Who needs them 3 wheelies like Piaggio MP3 or that Gilera monster, when you can ride a 4 wheeled one!

I dunno… Hurmm…. C’mon M Night. Do NOT disappoint.

The Anime! Not the Live Action piece of Crap!

Watch it here. And save yourself 10 bucks and 2 hours of your time, not to mention the utter disgust and nausea that Blood’s Live Action movie provided.

To call itself ‘inspired’ by Production I.G’s Blood: the Last Vampire would be a great injustice.

A Review:
The girl who plays Saya absolutely do NOT resemble her, either in the animated movie or the anime series. But I’ll give it a chance. I know the movie will face a great challenge to be on par with the great animated movie. But I came in the theatre with an open mind, thinking, “Let’s see what they’ll come up with.”

And boy do they come up with utter crap. The kinda crap that makes you writhe in your seat. The kind that makes you wanna throw up. That makes you wanna find the writer, director and everyone who’s agreed to give a green light to this kinda shit of a movie, and punch em in the face.

Ok seriously, the review. The first 5 minutes, my hopes were raised way up high. The reason: They’ve followed the anime, or what I can recall from it, scene by scene. Then, the scene at the high school, where the innocent girl watches Saya kill the two demons… very Buffy-esque. And there’s always something about that dumb little show that appeals to everyone. So that’s kinda nice too.

But that’s about it. It went totally down hill from there. And it came an extremely painful, screeching halt.

All in all, I think it’s a great comedy. It’s a joke of a movie. And we did laugh about it for a good 20 minutes after the movie. Not many comedies can have that effect.

So, if you’re looking to be either disgusted or be in a state of beyond disgust, that it becomes hilarious, then by all means, watch Blood: The Last Vampire.

Otherwise, here is the real shit. Parts 1 to 5. Load em up, play em in HQ, and enjoy.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

It was incredible. I could never have imagined such a race. Such ferocity. Such rivalry. The drama that ensued. The joys and tears.

I hope ALL motoGP fans or even mini-fans watched the race yesterday.

The Greatest Race

Here’s a quick summary of yesterday’s mega awesomeness.

Lorenzo starts pole position, followed by Rossi and then Stoner. The red light goes off, and the three played a tight race. I mean wheel to wheel tight. Rossi overtakes Lorenzo. Then Lorenzo took the lead back.

After half the race, Stoner couldn’t keep up with the crazy Yamahas. He had to contend with Dovizioso for third. All this time, the rest of the race has got fierce battles going on simultaneously. But the camera had to focus on the two Fiat team mates.

Rossi stayed extremely close to Lorenzo, doing his classic Rossi pressure. Usually, the guy in front would crack and Rossi would take the chance and slide through, then leave the poor bugger alone. But that’s not the case of Jorge Lorenzo. He’s a daredevil on his own grounds. Lorenzo got to be the champion of the 250 cc because he’s got the same crazies as Rossi.

Lorenzo didn’t budge. But when its 3 laps to go, Rossi slid through at the smallest gap. Incredible. But no, Jorge wouldn’t let the italian go through to win at Catalunya, Jorge’s own home ground. And guess what, Lorenzo beat Rossi again. Rossi stayed right on Lorenzo’s rear tyres. And now we enter the last lap, in what appears to be the greatest battle in history of motorcycle racing.

3 corners to go, Rossi cuts through Lorenzo. 2 corners. Lorenzo slips through. LAST CORNER. Valentino Rossi goes through and sped off to the flag. Jorge Lorenzo came second. Stoner had a dogfight with Dovizioso but managed to stay third.

But the drama’s just begun.

Rossi was happy, Lorenzo seem disappointed. Stoner; He cried. He couldn’t get off the bike. His wife was patting him on the arms. Then he went off and broke down, away from the camera. He caused a delay in the winners getting on the podium.

Rossi paid homage to the Spanish crowd by bowing to them face to face. Then Lorenzo did the same, showing his respect and appreciation to the fans. It was awesome. Historic. Epic.

Then they went to podium. Stoner was up there, but he was limp. As if he couldn’t carry himself. He could barely pop the champagne. His face was red.

The two Yamaha Gilas went crazy with the champagne.

Then the interview; Lorenzo said something that sounded a bit like a brushoff to Rossi’s comments. Oooh, is it gonna be a great rivalry between these two? I wouldn’t mind watching that!

Valentino Rossi is the greatest rider the world has ever known.

I saw a really major accident few nights back. Happened right in front of my eyes. I saw a car fly, literally.
In all that chaos, it came to my attention that it is possible that there are insurance scammers who… pains me to say this… orchestrate the entire accident.

If that was true, and from what I’ve heard, it seems to have happened before, Scammers have gone down to an all new low.

I can’t believe that people would think of such a thing.

It used to be just MLMs. And now this.

Pencils >> Illustrator >> Photoshop.

The title intrigued me. And when I saw that the genre was horror, I knew had to watch it. I had no idea what it was about though. I’ve always wanted to watch horror stuff late at night to get the full effect, but I decided to just watch it on a Saturday afternoon. Procrastination no good no?

This movie is in Swedish. It has a very slow start, like one of those art central film art stuff. Ok now they call it OKTO right? Anyway, I’m not a fan of artsy-fartsy movies as some people have observed, from my choice of movies. In fact I hate ‘artistic’ stuff that try too hard to be artistic and have the message of ‘if you don’t understand my art, you’re not artistic’. But movies like Let the Right One In, goes beyond that. I mean there are no rules on ‘artistic films’. If a movie is good, its good.

Basically, Let the Right One In is a ‘romantic’ horror film about a bullied boy falling into a relationship with the vampire next door. Interesting right? There are some aspects of his life that made him kinda screwed up as it is. Then he met this Vampire girl. They started becoming friends and slowly they helped each other out on their individual needs and problems. There aren’t any twists and stuff, just good storytelling.

Other than the slightly slow pace, the movie is up there with the likes of El Orfanato, Exorcist, and other kick ass horror movies which I can’t remember. Haha.

Ok the stuff I LOVE about the movie.

• The awesome music. Totally suits the mood. Fantastic score.
• Eli. The Vampire. She’s a damn good actress. Comparable if not better than those other child actors like Dakota Fanning or that 6th Sense Kid who sees ghosts.
• The subtle hints of gore. It makes it even more scary.
• Sticking close to the vampire lore. With none of the fancy cool shits. Damn Buffy.
• Good cinematography. Good camerawork with little or no obvious in-the-face stupid scare tactics.

One really eye popping scene for me is how they answered the question of why Vampires can’t enter any house or room without being invited. Heard it first from Buffy. Damn Buffy. Then everywhere else. But I have no idea why they can’t go in. Is there an invisible wall? That would be lame. Will they just burn up and die? That’s also lame. But in Let the Right One In, it gives a perfect freaky answer. Watch it to find out OR… I’ll just say it here.

*SPOILER*
Eli (the vampire) told Oskar (the boy) she can only come in if he invites her. Oskar playfully refuses to invite Eli and waves her in. Eli, after a short pause, enters. Nothing out of the blue here. Then Eli’s face starts to go all screwed up. She looked incredibly sick. Then blood start to appear from her back. She began bleeding profusely. Blood oozes out from her eyes, nose, mouth, ears and every orifice of her body. Oskar got extremely freaked out at the distance Eli would go to prove her point to someone she likes. He cried, “Stop! Please Stop! You can come in!” And he hugged Eli.

Eli looked something like this.

The whole thing is just awesome.

Then of course. I love the last part. When Eli saves Oskar.

So you see, sometimes special effects overuse isn’t the way to go. Although there were some efx in Let the Right One In.

I’d give it a “Go watch it when you have the time to focus on the movie. Otherwise, don’t bother.” rating.

I think I MIGHT just love Flash. A certain turn of events have ended up motivating me a great deal to finally get my hands on the elusive software known as Flash. But I only had Flash MX, which according to flash artists friends of mine, is completely outdated and ancient. So, credits to the Arab for bringing me a slightly Trojan’ed Flash CS3!

What’s my first creation? Nothing too fancy, just a lineart vector traceout of one of my pencil sketches. Once its done, I realise why many webcomic artists use Flash to outline or ‘ink’ their sketches. Its pretty cool. So here below you will find, Eirana, the female Riftwalker from the pioneer game me and my group made in Uni.

Meanwhile, I’m about to find out if a human can learn action scripting from basic to somewhat intermediate knowledge in two days!

Oh, if anyone noticed, I changed my profile picture image on the home page. Not just that actually, I did a mini mini super mini revamp. I dunno, I actually wanted to make that banner thing all animated and stuff. Well, see how later. Till then… expect more flashy goodness from Suadref Studios!

In light of recent interview-going frenzy, I happened to stumble on this little short film from Rejected Jokes. It’s pretty funny. Love the guy’s smucked confidence. His sheer blatantly ridiculous resume, his attitude and his super high self esteem… perfect package.

Meanwhile, I’m finally picking up flash again. It’s something I had wanted to do since umm, I first started designing for the web. But the somewhat poor experience in Poly, when I was learning flash, sort of put me off for most of the time. I even went as far as looking at other code-heavy alternatives like Javascripts and its spawns (mootools and whatnot). While these are cool, I don’t really have a full need for them and what I do want to do, I can do with Flash, mostly.

So I’ve been doing a quick refresh of the software. Luckily it all falls into place rather easily, since I’ve done some of the things before. But now I’m looking at the more cool stuff like scrolling galleries and character animation.

I’ve been in denial by saying that Flash sucks and makes websites run slower, load slower, and search engine bots can’t crawl through it. Well, all that is partly true. But it also offers interactivity at an almost unlimited level. Just take a look at this Jakarta based website, Magnivate.

And about the bots not being able to crawl. Those apply more for the full flash websites. Even so, I’ve seen that there are tutorials on how to incorporate metatags into the final published movie/site.

That leaves my accusation that flash makes websites load slower and run slower. Well, again, partly true, but that is entirely up to the designer to optimise the website to load quick, run smooth. Even extremely heavy CSS websites that load up a plethora of images which aren’t even optimised can be painfully slow. And when people go overboard with Ajax or Mootools or any Javascripts, the website could become a nightmare.

It’s all good on the net, just how you build it. Meanwhile, I’m taking a break and checking out bestwebgallery.com

I’m currently trying to look for a full time job, since its been a few months since I finished UOW.

So like all net-savvy jobseekers, which I think exist in throngs, I joined up any job search website I can think of. And one of them is called st701. Straits Times Recruit is a well known recruitment channel in the print media. And thus, I would respect their web presence as well.

Then comes this part: I was sending off my applications, and I saw in my junk mail, 2 failed postmasters delivery notice mails. I saw that they’re from ST701. I opened them and they’re actually the mail which they forward to the potential employers from all the online one-click applications.

It was interesting to see the backworks of the system. But there’s one thing that took me back quite a bit.

I saw the following line in one of the mails. Its for a webdesigner position:
Total Potential Candidates 714 (6 Candidate Applications)

Then the other one, for a senior graphics designer position:
Total Potential Candidates 1263 (7 Candidate Applications)

What a crowd. All these from ONE website. Who knows how many websites they posted their ad to. Or newspapers, for that matter.

Well, good luck to all of us trying to find a job these days!