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Music video from the Russian band apparently called Hände Hoch (meaning “hand up”, also the first line uttered by space nazis in the very first “Iron Sky” idea) for their song Meine Kleine.

This is definetly an example of the kind of Russian culture that Captain Fukov would love.

(via English Russia)

(This post is about a suberbolide that exploded above Finland on Friday evening and mostly concerns people in the North-Ostrobothnia area, so it’s in Finnish.)

Perjantaina nähtiin pohjoisemmassa suomessa kirkkain tulipallo vuosikymmeniin. Oletettavasti kyseessä oli parin sadan kilon kivenmurikka, josta nyttemmin epäilevät osan päätyneen myöskin maan pinnalle.

Koska maahan saakka päässeet meteoriitit ovat Suomessa harvinaisia, niin asiasta ollaan tähtiharrastajapiireissä varsin kiinostuneita. Koska palasten löytäminen maastosta on hankalaa, tällä hetkellä etsiskellään videokuvaa tulipallon lennosta. Oheinen kartta näyttää tällä hetkellä todennäköisimpänä pidetyn putoamisalueen, mutta lisäkuvat voisivat auttaa alueen tarkentamisessa.

Tähdet ja Avaruus -lehden kotisivuilta voi lukea lisää aiheesta. Mikäli tätä lukee joku pohjois-pohjanmaalainen, jolla on pääsy ulkona sijaitsevien valvontakameroiden nauhoihin, niin kannattaa vilkaista josko niille olisi tarttunut jotain viime Perjantaina kello 21.39. Lisähavaintoja voi myöskin lähettää Ursan tulipallohavaintolomakkeella (yhdissanat ovat sitten kauniita).

This doesn’t actually belong here, since it’s no way related to Star Wreck or Iron Sky or Internet in general, but just wanted to point you guys to a pretty cool link filled with damn great photos of Zombiewalk that took place in Oulu, Finland.

Walk on!

(This entry is in Finnish, and talks about a Finnish free internet-film to be released soon.)

Tämäkin pitkään tuotannossa ollut leffa, erikoisella nimellä koristettu ‘Biisonimafia 2‘ on lähtenyt ilmaisen nettijulkaisun linjalle. Hail! Elokuvaan on haettu rahoitusta kiitettävän näyttävällä markkinointikamppiksella erilaisilta tahoilta, ja ilmeisimmin - trailerin lopussa kun lukee ‘elokuvan tarjoaa Pepsi’ - sitä myös on saatu. Itse elokuvasta en tiedä vielä mitään, sillä julkaisupäivä on 15.10, mutta ohjaaja Walfrid Rinkinen tietää kertoa seuraavaa:

B2-elokuva kuvaa nuorisokulttuuria omaperäisen osuvalla tavalla. Resepti ainutlaatuisen pysäyttävään elokuvaan on yksinkertaisesti se, että se on nuorten ammattilaisten tekemä elokuva samankaltaisille nuorille. Elokuva sisältää vauhdikkaita stuntteja, kuvan kauniita mallityttöjä, tuning-autoja, drifting-ajoa, bileitä, festareita, rock’n rollia ja Suomen kesän omalaatuisen rennon tunnelman. B2 kaivaa esiin näkyvimmät ja suosituimmat nuorten maailmaan liittyvät ilmiöt aina musiikista nuorison suosimiin extreme-temppuihin.

Tässä vielä trailer:

Ps. leffan pääsee näkemään ennakkoon Jyväskylän Paviljongissa 7.10., kuten seuraava julistekin tietää kertoa.

I’ve been following this pretty damn interesting film production that’s been going on a while, and now I just got mail from the producer that they are about to release the film. They are planning to release the film for free, inspired by Star Wreck’s success, and I’ll do my best to encourage them to do that. Right now, there’s one damn cool website of them, and a trailer - which you can see here. Check it out, this is definitively not another Trek/Wars fan film, this is a film about hippies, punks and choppers. I love it!

Back when we were making the Legacy DVD we excluded Star Wreck 4½: Weak Performance in a sudden moment of self-criticism. Since then it has been missed by many people, far more than we would have ever guessed! So, now it’s time for Star Wreck 4½ to come to a DVD player near you, and make your Legacy collection complete.

We’ve set up a BitTorrent download for an .iso file that you can burn to a DVD and enjoy the film. For instructions on burning a .iso file check out this site. If you don’t have a BitTorrent client installed, we recommend µTorrent.

Go and Download the .torrent!

You can also watch the film online, without downloading anything!

I’m ashamed to admit that I only today learned of the Baen Free Library project. To those not In The Know, it’s an online service by the publishing company Baen Books that offers electronic versions of their books for free. It’s been around since 2000, and currently offers 98 titles. To quote First Librarian Eric Flint: “I will cheerfully put up the stuff for free myself. Because I am quite confident that any ‘losses’ I sustain will be more than made up for by the expansion in the size of my audience.” So they’ve been saying (and proving) the same thing that we demonstrated with Star Wreck - that free distribution cannot but benefit the authors - since the turn of the millennium. So we weren’t quite the first, although apparently, Mr Puskala endorsed the Free Library on our forum already in 2002.

So why is this fact so hard for show business to admit? Why is the industry trying to clamp down on online piracy when it’s so obviously counterproductive - more regulations means higher costs means artificially-elevated prices means piracy appears more attractive? Beats me. Probably because it’s so much easier to cling to what you grew up with instead of trying to change with the times. Possibly because the prevailing ideological climate seems to be moving in a more draconian, paranoid direction. We can only hope that successful endeavours like the Free Library (and Star Wreck) will eventually convince the movers and shakers that free distribution is an opportunity and not a threat.

Actually, I know the true reason. It’s because only good authors benefit from the publicity generated by free distribution. Let’s face it: without the artificial hype generated by massive publishing efforts - if people knew what it is they’re buying - would the likes of Dan Brown or Ilkka Remes ever sell a copy?

And would we really be any worse off for it?

There have never been this many swastikas in Finnish shops. The new Space nazi touting Ilkka Remes book we wrote about before has hit the stores last friday. And being a very potential bestseller bookstores and supermarkets have huge piles of the books - right next to the pepper mills and cookbooks.

A Brave soul from our forum by the name of swreckie has already read the book and tells that nazis on the moon are mentioned in one sentence on page 312. That’s it. I guess we don’t have to fear any competition.