Star Wreck Studios, the collaborative film production platform we’ve been developing for last 2 years, is about to head to actual production, and we need coders to help us out with it. So if you are one, and would like to participate, send us your CV to address crew [-at-] starwreckstudios.com – and we’ll talk more!
Here’s the work ad:
The Sun wrote the other day:
Rock legend David Bowie is set to star in Dr Who — as an evil alien abductor.
Producers reckon the Ziggy Stardust singer, now 60, makes a perfect villain because of his “great other-worldly look”.
And he will cross swords with the Tardis’s Time Lord when he kidnaps crime author Agatha Christie — who in real life mysteriously vanished for 11 days in 1926.
Bowie’s willingness to appear in the two-part Dr Who special, to be shown on BBC1 next year, will surprise many of his fans.
This makes Dr. Who even much better that I had ever expected, since Bowie is my personal number one musician in the whole friggin’ world! I’m excited as hell!
In the meantime, it seems like YLE isn’t going to show the second season of Dr. Who any time soon, and the DVD-release with Finnish subtitles for the second season seems to take ages – if it’s ever going to come out. If someone of you guys reading this know something about either one of these, drop a comment. Because how I see things is that about as soon as the analog TV shuts down we lose Dr. Who and get a talk show hosted by Paavo Väyrynen :(
I came across Doctor Steel’s MySpace and enlisted in his army. That’s how awesome he is.
Oh and remember to watch the propaganda videos.
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The other day, I was sorting out the day’s orders from the Wreckstore when I came upon an order from California. It consisted of one NTSC encoded (American standard) DVD and one PAL encoded (European standard) one. Curious, and in the interests of better customer relations, I contacted the guy and asked if this was what he wanted. Well, it wasn’t, so we were both glad I did; but that was beside the point, as it turned out when he told me how he came across our film. It seems there is a small Public Access cable TV station operating where he lives, and it showed In the Pirkinning one night. He had tuned in in the middle, and since there was no programming information and no station breaks, the guy had no idea what on Earth he was watching… or what language the characters were speaking. (His guess was Russian.)
So he called a friend (who was presumably knowledgeable about things filmographic), described what he’d just seen, and asked if the friend could enlighten him. Here I have to quote the viewer: “He was sure that either I was crazy or I had fallen asleep and had dreamed the whole thing up.”
Luckily, our hero wasn’t convinced, and some Googling later, had found our website. The moral of the story: if you see something that’s so out of this world your friends think you’re nuts, investigate the matter to find out the truth rather than accepting the obvious conclusion and checking in at an asylum.
You wouldn’t believe how much work there is in making a MySpace page look like anything but crap. But finally the Iron Sky MySpace is pretty much ready. From here on it’s updates, pictures and little tweaks. We’ll be posting production art, pics and blog posts will also crossposted to the MySpace blog. So join as a friend and help promote Iron Sky!
And for those who like their websites usable, we also have profiles on Facebook and IRC-Galleria (it’s the site that all Finns use – including everybody from Energia, well, everybody but Antti).
And since it’s kind of keeping in topic, a music video from a band I came across in MySpace:
In 2005 a group of young Finnish filmmakers released Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. In 2006 they founded Energia Productions Ltd. These are their stories.
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