Balloon Bowl

Matt Beach skating a bowl filled with balloons in Portland. Very nice idea aesthetically.
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Dondi & Zephyr In Hong Kong

These pics are of Dondi & Zephyr painting in a Hong Kong nightclub back in 1982!!
The two graff legends were in the city promoting the release of "Wildstyle" in Asia.



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Jane Austen vs. The Undead

As an English major, I can appreciate the sentiment that Jane Austen's novels would have been better with zombies. Heck, what wouldn't? Well, Los Angeles author Seth Grahame-Smith obviously agreed, and saw fit to correct the issue. His new book, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is set for release on April 15.

Actually, Grahame-Smith is not the only author. Rather, he collaborated with Ms. Austen, despite the fact that--much like many of the characters in the book--she's dead. I'll let the official press release do the explaining:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead.

With any luck, this will spur a trend of classics of English literature being interpolated with zombie horror. Bleak House of the Dead is soon to follow, I'm sure.

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Have Your Say: What's your favorite Manga anime?

(Blood: the Last Vampire)

Be it Ghost in the Shell, Akira or Ninja Scroll, Manga anime has impressed and inspiered fans for years.. what's your all-time favorite? 

Leave us your comment. 

First Look at Some Monsters vs. Aliens Character Posters

I have some retro-cool character designs from Dreamworks' Monsters vs. Aliens for y'all today, courtesy of CanMag:





This looks like it could be a lot of fun. I especially like the tip of the hat to Harryhausen/It Came from Beneath the Sea. Look for the flick on March 27.

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Yeah, so, by now I'm sure you all have come to the realization that The Vault of Horror secured the bronze medal in TotalFilm.com's Best Horror Blog poll (that's my positive way of spinning it!) But it's cool, it truly is an honor that they selected me, and I mean that. It just goes to show how far the VoH has come in just 15 months. Congratulations to the winner, Fatally Yours. And also, congrats to my LoTTD colleague Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Movies for coming in second place in the cult category!

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Toyota i-Real

Toyota have designed the i-Real, a cross between a wheelchair and a mobility scooter. But its way more than that. The i-Real has 2 driving positions: one for cruising at walking pace, and with the push of a button, it reclines to a more aerodynamic setting with a speed of 20 miles an hour! It can also communicate with other i-Real users, and has an information database, say if you want to find a coffee shop it will find the nearest one for you.
Toyota hope to have this on the market in 2010 with a price tag of £2000 so hold off buying that new widescreen TV and that beach holiday and you could be owning one of these!

R.I.P. Monsters HD

I had heard the rumors, but was refusing to process them in my brain. Monsters HD, the greatest thing to happen to horror fans since the invention of television, was not long for this world.

And sure enough, I went over to my parents' place earlier this week, switched over to their HD lineup, only to discover that, indeed, Monsters HD was no more.

Apparently, in light of the imminent full-switch to HD, all of Optimum/Cablevision's HD-original channels, provided by Optimum's Voom subsidiary, have been buried for good. The channel, which broadcast all kinds of uncut horror and sci-fi flicks since 2003, went away forever as of last Monday night.

A sad development if ever there was one. I had really grown to love that channel, as had my monster-crazy son. I'm still puzzled as to why they would pull these HD channels in the first place, since it was in no way interfering with the introduction of the new HD lineup of regular channels, but what do I know?

Monsters HD and its brethren channels had already been dropped by Dish Network, its other major carrier, nearly a year ago.

Although some complained about what they saw as annoying repetition in Monsters HD's lineup, there was enough variety among the selections to keep me in perpetual horror bliss. I was impressed by the breadth of content available on their channel, and really, how can anyone complain about a 24-hour commercial-free TV channel that featured everything from classic Universal, to Hammer, to '50s giant bugs, to direct-to-video '90s schlock and everything in between? They showed all the frickin' Blind Dead movies, for crying out loud!

Oh, well. For the time being, I suppose I'll have to settle for Chiller, which is a piss-poor substitute for sure. I'm hoping Optimum might pick up FEARnet, but even that doesn't hold a candle to the glory that was MonstersHD.