A City Made of Paper

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A metropolis and landscape of paper transform, fold, twist and turn.  The animation is amazingly smooth and must have too a lot of time to animate.  This “Paper City” animated short is by Maciek Janicki.

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Starbucks Coffee Perfection

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How does Starbucks get that nicely brewed coffee in your hands?  Rogier Wieland tells this animated story for Starbucks Coffee Asia Pacific Ltd.

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Movie Hipster Kit Prints by Alizée Lafon

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If you are into minimalist art form, then take a look at these movie prints by Alizée Lafon.  It’s her minimalist illustration tribute to Seventh Art.  Depending on the size of the prints, the prices run anywhere from $29.00USD to $360.00USD.

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Wreck-It Ralph Deleted Scene: Extreme Easy Living

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If you haven’t seen Wreck-It Ralph – you need to see it.  Buy the DVD, the Bluray or stream it.  Here’s a deleted scene exclusive from Total Film – Wreck-It Ralph in Extreme Easy Living.

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Pacific Rim Robots

pacific rimKeep a look out for Variety magazine’s July 2013 issue.

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RETRENDERS highlight trailer for Big Wow Comicfest & FanimeCon

Continue to check back with RETRENDERS for upcoming segments from Big Wow ComicFest and FanimeCon!

Nooka x Tokidoki x Sanrio

nooka watchesDo you like Sanrio?  Do you also like Tokidoki?  This Nooka collaboration “Love Through Design” brings Sanrio and Tokidoki together for a cool and cute limited edition watch.  Only 300 pieces will be available worldwide and the exclusive Zub Zirc 38 Tokidoki watch was designed by Simone Legno.  And the sales of these watches raises money for the Sanrio Foundation and EMERGENCY.

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Viral Video Friday: Hong Kong is Home

hkhomeI just can’t enough of time-lapse videos and this is a neat video on the city of Hong Kong by Javin Lau

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A Collection of Science Fiction by Comic Greats – Simon & Kirby

science fictionSince the beginning of comics, superheroes have dominated the comic book pages, but the creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby didn’t just do superheroes, they also put science fiction genre onto the comic book format.  Titan Books has collected various science fiction stories by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s featuring the likes of “Solar Legion” and “Blue Bolt” in The Simon & Kirby Library – Science Fiction.

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Batman & Robin Inker Mick Gray!

BW201309Everybody knows what a comic book artists does – they draw and are treated like rockstars, but what about inkers?  Our Ramen team chit chats with Batman & Robin inker Mick Gray about the process of inking comic books @ The Big Wow! Comicfest 2013.

Viral Video Friday: Pig Box

cute porcupineHere’s a cute animated short about a blue bird and sleepy deprived porcupine.

FanimeCon 2013 This Weekend!!!

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Where is the Retrenders team going to be at this Memorial Day Weekend?  We’ll be at FanimeCon from May 24-27 taking place at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA.

For more info, go to:  fanime.com.

Luke Chueh Postcards

luke cheuh postcardsAre you bored with the typical mundane postcard?  Well, you can buy these cool strange artsy postcards by artist Luke Cheuh.  The 5×7 postcards comes in a set of 6.

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Spiderman artist Humberto Ramos @ Big Wow! Comicfest 2013

BW201321The Ramen crew interviews Spiderman artist Humberto Ramos @ Big Wow! Comicfest 2013.  He talks about his passion and love for drawing comics.

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Frank Cho sketches Red Sonia @ Big Wow! Comicfest 2013

BW201307This past weekend @ the Big Wow! Comicfest in San Jose, star comic book artist Frank Cho takes time to talk to the Ramen and a Half crew.

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Puma Dance Dictionary

pumaPuma launches their Puma Fragrances with the Puma Dance Dictionary.

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Big Wow! Comicfest 2013

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Our Retrenders crew may be tired and sleep deprived from the Big Wow! Comcifest in San Jose this past weekend, but we hope to bring you exclusive interviews from various comic book artists, cosplayers and other cool happenings from the event, so come back to our site for video updates.

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Big Wow! Comicfest this Weekend in San Jose

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Hey, were is our team going to be at this weekend?  We’ll be at the Big Wow! Comicfest kicking off this weekend at the San Jose Convention Center.  We’ll also be hanging at the Comic & Figure Addicts (CFA) booth #209, so catch us there and say HI!

For more details go to:  Big Wow! Comicfest.com

Cut Food by Beth Galton

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Photographer Beth Galton takes some amazing food pics with this series – “Cut Food”.  A cup of ramen noodles, donuts, eggs, corn dog, ice cream all cut in half.

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Viral Video Friday: Montreal by Winter

montreal by winter 00One of the most picturesque cities in Canada is Montreal and here’s an artsy project by Stephane Hoareau for Timecode Lab.  The short film video project showcases Montreal in the winter weather and some neat time-lapse scenes.

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Pictogram Movie Posters

pictogram poster headlineWith the summer movie season underway, let us enjoy some simple, yet cool movie posters by artist Viktor Hertz.

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RoH Ep #2: Kidrobot x Frank Kozik

frank kozik skeleton labbitsEddie and Ramon hit up Kidrobot SF for artist Frank Kozik signing and his latest Skeloton Labbit releases.

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Coloring Book Not for Kids

gangsta rap coloring book 00This coloring book – Gangsta Rap Coloring Book is definitely not for the kids, but for fans of gangsta rap.  The art book features 45 rap artist from KRS One, Tupac and Biggie.  Now I get dust off my box of Crayola crayons from the attic and start coloring.

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Geometry Artwork by Felice Varini

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Artist Felice Varini likes to do big 3D-like geometric murals on buildings.  The art project was unleashed last month in Paris, France at the Grand Palais.

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Pharrell x McNairy = BBC Black

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Launching this Fall 2013 is the BBC Black line of apparel by Pharrell and Mark McNairy. The theme is all black and military inspired and GQ gets a first look and interview.

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