Archive for July, 2006
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It is official: Heath Ledger has in fact been signed on to play the Joker in the next Batman movie. Rumors have been circulating for weeks that this was the case. Personally, I feel he can pull it of. Over the past few years Ledger has proven his acting abilities. I also trust Christopher Nolan. I mean this is the guy who did "Memento." If he says Ledger is right for the part then I believe him.
Official Press Release
BURBANK, CA, 31 July 2006 – As a follow up to last year’s blockbuster Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan is set to direct Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight, written by Jonathan Nolan, based on a story by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer. The film will be produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan. Additionally, Christian Bale will resume his role as Bruce Wayne and Academy Award nominee Heath Ledger has been cast as The Joker. The announcements were made today by Jeff Robinov, President of Production, Warner Bros. Pictures.
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The White Marlin Open is next week, here in Ocean City. I’m not excited about it. In the 16 or however many months I’ve worked for the paper it was by far the worse experience I’ve had (the second worse was the crazy Romanian party with the Romanian ambassador but that’s a story for another day).
The WMO is the largest billfish tournaments in the world and one of the largest tournaments overall. Cash prizes last year were record setting with like 2 million plus being given out.
I’m very very very familiar with White Marlins because in the past year I’ve read tons and tons of reports about the stupid fish. The government was considering putting a ban on them so I got stuck with writing about it.
HOLY CRAP.
E3 is the “Electronic Entertainment Expo” that has been held for the past 12 years in LA. This is the biggest videogame show in the world and where all the big news and announcements come from.
It seems that the major companies: Sony, Nitendo, Microsoft, etc… have all dropped out of the show because next year it is switching to a smaller format. This is just shocking.
IGN has a full article on it here.
Penny Arcade also has some interesting comments as well as this cartoon (click to enlarge it):
A real “Aquaman” movie? It was reported in Variety that “Entourage” may have inspired Hollywood to make an actual “Aquaman” movie.
On the show, Vincent’ Chase recently stared in the movie which fictionally broke records that “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” did in real life. In the past Aquaman (the character) has always been seen as a joke in Hollywood but buzz around “Entourage” has made it a hot property.
Even odder is the force behind a real “Aquaman” movie is Ari Emmanuel, which the character Ari Gold (played by Jermey Piven) is bassed on. According to Variety, “The talent agent at the center of the informal Aquaman talks is the real life Ari Gold which could very well result in a real Aquaman movie.”
I’m soooooooo getting this when it comes out. It is an adapater that links your cell phone to your Debit/ATM/Credit Cards and you can just use it to pay for things. The best part is that my cellphone is already equiped to handle it so I don’t need to get a new one.
Read the article from CNN.com:
(PopSci.com) — Forgot your wallet? You’ll need a better excuse than that for passing on the check. By next year, you’ll be able to pay simply by swiping your cell phone a few inches from a cash register, with a new wireless standard called Near Field Communication.
An NFC chip in your phone will send your credit-card number — stored on your phone or on the chip — by way of short-distance radio waves.
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I had a breaking story that ran in Friday’s paper and I thought I’d re-post it here for easy access:
Personal Attacks and Ethics
By Scott King
Staff Writer
(July 28, 2006) OPA director Janet Kelley was called out of order during Saturday’s Board meeting after repeating obscene language she said another board member directed at her.
Kelley issued her surprising statement after commenting on Director Mark Venit’s speech about other board members attacking him in the print media.
I finished up fixing the last of the coding problems on the website last night at 1:53a.m. I was just about to put up an away message on AIM when out of the blue Samantha gets on and IMs me. It took me all of a few seconds to realize she was a tad intoxicated. I won’t post the whole convo (which lasted until 3 a.m.) but I thought it would be funny to pull a few quotes out of context.
Samantha (2:05:00 AM): i dont drunk dial
Samantha (2:05:08 AM): i drunk text
Samantha (2:10:25 AM): now u just want me to say ill make out wiht u
Scott (2:10:32 AM): oh u wish
Scott (2:10:44 AM): We could never do that. you’d end up getting your heart broken
((Silly was the word of the night))
Samantha (2:11:36 AM): ur silly
Samantha (2:13:07 AM): u are silly
Samantha (2:14:08 AM): i am always silly
Samantha (2:23:54 AM): thats silly
Samantha (2:27:07 AM): u silly
Samantha (2:32:19 AM): Silly boY
Samantha (2:46:22 AM): ur are sillys
Samantha (2:49:03 AM): silllly dude
Found this a few days ago. Make it big and then stare at it.
The freaky part is that the pic isn’t animated. It’s all an optical illusion.
With the upgrade to the site I also got some stat programs that let me track how often people come to the site and that kind of information. Well this photo was the most popular individual thing on my website. It had been viewed 1,240 times since it was first posted this past winter. Nothing else was even close to that. So for your viewing pleasure:
((This is my little cousin Jordan, Molly’s baby))
My little niece Aubrie has an ego about as large as mine (so we are talking HUGE). She loves the new website-layout and begged (and I mean BEGGED) me to make a post about her.
She is my step-sisters daughter and she’s like a human monkey. I don’t mean in looks I mean in acts. She can climb and does climb anything. I remember like a year or so ago they were worried because her body fat percentage was like 2% or something ridiculously low. I mean the girl has mussels!
Of course if I mention Brie I have to mention her brother Colby. He’s her brother.
Ok back to Brie. Sometimes I worry about Brie because she’s really popular and has all these girly-girl friends. She totally part of the “in crowd” and I get scared sometimes she’ll end up like Jessie (my cousin). Cause Jessie was in the same situation and when middle school and high school happened she went bad-girl. So I really hope that doesn’t happen to Brie.
Brie just wanted to point out that she says “uhhhhhh I hate the idea of drinking and peer pressure. I’m too cool of that.” …So who knows maybe she’ll be like me and be popular but her own unique person.
She just tapped me on the shoulder and told me I should mention her cat YoYo. For some reason she LOVES the animal, but to be honest the thing is gross and scary!
Anyway, I think that’s enough.
I’m torn about continuing on with Ocean Life or calling it quits.
I enjoy writing it and I enjoy digitally making the comic strips. I even have story lines planned out for a total of 50+ strips. However, I can’t stand drawing them.
I’m a horrible horrible horrible artist. I can’t draw worth crap. The strips come out looking readable because of the coloring and everything else I do to them.
I already take every shortcut I can with drawing them. I cut down on background. I draw everyone and everything separate so I don’t mess up proportions. I crop photos differently so that I can go from wideshots to medium shots to close ups. But even so, drawing them is a bitch.
I’m leaving Ocean City Today and going to grad school, so why not stop drawing them? Now is a good time to do so.
But having them means that I have a piece of fictional work being published on a weekly basis. I mean sure it may only get read by people in the Ocean City area, but still… its just nice knowing I have readers.
I’ve gotten more comments from people about Ocean Life than all the articles I’ve written. It’s nice to know that some people actually look forward to it and specifically scan through the paper every week trying to find it. Technically that’s why I want to write and do all the things I do. I want to entertain people and give them an escape.
But GOD I hate drawing the damn strips cause I suck at it.
Grrrr I’m so torn and I’m just not sure what I’m going to do. I have just over two weeks to decide before more strips are do, so I guess I’ll figure have to decide soon.
This is the first look of Venom from "Spider-Man 3." This image was revealed at Comic-Con this past week. I know its super hard to tell, but that’s Topher Grace playing Eddie Brock in the scene where he becomes Venom for the first time! My god I’m excited to see this movie. 
When Samantha was home last weekend we talked about a lot of serious stuff and a lot of stupid stuff because that is how we are. A fairly long conversation we had was about what we want our houses to look like when we “grow up.”
Samantha’s was pretty simple. Her only real preferences were a Victorian style home with a wrap around porch and then somewhere inside she wants a window seat.
Mine were a tad more complicated.
See I don’t really have a “house” per say. I have a whole studio I want to own for King Film. Somewhere over the years I came up with the basic layout of the King Film campus and this is what I told Samantha about. The above layout is the basic layout of the campus.
1&2) Castle/Victorian Mansion that sits on a hill. Part 1 of that is the “West Wing” which will be my residential area. This will basically be it’s own house with several floors and everything a house has. Part 2 of the house will be production studios and computer FX offices. Then throughout the whole place there will be secret passages and tunnel that extend all through the campus!
3) These are sky tunnels that connect the buildings.
4) This is the main BIG warehouse/studio. This is where large sets will be constructed for filming.
5) This is a big pond with a fountain in the center. Surrounding the pond is a cobbled road that stretches from the Victorian house/castle to the bottom of the campus.
6&8) This center region of campus is referred to as “
Main Street.” Buildings 6 and 8 are set up with store fronts and apartments over them. Here we will have a café, book store, video store, game store, movie theater, and cafeteria/restaurant. Above each of the stores will be apartments. These will be for the King Film employees to live in.7) These are bridges that allow pedestrians and cars to cross the waterway that runs down the middle of main street.
9) This building is the Rec-Center. There will be an indoor pool, basketball courts, running track, racquet ball track, weight rooms, and all that kind of stuff. There will also be large rooms that will be used for meeting spaces and conferences.
10) This is a big ass parking garage.
So as you can see, all of this is to create a self contained campus that has everything that I would want on a daily basis and for work.
