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Tell Us About Sci-Fi Blogs – Win Iron Sky Merchandise!

March 16th, 2010 by Janos Honkonen

We in the Iron Sky project are very active net users, and in addition to Twitter, Facebook and other social media we are very interested in good old blogs. When it comes to Iron Sky as a movie project, we’d like to reach out to more scifi, movie and fandom bloggers all around the world in the form of official press releases, a little less official new info about the movie, competitions and so on.

The problem is how to find the biggest and the best movie or scifi blogs in non-English speaking areas of the world. Our solution to this is to make a little competition about it, and here’s how it goes:

Tell us about your favourite blog about movies, science fiction, technology or general geekery you think would be interested in news about a project like Iron Sky. We are especially interested in blogs from the non-English speaking areas of the world, but feel free to suggest us blogs in English too. The main content of the blog should be about movies, scifi or such.

The competition will run ’till the 31th of March. From everybody who has suggested a blog we will randomly choose three winners, who will be rewarded Iron Sky merchandise for their efforts (dog tags, posters & such). Also, from all the blogs that were recommended we will choose one, who will get an exclusive video interview from Timo and Samuli! The blogger can send us the questions, and we will film and edit the interview so it’s ready to be published!

This is a great chance for you to get more visibility for your favourite blog and to help us get out the word about Iron Sky!

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Looking for Extras for Iron Sky promo/tests shoot in Tampere

March 16th, 2010 by Janos Honkonen

Before we’re able to shoot Iron Sky, we need to do some tests. You know, to determine how we’re going to shoot the film, what kind of look and feel we’ll end up having with it and what kind of requirements there are for the equipment, lighting, green screens and post production there are that we can prepare for.

For this, we’re shooting one day of tests in Tampere with the core crew of Iron Sky on March 23rd (that’s Tuesday) from 10:00 onward, and we need extras to show up fo the shootings. We’ll need 10 people marching in Nazi boots – do you think you’re up for it? We’re looking for men in a generally good, “militaristic” condition (you don’t need to be an athlete, but you should be reasonably fit), and who are able to march.

You should prepare to spend the whole day at the shootings.

If you are interested, fill out the personal information form in here and we’ll get back to you!

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Being Finnish Part 1: Winter War.

March 12th, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala

This is the first part of a series on what it means to be Finnish. If you’ve ever visited FInland you know we live in one of the greatest places in the world. But it’s not all fun an games. There are some things you just have to master to live here

Let’s get started with essential history. I could go on about the times as part of Sweden and Russia, or the fight for independence. But that’s not really important. To understand us there is one historical event you must know and that is:

The Winter War 1939-1940.

It was kind of like the battle of Hoth.

Main difference was that the Soviet tanks didn’t have legs, so instead of rope we used Molotov’s Cocktails.

How to use a Molotov's Cocktail

So why are the improvised fire bombs called Molotov’s cocktails? Well, it’s a joke, obiously. Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov claimed in radio broadcasts that the Soviet Union was not dropping bombs but rather delivering food to starving Finns, so Finns started calling the bombs “bread baskets”. Soon they responded by attacking advancing tanks with “Molotov cocktails” which were “a drink to go with the food”.

That’s pretty much sums it up. The Soviet Union attacked with half a million men and thousands of airplanes and tanks. The Finns, being short on pretty much everything, threw bottles at them. Their tanks blew up and eventually the Soviets called quits so they’d have an army left to fight Hitler.

As usual, Wikipedia has a more historically accurate description of events.

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Tonight on Twitter: The Oscars.

March 7th, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala

The Oscars are upon us – as is Energia’s live tweet. And Timo will be on tv on Nelonen’s Oscar studio after 3AM (Finnish time).

In case you don’t use Twitter yet, below are Widgets of all the tweets from me (@energia) and Timo (@leonblank) and the Finnish Oscar discussion. They should update with the latest tweets. But we’ll see how Twitter copes with the huge amount of people sure to be Tweeting tonight.

And the Finnish Oscar discussions, in Finnish, most probably. Vaihdan #hashtagiksi sen jolla on eniten juttua.

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Watch the Oscars with us!

March 3rd, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala

Right now tanker trucks filled with Botox are running 24/7 to LA to make sure all the important people are wrinkle free next Sunday, for the 82nd Academy Awards.

The Iron Sky gang will still be in Finland, so thankfully we are not required to paralyze our faces. But we’ll be watching. It doesn’t matter how many Botox jokes I make, Oscars are still the highlight of the film year and absolutely unmissable. Especially with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosting the gala.

Thanks to the miracle of time zones the Oscar gala starts at 3AM monday here in Finland. But we’ll be staying up late to watch the Oscars. Our director Timo will be on TV commenting the gala live on Nelonen.

I’ll be on a comfy sofa at home, chatting about the Oscars on Twitter and IRC. Timo will try and join the Tweeting as well. So follow @Energia and @LeonBlank.

If you don’t use Twitter programs I’ll make a blog post on Oscar night and add streams of our tweets and the general Oscar discussions.

See you sunday!

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