NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 55: "A REQUIEM FOR ROGER MOORE"
This Week:
- Roger Moore Requiem
- Sad Singing Kitten
- Rory McGrath Spider Game
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B3ta email 55 - 06 SEP 2002
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: ROGER MOORE REQUIEM
Like you've never seen him before.
Dan Chambers is an animator. He's famous for
his pygmy shrew cartoon which was seen by
millions of net users.
Dan writes -
"I like to make funny animations. I have just
finished one called Roger Moore's Requiem.
"It twins the themes of Verdi's Requiem and
Roger Moore, which I believe only about
two or three dozen people have ever done
before me..."
http://danchambers.stodge.org/refer.php
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: RORY MCGRATH SPIDER GAME
Rico Monkeon writes -
"I made this puzzle game based around Rory
McGrath and Spiders - I think it comes across
like an insect snuff movie."
The idea? Rory is a great big radio-active
spider (of course!) You have to make him fall
down by clicking on his feet.
It's a tough challenge. Are you ready for it?
http://www.monkeon.co.uk/spider/
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: SINGING KITTEN
It's a kitten! It sings!
A while ago we made a kitten that sang, "I Love
You."
This went down very well.
We've decided to follow it up. However this time
the kitten is rather sad.
It's very moving.
http://b3ta.com/singing-kitten/
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Animations, Naming Babies and Odd Music
>> 404 page <<
You know when you click on a link and the page
has gone? That's called a 404 error. Brian
Millar has made nice relaxing page to soften
the blow. It's based on the old Hamlet cigar
TV ads. Lovely.
http://www.baker-street.net/404/
>> Signs Animation <<
Goz has made a lovely cartoon about road
signs. It's brilliantly animated.
http://www.animation.me.uk/personalanimations.html
>> Kung Fu Animation <<
Tomsk has made another episode in his
regular series, Mint. This one is a martial
arts tour de force.
http://www.tomandphil.myby.co.uk/mint/kungfu.html
>> Mutant Pet Generator <<
Jpg has been conducting genetic experiments
in Flash. You can now combine 6 animals into
all sorts of hybrids. Oh - and a brick.
http://www.room32.com.au/maul2/mutant.html
>> Name the baby <<
Remember we asked you to a name a child? Well
we're asking again. This time An-D and his
"sex chicken wife" need your help. Currently
the highest vote is for "weebl". Poor child.
http://www.roguetrooper.net
>> Peculiar music. Lots of it. <<
For quite some time Koit has been making songs
based on ideas people have sent him. He's now
got lots and wants you to vote on the best
ones.
http://www.flibz.com/koit/
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> The 'Sport' of Cup Stacking <<
A video of a girl stacking some plastic cups
really fast. Sounds dull? It's not - she's mind
bogglingly quick. Is it for real? We don't know,
but it's fascinating to watch.
http://www.speedstacks.com/qt_lg.html
>> Jackass - so much to answer for <<
These Australian chaps have compiled load of
video clips of them doing dangerous stunts.
You'll go "ow." You'll say "eeeh." Channel 5!
Sign them up! Or stop them before they seriously
hurt themselves.
http://www.pickledeggs.tv/clips.html
>> Put your pictures on a big building <<
Last year blinkenlights developed an idea to
turn a Berlin tower block into VDUs with each
window representing a pixel. This year?
They're coming to Paris and they want you to
submit images for them to display. Cool.
http://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/
>> Pictures of people taped to the wall <<
The Duct Tape Guys, Tim Nyberg and Jim Berg,
are blokes who have dedicated their lives to
duct tape. They've written 4 books about the
stuff. In the name of PR they occasionally
tape themselves to walls. Well, it's a living
we suppose.
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/walltapings...
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from 'Ungodly Lovechild of...' Challenge
Each week we run a competition to test your
creative skills. We set a challenge and you
open Photoshop and mess with our heads.
Last week we wanted to see the ungodly love
children of, well, anything really:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/lovechild
We asked B3ta boarder 'Smirny' to judge the
entries - here are his 3 faves.
Smirny writes "Can i just say that this was a
bloody hard one, there was a lot of good stuff
in there -
#1 Icelanders are funny folk - Darryn.R
"What happens if you breed Bjork with Pig?
Pjork thats what. Now we know who brings
home the bacon in her house.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/0/0/3/6/3
#2 When chefs go bad! - Party Boy
"Saddam Hussainsley Harriot is prepared to
unleash mass biological destruction on the
world, or maybe thats just his cooking?
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/9/4/8/0/6
#3 Farmyard Dictator - Viama
"Chairman Moo was responsible for the downfall
of many farms and forced all those who served
under him to drink his milk! (probably)."
http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/0/2/7/8/7
>> This Week's Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor Chthonic gave us
the suggestion, "Straight to Video - films that
would never have made it"
http://b3ta.com/challenge/straighttovideo/
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* NICEY GOT HIS BISCUITS from Fox's. Tonnes of
them.
* PUNK KITTENS - Joel has been contacted by
White Stripe's PR company. They loved it
and want him to do more work.
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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
Make something cool and tell us about it. If
you are in it then people will see your stuff.
Stuff we'd really like to see includes
* More real world stuff - but no begging sites.
We're bored of them. Seesh. Get a job.
* Your usual stuff.
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
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THANKS: Mike Trinder for handling the image
competition, David Stevenson for helping edit
this issue and AnkyK & Phil Kitten & Fraser
for proof reading. (44735)
