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.
Starbucks Coffee Perfection
How does Starbucks get that nicely brewed coffee in your hands? Rogier Wieland tells this animated story for Starbucks Coffee Asia Pacific Ltd.
Wreck-It Ralph Deleted Scene: Extreme Easy Living
Pacific Rim Robots
RETRENDERS highlight trailer for Big Wow Comicfest & FanimeCon
Continue to check back with RETRENDERS for upcoming segments from Big Wow ComicFest and FanimeCon!
Viral Video Friday: Hong Kong is Home
Spacebound
Viral Video Friday: Pig Box
Arrested Development Outline of Jokes
This Sunday on Netflix 15 episodes of Arrested Development Season 4 finally kicks off. If you’re new to the series and want to know what this running joke about the various characters is about, go to: Recurring Developments for a outline map of all the running jokes from Seasons 1-3. This should be helpful if you’re not going to have a Arrested Development DVD marathon before it Season 4 premieres on Sunday.
Go to: Recurring Developments – Outline Map of Running Jokes.
Viral Video Friday: Montreal by Winter
Pictogram Movie Posters
Arrested Development Season 4 Trailer
Arrested Development is back with season 4 exclusively on Netflix on May 26, 2013.
MC Frontalot – “I’ll Form The Head”
My nerdcore hip-hop tune for the week – MC Frontalot with “I’ll Form The Head” featuring Dr Awkward and ZeaLouS1. A cool tribute to the iconic ’80s Voltron Lions cartoon.
Adidas Unite All Originals – Snoop Dogg & 2NE1
Adidas has been rocking a solid PR campaign with “Unite All Originals” line-up of kicks and apparel wear.
A couple of weeks back, Adidas sponsored a concert featuring rapper Snoop Dogg and Kpop power girl group 2NE1 who are known to rock Adidas Originals x Jeremy Scott sneakers and clothing.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Well, after months of fanboy speculation and rumors, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a reality. ABC network has picked up the series and here’s the teaser trailer:
‘Nuff said!
Street Fighter Stop-Motion Fun
This Street Fighter-inspired stop-motion animation short “Maker vs Marker” is by Jonny Lawrence and music by Brian Sadler.
3D Musical Mapping of Tokyo Rocks
Jake Shimabukuro – Life on Four Strings
A couple of members on our Retrenders team loves playing the ukulele all day all the time and especially our host Eddie for Ramen & a Half. I bet you he will DVR this new documentary showing on PBS about ukulele maestro Jake Shimabukuro. Filmmaker Tad Nakamura took 3 years filming Jake on his ukulele journey.
LEGO Breaking Bad Video Game
For fans of Breaking Bad, the LEGO video game version. Very funny.
The Art of Epic
If you not familiar with animation house Blue Sky Studios they are the team that brought you Ice Age and Rio, and this summer movie season they have teamed up with 20th Century Fox Animation for Epic. Based on William Joyce’s book “The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs”, Epic features an inspiring witty heroine in Mary Katherine and her eccentric father Professor Bomba in researching the “Leafmen” who protect the forest from the forces of evil. Mary finds herself transported into this magical world by touching glowing leaves and thus, her adventure begins.
Classic Martial Arts Film Posters
Like the Wu-Tang Clan, as a kid growing up I saw many kung fu flicks with gravity defying kicks, flying swords and super speed punches. And if you are in the LA area, The Academy of Motion Picture & Sciences is showcasing classic martial arts film posters from Bruce Lee to Kill Bill. This huge 800 film poster collection & related materials was donated by producer & screenwriter Stephen Chin in 2011 to the Academy. This exhibit will run through August 25, 2013 and it’s FREE.
Viral Video Friday: [Touhou] Bad Apple! on Sega Megadrive
Here’s something hackable you can do with the SEGA Megadrive/Genesis, just watch this cool video playing:
SEGA: Castle of Illusion back this Summer 2013!
Way back in the 1990s, SEGA released a neat little 2D platformer game with Disney character Mickey Mouse. The Castle of Illusion side-scroller was a hit game for the Genesis/Mega Drive and found it’s way onto the Master System and Game Gear consoles too. Two sequels would also come – Land of Illusion (1992) and World of Illusion (1993).
Introducing the Cosplay pop outfit: the Super Dolls
What happens when you put together a World Famous Cosplayer, a World Cosplay Summit Grand Champion, and Cosplayer/Singer/Voice Actress together? You get the – Super Dolls featuring Alodia, RiE, and Fujaara with their first single: “アジアの変身(Asia no henshin)” The album drops May 2013 in the Philippines and June 5th, 2013 in Japan.
Video Viral Friday: Stop Motion TMNT Opening 1987
A neat stop motion video using TMNT action figures for the 1980s classic TMNT cartoon series!


































