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Photo on Bokehh.com

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One of my photos was featured on the Bokehh.com in their post about Notre Dame in Paris. Just scrolling through all the great photos on this page, I'm amazed that they wanted mine up there too (mines the one marked AltecApollyon) It was a secret favourite of mine, since I felt that Notre Dame is always photographed in the same way, and wanted to do something different and felt that I had. I guess someone else thought so as well. It's not nearly on par with the others...so anyways: I'm flattered.

Bokehh.com is a photography page trying to make a contribution to artists by highlighting their talents and introducing their works, its also meant as a platform for inspiration for others.

POTP (Picture of the Present)

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Prince of Perisa : The Sands of Time - finally gets a trailer! And then another!

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Jerry Bruckheimer's next big project (after the Pirates of the Caribbean) just got trailers. Please view at fullscreen if possible :wink: The trailers seem to show quite alot, but all i can say as a fan of the video game series (perhaps the best trilogy to date) is YES YES YES YES YES!!!




and the international trailer:

Astro Boy is BACK!

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One movie I'm really excited to see is Imagi's "Astro Boy." I really love Astro Boy and used to watch the cartoons as a kid. Now as a man-child I am reading the Mangas and playing the Nintendo Gameboy Advance game - I think the trailers look great, and although the imdb rating is pretty low, it doesn't bother me one bit, because I really like the TMNT from Imagi and I think this one will be equally good. They've also got a couple big name actors doing the voices like Bill Nighy, Samuel L. Jackson, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland and Nicolas Cage. Also, just as a side note for you anime otaku's: Imagi studios is also bringing out Gatchaman! Check their webpage for more info!

Check out the trailer! (don't know when it will be released in Germany *weep*)


Astro Boy was created by Osamu Tezuka (who is often referred to as the "Godfather of Anime") and aired as the first anime cartoon on Japanese television in 1963! And it had already been a manga since 1952! Maybe "Grandfather of Anime" would be a better title :wink: - it was remade the 80s (thats the one most of us know...) So give this one a little respect and check it out if its playing near you (I promise it will be better than "2012."

Termiformers and Transinators (A Rant-Review)

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Unfortunately, so much time has passed that most people have watched these movies or watched them pass. So I am going to make this as quick as I possibly can.

First of all, Terminator Salvation (because its the one I saw first). I wouldn't have actually left my house to see this, but I was invited by a couple friends and it seemed like a fun night out (regardless of which movie we were going to see). The trailer for 'Salvation' made the film look gritty, and very Fallout 3 like (ie. end of the world, everything is rumble and destroyed...desolate) And I was liking that - but I knew there was something foul about it.

So to quickly recap why this movie completely and utterly SUCKS: this terminator film has NO time travel - something which is a key element to the other terminator films, and its what sets the terminator films apart from other sci-fi robot films (but I'll get to that in a sec). Also, aparently its not so desolate afterall, as there are hundreds of humans being rounded up - heck they are popping up everywhere in every scene! So much for nuclear holocaust. There's also these NEW terminators, that are pretty much Transformers, they are so big and even have little Terminators that spin out of them that look like motorcycles. (WHAT THE HECK?!)

The useless and boring story finally brings the characters to Skynet HQ - which looks a lot like Mordor (big tower with a light on top and all!) there's big talk about how dangerous it is, and how they aren't going to get it. But then they simply walk right on in (even typing 'DISENGAGE' to a door to open it) and don't get any resistance! Then theres a completely useless scene where Sam Worthington talks to the über-computer, but denies his programming (that was super lame, because that's where he should have become the terminator) but instead we get a weightlifter with Arnie's face digitally grafted on to it (why?!) although that last scene running from the slow digi-Arnie is about as close as we get to a Terminator movie. *sigh* what crap. Why Christian Bale ever agreed to do this movie, is far far far far beyond me.

Secondly we have Transformers : The Revenge of the Fallen. Now, to be fair, Michael Bay was complaining up and down that Terminator Salvation was stealing ideas adding practically Transformers into their movie and he's probably right - but boy did he get them back, with the introduction of a humanlike transformer that tries to seduce Sam Witwicky in his dorm room. hmmm, Terminator 3 anyone? Geez, cry me a river Bay - who do you think you are? Oh, you're the guy who spent $200 million making this movie? Oh. Apart from the not-so-hidden racism and over the top American patriotism theres still so much gunk in this movie its embarrassing!

Think about the first scene with Megan Fox, lying on the motorcycle, (there are so many more of these shots of her in this film its like watching Michael Bay's voyeur video collection. She's painting the motorcycle upside-down. What the?!?! I'm not going to list all the scenes, but also at the end, when shes running around in the sand all dressed in white, I wanted to just get up and leave. But I didnt, because I had paid 18 british pounds to see this steaming stink pile in the IMAX (which was so shaking and hard to watch it made some seriously motion sick.

The worst still has to be the 20min at the end of military garbage that we had to sit through- full of military-jargon and crap just so Mr.Bay could show off once again how tight he is with the American Army...I can't believe that Steven Spielburg put his name anywhere near this movie.

The only thing good about these movies was the computer graphics, good job ILM.

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box! Nintendo DS

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'Gamers' who sit in front of their PS3's or 360's and call themselves 'gamers' but completely discard the Nintendo DS as a 'kiddy console' are really missing out on some of the most original and inspiring games out at the moment.

In Level-5's first Layton-adventure : "Professor Layton and the Curious Village" - we got a fantastically memorable game, with a mixture of puzzles, history, mystery, mini-games, character and full-blown animated story! The world in which these characters find themselves was purely its own, and it took us on an adventure with great twists and surprises. So, being so taken with the first, I was naturally excited when I heard that 'the Curious Village' was simply the first act in a trilogy that was already available in Japan!

The second act is now being translated and is for sale outside of Japan : "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box" and it looks every bit as good as the first. I'm not going to go into detail about the story, there are enough articles a google search away to read on that, but let me say that they've kept everything you loved about the first, and added changed a few things, but it feels like a natural extension of the first; graphically nothing has changed, the gameplay hasnt changed, the music hasnt changed, even the story gets underway and it's great. Immediately you feel that you're back in Layton's world.

This time around, the game does not take place in a little village, but on a train (trains seem to be all the rage lately, as they are also making an appearance in the new Nintendo DS Zelda game : Spirit Tracks) This has got to be the best idea about the game : you are still confined to a small area, surrounded by familiar faces, but it doesnt seem unnatural or contrived. It's like the difference between 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.' Anyways, enough writing about this game, I gotta go play!


Achtung! Disney's Snow White sets a new bar for Blu-ray releases!

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Disney just released Snow White (in german Schneewittchen) on Blu-ray and DVD. The DVD costs 19.99€ but the Blu-ray is going for 24.99€ !! And they are also giving you the DVD version in the box! It's still got loads of extras. I think it's a great idea, since you are easing customers into the transition from DVD to Blu-ray and it'salso giving you a copy (ie. the DVD) that you can give to your kids to play with, so that your Blu-ray stays scratch and drool free!I wish they would finally bring out a good edition of Monsters Inc. (Monsters AG) with Blu-ray and DVD, or maybe finally The Lion King (König der Löwen) or Beauty and the Beast (Schöne und das Biest). I can only hope that this is a trend that will catch like wildfire!
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