Stop-motion animation has given rise to some of the most fun-for-kids-and-adults cinematic stories of the last few decades – most famously, The Nightmare Before Christmas. However, storyboard artist Chris Butler and animation director Sam Fell prove to be the perfect pairing to push the sub-genre of stop-motion feature-films to new boundaries with ParaNorman. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘ParaNorman’
Day: May 30, 2013
Being a dancing fool possibly a crime in Japan
There’s a horribly hackneyed and trite phrase that says, “Dance like no one’s looking.” This phrase was clearly invented by someone that has never been to the land of the rising sun, as it is now (possibly and potentially) against the law to dance in Japan.
According to an old and usually unenforced law (there’s one in every city), the police are able to shut down nightclubs that lack a dancing license. (Yes, that is apparently a thing.) And, boy howdy, have the poh-leese of Jah-pan been exercising this right.
On Sunday morning at 2am police officers raided the 500-capacity club [Roppongi’s Vanity] and arrested three staff members on suspicion of allowing unlicensed dancing.
People, Glorious Nippon has officially turned into the town from Footloose.
The ’80s aged ridiculously well
Some argue that the 1980s ended with the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Others, when grunge took over. But, could it have been an unseen force that would not be revealed until 2013?
In 1989, Joanna Rohrback attempted to change the way the world exercised. Instead, she changed the world itself, ending the ’80s with a kick to the head like Don Draper’s dad. With Prancercising, she had created the perfect culmination of ’80s culture: aerobics, ankle weights and prancing.
Once the decade that brought us Reaganomics and the Rubik’s Cube looked at its own perfect reflection in the mirror Rohrback held up, the ’80s had no choice but to pack up and exit quietly, allowing the ’90s to flourish in its own stupid ways.
And now, ’80s nostalgia ends the way that the original decade ended: with Ms. Rohrback prancing it towards the grave.
This is the way the '80s end This is the way the '80s end This is the way the '80s end Not with a bang but a whinny.
[via WTHITV 10]
The beer you can’t get out of your head
Typically, booze news is always good news. Today it isn’t.
Remember Hanson? They were that semi-pubescent rock band of brothers that everyone’s little sister liked in the 90s? Apparently they didn’t die in a horrible plane crash, as we had hoped. In fact, they’re still releasing albums. And in a few short weeks, they will inflict themselves on America in a new way: with beer.
Mmmhops, brewed by Mustang Brewing, will be hitting shelves starting June 18, which just so happens to be around the time they go on tour again. We hope you’ve finished up your Game of Thrones beer to make room in the refrigerator.