AVFVP:: vol.31
click on icon to view: the latest ToyBreak & ToyBrief episodes, BatmanLego gametrailer, Zune-Arts, Britney Spears' new animated Breaking The Ice music video, UNKL, Kermit the Frog, Red Cliff, Forbidden Kingdom, Doomsday and local music-docu Radio Station Forgot To Play My Favourite Song (*note: embedded videos galore / mature language)TOYS: Toy Brief #16
- George goes old-skool and reviews Michael Lau's Lamdog Football Deluxe 09
TOYS: Toy Break Episode 29: Paper Cuts
- CLICK to view cyber-reams of papertoys
VIDEOGAMES: Batman Lego Video-Game Trailer:
- i am a drone-sheep. a mindless drone sheep. looking at this animated trailer for the upcoming LEGO BATMAN Videogame trailer [via] made me suddenly hanker for some Batman Lego, if only while watching it = which frankly, is something that will not happen anytime soon (not becoz i dislike them, but i've gotta prioritize my toy-expenditure, whenever i have any to expand, yeh? pays to be focused prepared is all ima saying :p) ... the power of visual media in the realm of toys is a relatively unexplored frontier, IMHO - remember when music videos sold records? ah, there!
ANIMATION: Tickle Party (hi-res version on Zune-Arts)
MUSIC VIDEO / ANIMATION: Break The Ice by Britney Spears
- i've got no lurv for Britney, but this GITS-rip isn't too bad - made in Korea to look like Japanimation (screengrabs on JustJared) ... anyone watched the South-Korean-made
"Wonderful Days"? (aka "Sky Blue" in the US)
MUSIC VIDEO: Restless by UNKL
[higher-res version HERE] "Official video for the forthcoming single from War Stories. Features Josh Homme on vocals. This video was made by James Ward, winner of the Filmaka UNKLE contest."
LIFESTYLE: Supreme Kermit The Frog
fcuk me! is that Frank Oz? ... peeps get chokedup over Terry Richardson having a photoshoot with Kermit, and an entire generation (or two) of peeps know not the "greatness" of The Muppets. madness...
MUSIC VIDEO: Rainbow Connection by Kermit The Frog
- old-skool still teh best skool, IMHO.
TVC: Sony Foam City-WIP
- new Sony Bravia tvc with the focus on "Foam" - hell, even before the ad is aired, it's on youtube (more madness) - get the lowdown on JoshSpear and Commercial-Archive ... i remember a tv-spot i did a few years back, where i had to fill a bath-tub full of bubble-foam ... didn't go too well ... i hate foam ... fcuk foam.
MOVIE: Red Cliff (Japanese Teaser)
-"Red Cliff (Chinese: 赤壁), alternatively known as The Battle of Red Cliff, is a two-episode Chinese epic film based on the Battle of Red Cliffs and events during the Three Kingdoms period in Ancient China. The first episode is expected to be released in 2008. The film is directed by John Woo and stars Chang Chen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Lin Chi-ling, Zhang Fengyi and Zhao Wei. With an estimated budget of US$80 million, The Battle of Red Cliff is the most expensive Asian-financed film to date."- there's always the perpensity to hype-up about the cost of a feature film, foolishly thinking "expensive" means "work of art", specifically in Asia (which can't be fully blamed, for mayhap tis the audience's frame of mind, innit?) ... with all the resurgence of period kung-fu extravaganzas in the past few years, i've realized i have not watched a single one since Zhang Yi Mou's excellent HERO ... and all the GoldenFlower/Banquet/Warlords et al fade into obscurity, or to be fair, the stacks of DVD that lay silently aside, with the hope that one day they will be shoved into the dvd-player ... and John Woo is over-rated. this trailer is here to prove a point ... what that point is, tis yet to be decided ... gawd i sound bitter, innit? ... it's the manly-hairbuns that offends my eyes lah ... LOL
MOVIE: Forbidden Kingdom
- "Based on the Chinese legend of the monkey king, revolves around an American teenager who discovers the king's legendary stick weapon in a pawn shop. He is transported back in time to ancient China, where he joins a crew of warriors fighting to free the imprisoned king"
[The Forbidden Kingdom]
- starring Jackie Chan, Jet Li and other folks im not too interested in, sorry. and im always down with WuKong, but it was only palatable before Jackie opened his mouth and spoke English. "do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?" - no, not becoz of his nor Jet Li's diction, but tis a fantasy fable set in China where chinese kungfu-dudes speaketh English ... i feel so old and out of touch (so old, i even recognized The Bride With White Hair) ... to be released April 18th worldwide. and no, i do not think Jackie will start a new trend with dreads. and yes im quite upset they are using Tan Dun's HERO-theme so blatantly ... but it does look pretty, doesn't it? hhmm. it's all about the crane-shots and color-correction lah ... Zhang Yi Mou "got it", everyone else seems to be languishing, innit? heh.MOVIE: Doomsday
- "Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure." [Doomsday / wiki]- the latent self-destructoid-part of me (*cough*) yearns for good apocalyptical movies - but tis always a slippery-slope - EscapeFromNY x MadMax x IAmLegend with a tinge of JudgeDredd = i could live with ... everything was okay until the shiny new car appeared. fcukin' hollywood schtick, innit? where's a good old fashioned bubonic-plague to wipe out humanity and leave the robots to inherit the Earth ... mortal death is so last millennum, innit? heh.
DOCUMENTARY: Radio Station Forgot To Play My Favourite Song
(warning: Audio for embedded-video is horrendous)
- (above is Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3)
- Click HERE to view the entire 23-minuter music-documentary on Vimeo. (docu circa 2002?)
"Radio station forgot to play my favourite song" is a 23-minute documentary on the contemporary rock music scene in Singapore. It features commentary from and footage of renowned DJs, music critics, industry bigwigs, producers and musicians." (steady lah Billy!)= the notion is actually still quite permissable in this day and age, throughout a variety of genres, and the toy-culture is no different here, if there be a culture at all ... and no, (just) buying and selling toys is not a "culture". and neither is blogging about it enough ...
