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Patrick Havens on June 7th, 2008

Blender Org… a Open Source team who has been developing the free and Open Source 3d Animation software Blender has come out with a new and very nicely done animated short movie called Big Buck Bunny in which a Big bunny deals with some mischievous pests.  Besides animating the entire film, and providing free to [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 22nd, 2008

Visit Garfield minus Garfield for an awesome retrospective of a deeply disturbed Jon.

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Patrick Havens on April 8th, 2008

I was wandering around and found a couple pictures for an upcoming Live Action Movie version of GI Joe. Now the pictures are pretty cool, and truthfully are so perfect they could be a fans render that are being passed off as leaked photos. But if not, they look REALLY good. I quickly [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 7th, 2007

I’m not that freaking old. I just remember the Speed Racer RE-RUNS…. I loved the cartoon when I was in school… and again later as I was in college and they showed up on TV again. This was one of those franchises that easily found a niche audience. Think of this [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 20th, 2007

If you haven’t kept up with the latest Captain America comic plot lines, you may be in for a shock to learn that the virile symbol of American patriotism is dying and he has to choose a successor from among a band of merry marines and office trollops. But who lurks over his left shoulder? [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 13th, 2007

One of the greatest cartoonists have died…

Phil Frank, whose cartoons graced the pages of The Chronicle and other newspapers for more than 30 years, died Wednesday night only a few days after he announced his retirement because of illness.
Frank, a longtime resident of Sausalito, was 64 and had suffered from a brain tumor for months.
His [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 15th, 2007

I ran across an article mentioning that there was a spoof of the Simpsons out that Fox was sicking their lawyers on called “The OJ Simpsons.” I had to laugh because I always assumed that The Simpsons™ actually spoofed real life.
In this case they have The Simpsons if OJ was Homer. And so [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 3rd, 2007

Some real talent went into this short film. We have a man with a drinking problem that ends up part of an MC Escheresc experiment. Upon awaking he discovers he’s stuck on a stairway…

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Patrick Havens on February 10th, 2007

Penny Arcade had the right idea.  Take one stupid persons comment and use the money generated to buy a Wii… if you can find one.
Penny Arcade Strip

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Patrick Havens on January 6th, 2007

Every car has a personality, and most of us take that next step and christen our cars with names like Roger, the Powder Blue Thunder Wagon, the Scalded Chicken, and the Jetta Knight (all names of past cars I’ve owned). After watching Pixar’s computer animated opus to the automobile, CARS, we know have demonstrable proof [...]

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