What might Captain America and Bucky look like?

Now that Marvel have cast Chris Evans as The First Avenger: Captain America and his sidekick Bucky will be played by Sebastian Stan. We wonder what the two might look like?

Some things to consider: Will The First Avenger: Captain America be taking place in 2 time periods? We are guessing that 2 suits will be involved a Golden Age style suit from the origan part of the tale which will then be updated to contemporary times.

Also could Bucky's Winter Soldier persona play a role in the film? Either way below we have covered some scenarios:

Chris Evans as updated Classic Captain America and new Captain America, Sebastian Stan as BuckyBarnes and as The Winter Soldier

Chris Evans as Classic "updated" Captain America

Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier

We said it before and we'll say it again. We are hoping that they dress Captain America up in the updated Classic look or the very cool variation modelled in The Ultimates. See the trailer for the Marvel Ultimate Alliance game from Blur studios below for a better look. End of Line.

Spectacular remixes of Tarantino posters

Ibraheem Youssef is a talented Toronto based Designer with an impressive portfolio. He has undertaken a number of awesome personal projects including a series of film posters. One of these is a spectacular Quentin Tarantino movie poster set.

The series consist of:

Pulp Fiction

pulp fiction
Originally uploaded by Ibraheem Youssef

Kill Bill Vol.2

kill bill vol.2
Originally uploaded by Ibraheem Youssef

Kill Bill Vol.1

kill bill vol.1
Originally uploaded by Ibraheem Youssef

Resevoir Dogs

Reservoir dogs
Originally uploaded by Ibraheem Youssef

Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown
Originally uploaded by Ibraheem Youssef

Inglourious Basterds

inglourious basterds
Originally uploaded by Ibraheem Youssef

Death Proof

DeathProof
Originally uploaded by Ibraheem Youssef

The Hi Res versions of each poster can be viewed by clicking each pic or by heading over to the set on Ibraheem Youssef's photostream

You can also buy the posters in Limited Edition real world format over at Ibraheem Youssef's shop here!

Spectacular remixes of Tarantino posters

SLINGERS

Take a measure of Oceans 11, a dollop of Firefly, a pinch of The A-Team top up with a twizzle of high adventure and you'll get SLINGERS.

Not to be mistaken for the Marvel Comics Super hero team! Slingers actually gets "its name from a group of people thrown together on board an experimental spacecraft that is capable of Slinging itself to any point in space. In theory it’s the only craft capable of getting home. In reality the crew are using it to carry out a series of high tech heists and get even with those who are now exploiting their positions in the post war hierarchy - from the Sleepydog Productions website

Slingers is set in the year 2263 A.D., following mankind’s first interplanetary war. Humanity is now clustered into a finite, but still vast section of the universe known as Enclosed Space. Humanity won the war with an aggressive alien enemy, but at a cost. The way back to Earth is now cut off by an impassable barrier – a side effect of the blast that finally pushed the enemy back.

Slingers is the brainchild of writer Mike Atherton and being produced by London based Sleepydog Productions. A little while back they released the Slingers teaser clip directed by Steve Barron. The clip was made for industry promotion but has subsequently blazed it's way across the Internet.

From what I can make out the clip shows Sean Pertwee (Soldier, Event Horizon, Equilibrium, Dog Soldiers, Mutant Chronicles, Doomsday) as Colonel Hall, who once wronged pursues the crew across the galaxy to retrieve the Slinger ship. Adrian Bower as Dominic ‘DM’ Monroe, a special ops war veteran that is the head of the crew. DM's 2ic is Frank a war buddy played by Tom Mison and he's a little gung ho. Haruka Abe is Marti and possibly the Slingers ship pilot.

Whoa! Scratch that Margo Stilley (9 Songs, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People) is Jeannie the holographic pilot of the ship. Two main 2000AD references I can see in the clip - are the characters Junior the glowing green (Hammerstein'ish) robot and GUN the handheld weapon that has a mind of it's own similar to Gunnar from Rogue Trooper.
Looks like filming is kicking off early this year so a couple of full episodes can be expected soon hopefully.

Fan made poster for Slingers

Mike Atherton writer of Slingers can be found here on Twitter @sizemore and his blog is http://www.sizemore.co.uk !

Toby Moores Producer of Slingers can be found on Twitter here @sleepydog and Sleepy Dog productions can be found here!

On Twitter actors Haruka Abe (http://twitter.com/HarukaAbe) and Tom Mison (http://twitter.com/TomMison).

Was this the last know activity of Rorschach from the Watchmen?

In June 2007 I was alerted to the launch of a new site: www.rorschachsjournal.com. When visiting the site all there was to see was the following large graphic.



Curious! What did this mean? Was this supposed to be the Rorschach? My curiosity was piqued. When I clicked the rr image an email addressed to: rorschach@rorschachsjournal.com popped up? Anyway I sent off the following:

From: Craig Grobler
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:11 AM
To: rorschach@rorschachsjournal.com
Subject: is this

a site for the Watchmen?

Not really expecting a response. However about a week later I received the following:

Subject: is this

a site for the Watchmen?

yes.

.RR.

I shoot back to the site and find that the following had been added:



On clicking the right option the following pops up:



Naturally thinking this was aimed at a US audience as well as a little puzzled by the complete lack of iconic visuals I thought I'd wait till the site evolved to include some "official" Watchmen info or graphics. A couple of months later I visited again and it was gone?

This is a far cry from the current viral marketing that has been unleashed onto the internet, that has actively included a UK audience (http://watchmen-screening.pbwiki.com/). Awesome!. Have you seen the Social Media tool kit available here: http://www.i-watch-the-watchmen.com/ww/ ?

As good as it is - any Watchmen fan worth their salt has already started creating their own profile pic;):

Arsenal football fans, Highbury, London

Arsenal football fans, Highbury, London originally uploaded by Craig Grobler.

Being based near the Emirates Stadium, at least once a month (or when ever they have these things) there is a large influx of Arsenal soccer fans to watch a game.

This evening Arsenal were playing Manchester City as part of the Barclays Premiership. Arsenal won 3-1 win.

From wiki: The Emirates Stadium is a football stadium located on Ashburton Grove in Holloway, north London, and the home of Arsenal Football Club since it opened in July 2006. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 60,432, making it the second largest stadium in the Premiership after Old Trafford, and the third-largest stadium of any kind in London, after Wembley and Twickenham. During the planning and construction stages, it was known as Ashburton Grove before a naming rights deal with the airline Emirates was struck in October 2004. The stadium project cost £390 million, but not all was for the actual construction of the stadium itself.

PS3's MotorStorm™ PS3 & XBox

PS3's MotorStorm™ PS3 & XBox, originally uploaded by Craig Grobler.

Pretty much this has been the state of affairs since our PS3 arrived. Its been mostly MotorStorm. A high octane dirt racing game. Game time has increased as both of us have been laid low by the dreaded Lurgi making its way around London.

This morning I caught a bit of BBC's Click. This is a British gadget show. They were doing a comparison between the Xbox 360 and the PS3. I am usually fairly impartial when it comes to these things. But I was a bit annoyed as to how the PS3 was portrayed especially its online offering. I have been a keen Xbox 'er for a while now and own both an Xbox and an Xbox360 and since just before the UK launch have had a PS3 .
The Click were doing a like for like comparison of " XBox Live " and " Playstation network " they expounded how Xbox live was great and that Playstation Network felt like an add on. I can tell you that the UI of the Playstation Network is streets ahead of Xbox live and that is free. No subscription charges at all.

UI: I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of navigating around the simple and beautiful interface. Sony have translated the PSP interface to a medium that really works well. By far the more superior interface. Think - Xbox's Big, clumsy colorful Hulk Hogan vs. an elegant, poised Sony Bruce Lee.

Online: I can also tell you that so far (the online offering is evoling as Sony rollout new features as more PS3'ers join) that the Playstation Network is more reliable than XBox live that did freeze and had constant lag issues.

Game graphics: PS3 has awesome high end clean graphics. The XBox360 less so. However the XBox's ambient graphics (lighting, texture rendering, etc) is much better so far. Bear in mind I have only played a handful of PS3 games but have a collection of Xbox games. I'm hoping this will be addressed as Sony rollout more games builr to match the most powerful graphics maching currently available on the market. My comparison has been mainly made comparing Gears of War to Resistance: The fall of man.

High Def: I cannot rate Blu Ray High Def Discs high enough - Mainly because I have had a high Def TV for awhile now and been subjected to really low quality broadcasts and regular quality DVD's. Note: Check to see the quality of standard quality rendering on your Hi Def purchase.

The guys that do the installations in our block are quoting a ton for Sky HD as there is no one else using near me at the moment. I'll wait a couple of months till someone else has paid for the cable to be run and then I'll get it installed.

The Xbox 360's high def output (translated via component) is no match for the PS3's purer HDMI output and it rocks. I spent some time actually analysing the pixel by pixel movement on my screen.

Negative: Although he PS3 has loads of ports; USB, Flash, SD, Memory stick pro, etc. It doesn’t matter if I cant play my downloaded Divx or Xvid films. Sony has been ignoring these codecs and favour of more standard easily controllable ones.

eBoy & uMan Web 2.0 Mashup

eBoy & uMan Web 2.0 Mashup, originally uploaded by Craig Grobler.

Someone stuck the new eBoy web 2.0 poster up in the office. During the week I hacked the poster (ala Banksy style) and stuck up a new version. Its now an eBoy Web 2.0 brands mashed up with Usability Man poster.

The original poster can be viewed and purchased here. Another version is up on Flickr with the Web 2.0 brands identified here.

70's London Postcard Tilt-shift

70's London Postcard Tilt-shift, originally uploaded by Craig Grobler.

Taken across the river this morning. London was slightly foggy, well closer to hazy than foggy. My tweaked phot actually makes the weather seem much better than it was. It actually turned out to be a to br a dreary day. I cant wait for Summer.

Looking back

040407, originally uploaded by Craig Grobler.

This pic was taken at a team get together at Keston Lodge, Upper Street - March 2005. It did not seem that long ago. I found out today that I'm shortly to be the last remaining original team member. I was first in and certainly did not expect to be around past my original colleagues.

Anyway here’s to you Lisa, Adam and Vic. Hope that you go from strength to strength.