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writer and editor jason rodriguez. this is his analog to digital.
jason rodriguez is a writer and editor, whose books have been nominated for an eisner award and 8 harvey awards. jason is currently editing a series of comic anthologies about colonial new england and the mid-atlantic region for fulcrum publishing scheduled to start being released in 2014. he is also creating a series of low-cost sci-fi stories for children exclusively distributed via amazon kindle. jason lives in arlington, va with his wife and their two dogs, four cats, and a parrot. you can usually find him on a street corner, staring out into the future.
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This week in EW we discuss the evolution of the Fast franchise.
This cover is ridiculous and I love it.
This person typed these two sentences, presumably looked at them, and said “I have no problem with this, I think that is a perfectly rational and consistent statement to make,” and moved on. Incredible.
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Comic Cover Monday: What If…? Vol.1 No.9 - What If The Avengers Had Fought Evil During the 1950s?
A Kirbs and Joey Sins joint.
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Remembering Ray Harryhausen, 1920 — 2013
Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, John Landis and the UK’s own Nick Park have cited Harryhausen as being the man whose work inspired their own creations.
“Ray has been a great inspiration to us all in special visual industry. The art of his earlier films, which most of us grew up on, inspired us so much.” “Without Ray Harryhausen, there would likely have been no STAR WARS.”George Lucas
“THE LORD OF THE RINGS is my ‘Ray Harryhausen movie’. Without his life-long love of his wondrous images and storytelling it would never have been made — not by me at least.”
Peter Jackson
“In my mind he will always be the king of stop-motion animation.”
Nick Park
“His legacy of course is in good hands. Because it’s carried in the DNA of so many film fans.”
Randy Cook
“You know I’m always saying to the guys that I work with now on computer graphics “do it like Ray Harryhausen.”
Phil Tippett
“What we do now digitally with computers, Ray did digitally long before but without computers. Only with his digits.”
Terry Gilliam
“His patience, his endurance have inspired so many of us.”
Peter Jackson
“Ray, your inspiration goes with us forever.”
Steven Spielberg
“I think all of us who are practioners in the arts of science fiction and fantasy movies now all feel that we’re standing on the shoulders of a giant. If not for Ray’s contribution to the collective dreamscape, we wouldn’t be who we are.”
James CameronThe Harryhausen Chronicles documentary, narrated by Leonard Nimoy, covers much of his work with some great close-ups of his puppets and lots of advice from the master himself. In the introduction Ray Harryhausen says: “Fantasy is a dream world and I don’t think you want it quite real. You want an interpretation and stop motion gives it an added value that you can’t catch if you try to make it too real.”
The Harryhausen Chronicles in six parts combined with a YouTube playlist.
Fond memories of waking up on Sunday mornings and catching the Sinbad movies on TV.
Experimenting with clay as a kid and trying to make skeletons with swords and a cyclops and medusa while other kids made flowers and racecars. Watching Jason and Argonauts over and over and over again because we shared a name, obviously, but also because of the magnitude of Talos.
RIP, Ray Harryhausen. One of Hollywood’s greatest innovators.
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“I think people are gonna notice check-ins with previous genre pictures like ‘Lethal Weapon’ just in terms of my style…” He adds that he was able to craft Tony Stark and Don Cheadle’s James “Rhodey” Rhodes into his own Riggs and Murtaugh-esque regular joe action hero types. He says:
“The great fun was to add the touches that mark it as being about a guy who is as effective and interesting, and in some ways as deadly, outside of a suit of armor as he is within it. Those portions of the movie, when Tony’s on his own and Rhodey’s walking around in a polo shirt with a gun, were fun for me.”
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From Shane Black himself…I guess I wasn’t reaching (link).
Spoilers!
New theory: The Mandarin reveal was a through-the-looking-glass homage/redemption of Last Action Hero.
