Boob Toob Supplemental: All about the Bobgar

The first few are from Bossman Bobgar. I say Bossman because he could've just posted these himself but he told me to do it. Rant over, on with the show!


Disney's Feast

Pretty sweet short animated movie from Disney. A feast is a feast!

Looking back on Lost: 14 Things You Probably Didn't Know

Not a video but an interesting article nonetheless if you're a Lost fan like Bobgar and I.

KEATON!

Pikachu on Acid

Funny. Ass. S&*#. Needs more Charmander though.

2000AD Documentary Teaser Trailer

Thanks to our buddy Damjan for pointing this out to us. Wipe the drool off your face Bobgar.

Okay, Bobgar's taken his best shot. Now it's my turn!


Captain America: Winter Soldier - out now on... VHS?!?!

I wish I could be half as awesome as the guy who put this together. I really do.

Live Action Adventure Time Trailer

Damn, this is pretty depressing. LSP noooooo!

I Like Green Tea

Favourite band ever.

All Futurama Episodes

In case you wanted to watch every Futurama episode ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

I think my eyes are bleeding...

All Simpsons Couch Gags

In case your eyeballs are still intact after that last video...

Boob Toob Supplemental: Ooga chaka edition

Check out that sweet Attack on Titan and Adventure Time mashup by Rodrigo Alexandrino ICO! High res version available here and you can go here to see his process and some close ups. So good!

Less than 6 hours until I see the Guardians of the Galaxy movie so let's knock out another Boob Toob Supplemental!


3D Futurama

Keeping things within the cartoon realm, check out this 3D version of the Futurama opening scene. Looks beautiful, doesn't it?

More info and video/pics here. Thanks to fellow Boober and Toober Wendi Freeman for bringing this to our attention.


No Man's Sky featurette

Short little video on the story of Hello Games, the studio behind upcoming PS4 game No Man's Sky. This game looks and sounds so damn good, I may have to buy a PS4 just for it.

Lupin the Third live action movie trailer

YES! The world's greatest thief, Arsène Lupin III, finally gets a live action adaptation!*

The movie comes out in Japan on August 30 and it's directed by Ryuhei Kitamura who also directed films such as Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars and apparently Midnight Meat Train which I've never seen but sounds interesting enough based on the title. He also directed the in game cutscenes for the video game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes which is a Game Cube remake of the original Playstation game Metal Gear Solid. He's a cool dude.

The movie looks beautiful and I love how the characters look and seem to act a lot like the manga/anime versions of themselves. Fujiko is crazy hot, as she should since her character is a bit of a seductress. Can't wait to see it!

* Ooops, I apologise. Below is the first Lupin the Third live action adaptation.

Talk of the Town

ABC's Australian Story recently did a feature on Aussie singer Megan Washington. She talked about her fear of public speaking and her debilitating stutter. It was really engaging and well done and made me care for this person who I never heard of before (I'm not hip and up to date with what the cool kids listen to). Some info here and the transcript here. No YouTube embed or a link to the video (couldn't find one online) but I thought I'd share anyway.


Birdman trailer

I never understood the term 'batshit insane' until I saw this trailer. No idea what it's about and I don't think I wanna know, I just wanna go in there without knowing any info. Also, aw yeah Keaton being Keaton! And a bunch of other famous peeps are in it too. Bobgar likes Edward Norton and he's in here. Gotta see this movie NOW!

In case you didn't click and watch the trailer, here's some Keaton for ya!

Thanks to Devin Bruce (Doctor Teeth on Twitter and other places) for bringing this to my attention.


BATMETAL!

I accidentally sent this video to my mother. I fail at internetz. Fun video though. Good thing it had subtitles since I wouldn't have been able to understand squat.

Thanks to John at Burnt Weiners for tweeting this.


Artists vs TMNT

That's great and all but where's Vanilla Ice?

TMNT Saturday Morning Slow Jams

Nope, we're not done with the TMNT love just yet. Check it out, son!

Zombeavers trailer

Whuuuuut?

Thanks, ya Comic Bastards! (No, that's not an insult. That's their name! Get off my case!)


Not long now before...

Boob Toob Supplemental: There's actually some good stuff in here this time... I promise!

It's been a long time, I shouldn't have you... without a dope beat to step to... step to step to step to... Remember that song? No? Ahh it doesn't matter. What I wanted to say is I'm back so strap yourselves in cos you're going for a ride!


JohnnyExpress

Here's a good animated short film by South Korean studio Alfred Imageworks (check out their Vimeo page for some other videos). And by good, I mean Pixar level in terms of animation and also the humour and quirkiness although I admit there's a point in the animated short where things diverge from the usual Pixar fare.

It's about a space delivery man and one of the things that happens when he's out delivering a package. Sooooo funny and I kinda wish they'd do more of it, just him going to different planets and delivering stuff. Oh wait, they already made Futurama.

Anyway, this short film is 5 mins long so please do me a favour and watch it. Especially you, Bobgar!

JohnnyExpress from AlfredImageworks on Vimeo.

Project 2501 - Homage to Ghost in the Shell

These guys are taking fan tributes to the next level! As the title suggests, this is a homage to Mamoru Oshii's film, Ghost in the Shell, based on Masamune Shirow's manga of the same name. What they've done is they've recreated the film's opening sequence using a series of still images they've created with a mix of live action and computer generate imagery. Be warned: there is nudity.

Check out Hollywood graphic designer Ash Thorp's website to see the awesome still images they've created plus a list of the people involved. Seriously, go there and check it out cos they're amazing. Well done to Ash Thorp and his team.

PROJECT 2501 : HOMAGE TO GHOST IN THE SHELL from Ash Thorp on Vimeo.

Underground Hero Love To Hate Me

Here's a short documentary by director/cinematographer Luke Huxham on a Yakuza member talking about his love of Lamborghinis. If nothing else, check out the fancy Pimp My Ride style Lambos. More info and a "making of" video at The Verge.

X-Men: Days of Future Past interview on The Feed

Mark Fennel interviews Hugh Jackman and Peter Dinklage on The Feed. Funny guys and lots of good stuff in there, such as Patrick Stewart being HUGE in Woolloomooloo. Who knew? Also a detailed description of how Wolverine was able to look all big and veiny. He should change his name to HUGE Jackman.

Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead trailer

Thanks a bunch to Mr Rob Vernson for bringing this to my attention.

Gojira party!

This one is courtesy of Youtube master LA Rabbit.

Bill Murray 4 life

No embeds because I have no idea what kinda Voodoo magic they’re using on the site but check out this article on Deadspin (with video) of Bill Murray crashing a bachelor party and giving some good advice. I hope they invent the Infinity Formula soon and give it to Mr Murray because I want him to be around forever.

Boob Toob Supplemental: The CHOMP Edition!

What's Chomp (I love that guy) doing in the Winter Olympics? What's Mega Man's creator up to? Why is water going uphill? The answers to those and life's other mysteries await you in this latest installment of BOOB TOOB SUPPLEMENTAL!

Mario Kart Winter Olympics

A bit late but here you go. Thanks to Bossman Bobgar for sending this to me. CHOMP!

Mighty No. 9

Here's a video from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2014 that showcases the 9 robots featured in the game. I haven't been following this game much but I do like the visuals a lot. It seems to play like Mega Man which is neat but I hope there's more to it than just Mega Man style gameplay. Based on what I've seen, it seems a bit like Ben 10 but with robots. I hope it's a hit. Check out the Wikipedia entry for some info on the development history and the Kickstarter campaign that they did.

Water going uphill

WHAT MANNER OF SORCERY IS THIS?!?!?! Thanks to this article at io9 for pointing it out. Science is great.

Tom & Jerry as anime girls

Another video sent to me by the boss. Pretty cool remake of sorts. Check out this article at Cartoon Brew for more info on how it was done.

The Dam Keeper trailer

That Bobgar sure likes his animation. Check out this trailer for the Dam Keeper, a super pretty short film by Pixar artists Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo. More info can be found at Cartoon Brew or just go to the official website which looks very fancy.

Suit up!

Nice compilation of heroes getting ready to kick butt. I saw Dredd Urban in there so Bobgar should like that. Get to da choppa!

Human Evolution

Here's a Deus Ex short film written and directed by Moe Charif. I haven't played the Deus Ex games so maybe it doesn't seem as awesome to me as it would to those who are familiar with those games but it looks good nonetheless. It seems to have higher production values than that Portal short film from a few years back.

Portal: No Escape

Aaaand here’s that Portal short film I was just talking about in case you haven't seen it. It's short and very simple but I like it more nonetheless. It was made back in 2011 and was directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the guy who will be directing the Y: The Last Man movie. Portal is a sweet game.

Boob Toob Supplemental: I think I'm turning Japanese

Lots of stuff that probably won't make it to the next Boob Toob recording although I might try to squeeze some of them in anyway. First up...


JAPANESE ADS!

I can watch a ton of these things non stop. So much more awesome than the ads we have here.

There’s a guy that puts together the week’s ads into a single video. Check out this link for his Youtube channel and see the video below for one of the compilations. That dude deserves a medal.

Btw I didn't even know Bruce Willis and Tommy Lee Jones have a series of ads in Japan. Neat-o!

Earn money while eating food in front of a camera

My dream job!

In case you were curious about the Aussie beach lifestyle

Make sure you don’t skip this one. Watch it!
(Thanks to our buddy Rowland Pearce for tweeting this video.)

The Almighty Johnsons promo

Sent in by fellow Boob Toob blogger person Rebecca. Norse gods reincarnated in New Zealand. Looks cool.

Pacific Rim Main Theme in 8bit

I love 8bit themes to death. 

Marvel's Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher trailer

Marvel Team-Up in anime! 

Some thoughts on the Marvel anime I’ve seen:

I haven’t been a fan of the Marvel anime. I’ve seen the Iron Man, X-Men and Wolverine anime series. 12 episodes each and it felt like they dragged on. Might’ve been better if it was half the length. They also had a Blade 12 episode series but I only saw one or two episodes (they were okay). They all looked good but the animation as a whole feels like last gen anime compared to the best anime being produced now. It’s like Madhouse gave the job to their rookie animators.

I also saw Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore which is a full length animated movie. It had some cool moments but the pacing wasn’t to my liking. I feel like some anime (or possibly the creators of that anime) get too caught up in themselves and the story that they want to tell that they forget to entertain the audience and keep them engaged.

All that said, I’m always gonna check out whatever Marvel decides to do in the anime department.


Best of Catbug

Just found out recently that Cartoon Hangover's Bravest Warriors season 2 began some time during the second half of 2013 so I'm catching up. You can see the Bravest Warriors episodes here. Gotta love Catbug!

Bee & PuppyCat

Another Cartoon Hangover cartoon. Pretty funny and weird.

Crazy Nic Cage

This is me whenever I finish recording with Bob.

If You Are The One

Just because I can't say it enough, check out episodes of this awesome Chinese dating show on the SBS On Demand site. Episodes are on there for 2 weeks after they air. So damn good. There will be riots if SBS ever stops airing it.

Boob Toob Supplemental: Back from the Dead!

By Dan Pua

Sorry I haven't posted in a while! Real life stuff, you know how it is. *cough* video games *cough*

I've still been watching some stuff though and people still send me weird and whacky videos. Let's see...

Dumb Ways to Die

A bit late to the party, apparently it went viral late last year, but here’s a fun video made by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia as a rail safety public service announcement. I really like the character designs and the creative ways that they had those guys die.

If you go to their website at dumbwaystodie.com, you can get the song and click on some amusing things as well as viewing the video. They also have a fun game for the iPad and iPhone.

  

The Girlfriend Experience

I’ve never been with a sex worker and I think I’m ultimately too cheap to be with one although I have absolutely nothing against it. Not really sure how it came about but I’m interested in the people who work in the industry and also how it all works. This was a news segment from SBS 2’s The Feed featuring Gloria Van Vaulker. She shares her experiences and gives some insight into the lives of sex workers. Below is the promo but you can watch the full video here.

The Basics of Time Lapse Photography

Here’s a neat little video for anyone who’s interested in time lapse photography or just likes to see some cool time lapse photography videos. (Via Petapixel)

Captain Harlock live action trailer

I'm not even all that familiar with the original show but I’m a sucker for live action adaptation of manga/anime/video games…

Gatchaman live action trailer

I gush about this with Wendi (from the awesome Double Page Spread podcast) on an upcoming Boob Toob episode. Another live action adaptation of a beloved anime. GOD PHOENIX!

Kairos

I don’t even… how do I... so much awesome… check it out!!

Best of Professor Farnsworth

Futurama is about to end. Soon there will be no more good news everyone.

What have I been watching? Tons of anime, that's what!

By Dan Pua

Someone on the 11 O'Clock Comics forum recently asked what anime to look out for and I ended up giving a longer response than I intended. Probably because we've been watching a ton of anime at our place lately. We went from watching one anime series week to week (and a few that we pile up) to at least five per week. Not to mention the odd anime movie plus the backlog on various anime series.

So. Much. Anime!

Below is my reply to the guy plus a couple of additions. I'll probably talk about a bunch of these on future BoobToob eps, maybe I can convince Bobgar to do an all anime ep!

Please note that with most of the anime series I mention, I've included a link to where you can watch it streaming.

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Attack on Titan (check out the main pic above) is crazy good! Titans (giant human looking creatures) show up out of nowhere and kill off most of the human population. The remaining survivors build a giant walled city and they all live there since the titans can't get to them. 100 years pass and things seem okay. And then the fun starts.

Get on it now cos it's the new hotness! There's a couple of mysteries like where did the titans come from, how did the walls even get built in the first place, etc. They don't give it to you all right away like with some anime where the opening narration tells you everything. I found myself asking lots of questions early on but the show gives me enough meat to chew on each episode. They reveal bits and pieces about the characters and the back story of the world as time goes on.

If you have 20 mins to spare, please check out the first episode and let me know what you think (either comment here, grab me on Twitter, come up to me if you see me on the street, whatever). It's available streaming on Crunchyroll and Hulu. I love all the grappling hook action, they're zipping around the place like Spidey.

The Devil is a Part Timer: The big bad villain from some fantasy world escapes through a portal and he gets stuck on Earth with no powers and he ends up working at McDonalds. (Well on the show it's MgRonalds, but we know it's McDonalds.) Freaking hilarious. The day to day adventures of the big bad devil guy and his lieutenant are the best. It's available on Hulu and Funimation.

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (not sure what those words mean) is another anime that we're watching week by week. It's off to a really good start. The white haired dude below and his robot come from space and crash land on future Earth which is mostly covered in water and people live on giant floating vessels. There's more to it than that but you can find out for yourself if you watch it. We learn about this world along with the white haired guy and I'm curious to see more of the world and how he adjusts to it. The show isn't so much good vs bad but more world building and I hope it stays on that course.

Flowers of Evil is some creepy stuff. The animation style is different (the characters are rotoscoped) but it grew on me. My wife likes it a lot and I initially wasn't into it (anime set in high school featuring high school characters are a big turn off) but I'm watching this week by week too. 13 eps total so it's not a massive commitment. The topic isn't something that I'd usually find interesting but they've hooked me with the way they tell the story and the atmosphere. Definitely worth a look.

The new Hunter X Hunter series is solid but with 70+ eps in, it might seem too overwhelming for someone wanting to jump in. Yikes, 70+ eps. So me and my wife have been watching it week by week for 70+ weeks. It doesn't seem that long. The story arcs can be a bit long but they don't drag on and the show does a good job of making you want to see the next ep so you can probably watch several eps a day easy (assuming you don't have to go to work or do chose or other boring old people crap).

It's a lot of fun but not just for kids despite the look of certain characters. The show isn't afraid to kill off people. It's set in a world where I guess killing people isn't as big a deal as it is in our society. Most of the characters in the show, even the kids, are willing to kill. In fact, one of the main characters, the white haired kid named Killua, actually comes from a family of world renowned assassins but most people treat him like a normal kid (even though they know he's an assassin).

This show also has my favourite clown ever (see second pic below) and I'm not even a fan of clowns). He's a bit like the Joker if the Joker actually stood a chance against Batman in hand to hand combat. The cast of characters is really cool and there's a bunch of neat character designs. Feels like X-Men back when I was getting into comics. I'm asking questions like "Who are these guys?" and "What's their back story?" and "What are their powers?" That sort of thing. The powers they come up with for their characters are unique and it makes you want to see them get into a fight just to see what kinds of cool stuff they can do with their powers. This show is bad ass.

Gintama is super hilarious but they're nearing 300 eps. I've only actually seen less than 10 eps, what I've done is watch the recent eps that have a C at the end of the episode number. They're 'classic' episodes and are mostly standalones so you don't need to know anything although feel free to read the Wikipedia entry if you want some background info on who these characters are.

This series feels like a "what if Deadpool made an anime" series. Fouth wall breaking is in full effect. It's even funnier if you know about the manga/videogame/pop culture stuff they reference. This episode about smoking which heavily references a popular anime is probably my fave but most of those classis eps are a blast.

I saw the 3rd Evangelion movie, Evangelion 3.33, a few days ago. It didn't wow me overall like the first two although they had some scenes that really wow-ed me (one of which is reminiscent of the helicarrier lift off scene in Avengers). I don't think I can properly judge it until I see the 4th and final installment. It doesn't work as well on its own like the first two. Plus there are a lot of characters being jerks just to serve the story. But I do appreciate that they're taking a different direction with the movie and they're not just rehashing the series. Unless they totally screw up the 4th, I think this series of movies is well worth a watch.

I also recently saw 009-1. It's a 12 episode series about cybernetic female secret agents. Based on a manga from the late 60s by Shotaro Ishinomori. I'll say more about the series in the next Boob Toob episode but I will say that I don't remember the last time I found myself watching a show where there's lotsa boobage and yet my brain was being satisfied intellectually. Totally unexpected since I thought it was going to be just cheesecake. I liked it way more than I thought I would and I want to revisit this series at some point.

At the moment, it's all Attack on Titan, Hunter X Hunter, The Devil is a Part Timer, Flowers of Evil and Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet at our place week by week. We have a backlog of One Piece episodes to get through and we're waiting for the non filler Naruto episodes to start back up. There are a few anime movies that we still need to watch. Some Studio Ghibli movies (From Up On Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea, Arietty), the newest Fullmetal Alchemist movie (Sacred Star of Milos), One Piece Film Z & something by Madhouse called Death Billiards.

Boob Toob Supplemental: 2012-10-08

It's Dan once again, comin' at'cha with some Boob Toob Supplemental!

ECCC 2012 - Star Wars Trilogy: The Radio Play

I actually saw this a while ago but I forgot to put it on the last Boob Toob Supplemental.

Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Tara Strong, Jess Harnell, Billy West, John DiMaggio & Kevin Conroy deliver a masterclass on voice acting, reciting some key lines from Star Wars but as the various characters that they’re famous for.

Warning: 1 hr 20 mins long but oh so good :)

009 Re: Cyborg trailer

Trailer for the latest film adaptation of Shotaro Ishinomori’s Cyborg 009 manga series. So much crazy awesome action packed in 30 seconds. I wish I could be in Japan later this month to see this.

Stoker trailer

Trailer Park Chan-Wook’s new film (and first Hollywood feature). You may remember him from such films as Oldboy, Joint Security Area and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. I’ve mostly enjoyed his movies and I’m loving what the South Korean film peeps are dishing out so I’ll be checking this out.

It’s written by Wentworth Miller (the main dude from prison Break) and according to Cinematical, it was voted to the 2012 “Black List” of the 10 best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood (thanks Wikipedia).

A Good Day to Die Hard teaser

Die Hard in Russia! I hope it’s better than the last one. But it’s like Futurama, I’ll keep watching Die Hard movies even when they're bad.

The DI (digital intermediate) Difference of Haywire

http://michaelcioni.tumblr.com/post/16083208751/the-di-difference-of-haywire

Not a video but a very cool (at least, for me) and informative article on how Haywire was shot and post processed.

Until next time, keep boobing and toobing! (Whatever that means...)