June 4th, 2009
Holy Dingo! According to CreativeCommons.org, Ridley Scott, the director behind numerous awesome movies like Alien and Bladerunner, is going to do a webseries called “Purefold” under the free copyleft license.
The licence basically means that anyone can download, share and remix the material of the series without having to fear prosecution. It will be very interesting to see both what the series will be like and also what users of the Internet will do to it.
Although not completely related to Bladerunner, the series will still be “based on the same themes” - as BitsBlog @ New York Times quotes David Bausola (one of the production company Ag8’s creators) saying.
Via: Creative Commons .org
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April 21st, 2009
As reported earlier, Expect Problems, the team behind e.g. Dead Man Drinking, have started a zombie web-series called Sharehouse Zombie Apocalypse featuring modernity’s absolute favorite things: drugs and zombies (and some other stuff)!
I cannot apologize enough for not having blogged about the first episodes. I promised you Nemobay would be there, and it was not. The truth of the matter is that I have been busy again. I have handed in my thesis, I have been sick and my dog ate my blog-post. Now, the thesis and dog are gone and I’m almost healthy again.
In all confidentiality I have somewhat of a crush on Expect Problems. When it comes to humorous free movie material, they are among the very I have seen.
Sharehouse Zombie Apocalypse has the kind of geeky humor Dead Man Drinking mastered. Like Dead Man Drinking, Sharehouse Zombie Apocalypse has brilliant dialogue as well as acting and (as with Dead Man Drinking) the creativity of Expect Problems seems to eradicate the problems a drum tight budget might create.
The pace of Sharehouse Zombie Apocalypse is relaxed enough for you to just hang back and chill without fretting about missing something important. A feat, I found, making it fitting for when your brain and/or body is clogged with all kinds of supernatural gunk and goop. However, I did notice a couple of things the second time I saw the episodes that I did not notice the first time but I guess that goes for a lot of things.
So far there are three episodes online and they are all very well worth the watch.
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March 3rd, 2009
Dead Patrol is a web series available for streaming directly from its page, and its free. It takes place after a plague has diminished the majority of living to mindless flesh eaters. We follow two soldiers from the C.L.E.A.N. (Clear the Living, Evacuate And Nuke) team; Cpl Keenan and the female protagonist Lt. Brigham, during their mission, as they try to get out of the city before a nuclear device is detonated.
“You even lick your lips around me, I will put a bullet through your head.”
The theme for the series is made by Skinny Puppy and the acting is reasonable, although I can’t help feel that the full scale of the emotional apparatus has not yet been utilized.
Even though this might all seem like a great deal, my conviction is that the computer graphic side of the series could have been better. There are a couple of glitches and I think the graphics could have been more gritty to make it more realistic. That’s really a shame because the rest is actually quite good.
So far, there are three episodes up.
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