I found this link on the World Superhero Registry’s website under the section for Tutorials. I think that this animated gif is going to give me a headache.
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Hero at Large is a 1980 comedy film starring John Ritter and Anne Archer. Ritter plays the part of Steve Nichols a struggling actor. He takes a job posing as comic-book hero Captain Avenger at comics stores and conventions. On his way home from one of these appearances and finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger. He’s feeling pretty good about helping people and continue trying to be a superhero only to discover that the superhero life is more complex than he initially thought.
I’ve always thought that the idea behind this movie was pretty interesting. Anybody can see the news and see the crime going on all around us. It would appear that there are real life super-villains, so why not have some real life super heroes? This leads me to the World Super Hero Registry.
I saw an article on Gizmodo about people dressing up to help out with patrolling and protecting their neighborhoods. Both Rolling Stone and the Times Online have written about the US’s superhero phenomenon. Labeled by some as a post-9/11 response and apparently spurred by Obama’s call for “active citizenry,” everyday people are dressing up in spandex to patrol the streets in a manner reminiscent of The Watchmen.
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We’ve made a successful trip out to see Despereaux. I have not read the book so anything that I know about the movie I’ve learned from watching the trailer. I met my sister at the theater with 5 of my kids who range from age 10 to 2 years old. We sat down in the theater and my sister broke out the treats and the movie started.
Firstly, my kids sat through the whole movie. At one point my 6 year old put her head under my arm to shield her eyes from an action sequence, but other than that everyone sat and watched. As the movie started I found myself being a bit critical. The colors on the screen were bright and the animation was smooth, but the sound was so low I could hear all of the munching in the theater. I guess it could have just been my children that I was hearing, but that’s beside the point. I wonder if “G” rated movies have a lower volume setting.
As we reached our first little action sequence where a rat is being chased by the guards I felt that the editing of the sequence was a bit slow. I found myself mentally marking where I would have cut the scene to make it a bit more exciting. I caught myself and again noted that this is a “G” rated movie and the slower pace and lack of choppy action sequencing my be on purpose. At that point I decided that I was being too critical and I just needed to relax and watch the movie. 
So here’s what I learned. A rat that seems to be the opposite of your stereotypical rat has an accident that causes great heartache to the King. As a result of the King’s pain and heartbreak his kingdom is made to suffer. Then we meet a mouse that is not your stereotypical mouse. As a result of his oddity and lack of enough sense to scurry in the face of danger he is banished from his home. The Mouseworld fears that he is a danger to their way of life. Then we meet a peasant girl who wants to be a princess. She has been bartered into service at the castle and is tricked by the rats to do their bidding. These three outsiders come together and help to set right the wrongs caused by our inability to see the past someones oddities. In the movie the princess reacts unfavorably to Despereaux the mouse and asks, “Are you a Rat?” When he replied in the negative she further inquired, “Are you a Mouse?” to which he replied, “I, am a gentleman”. He was not defined by others perceptions of what he was nor was he defined the characteristics of his birth. He chose to define himself by honor, truth, chivalry and above all he was a gentleman.
In the end, the story was paced so that the children could follow it and the final scenes captivated all of our attention. We have been reading the book as a family and I will tell you later how the two compare.
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My sister called up and told me how much she love this book, The Tale of Despereaux. For my daughter’s birthday she’s invited us to all go out and see it today. I’m really looking forward to taking the kids out for an adventure.
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Steve Coogan is producing a British version of the 1990s time traveling series Quantum Leap. Tom Basden, British comedy writer and member of the two-man show Cowards, will play the main character, school teacher Owen Malloy. I really enjoyed the original series, I guess that means it’s about time to recreate it.
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…before the movies could record dialogue.
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MMORP is Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing game. It’s one of those vampire games that is SO Huge and SO involved that it drains your live away and you don’t have time to do anything else but play this game. I like to think of these games as a type of Real World TRON. You get sucked into a different reality.
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This is from Gizmodo. “You may never fly the Millennium Falcon with a Wookie by your side, but at least you can fly down a hill on a rough approximation of the famous ship. That’s still pretty good.”
I can picture the scene now. Young Han Solo crying his eyes out. “MOM!!!! Jabba sat on my Falcon and now it’s FLAT!!!”
thanks to Jon for sending this.
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heh heh hehehe, guess what I’ve been doing? Why I’ve been making a sequel to the video that won me the Bandit!!! COMING SOON!!!! (i hope)
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This is the online portfolio of Spencer L. Brinkerhoff III. You will need Flash Player to view parts of this website. I have lots of different interests, and am involved in many different projects. I like cartoons and animation, movies and independent video projects, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and general adventure. I draw, shoot video, illustrate, animate, sculpt and am a husband and father. I think that I'll try my hand at blogger. Anybody know how to make money at this?
