Travels

Hi, BlogFans. I have an announcement: Awesome Town is moving.

I have switched blogs before and I apologize for zipping all over the place like this. But, I've finally decided to take some advice I got a while back and switch Awesome Town to a Tumblr.

I have seen a good amount of peoples' Tumblrs lately and I've been really impressed by the site. I've also realize Tumblr is a better place for the type of blogging I'm doing on Awesome Town.

Blogger is good, but its best for the kind of blogging we're doing over at The Ron Blog (which is about to go through some changes of its own, but I assure you it will remain on Blogspot). Tumblr has won me over as a better site for the sort of stuff I post on Awesome Town.

You can check out my new Tumblr that, I assure you, will run a lot like how Awesome Town ran, here. It's no longer called "Awesome Town," though.

I took this move as an opportunity to change the name. My Tumblr's called "Party All The Time."

Thanks, everyone, for supporting Awesome Town over this year-and-a-half or so that it has been active. I hope y'all check out my tumbling once I get cracking over there.

Best,

-Vogt

Lil B: Super Saiyan Freestyle

Hipster Dinosaur

My friend Mr. Will Culbert posted this to my Facebook wall. It deserves to be in Awesome Town:

[Via Fork Party]

Kratos Kitten

GOD OF WAR!

Welcome To The Terrordrome

For a while now I've been thinking a game like Terrordrome should exist: a fighting game starring horror movie characters.

This game is heavily influenced by Mortal Kombat which, if you think about it, has many characters that belong in a slasher film actually. All your favorite Slashers are in it: Freddie, Jason, Ghostface from Scream, Mike Myers from Halloween, Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Chucky...even Ash from Evil Dead and Army Of Darkness.

I've embedded a video of some gameplay footage below. You can check Terrordrome's official site here where you can download a demo if you have a PC (it won't run on Macs easily). I have a Mac so I can't play it. I'll have to be satisfied watching videos of the game for now.

[Via 1up]

Costume Quest Trailer

Tim Schafer (probably best known for his original Xbox masterpiece Psychonaughts) is a real visionary when it comes to creating groundbreaking and extremely entertaining videogames.

His new game Costume Quest has a genius premise. It's halloween, and peoples costumes turn them into all sorts of different beings. Actually, there's kind of a Buffy episode like this game. Kind of.

The premise for Costume Quest is a great way to get unicorns, robots, dinosaurs, skeletons...and so on, all into one game. And, presumably you can BE these things by dressing up as them. Which is awesome. Also, Halloween is probably my favorite holiday.

Here's the trailer:

[Via 1up]

Battles

Grinderman

This video for Grinderman's song "Heathen Child," off their forthcoming second album Grinderman 2, is insane in the best way.

I know little about Grinderman except that its a side-project type band run by Nick Cave.

The "Heathen Child" song is alright, but its video is pretty damn amazing. This video is an awesome nightmare, and the sort of thing more music videos should be like:

[Via Pitchfork TV]

Star Wars Lego Mural

This is not a mural for the game "Lego Star Wars." This is an Empire Strikes Back mural made of Legos.

It's amazing:

[Via @UGOdotcom]

New Little Big Planet Marvel Costumes

[Via 1up]

Brady Bunch Gets Low

My friend the very skilled filmman Joe Delaney made this excellent video in which the Brady Bunch get down to a hip hop (and high school dance) classic: "Get Low" by Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz featuring the Yin Yang Twins.

In naming this project, Joe made a bit of an error saying that "Get Low" is a Lil' Wayne song. It isn't, but don't hold that against him because "Brady Bunch Gets Low" is fucking awesome:

Scott Pilgrim-ize Yourself

The Scott Pilgrim comics are pretty good. They aren't my favorite comics in the world by any means, but they're fun and well put-together stories.

What's best about them is Bryan Lee O'Malley's wit and the downright lovable characters he created through Scott Pilgrim's six volumes.

The Scott Pilgrim movie coming out tomorrow is making for a lot of hubbub in pop culture about Scott Pilgrim, and now there's a thing where you can made yourself into a Scott Pilgrim character.

I gave myself the Scott Pilgrim treatment. Here's Scott Pilgrim-ized Nick:

Here are some more avatars I didn't make. They're all in color and are of famous people unlike Mr. Nick, friend of the hero.

Here's Kanye West:

Here's James Murphy Of LCD Soundsystem:

Here's Zooey Deschanel:

And Here's M.I.A:

[Via Paste]

Chef!

Bad Art

Apparently there's a museum for "Bad Art" in the Eastern Massachusetts town of Somerville.

Here are some of the museum's choice paintings (with names by yours truly):

Fun Dogs

Michael Jackson x Dream Horse

Eggplant Horror Family

Finally, here are some paintings in the Bad Art museum that I personally don't think are "Bad Art." That's probably because they are pictures of cats (the names are still my own):

Cosmic Pets

Beast Wars

[Via Paste]

Malcom Vs. The Bagel

Today at Kids Kung Fu camp I ended up involved in a kid named Macolm's imaginary world in which a giant bagel terrorized New York City. At one point I played the voice of Barak Obama on the telephone and it was pretty awesome. I channeled Jimmy Fallon for my Obama voice.

Malcolm called the president asking for ropes to bind the Bagel. And, of course, Obama gladly provided them. But, the Bagel proved to strong to be tied up by ropes. In fact, most of what Malcolm tried was unsuccessful in destroying or capturing the damn thing.

In the end, we needed the assistance of another kid, the super-inventor Gordy. Gordy built a giant toaster which he used to toast the evil Bagel and then Malcolm ate it.

Then, we rebuilt New York using crayons.

Super Marishka Hargitay

This month The Awesome Town has seen many posts with the word "super" in them. That's good. All super everything.

The picture below is by an artist named Sina Grace. It's a drawing of Detective Olivia Benson, one of the main characters on the great television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (the best Law & Order show by far) played by the actor Marishka Hargitay.

In this picture, Detective Benson has lightning powers. And she's fighting terrorists.

But, wait! This is not the only sci-fi Law & Order picture in existence! Not by a long shot!

If you want more Sci Fi Law & Order, An artist named Brandon Bird got a bunch of his colleagues together to make art taking the premises for Law & Order episodes and turning them sci fi.

For example, the picture above is based on a Law & Order: SVU plot called "Benson Combats Terrorist Activities." The series of art is appropriatly called "These Are There Stories."

The famous comic shop Meltdown Comics in Hollywood is showing currently showing all the "These Are Their Stories" art in the store. If you are in the L.A area, and you enjoy Law & Order and Sci Fi stuff, I recommend stopping by Meltdown and checking "These Are Their Stories" out. If you like comics and haven't been to Meltdown, it's a great store. I've been twice and it's definitely one of the best comic shops I've visited in my life so far.

Law & Order becoming Sci Fi really is amazing. It's two awesome things coming together.

[Via io9]

Super Cross Overs

Crossovers are definitely in fashion these days. Well, mostly if you're Capcom. Just last year Capcom released Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and next year they're putting out the game we've been waiting a decade for: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (a game that has two character wishlists here in Awesome Town. One by guest blogger Morgan Kent and one by yours truly). And now, a year after Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, we'll probably see release of the recently announced Street Fighter Vs. Tekken crossover game.

Perhaps inspired by Capcom's Cornucopia of crossovers on the way, an artist named David Stonecipher has made some crossover art. Stonecipher drew a series of pictures depicting superheroes meeting famous videogame heroes. Pictures such as this one of Superman and Super Mario:

Or this one of Batman meeting a fellow stealthy, deadly serious and gruff-voiced warrior: Solid Snake:

Here are two big monster guys, Donkey Kong and The Hulk:

And finally, here's Spiderman--whom Capcom oddly hasn't announced yet for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3--teaming up with a somewhat lesser known videogame guy: Just Cause's protagonist Rico Rodriguez. That team-up is because both Rico and Spider-Man zip around using grappling hook type things. Spider-man has his webs and Rico's got his stunt.

[Via Comics Alliance]

P.S: Just Cause 2 is one of the most fun games to dick around in of all time. It's like Grand Theft Auto, but even more ridiculous and thus even more entertaining.

I highly recommend downloading The Just Cause 2 demo, which is available on the Playstation Networks and Xbox Lives of the world. It's free fun. And, the Just Cause 2 demo is re-playable in a way most demos aren't. You can keep returning to it for awesome paramilitary sandbox adventures.

The Sound Of Superheroes Fighting

As a rule, All MMOs suck, and I'm sure the DC Universe Online game will be no exception. However shitty it the game will be, its trailer is pretty amazing. It is an incredibly epic and damn entertaining clash of DC's heroes and Villains.

Now, I know what you're thinking. I, too thought this would be lame before I watched it. But, trust me, it's nowhere near lame. Give this video a chance. I could care less about the game its a trailer for, so I'm sort of just considering it an awesome animation featuring DC characters and not much more than that:

[Via io9]

Air Skeletor

Skeletor is one of the most badass villains of all time. In fact, I think he's so badass that he deserves a better nemesis than He-Man. But, that's neither here nor there.

Anyhow, here's a little know fact about Skeletor: did you know he plays basketball?

An artist by the name of Andy Macdonald drew up the lovely picture of Mr. Skeletor balling.

[Via Complex]

Iron Man Anime Trailer

I've said again and again that I think most anime is terrible.

But, this trailer for the an Iron Man anime show looks pretty badass. And really, only the art style is anime. It probably won't have a ridiculous anime story since Warren Ellis, one of comics' most visionary sci fi writers, is handling on the script.

Game Reviews - E3 2011

In addition to Iron Man, G4 is also giving 3 other Marvel franchises the anime treatment: Blade, X-Men and Wolverine.

[Via Spinoff Online]

Robot Butterfly

Mind Sanitizer

This bizarre and awesome short film "Mind Sanitizer" is the work of my friend Emily Wingren:

And, get this: it isn't the only film she's made! You can check out other videos on the ALAAMODE Youtube Channel.

Yeah!

Street Fighter Vs. Tekken Trailer

[Via 1up]

Western Spaghetti

Ghostface Soap Commercial

Star Wars Cereal

[Via Comics Alliance]

Toy Delorean

I can't tell if this Power Wheels style Back To The Future Delorean is coming out soon or if it's a retro thing. It's hard to tell these days what's retro and what's made to look that way ( Cf., Mega Man 9 and 10, '50s Star Wars...).

My guess is that it's a new toy with retro advertising. Even if I'm wrong about that, this Delorean is still awesome:




[Via io9]

A Mustachioed Assassin

Ubisoft has an Assasin's Creed comic coming out, a joint effort by comics guys Cameron Stuart and Karl Kerschl.

This comic won't be about either of the Assassins we've come to know and love from the games (Altair from the first or Ezio from the second). Instead, it will take place in 19th century Russia and features Nikolai Orelov, a new Assasin who seems to use a riffle. And has a mustache.

There's also a teaser trailer they put out for this comic. Trailers for things that aren't films is a strange thing. But, they're making trailers for everything these days. This one is kind of cool since it's in an oldschool fashion:

But, you should know that while old man, mustachioed Assassins are awesome, Nikolai won't be the first...
[Via Comic Book Resources]

Presidents And Their Hams

An Artist named Bijoo painted portraits of all the U.S Presidents. He depicts each man with a ham in his arms.

Here's Obama with a Ham:

Here's Abraham Lincoln:

Here's Ulysses S. Grant:

And Here's Bill Clinton:

[Via Paste]

I Write Like...

On the website I Write Like, you can paste in few paragraphs, a sample of your writing, and it will tell you which famous author you're writing resembles.

For example, It told me that the first few paragraphs of a short story I wrote are like Charles Dickens. The site used "analysis" to do that, so it has to be correct. Right?

Obviously, if I write like Dickens that means I'm destined for greatness, y'all.

I can't see why you'd need to know what writer this site thinks you're like.

In fact, you don't need to know. But, finding out can be fun. In the that very dumb internet way.

[Via Paste]

Kanye West x King Tut's Grandma

Here's an even more ultimate teamup than Hellboy and Ghost Rider:

[Via Rap-Up]

Man Wolf Van

Not only is this a creeper van. But, it's a GOLD creeper van with a MUTANT WOLF DUDE (and outer space) painted on it.

[Via io9]

Hellboy x Ghost Rider

The other night I had a dream where Hellboy teamed up with Deadpool and Rorschach from Watchmen.

In the same vein as my dream, today some art hit the internet of another Hellboy teamup. Comic artist Dan McDaid took it upon himself to draw this very short comic featuring Hellboy and everyone's favorite flame-skeleton superhero: Ghost Rider.

[Via Comics Alliance]

Super Mario On The Curb

Super Mario Bros. from Andreas Heikaus on Vimeo.

[Via Destructoid]

From Russia With Love

Alcohol Up Close

Here's what Gin looks like crystalized and viewed through a microscope:

Pretty awesome, right? Here's what Sake looks like:

And here's what White Zinfandel looks like:

[Via Complex]

Batman vs. Predator (and Aliens and The Joker)

The new Nimrod Antal directed (and Robert Rodriguez produced) Predators movie is out tomorrow.

In honor of that, and because I've been blogging a ton about Batman lately (mostly over on the Ronblog) here's Batman: Dead End.

This fan film's a couple years old, but it's pretty cool. There's really no story. It's just Batman fighting monsters. But, that's fun.

A much more recent Batman fan film called City Of Scars came out a little under a month ago. "City Of Scars" has no Predators or Aliens, but it's not too shabby.

Big Bang Big Boom

Here's some amazing graffiti stop motion by an artist named Blu (not the same guy as the hip hop Blu) showing the beginning of the world up to Blu's vision of the world's end:

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

[Via io9]

Fancy Inception Ad

Christopher Nolan's new movie Inception is supposed to really great and it isn't even out yet (it comes out July 16th).

Apparently the film's about dreams and reality manipulation and such. That's what I can glean from the internet anyway.

Whatever Inception's about, this ad on the side of a building is pretty cool:

[Via Heat Vision]

Mice Fight

[Via i09]

Girls And Wolves Shirt

This is a great shirt you can get from Threadless.

Awesome Sand Castles

[via Curated]

Lego Futurama

[Via Comics Alliance]