While everyone loves a good zombie movie, it’s a known fact that they don’t come without plot holes. Simple ideas such as “what happens when the zombies don’t eat for a long time” vs “Does getting bitten or scratched merit a zombification” are easily called upon. But of course the geniuses at Cracked have compiled an awesome list of gaping holes that not only occur in one movie, but all movies. Check out the list after the jump. Speaking of zombies we only have a couple of more weeks until Walking Dead Season 3!! And a couple more months until Brad Pitt’s World War Z!! We haven’t had a good zombie movie since Zombieland…
Comic Con was a week or two ago, and a lot of awesome stuff was revealed and announced. Amongst them was the casting announcement of several new characters to be featured in Game of Thrones Season 3 aka Storm of Swords. I absolutely love seeing some of these characters come alive to see if they fit the version I created in my head. Especially versus the how I originally was able to see them in season 1 before reading the books. Seeing the dude from Narnia be Jojen is a pretty good nail on the head, as well as Bryndon Tully. I was especially impressed with Melisandre and Davos Seaworthy casting, and I’m sure once the make up and costumes are on, I won’t be able to tell the difference at all. It’s all very exciting. As for an update with Dance with Dragons, I’m nearing the last 100 pages, a review is scheduled for next week!
Can’t believe we have to wait an entire year for season 3!!!
I thought I’d share this gem for those of you that haven’t seen it yet. Someone has managed to bring the world of Minecraft into Skyrim, complete with Steve and a few other additions, this mod for the popular Bethesda title has been stirring a lot of talk recently. Though I personally have no feelings about the game, I’m fairly certain there are many of you out there that absolutely can’t stop playing it. Here’s to you, dragonborn! Also, nothing beats getting into a fistfight with a minecraft zombie…
I’ve been learning a lot in the past 2 days. What we have above is a sleak combination of Illustrator and Photoshop. It’s still in the testing phase, so this comic is pretty half assed in terms of professionalism [like Chad said]. But still, I’m getting used to it and I can’t wait to reveal to you guys what I’ve been working on for my Sunday Sketch….It’s definitely awesome. In the meantime, read more Universidaze here!
We’re not really a gossip type here at Banana Scoop [we like to think we deliver REAL news, lol], but every once in a while, the usually horrible articles at MSN and Yahoo! catch my attention. While they’re not too incredibly in depth and too often include celebrities I don’t care about [anyone with the name Bieber or Kardashian], I did find this article from MSN neat about how it compiles the heights of some famous celebrities. I usually dig random celebrity facts and this is no different. Sure the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ones are obvious, but seeing some others like Mr. Bourdain here was pretty interesting. Check out the article by clicking the link below.
College Humor has created one of the greatest web series out there, titled project “Badman”. This web series is essentially a parody of how ridiculous Batman can be. Batman is portrayed as an idiot in this series. It’s almost indescribable how awesome this is. There is definite comic gold in making fun of the way Batman speaks, and putting him in compromising situations is even better. Check out the entire playlist here.
I’ve lived to only have seen one great trilogy. The Lord of the Rings trilogy set the bar high and absolutely astounded me from start to finish. Meaning all three movies lived up to their titles and I wasn’t disappointed by any of it. This past weekend, I’m proud to admit to adding another trilogy to that list. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is quite possibly the only way to end such a great trilogy. There haven’t been many great trilogies in our lives, not any as influential and culturally relevant as this trilogy. In addition to the recent Colorado incident, this will not be a movie I will soon forget.
The follow up to the Dark Knight might’ve cost Christopher Nolan the biggest undertaking ever placed on a director. That movie was simply a masterpiece, large in part to the late Heath Ledger. By merely meeting the audiences expectations, he would’ve accomplished something only so few people can. But of course, Christopher Nolan, who’s directing track record is nearly flawless, delivered and soared as to what can be said as the perfect way to end a trilogy. Minor spoilers below. Nothing back breaking. Or should I say Bat breaking. HA.
Breaking Bad is in full force and that mean a bunch of pop culture quips are emerging. Like this hilarious panorama of Hector Salamanca’s facial expressions. The man has seen a lot of things as we’ve seen in the past season. And he’s clearly been through a lot to make him that way. What a way to go Hector, what a way to go.
I stumbled upon this awesome website for Pawnee, Indiana. It’s not as awesome as it could’ve been, where it’d include a .gov representing it’s ‘legitness’, but regardless, it’s still pretty good. I’d imagine being an intern at NBC and being told to build a separate website for Parks and Recreation. The website itself is fairly detailed, having full list of the employees at the department and more. There’s even Ron Swanson bit. Now I hardly doubt Nick Offerman wrote that article, but it’s still neat someone impersonating him. They even included an email address….now we’ll have to see if they actually respond.
The Dark Knight Rises will be popular for a while now, and we’ll continue to be promoting how awesome it is. Here’s a behind the scenes picture of Bane and Batman, aka Tom Hardy and Christian Bale having a talk after a scene. It’s awesome, especially because Tom Hardy had to express all his emotion through his eyes in the movie, and he’s doing it right now. I’m definitely sure that if you could Photoshop his eyes to make him look angry or even sad, this scene would be entirely different. A project that I’ll look back into later.
Things are moving quite along for Breaking Bad. Last season, we were given a look at who Gustavo Fring was and his motivations for things. This background look at a supporting character was spine tingling, haunting, and delicious. It appears that torch has passed onto Mike Ehrmantraut. I’d say about 75% [if not more] belonged to him and I have to admit I loved every minute. In this episode, we get a glimpse at a little bit of Walt and Jessie as well as a very key scene with Hank realizing something important. Discussion and spoilers below!
So apparently we live in a close enough future where point a light at someone will cause them to puke. Or where jetpacks might actually be considered as forms of travel. It’s amazing how some movies can predict what the future might hold. Who knows what young kids will watch in terms of futuristic movies and will later innovate. One perfect example of a movie is Minority Report. Every day we’re moving closer to their awesome touch screens and sound guns. Check out this article about which tools from the movie are actual tools in real life.
Cracked has come up with another list of awesome points. This time around, it’s common comic cliches that occur on all comic covers. It has something to do with how the artists like portraying heroes. And apparently there’s a rule book for thing like, holding someone dead in your arms and screaming at the sky, or trying to fit in as many guns as possible. Or it’s pure coincidence that most comic books do this. It’s very much like the 3 Point Landing I posted about earlier.
We had some technical issues last night that forced us to postpone all of today’s articles to be published tomorrow. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
A while back, I posted an article about my drawing method. Well after a little research, I quickly learned that I would forever be stuck in super amateur mode during that process. Turns out legitimate graphic designers take an entirely different approach to drawing. My original method was a very simple yet not very yielding process. So in response, I guess I decided to upgrade myself from Adobe Photoshop to Adobe Illustrator. In the process, I’m awing in the genius while simultaneously ripping my hair out. It’s not as simple as drawing a circle and filling it with the paint bucket fill tool anymore. There are vectors, paths, anchors, and handles. I’m trying to learn it all and even tried to produce an extremely ambitious project for you guys. But after about 2 hours that yielded me something not very satisfying, I decided I needed to practice a little more with the simple stuff before I tried to go for the advanced things.
Luckily, I’ll use simple enough interface to draw for Universidaze, so I’ll try and use Illustrator for my comics for now on as a means of practice. To promote and test it out, I drew up this quick Miles from Univesidaze in Illustrator and it took me about 10 minutes to draw that. It literally takes me 2 in photoshop, but this is something hopefully practice will help me fix. So that’s my excuse for no legitimate Sunday Sketch, but I’ll include the 2 failed projects below just so you can see how hard I tried for you guys.
This week on Banana Scoop, expect articles on the following! On another note, I know last week, I promised Maintenance Updates every Tuesday, but truth be told, not too many things change in one week, so I’ve moved Maintenance Newsletters to be every OTHER week instead. Just a little heads up if you were gonna wonder later.
The Dark Knight Rises Review – We’re all praying for the families in Colorado. It’s such a shame this had to happen.
Game of Thrones Parody – We’ve posted one about it before, and it makes a brilliant sequel!
Garfield Minus Garfield – A look at a witty artist who takes Garfield out of comic strips and shows the delusional mind of Jon Arbuckle
Breaking Bad Weekly Review – Another discussion about tonight’s episode of Breaking Bad!
Ron Perlman Has a Heart of Gold – Ron Perlman helps out a child in need for the Make a Wish Foundation
Minecraft! – Due to time constraints, I wasn’t able to post my article on Minecraft [and it got embarrassingly posted anyways as to faulty scheduling], so we’re going to take another crack at it this week.
Pitterpatter from Milliennialxperiance wrote a piece on remembering the time when Xanga was the big social media interface. Being in the target demographic noted, I too was in middle school during that time. It was neat seeing how someone else thinks back to their own childhood and in PitterPatter’s experience, especially seeing as how she moves past it by essentially telling us that we’re better than our middle school selves. I too hated middle school for being that young wasn’t as kind to me as other kids, seeing as my braces, glasses, and ignorance about hair product made me socially inept. But that doesn’t stop me from going back and looking at what all my old friends did and why I chose them as friends in the first place. It’s overall a neat thing to run back to Xanga and simply see how much you’ve grown. And like she said, “come back to the present and start getting ready for Monday, because you’re fabulous and important now”. Words well said.
Congrats to PitterPatter for her reblog! Get reblogged on Banana Scoop by simply commenting on any article between now and next Saturday. Happy blogging everyone!
Oh my goodness, I aboslutely love this. There are two references here: Portal and Legend of Korra. This is from one of the first episodes of Legend of Korra where Chief Beifong allows Korra to leave her prison cell, but not without leaving a message. And as Korra leaves, she fires a message right back. The genius is replacing the body art with skins from the portal series. Korra has become Chell and Chief Beifong as Glados.
What’s so great about this is because this interplay between the two characters from Legend of Korra resonate fairly well with the characters from Portal. The adorable [yet slightly weird] relationship between Chell and Glados is exactly how Korra treats Chief Beifong. I wish I could credit someone for something so great, but in all honesty, it’s so hard to find sources to unmarked GIFS such as these. If anyone knows please enlighten me.
So I stumbled upon a rather interesting collection of artwork featuring famous animated characters re-imagined as zombies. While keeping most of their cartoon glory, they have been re-purposed with a rather sinister objective. They now exist solely to munch on your brains. While not all that scary, I found the artwork to be incredibly well done and very thematic in some places. For example, Buzz Lightyear lacking blood and having wiring instead or Master Chief seemingly infected by the flood parasites. It’s an incredibly interesting album worth checking out. Some of the characters are obviously named incorrectly as you’ll soon find out, but I won’t rag on the author of the article for his misdemeanor as I truly enjoyed the art.
If there’s anything Weekend Funnies have taught me, is that not everyone has the same sense of humor. But the internet is a generally a collection of everyone and the sheer compilation of the wit and humor that each individual contributes essentially represents the most broadest and generalist appeals to mankind. So when I choose the 24 images for each Weekend Funny, I know the reason I think it’s funny will be at least funny to some percentage of the world. And even if the it’s the smallest 1%, 1% of 7 billion is still 700 million. So I apologize if you’re offended, disgusted, or upset. Truth be told, if you can’t handle these 24 images, you likely shouldn’t be on the internet anyways. So stop worrying about racism, sexism, and other means of being upset. Just keep scrolling, and remember: no one’s looking, it’s okay to smile at something someone would frown upon.
I WAS TOO FCKING BUSY WATCHING THE DARK KNIGHT RISES TO WRITE FRIDAY’S ARTICLE, SO I REPLACED IT WITH THIS PREDONE WEEKEND FUNNIES.
I REGRET NOTHING.
There was an original post about Minecraft that was supposed to be published this week, but we’re going to move that to next. I’m sure you all won’t mind.
So here’s your 24 hilarious images from around the internet.
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