Patrick Warburton Buzz Lightyear
Just for comparison I was curious to see what Patrick Warburton would look like as Buzz Lightyear, instead of the Tick.
Original can be found at Raoni Nery on CGSociety.
Month: February 2010
Buzz Lightyear IRL
This is a pretty cool image by Raoni Nery over on CGSociety of what Buzz Lightyear would look like is he was real. A friend of mine thinks he should look more like Patrick Warburton.
The work is very similar to that done by pixeloo, (some people have said it is the same person) who has taken cartoon characters and tried to imagine what they would look like if real.
Jessica Rabbit
Mario
Homer Simpson
The saddest dog in the world
I have feelings, too, originally uploaded by *christopher*.
Jim Corr’s Last Word interview
This is a bit old now, but back May 29 2008 Jim Corr of The Corrs went on the Irish radio show “The Last Word” presented by Matt Cooper. He was brought in because he was against the Lisbon Treaty (Ireland’s first attempt at the vote). When asked why Jim goes into a long discussion about how he feels the treaty is a stepping stone to a new world order. Every one from the Illuminati to September 11th conspiracy theory’s get a look in. It is definitely worth a listen, my favorite line is that he has got a lot of time on his hands now:
I’m a big fan of Gift Grub which is a comedy segment on the Ian Dempsey radio show. It usually takes some thing weird going on in Ireland and poking a few funny holes in it. I particularly like how fast they can turn around content. This was put out within a day or so.
I actually heard the Gift Grub skit first and was amazed to find out that the original interview was even more bizarre than the Skit. Sadly the original Gift Grub mp3s are no longer available on the podcasts. So I have uploaded this and another one, where Jim releases a new album, so allow them to live on. Please check out the website for the new content, it’s brilliant!
As an addendum, in Ireland when you vote for something and the people say No, we keep voting until we get it right, the Lisbon Treaty, like the Nice Treaty, was passed on a second vote.
Sham-Wow!
I have one of these things, I don’t care how good the Germans are, it’s crap!
Clark, it’s way past time you learned — what it means — to be a man!
There is news today of Chris Nolan getting involved with rebooting or restarting the Superman franchise. This is very interesting news to me. I am a bit fan of comics and one of the first I ever read was Frank Millers “Dark Knight Returns“. Written in 1986 it imagines what would happen if Batman got old as til that point we had only ever seen Batman stories with Batman in his late 20s early 30s. The futuristic world that Frank Miller creates is the standard dystopian one with Bruce Wayne retired from the vigilante world for nearly 20 years, all the other super heroes are gone except Superman who is exclusively in the American’s pocket and does what ever he’s told to do. The story was (and still is) very popular, this book and Frank Millers other, Batman: Year One, where largely influential on the time Burton vision for his Batman stories in the late 80s/ early 90s.
I loved Chris Nolan’s first movie, “Batman Begins”, it rebooted the franchise and got away from the camp, neon soaked, toy pushing Joel Shumacher films. There were a lot a features in that movie that also seemed to call back to Frank Millers Batman work in the 80s. I did find it very interesting that he called the second movie, “The Dark Knight”, in the comic book world Batman has been known by this name for years, but the general punters wouldn’t. There is some wishy washy excuse in the movie that Harvey Dent is to be the White Knight to Batman’s Dark Knight. I never bought! Chris Nolan wants to make the move “The Dark Knight Returns”, the name wouldn’t make sense if there was no movie called “Dark Knight” (see Superman and Batman). It would also be nice to move away from the recent Superman emo flick. While aspects of it looked great it was largely boring.
That’s why the announcement that Chris Nolan is involved in a Superman reboot carries some weight. In “The Dark Knight Returns” Superman features heavily and helps conclude the story when a battle suited 55 year old Batman must face off against Superman and Bruce shows Clark what it is like to be human.
What is not clear to me yet is how long a game Chris Nolan might be playing, is he going to wait until Christain Bale naturally ages enough so that he can plausibly play an older Bruce Wayne/Batman or will he recast, if so who might be the right age and look to play this Batman. My personal choice is … George Cloony, even though Cloony has gone on record and apologised for being the Batman that brought down the franchise. Looking back on the movie he is not the weak point of it, every thing from the script, too many protagonists, antagonists, super sets, super egos got in the way of that move. Clooney however looked like a good Bruce Wayne and I think in 10 years he could look like a good Dark Knight Returns Bruce Wayne, if they forget the nipples he could even look good as Batman.
For those waiting for a “Dark Knight Returns” adaption, be sure to check out the episode called “Legends of the Dark Knight” in the Batman Animated series. In this episode a few kids tell stories about what they think Batman is like. One story is Batman’s encounter with the Mutant boss which is lovely lifted whole from the “Dark Knight Returns”.
