Boob Toob Supplemental: Toob Raider edition

We got a new cat and named her Indy. Because she likes to explore. We did it as a joke after talking to fellow Boob Toober/Blooger/cat owner Rebecca but the cat seemed to respond to it so we just went with it. But enough of my life story, here's some videos and junk!


Raiding the Lost Ark

Really cool 'filmumentary' by Jamie Benning. This actually came out 2 years ago but just got around to seeing it recently. It's Raiders of the Lost Ark but spliced with supplementary material (in the form of audio, video, transcripts, pictures and even comics) related to the making of the movie. Really fun to watch especially if you like Raiders and/or Indiana Jones in general.

Raiding The Lost Ark: A Filmumentary By Jamie Benning from Jamie Benning on Vimeo.

Staging Raiders

In case the above video wasn't enough for ya, here's Raiders in black and white and with a different score to help emphasise Steven Spielberg's staging techniques. The guy behind all this is director Steven Soderbergh and I guess he thinks very highly about Raiders from a visual staging standpoint.

No embeds but please go to this link for his write up as well as the video. Careful with that thang, Indy!

Korra Book 4 trailer

I can't believe this series is almost over. Just 4 books/52 episodes in total. I thought book (or season) 4 wasn't until next year but it'll be out this month. Maybe Nickelodeon wants it out of the way. Such a good series, one of my all-time fave animated shows. I'm gonna be sad when it's over and I hope they do another show set in the same universe.

Moonlight | Sony A7s ISO test

I'm into photography and I watch a lot of these kinds of tests but I normally don't post them here. This is pretty nice though. Shot using a Sony A7s and lit entirely by moonlight. Good job by Sony creating a sensor that performs really well at the higher ISOs and if I was more of a video guy, I wouldn't hesitate picking one up. (I have the A7 and it does really well with photos.)

Moonlight | Sony A7s ISO test from Carbon Studios on Vimeo.

Japanese GotG trailer

Yeah, I'm not done with the Guardians of the Galaxy love. Check out the Japan trailer. A lot more entertaining than the one we got.

I had a couple more GotG related stuff to post (one was the team's appearance in the Avengers Pokemon-like anime and the other was Chris Pratt's GotG/Marvel parody by SNL) but they seem to have been taken down from Youtube. Oh well. Watashi wa Groot!


Optical illusion

For those of you who like headaches...

I'll see you guys later! (Assuming you're still alive after watching that 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: 45mins until my long weekend starts

Easter is upon us which means most people here in Australia get a 4 day weekend. If you plan it in advance (as some peeps in my department did) you can have almost 2 weeks off just by taking a few days off work. There's only 3 work days next week because we have Monday off and then Friday (April 25) is Anzac Day. So some people here took 3 days off next week and I won't be seeing them for almost 2 weeks. I'm already taking 2 weeks off at the start of May so I'll be staying put next week. It's all good, at least I get 2 long weekends in a row.

But you didn't come here to hear about my life story, right? You came here for some videos. Let's do this!

Origin of memes

If you ever wanted to know where your favourite memes came from, how's about you leave Britney alone (that's a meme, right?) and check out the video below. I can never ever ever get enough of Star Trek memes.

Japanese intro to the X-Men 90s cartoon

Pretty freaking epic. Thanks to either Billy Z (from Comic Book Bears) or Gerry McDade (the G in GXPod) for alerting me to this. I don’t know which one of them posted it because it was done on Facebook and I don’t know how any of it works. (Get off my back!) But apparently Jon Westhoff (the guy that says “and we’re baaaack” on E2P) originally posted it.

More info on the opening can be found here. I wish they did a whole series in this animation style.

CRY FOR THE MOOOOOOOOON!

Gotta catch... all the Avengers??

More Japanese Marvel goodness! This is the opening to Disk Wars Avengers. It sounds a lot like a mash up Earth's Mightiest Heroes with Pokemon. Thanks to Kross on the 11 O'Clock Comics forum for pointing this out. POKEVENGERS!

360° video made from 6 GoPro cameras

By Vimeo user j0n4s. This is pretty neat, I'd love to try something similar. I've embedded the video below but you'll want to check it out on Vimeo to see the original and better quality version. Mone info on how it was done can be found here (you may want to translate it in English).

4D? I barely have a handle on 3D!

Pretty trippy looking game called Miegakure. I may have to check this out. More info at Kotaku. FYI the 4th dimension is not time.

Shatner kills Shakespeare

Say whaaaat?!? Why would anyone wanna kill Billy Shakespeare? Watch the video below to find out. They used Legos to make it too and you know how popular Legos are these days. 

Speaking of Legos...

Check out these adults who get to play with Legos. That's exactly what I'm gonna do once I retire. Play Legos all day.

Best. Thing. Ever.

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo

By Rebecca

This probably isn't the sort of show for our hosts but hey, someone else out there might be interested. 

You might guess from the title that this show is a romance. It's also a comedy. Set in a Japanese High School, starring high school kids (goodbye, Dan. Tune out now). This is the first live action show I've watched on Crunchyroll and so far I'm enjoying it.

(Editor's note: Streaming episodes can be found on Crunchyroll's website.)

The premise of the show is that Kotoko Aihara, a girl in Class F (the lowest scoring class) has been in love with Naoki Irie, Class A super brain, super popular dude, for the past two years. She finally decides to confess her love, but unfortunately for her, Irie doesn't accept her letter and just kind of steps it into the dirt. Apparently Irie is also something of an aloof wanker.

"Please read my letter!" "Oh hells no, girl."

And this is where it gets a bit strange. Aihara and her dad are about to move into their new house but...it gets struck by a meteorite and falls down (what? That would totally happen!). Oh noes! Where will they live now? Turns out Dad is BFFs from way back with Irie's dad and, you guessed it, they end up living together. Awkward.

I'm only about four episodes into the show but I really like the Aihara character. She's funny, well-loved, and surrounded by friends (though you can see why she's a Class F student). I hope her friends continue to make appearances as, inevitably, Irie becomes less douchebaggy and realises that Aihara is awesome. But then again, this is a Japanese YA romance. We might have to wait til the last episode for them to look at each other with doe eyes or start holding hands.

I can't really understand why Aihara likes Irie so much, but maybe if I was 16, I'd think he was totes awesome, too. 

"Hellloooo, ladiez. Look at me all aloof and brooding in my vest. I bet you could change me."

Check it out if you usually watch anime like this (it'll have no surprises for you, but it's fun), or if you think it just sounds like a cute show. 

"You're gonna watch, right?

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.