June 2008 - Page 3 of 5

Death Race – Movie Trailer

Set in a grim and dystopian version of the near future, Death Race is the remake of the cult 1975 film Death Race 2000. Surprisingly, Tom Cruise’s Cruise/Wagner Productions is the production company of the upcoming film.

Jason Statham is cast in the role of the protagonist who is forced to race to stay out of a hellish prison.

Statham has made a career out of playing an expert car driver in B-grade films such as the Transporter series and The Italian Job. This makes him the ideal, if not so very surprising choice for the role.

The film is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the director of the Resident Evil film series and the extremely horrendous DOA: Dead or Alive movie.

Watch the trailer after the jump.

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Toast Messenger – Burn Messages on Your Toast

The 'Toast Messenger' allows you to burn your custom messages in your own handwriting onto slices of ordinary bread. Sasha Tseng, a Taiwanese designer now based in San Francisco, is…

Zombie Daily Blog Features a New Zombie Illustration Every Day

Ontario based, illustrator and artist Rob Sacchetto’s “Zombie Daily” blog features a new and killer zombie illustration every day. If you want to see yourself as the walking undead, send…

Bottlecaps Photo Set on Flickr

This lovely Flickr set has hundreds of pictures of bottlecaps, collected from all over the world. (Thanks, Jason.)

Star Trek vs Common People Mashup

This incredible mashup of Will Shatner’s incredibly painful rendition of Pulp’s “Common People” and the old Star Trek animated series is just too cool for words. Kirk and Spock. The…

Creative Manix Condoms Ad

I like the subtlety of this Manix Condoms ad from France, for men with big, uh, feet. Click on the picture to view it in a larger size.

Superb Promotional Ad For Top Gear 11th Series

An estimated 350 million viewers worldwide watch the multi-award winning Top Gear show. Whether it’s racing supercars against jet planes, or blowing up cheap Malaysian cars on the show, the folks behind Top Gear have always pushed the envelope by trying to make each show more exciting than the previous one.

The promotional teaser for the upcoming 11th season show, brilliantly pokes fun at the hosts, Jeremy Clarkson and co., who always dream up something exciting and gimmicky to satiate rabid fans each week.

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MyToons.com Launches HD Animation

Launched in March 2007, MyToons.com is an online animation community, which provides a free platform for animations professionals and budding artists to showcase their creations. Users can upload and share their original animations with a global audience of animators and fans of the medium.

To coincide with the first major design overhaul of the site, MyToons.com has now launched HD Animation, supposedly becoming the first online animation site to do so. The site has invited animators to upload their animations in high definition.

You can watch some great HD quality animation on the site, including the recently released Big Buck Bunny open film.

~~Unfortunately, despite the site’s claim that the HD videos can be embedded on other sites, I was unable to do so. Pity.~~

Update: The good folks at Mytoons have informed me that the glitch has been rectified, and HD embedding now works seamlessly.

Anyhow, watch a short and entertaining animated film titled “A Faery’s Tale,” one of the many films featured on the site.

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Wall-E Preview Clip

Watch a preview clip from Wall-E, the much-anticipated animated film from the brilliant folks at Pixar.

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The Other Family – Parody Comic Strip

The Other Family is one of the many parody comic strips lampooning Bil Keane’s "The Family Circus,” which happens to be one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in…