What?! Seriously? Akira was one of the first animes I watched in my early teens when we had to rent VHS cassettes. Good times.

Not really actually…

But look what we get out of a big Akira fan’s imagination 2 decades later! DeviantArt user, Ulises Farina gives us Batman done in an Akira style. How cool is this? God it’s so grungy and “street” that it may just make Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass look like it’s owned by Disney (oh, wait… no no it’s not technically…) or Frank Millar’s Dark Knight look like “your father’s Batman” (oh, wait, technically, it is nowadays…)

Update: Wow, I just came across a 2nd piece of Farinas featuring Batman–this time it feels like a Batman Mixes it up with I Am Legend. Instead of making a new post I’m updating this one and keeping it all together! Wicked stuff!

BAAAHAHAHHAAAAaaaa… haa.. oh… haha. I love dinosaurs. This made me laugh by myself. And that’s fun. Ya.

From YouTube:

Completed in January 2010, The Moon Bird is a dark fairytale about an orphan girl who must outwit a terrible sorceress with the help of a magical lunar bird. The film is a short animation fifteen minutes long funded through the UK Film Council, Screen WM and CHANNEL 4.

From the Brother’s McLeod Site:

We’ve never done this before but we thought we’d take you through the process, the ups and downs, the long nights and early mornings. We’ve got to deliver the film by August so it’s going to be a busy few months.

The film is titled ‘The Moon Bird’. The story came about after Greg challenged Myles to write a Brothers Grimm tale. We’re going through script tweaks at the moment and Greg is working on style sheets, character and layout design.

Just when I start thinking too much is going on in the Batverse over at DC Comics, and I start fearing the day it’ll all just go back to the same old same old… an artist comes up with a concept like this–Robin and Bat.

So simple. So perfect. So fresh.

The artists’ intent was for this to be Tim Drake with a new troubled teen… but I can’t help wanting this more than the current Dick Grayson as Batman and Damian Wayne as Robin setup. It’s obvious Batman will return after he figures out how to get back from the past–yadda yadda–but lets face it: The day of Bruce Wayne as Batman is coming. Deal with it.

Wouldn’t this be the perfect answer?! The conceptual stuff aside… this Robin design just looks badass and maintains a level of fearful respect that would have been learned during his time as Batman. This artist, “kizer180” needs to get hired asap.

Artist Ulises Farinas has taken a critically acclaimed comic book event done by DC with their Green Lantern Universe… and made it MORE epic by portraying the many characters as LEGO! Instant masterpiece to many a fanboy on the interwebs for sure!

Here’s an animation by Andy Hueng done in 2005. This is interesting, creepy and thought provoking. Here’s the short blurb from YouTube:

A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.

Am I the only one hungry for this and wanting it RIGHT NOW!?! I can’t be. Seriously, how many people out there just need a machine to take with them while on the move–to get email, use the numerous Google web apps like Docs, Calendar, Maps, Gmail, etc? This will be a PERFECT alternative. Fast, simple, less hassle, less encumbersome… did I mention faster? My Asus Eee Pc with a light linux OS is pretty darn fast… but I don’t even want to bother with the additional applications that comes on it that I never use.

I have slowly but surely moved almost everything I do into the cloud–the internet is where I keep all my files and work–I’m not fully there yet, but knowing Google Chrome OS is coming in 2010 makes me want to wrap up the migration process. Having data lost to computer crashes in the last 15 years has finally gotten me to this point–the last 7 or so years I’ve been lucky and have had no crashes, but I’ve also learned to backup everything pretty hardcore.

Still… I’d rather make “backing up” my work, part of “saving my work” somewhere on the web–the cloud–instantly secure… This would be the awesomeness.

I found this some time around Halloween–not sure exactly why I never posted this already. Just came back up while checking starred items in Google Reader. I had to share it. I know I will never look at bubble-wrap the same way again. Now I can’t help making that horrible horrible whining pitiful weeping when all things in my life at the moment seem defeated. This video is done by Arthur Metcalf and has hit up some festivals: It depicts that last moments of horror for a society of sentient bubble-wrap bubbles. Creepy.

Doug Savage, in a Savage Chickens strip once again applies humorous chicken-antic simplicity to something that seemed more complicated in my head three weeks ago.

I am leaving a job I loved for a long time this week. I came to the conclusion (again in my life) that ultimately all choices have one constant: Death. We can either be risk takers and explore life… or we can find stability and die comfortably. Either option is perfectly acceptable by the way. Just seems the first options keeps knockin’ on my life’s door.

What are the odds I’d come across this wonderful animation about “Lil Cthulhu” done by Zachary Murray with the voice of Erika Fontana based on characters from the mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft?

Synopsis from YouTube landing page:

Want a child-friendly way to introduce your little one to the traditions of the Old Cult? Meet little Cthulhu, who lives in the magic city of R’lyeh with all his friends, as you and your child embark on a fun and educational journey through the world of the Great Old Ones, meeting all kinds of new buddies from the Necronomicon along the way, from Azathoth to Yog-Sothoth! This series has won multiple awards and has been enthusiastically approved by the department of child-developmental psychology at Miskatonic University.

AWESOME! Seriously, what a great, awkward and awesome reason to bring young ones into the Cthulhu fold in a non-horror and madness-inducing way! Maybe…