I love the show Legend Of The Seeker and would like to see the show continue. I know the show has been given a second season but we need to act as though the show is in trouble before it is in trouble of being canceled. If you are a fan and have access to video footage(I am decabled and dont have access) start making some vids and promote the show. Lets increase the audience before that season two premiere.
Discus amongst yourselves on the original thread Calling all Vidders at Project: Shadow, or here. Let’s get this done!
That is a really good idea. We have to do everything in our power to spread the word and Vids are a great way to do it.
Personally, I would love to see a Vidders guild where vidders can get together to share tips and tricks and take requests from untalented folk like me. Would you be interested in anything like that?
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It’s no secret that I am not a fan of Twilight and that I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so when you can imagine the glee I felt when I saw this video of Buffy slaying Edward. Well edited and funny, this is a great fan edit!
(via PopSucker.net)
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I really enjoyed John Hodgman’s speech at the Radio & TV Correspondent’s dinner for the jokes but mostly for the use of Speculative Fiction to communicate complex and emotionally charged political ideas. Before we get into that let us take The John Hodgman are you a SF fan test, are you more of an SF fan then the President? Watch the Video below.
- What are the name of all 3 types of hobbits?
- Who is the Father of Superman?
- Do you have a particular technology addiction?
- Do you have a picture of yourself in Cosplay or on a pilgrimage to a SF place?
- Can you flash the Vulcan solute?
- What was the name of the God that Conan the Barbarian worshiped?
- Do you know what the Kwisatz Haderach is?
- Bonus points if you know which version of dune the picture is from?
- What is the name of the giant sandworm?
- What is the name of the machine to summon such a sandworm?
- What is the name of the fluid that they expunge from the sandworm?
I love his comment on the Constitution as a big faq for the U.S. and the founding fathers perspective of God as a distant Dungeon Master.
The beauty of John Hodgman’s speech is the use of SF to communicate complex and emotionally charged political ideas in an approachable manner. He was able to reach out to both sides of the political spectrum and get them to think about ideals like
- Consensus
- Eagerly looking forward to the future
- Appreciating our diversity, EDIC
(via Huffington Post)
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Well cut and moving when you know the story, Marilyn Manson’s cover of Tainted Love is a perfect match to Final Fantasy VII.
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In Dollhouse a person could hire the Dollhouse to program an active with whatever the client wants. What if I need a vampire hunter.
Could Topher program Victor with enough skills and knowledge to actually hunt down and slay a vampire?
What psychological profiles would Topher use in Victor’s Vampire Hunter Active?
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The “Galactic Lord Corset Costume” from Evening Arwen can be yours for a mere $600 (Club Jade).
I know at least 3 ladies who will want this Darth Vader corset, and 1 of them might have it at Shoreleave in July.
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‘77 also know as 5-25-77 is an independent movie about the adventures of young Pat Johnson, a budding filmmaker fighting against the odds to spread the word of the original Star Wars film on its opening day – May 25th, 1977. Watch the video below.
I’m can’t wait to watch ‘77. From the trailer it looks like a coming of age tale for SF fans. I love the geeky references. For the record the Enterprise’s shields could not withstand a shot from the Deathstar but it could easily out dodge the shot.
When will ‘77 hit theaters?
There is no release date yet but Patrick Read Johnson gives us an idea of what to expect in an interview.
There won’t be any release plan until we make our final domestic deal in November. I know it frustrates a lot of outside observers that we can’t give them a hard release date, but the truth is, it’s really a very freeing thing to be able to make your film, the way you really want it made, without having to live in fear of an impending date you absolutely have to hit. If we’d made this film through a studio and completed it in, you know 9 months or something… there are a number of wonderful things that might never have made it into the film. Though no one wants to see ‘77 in theaters more than me, my fellow filmmakers and I are also keenly aware that making a GOOD independent film as ambitious as our for as little money as we’ve had to spend almost always results in a long gestation process. And frankly, on a film this important to me, I’m really very lucky to have had the luxury of all this time.
For a lucky few ‘77 premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival where it received great reviews and received the Heineken Red Star Award but it does not have a national nor international release yet.
For more visit the official site
(via Starlog)
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- Image by Erik J. Gustafson via Flickr
I am so sick of the haters. Unfortunately they are turning me to the dark side…
I started dropping RSS feeds that “Why I hate…” and “Which do I hate most…” posts. Now, I feel a little mixed up about a post over at Club Jade.
Obey me or I hate you!
It is a plague, an epidemic. Like a zombie outbreak where the zombies look like regular people, feeding off the brains of the unaffected- the chattering class of haters posing as fans roam the world chanting, “Obey me or I hate you!”
- Fans are driven to seek out and discuss the things they love.
- Haters are driven to seek out and discuss the things they hate.
Every day, I find so called fan blogs that are trying to profit from the controversy they gain from hating something that is either easy to complain about or that will stir up controversy. They are easy posts to write and they generate traffic, but the are corrosive to the dialogue and our collective dignity.
I feel bad writing this…
because I risk becoming one of them, but I just couldn’t take it anymore.
Life is far too short to spend it in pointless sniping and complaining about every little thing in the universe that doesn’t go your way.
I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness. I know I am not alone. From your emails and comments, I know that there are more Fans than Haters. We are just a silent majority. It is time to rise up!
Fans are not Emos!
It is time we stood up and took fandom back from these people!
- People are not stupid for liking something you don’t.
- People are not stupid for hating something you like.
- A Franchise is not ruined because you don’t like a parts of it.
- The creator has the right to do whatever they creatively with their work and don’t require your approval.
- Homogeneity is not required for a series to be good.
- Objecting to the morality of a work may say more about you than the work. Examine that first.
- If you don’t like a certain type of story, you are not a fan of that genre/subgenre.
- Respect the opinions of others unless they are racist, sexist, homophobic or bigoted in some other way.
The genesis of the problem
I stopped reading io9 a long time ago because there is nothing of value on their site. I have dropped several blogs from my feed reader because they cited io9 too often and started becoming as full of venom. I don’t believe that Club Jade is their yet, but it is exhibiting some of the early signs of contagion. I hope they don’t contract the disease.
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Club Jade is unsure about this video and I would have to agree but not necessarily for the same reasons. This video unfortunately missed a great opportunity. They should have put in for the first text “The Jedi of Tatooine” and featured clips of Anakin and Luke. Using the tons of clips of them running around. Watch the video below.
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This is why J. J. Abrams should not be allowed to do a Star Trek TV Show. The movie was good, but he did you use a lot of lens flares.
VOTD: Old Star Trek With Lens Flares | /Film.
