Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind. A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax [...]
Categories: Animation,Codes,Comics,Consumer goods,DIY,Documentary,Entertainment,Heroes,Looks,Mixtapes,Movies,Music,OutoftheBlog.com,Youth culture
Tagged: 80s, 90s, B-movie, B-movies, Koyaanisqatsi, Kurt Russel, robocop, skinemax, Tapes, VHS
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- November 17, 2011 – 09:30
- Author:
- By Andrew
I’ve written about this in the past. Its an old fascination of mine: WWII and other animated propaganda from the 1940s onwards. Bored with the regular assignments at University and willing to do discover something unknown or at least have a good time while spending hours behind your typewriter doing research I even wrote a [...]
Categories: Animation,Codes,Comics,Documentary,Movies,OutoftheBlog.com,Politics,Television
Tagged: disney, propaganda, propaganda cartoons, world war 2, WW II, WWII
- Published:
- December 13, 2010 – 18:30
- Author:
- By Andrew
Finished Crooked Little Vein by comic book writer Warren Ellis. Been reading steady again ever since a Kindle found its way into my hands. Now I am not an established book reviewer, but Amazon can provide you all with a short description as this is one read worth sharing: Michael McGill is a burned-out private [...]
Categories: Bookreviews,Comics,Everyday life,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Reviews
Tagged: book, crooked little vein, review, reviews, warren ellis
- Published:
- November 17, 2010 – 22:33
- Author:
- By Andrew
Chad Vader identifies as many costumes as he can at Dragon Con 2010. Hilarious in a way! (No disrespect to you cosplayers out here ). Couple of weeks left till FACTS, the biggest comics, sci fi & anime festival of the Benelux. Never been there before, but curious to go and have a look Have [...]
Categories: Animation,Art,Codes,Comics,Connectivity,DIY,Entertainment,Events,Exhibit,Gaming,Gathering,Heroes,Looks,OutoftheBlog.com,Quickie,Television
Tagged: 2010, chad vader, comics, conference, cosplay, cosplayers, costumes, dragon con, FACTS, flanders expo, Gent, Ghent, hero, heroes, star wars, superhero, superheroes
- Published:
- September 26, 2010 – 20:44
- Author:
- By Andrew
Mexican photographer and a former New York resident Dulce Pinzon casts Mexican migrant workers of New York City as superheroes. He provides them with the appropriate costume while at their jobs and within our midst. Great stuff. The project intends to broaden our collective definition of the term hero, a label often used in American [...]
Categories: Animation,Codes,Comics,DIY,Documentary,Everyday life,Heroes,Looks,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Quickie,Travel
Tagged: costumes, dulce, dulce pinzon, fantastic four, flash, hero, heroes, hulk, immigrants, marvel, mexican, migrant workers, new york, new york city, photogrpahy, pinzon, superhero, superheroes, superman, warner, wired magazine, wonderwoman
- Published:
- September 22, 2010 – 09:00
- Author:
- By Andrew