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Point one in the Fifa Fair Play Code: "Play fair. Winning is without value if victory has been achieved unfairly or dishonestly. Cheating is easy, but brings no pleasure. Playing fair requires courage and character. It is also more satisfying. Fair play always has its reward, even when the game is lost. Playing fair earns respect, while cheating only brings shame. Remember: it is only a game. And games are pointless unless played fairly."

If all players had the unwavering character to follow the spirit of the above, then we wouldn't need 4th video officials or men watching from behind the goal and Ireland could have gone forward or been knocked out without controversy. At the end of the day though, its the system that failed the players as much as henry's conscience.

Today i QQ.

If someone were to construct a machine for the sole purpose of breaking my balls, it would take the form of this update to the classic movie.

Breakin mah balls.

To summarise what would otherwise be a massive rant, why in the name of god, more than a decade ago, were production IG better at integrating their CG than they are now. Why were they able to do it perfectly with the tachikomas in gits sac season 2 and not here.

BREAK MY BALLLLS

Whatever else the movie will be, it will look awesome haha. The cast shot that was released just blows me away. liam neeson just looks astonishing. Would not have believed it if i had not seen it. 


http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/liam-neeson-ready-for-action-in-a-team-film-14542489.html?action=Popup&gallery=no

Friend came round with his five week old black labrador puppy. GUHHHHHHHHHHH SO CUTEEEEE

I was sitting cross legged on the floor and it  climbed up onto my lap and went to sleep chewing on my shirt. GUHHH CUTEEEEEEE

Then it started snoring. QQ SO CUTE

Suddenly i wan a puppy, but seeing as i could not keep a houseplant alive for six months , its probably not wise.

And  apparently has been for at least a week. Apparently its been dealing out trojans, so if you have been there for any reason, though god knows i cant think of one, best to run a avast free edition boot scan to make sure your machine is clean. Needless to say, since i would not have the expertise to identify the bad files from the good, i burned the whole site down instead, and will start a new one from scratch in a few weeks.

This is a movie that reminds me of the good old days when sci fi could be both a visual and mental feast. When it could look great but also say something worth saying.  Its not a movie i intend to spoil in any way, so by necessity this will be short for any who care to read it. This movie does everything excellently.  As an action sci fi movie, its superb. As a story about discrimination and suffering, once again superb. You would almost have been made to think from the movies in the last 10 years that you would have to pick one or the other, style or substance, but could not have both..Not so here.  In retrospect it becomes more astonishing that this is the director who was given the halo movie, and who had it pulled out from under him in 6 months.  I hope someone somewhere is being shouted at very loud for making that particular call.

If you like sci fi for what it does best, examining difficult issues about ourselves through a thin veil of in this case aliens, you will love this movie.
If you like sci fi for its cool weapons and explosions, you will also love this movie.

Infact i have trouble thinking of someone who would not like some aspect of this movie.

critics reviews.
http://ie.rottentomatoes.com/m/district_9/

Rubs hands. Going to see today. I have high high hopes of sci fi of olde. The kind of stuff that deals with social issues and the human condition, basically the kinds of things that got me into anime when i found them so lacking in live action at the time. High high hopes this movie will blow me away. To be honest i have been looking forward to this more than 'avatar' , which looks like a ps3 game cutscene in the clips i have seen. I can only hope there is substance to go with all the style.

Friend showed me this today, and it was pretty class. Its the story of the first animated baby porn to a live action family , set in dublin ireland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIv7poWJFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXVyDKLOiM&feature=related

Well the cam rip was there for a while now, but no even semi solid substill i got my hands on excellent ones today, so i finally sat down and watched it. Simply superb. I will buy blueray to watch this properly. The legal hong kong edition with english subs will exist long long before it ever reaches this shore, so i hope to have it within 9 months.  

I will be honest, i liked this movie a lot, in a lot of unexpected ways. With this guys films, i am always used to the story taking massive swerves and oddities in the order of scenes and what not, and i came out of this thinking man that was a very straight line telling of a story. To the point that that was surprising in itself. But what i realised after that was the movie had taken many many small subtle turns. Scenes never turn out quite how you expect but in smaller ways.  Not only that, for a film sold on violence, i thought the movie really shined most in the dialogue scenes, the pauses between the guns and baseball bats and what not.There was a scant few of those scenes in kill bill, none i can remember in death proof. Makes me think of his older stuff, pulp fiction etc. You just know ten minutes into this movie that you will love it, and if you were like me, you wont believe 153 minutes passed in it, unlike transformers two, which was like being dragged through hot coals for its last hour and a half. 

Not only would i see this again, i have already booked the tickets to go see it again with my dad.

To get back into the swing of things i decided to draw unit 2 taking a poop (rebuild colour scheme). Im also drawing a lot of hands.

So i though i had the flu. Then suddenly this crazy rash appears. Mother fucking chicken pox. I thought you got this on tv shows as a kid.

QQ

My astonishment and delight at this is unparalleled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XccWmHnDbF8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5KuG0gMMf8&feature=related

Littlewoods seem to have priced a 19 inch monitor and mini pc at 69 instead of 699. Many are jumping on it, in hopes they will honour that price but i highly doubt they will. Just in case my brother ordered three hahaha. If anyone wants to try their hand at abusing the system, link is below. 



http://www.littlewoodsireland.ie/rf/lwi/p.do/mini-desktop-with-19in-monitor?Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&SNtt=toshiba+19+mini+pc&groupId=587702127&Nu=pca_id&SNtk=generic_search&Np=1&SN=107+85&Ntt=587702127&D=587702127&Ntk=group_search&Dx=mode%2bmatchall&thisprod=587702127&N=107+85&Nty=1&Mis_item_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=587702127

I love Gainax.

And after i saw this animation i loved them before they even were gainax.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzxZ7kIhG94

That a bunch of college and highschool kids could do this just blows me away. It kind of makes clear what greatness is. I cant help but wonder how blown away people at the con were back in 83. I would be blown to space if something of that quality was done for a con today, let alone back then. I had picked up 'The nonteki memoires' years ago on the assumption it chronicled the production of evangelion, given its cover images, but never read it because it seemed to focus on gainax pre gainax. This was clearly a huge error on my part, and a book which i must now revisit.

As i post this, i hit the 24 continuous hours at work mark. Bar a brief 30 minute meal and the odd gawk on SD to prevent me going insane i will by necessity be taking that number up to 40 today. More comedy  horrifyingly for me, it is entirely possible i may have to work all the way back round till now again, making 2 non stop days of drawing, which for me would be a new personal best.  XD Also the effect of not sleeping seems to be surprisingly small short term..... another effect of green tea..hmmm.

I came across this while looking for gun reference images. The black and white scheme and engraved flourishes made me think of goth lolita. 


https://shopquestar.com/shopping65/q_images/S&W-108306FC_1.JPG

http://kotaku.com/5269845/evangelion-game-coming-to-ps3-does-it-involve-the-father-of-playstation-yes

OH god please let them release it here. I know i don't grovel enough or pray but i would really appreciate this. 

I was in the local book store grabbing reference images for a contract yesterday, when the store manager casually began mentioning the virtues of comic x y and z, which was odd, as this is a huge multi level store as opposed to a small comic shop.  This was all well and good, until she began randomly bashing manga. I have seen linked on sweatdrop.com people bashing manga for no valid reason, but i had never actually seen it 'in the flesh'.   

I was told how manga was 'poorly drawn and lazy'.  How it was 'all gratuitous sex and violence.'  Needless to say i was disappointed but i hid it and let her rant her argument while i nodded repeatedly until she  finished.

Its a fantastic bookstore in terms of content, best within about 150 miles of me, so i could not really freak out on her and i didn't really want to in the end, as her opinion was clearly based on not reading manga at all. But her prejudice came from somewhere, and that place was about 20 feet behind me. As i looked over their manga section, the problem was pretty obvious. An entire shelf of battle royale to start with. About three quarters of their stock was set in violent settings, ninjas  deathnotes etc etc etc.  I am not knocking these titles. But because of their mass market popularity, these were the manga they stocked, because obviously stuff like planetes, monster and  with the light will never top a chart any time soon. But god dammit, neither will any film of any daring or socially exploratory note.

It is at this point that i consider my small civilised counterattack.

This was a person who was happy to talk about the stores top shelf comics, not porn, but rather titles like 'maus'.

So, along with a copy of  'with the light- raising an autistic child' i want to deliver a list of 20 manga volumes that they should stock, to illustrate what they are missing in terms of what makes top level manga really incredible and thought provoking and more or less smash this persons 'top ten chart' preconceptions of manga, and possibly be a list that cn be delivered to other bookstores with similar notions.

If you know what ted is, you can go straight to the link, if not, here is a summary. Each year the leaders in many fields of human endeavour meet at a conference called TED to share cutting edge ideas. Recently the videos of these lectures have become available.  They can be some of the most awe inspiring and worth while videos you will ever watch,  the one below discusses 12 ways to mimic nature to solve our problems. Its really great stuff. 

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html