Beyond the Iron Sky

Spotted from Pelit.fi’s forums by pAuthority - somebody with wicked mind did Schwarze Sonne into a gingerbread house :)

Anybody else out there to challenge The Swastika Gingerbread House with a moonnazificated Christmas *something*? :)

From the internets comes OSS Pontbriand, a spaceship made entirely of Legos by some rather awesome guy called Jeff Pelletier.

Yeah, it’s sleek and pretty as a ship can be, but that’s not all. It’s also got the whole interior and even the 105 person crew!

This is the stuff I dreamed of doing when I was a kid. Then again, it seems rather many people did and suprisingly many of them are actually did when they grew up, this is by no means the only awesome lego ship the internets has seen.

(via Retardmedia)

My band, Älymystö, which I’ve been occasionally mentioning also here on our blog, just made a cultural move and we released our first LP, Atomgrad (2005), for free download, under Creative Commons license, along with a nice new website. If you happen to be interested on hearing how a nuclear holocaust might sound like, Älymystö’s Atomgrad is not a bad album to start with!

(The full CD is also available from Wreck Store for those who want to support the music!)

Here’s a music video for Älymystö.

Älymystö is:

Mr Haapanen (known to you as the voice of the guy who greets Pirk’s sled welcome to Baabel-13): Machinist.
Mr Vuorensola (known to you as director of Iron Sky, Star Wreck & as Mr. Dwarf): Vocalist.
Mr Honkonen (known to you as Fukov & Festerbester): Theremin.
Mr Paalanen (not known to you. Yet.): Guitar
Mr Eskola (known to you as the guy who whispers to Fukov in the meeting of the captains in ITP): Bass

Click here to download Atomgrad for free as a Torrent.

While visiting in Os, Norway, I was honoured to be invited by the producer Kjetil Omberg to see the Norwegian Nazi Zombie flick Død Snø in a private screening. I’ve been following the film actively ever since I heard about it through Twitch because, well, it has Nazis, zombies and it’s from Scandinavia. Before we go further, do check out the teaser poster art. With artwork this cool and a concept this strong (and don’t forget the coolest tagline ever: Ein, Zwei, DIE!), what could go wrong?

The story unfolds with a very classical setting: a group of youngsters are heading for a cabin, with the intentions to drink, party and preferably have sex through the whole weekend. But, as we are talking about a Norwegian film, the events take place during wintertime, and the cabin is located high up in the mountains, in the middle of endless fields of snow.

What starts out as a fun in the snow and sun, snowball fights, fooling around with a motor sled and a Stiga, soon turns into a gory zombie onslaught as the kids find a box full of Nazi gold that definitively doesn’t belong to them.

The unique setting in the genre gives an unforgettable flavor to the easily one of the greatest zombie films that I’ve seen in ages. Director Tommy Wirkola breaks most of the deeply-rooted Zombie traditions with Norwegian rock and metal banging in the background - the Zombies run, think and even talk (well, just one word). Død Snø manages to do what many have tried and almost as many have failed while trying: it’s entertaining, scary as shit, agonizing, bloody, fun and kicks in like a 12-pack of beer. The story is well written, actors do an awesome job and director Wirkola’s comedy timing is excellent, as is his ability to build up the horror. He seems to know exactly how scary place an outhouse can be when it’s -20 degrees outside, in the middle of the night. Added with a Nazi zombie roaming outside, it’s definitively not a place you’d like to be with your pants around your ankles.

Död Snö is a wonderful piece of film that isn’t ashamed of it’s roots and language, and stands proudly as one of the great examples of Norther horror wave that’s going strong right now (with Sauna and Let the Right One In).

And here’s the trailer:

I haven’t enjoyed watching a film this much in a long time.

Tl;dr (Too Long; Didn’t Read): 5 / 5.

Was when Darth Vader stepped on stage to conduct the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Imperial March - with a lightsabre.

The reason for this sight was that the Tampere Philharmonics had a concert with the theme “Space Adventure 2008″. They played themes from classic scifi movies and space themed classical music.

I have to admit that Darth Vader on stage was one thing I’d never thought I’d witness in my life. Even though considering the size of the fanbase seeing the orchestra playing the theme from Star Trek: The Next Generation with the conductor dressed in a starfleet uniform might have been even more impropable.

I have to admit I loved every second of the concert, with these kind of performances being rather rare here in Finland. One might complain a bit about it being aimed at the whole family with some, um, “funny” speeches in between chronicling the voyages of the Galaxy class starship Tampere Philharmonic. But I cant, I’ve seen the frigging Darth Vader conduct an orchestra. I’m a happy nerd.

Woohoo! We’ve won the Grand Prix price from MindTrek 2008 -event in Finland with WreckAMovie.Com! totalling to 20008€, plus also we have been nominated as Finnish candidate to World Summit Awards!

Photo by Tommi Järvinen.

Way to go to the whole team behind WreckAMovie! But MUCH MORE than that, MASSIVE THANKS to everybody already subscribed to the platform, you made it real!

Grande! Muy especiale!

Keep on Wrecking in the free world!

Los Hombres Sexuales! From left: Samuli Torssonen, the Producer; Peter Vesterbacka, the Mobility Mastermind; Timo Vuorensola, the Director; Vesa Nieminen, the Developer; Atte Joutsen and Lare Lekman, the Architects.

Timo.

Sadly this is not a shot from Iron Sky, but from Frank Miller’s upcoming film adaptation of The Spirit. A movie that’s looking seriously awesome in it’s own right. Check out the trailers.

According to MTV there’s a logical (well, sort of…) explanation for the choise of clothes:

The Octopus, The Spirits arch-enemy. “[In the comics he’s] just a pair of gloves. [So we made a decision] that the Octopus has a theme of dressing the way he feels everyday, or having a theme to his day to day life and making some sense with it. It’s just an opportunity to be larger than life.”

“There’s an Asian sort of theme so we went with the samurai outfit. A whole torture scene so Frank decided, let’s go Third Reich. It’s not often you see a brother with a Nazi uniform on so it kind of worked out,” Jackson said. “There’s a really George Clintish pimped out outfit that we use with the big hat and the long coat and the whole thing.

(via Hitleriffic)

It was a few weeks after the sharks, and the flying. The panic was sinking in, the unreality, punditry, end of the world.. itry. After the initial safety broadcasts, safety broadcast ignorings, and such, there were the inevitable rash of dog eatings. But soon after, it was noticed that among the dog remains, there was something missing.

Cat remains.

Cats weren’t being eaten, at least by sharks. Inexplicably, and of only mild slightly more than disinterest to cats, the sharks, for lack of a better word, liked them. But in the opposite of the desire to eat, sense. There was much discussion among the edible folk as to why. Much interest in studying cats, capturing and dissecting them, to learn why, was had. Except.

They had to first get past the sharks.

Check out art by The Searcher. You might know him from such internet classics as “Jesus Riding Dinosaurs“, but there’s more. There is a word for stuff like this and it’s AWESOME.