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- ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Opening Credits
- For a Successfully Weird Party: Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail
- Wish Upon the Pleiades Review
| ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Opening Credits Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST This is not the real opening credits sequence from The Dark Knight Rises. But it should be. Turkish graphic designer Doğan Can Gündoğdu created these fake opening credits for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises for, according to a Tweet, a “video lesson.” One assumes this means it was made for a lesson of some kind related to the Communication Design in Bahcesehir University reference in his bio. Can you imagine? Creating something of this caliber for a college lecture? Or from the other perspective, can you imagine what it would be like to walk into your classroom and have this as the centerpiece of the lesson you sit through? Beats the heck out of any school lesson I ever heard. Gündoğdu’s take on the tone of The Dark Knight Rises is just brilliant. He totally gets the importance of conveying that eight years have passed since the last film, and establishing the setting of where we pick back up with the story. He even incorporates the Bane chant heard in the official trailer.
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| For a Successfully Weird Party: Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST When was the last successful party that you threw? We’re only about to end the first month of the year, so the chances are that you still remember your New Year’s Eve party. Or maybe you even celebrated Chinese New Year. Who cares about having a “good” reason to throw a party, though? Any time you want to throw one, there really is no need for an excuse. But, just in case you do want something especially weird and unique for your next get together, nothing will do the trick like this Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail. (Although having pi-shaped ice cubes is always a hit as well!) You don’t even need to take a second look at this photo to make the decision to make a go for it, do you?  Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail Doesn’t that look like a disgusting thing? It’s so disgusting it becomes good! And actually, if you think about it, the Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail seems rather complicated to make. That is, if you base it on the looks of the drink. (Then again, I am no bartender, so I really have no idea.) The nice surprise is that it seems that anyone – maybe even I – can make a shot of Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail! According to Latin Rapper1, all that you need to do to make the Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail is to get together some peach schnapps, Bailey’s Irish Cream, Blue Curacao, and Grenadine Syrup. Of course, you need a shot glass. First you pour some peach schnapps into the shot glass – about halfway full. You then take the Bailey’s and gently pour it over the peach schnapps. Just before the glass gets totally full, add some Blue Curacao to the mix. The last touch is to add a few drops of Grenadine Syrup. The result? Something that you might actually believe is an alien’s brain hemorrhaging! Apparently, the Alien Brain Hemorrhage Cocktail is from Scotland (I guess they have some alien specimens there), and here is a video which can show you how it is made. Be warned: offensive language is used.
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| Posted: 30 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST
Wish Upon the Pleiades or Houkago no Pleiades in Japanese, is a short 4 episode (6 minutes each) anime sponsored by Japanese carmaker Subaru and produced by Gainax. The anime was created in order to help bring a greater awareness of Subaru's name to anime fans. The name "Subaru" is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster and is where Subaru, the carmaker, got its name and logo. You would think that an anime sponsored by a carmaker would be about cars, but strangely enough, it's about stars and magical girls. The main character, named Subaru, is a regular schoolgirl with an interest in astronomy. The day after she witnesses a magnificent meteor shower, she encounters a magical garden and a boy named Minato. Later, she discovers that one of her best friends and a few others are magical girls and eventually decides to become one too. Their task is to gather Engine Fragments, which look like shooting stars in the sky, in order to send their alien friend back home. Unfortunately, it seems that Minato is also after the Engine Fragments and they must fight each other in order to claim all of the fragments. Considering the series is less than half an hour, it's difficult to get into any sort of real plot. Wish Upon the Pleiades follows a very basic good vs bad premise with some brightly-coloured scenes to please younger audiences. A lack of character development is expected in a series of this length, but all of the characters did have well-defined personalities and weren't just extras in the background. Coming from a well-respected studio such as Gainax, the anime naturally had very good animation quality. The battle scenes were action-packed and they did not skimp out on the fine details such as starry backgrounds. The music was somewhat simplistic, utilizing piano solos for most of the BGM and a few more instruments during the battles. In fact, the battle scenes sounded very video game-like. Wish Upon the Pleiades is nothing special, but if you enjoy watching magical girl anime and want a short and complete series to watch, then it's certainly worth the time. The anime has been made available to watch for free by Subaru on their Youtube channel. There is both a Japanese version and a version with English subtitles.
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