Comic-Con 2010 talks to Comic-Con 2003
I’m in San Diego airport, a little too early for my (mercifully brief) flight back to San Francisco, and I should be writing. I have things to write. But my brain feels half-functional. And this blog needs a post, occasionally.
Comic-Con 2010. Woah.
I last hit Comic-Con in 2003, and every time this week that I said “I was last here seven years ago” I felt like it was a huge gulf. Not much has actually changed about Comic-Con in that time, to be honest; it’s still huge, and the same sort of stuff is still being shown. On the other hand, an awful lot has changed about me in seven years. I started to wonder what 2003 me would think of 2010 me. Y’know, if they could have a conversation. Considering the amount of sci-fi entertainment media on display at Comic-Con, and the amount of geeks willing crazy stuff into existence during the show, it doesn’t seem impossible.
What’s up, 2010?
Nothin’. Sitting in the airport, drinkin’ a… actually I’m not drinking. Just finished the Con. Heading home to San Francisco. I live there now. Well, near there anyway.
Wow! Really? That’s great. How was the Con? Cool, right?… Continue reading
20/09/08: Creative Concepts presents…
The soon-to-be-unemployed Creative Concepts team is very proud to present our swansong event… organised, as usual, with not nearly enough time. Continue reading
Saturday night’s alright
Just a quick one here. First things first: man, Judge Dredd does not age well as a film (it’s on TV as I type). Although I still do think the costumes are… kinda good, at times. Screw it, it’s an excuse for a picture of Stallone:
Wait: did I say the costumes looked… good..?
Second: Saturday’s looking good, unlike that codpiece. We’ve got a couple of potential venues, all in easy walking distance of Brighton station. Also, we’re going to investigate the possibility of an all-nighter at a gaming cafe, which could negate the need for people to get a hotel, assuming you can stay awake… we should know more on that tomorrow. Continue reading
Set the Stage videos
Almost the last hurrah, this. Below the ‘cut’, if you will, you’ll find two videos that I edited and subtitled (well, except for the actual translation). Both were shot by Jörg ‘Kerensky’ Koonen during the Games Convention in Leipzig.
They’re performances of the winning entries for Set the Stage, the competition that we ran to get players to write scripts for the Aion and Guild Wars characters to perform. (The scripts were reworked by me to become suitable for performance, but these two are quite similar to the original material, with many lines remaining intact. You can download my script drafts for all six final entries at the official Aion and Guild Wars sites.)
The sound quality is not excellent – source was basically the speakers on the stand, which had to compete with everything around – so I’ve embedded the ‘normal’ and English subtitled versions. (There are also French and German versions of each – see below.)
As I said before, these stage performances were probably what I was most proud of achieving during Games Convention. Trust me; there were some obstacles to overcome! However, I personally feel the performances were excellent, given the lack of rehearsal… Continue reading
Watchmen: the countdown has started
Seven days to Comic-Con in San Diego – and 230 days until Watchmen.
With The Dark Knight in US movie theaters today (another week for us to wait here in the UK – thanks, don’t tell me) it seems about the right time to release a movie trailer for Watchmen, doesn’t it?
Go see it right now in HD over at Apple. (And thank God it isn’t hosted on Yahoo!.)
Then come on back; I’ll be waiting.
Try and tell me that doesn’t look like a faithful adaptation of Watchmen – at least with the right beats, the iconic moments from the original. I could probably go through and count the number of shots in there that look practically lifted from the comic, but instead I might as well share my favourite:
Yes. Those of you who have read Watchmen will know just who that is and just what happens next… and I won’t spoil it for those of you who haven’t. (But dammit people, this just won’t fly! You’ve got 230 days – pick up a copy! It don’t read like War & Peace!) Continue reading
All quiet, except for the talking
I know it’s been a bit quiet around here; sorry about that. A hell of a week last week for all sorts of reasons, least of all my continuing power cut / electricity supply problems, which usually affected my wifi.
In the meantime, if you’d like to hear Something What I Did, a new episode of Tagline: a movie podcast is online, with my brother and I talking (mostly) about The Incredible Hulk, Indy and other geeky movies. You can listen, subscribe, etc over at the Tagline site.
Speaking of podcasts, we’re really close to locking Episode 3 of the Official NCE ‘cast, too.