NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 62: "STAR WARS AND THE NEW KITTEN BAND"
This Week:
- Star Wars
- New Kitten Band
- Realistic Internet Simulator
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B3ta email 62 - 25 Oct 2002
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: STAR WARS 'DELETED SCENE'
Please don't sue us George Lucas.
Chicago Dave - famous for his top quality
photoshops - has been playing with video.
We laughed out loud at his subtle subversion
of a scene from the first Star Wars film.
BTW: It's a 3MB video file - so start
downloading and check out some of the other
stuff in the newsletter before watching.
http://www.limpfish.com/starwars/
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WEEBL ON MTV - long time B3ta favourite
Jonti has recently been commissioned to put his
world famous Pie animations on TV. They are
on each and every day starting 9:58pm next
Monday. Watch. (If you've got MTV. We haven't.
But he lives downstairs, which is nearly as
good.)
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: NEW KITTEN BAND
The Vines - Outtathaway
Joel's series of Kitten Band animations have
been extraordinarily successful. He's been
interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and
managed to sell several t-shirts.
"Woo", writes Joel, "Woo. Woo. Woo."
And now? He's made screaming angry kittens,
playing live on a pool table.
Turn up the sound and rock out.
http://www.rathergood.com/vines/
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: REALISTIC INTERNET SIMULATOR
Kill the pop-ups
We know what you like about the web. It's not
all that witty text or the pretty pictures. No,
it's the exciting pop-ups that jump up in your
face.
We made this fantastic game so you can tell
how good you are at the internet. BTW: Turn
up the sound - we're proud of the music.
http://b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Old TV ads, Bubbles game, Nasty thing
>> Celebrate Halloween - Clown Style <<
Matazone is a bit of a dude. He made the 'spicy
brains' kitty cartoon which caught the
worlds imagination and spawned a catchphrase.
His latest? A sinister animated poem about
clowns.
http://www.matazone.co.uk/halloween_special_2002.h...
>> Classic Ad Archive <<
Bigdave writes, "I have just set up a new page of
cheesy 80s ads, including classics like Finger
of Fudge and 5-4-3-2-1." It's a nostalgic treat.
http://www.completeshite.com/davethewave-adverts/
>> Bubbles Redux <<
Tomsk has unleashed version two of his bubbles
game. Now there is a high score table so you
can test your bubble popping skills against the
best bubble poppers in the world.
http://tomandphil.myby.co.uk/bubbles/
>> I Love You ... Thing <<
What could be more touching than a loved one
saying, "I love you more than kittens"? Probably
not this. James Lattimore, you are strange in
the head.
http://www.twatted.com/
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: UK TV PRESENTER IN VIRAL EMAIL SCANDAL
Woo.
John Leslie, who first made his name as a
presenter on the BBC children's programme
Blue Peter, now faces a trial by media which
looks certain to severely damage his career.
B3ta boarder Murray made a pic. It caught
the moment and within the space of the day
went round the world. "I was amazed when I
received it back from New Zealand mid-afternoon
yesterday", he says.
Anyway. If you were one of the few people who
didn't see it, here it is.
http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/b3ta/999...
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> What Google thinks of you <<
This is a neat project. It automatically
searches for phrases associated with whatever
you put in the box. Takes all the effort
out of coming up with an opinion.
http://www.googlism.com/
>> Muffin animation <<
Fact about muffins: They aren't from space.
However, these guys beg to differ.
http://www.muffinfilms.com/ufm.html
>> Face thing <<
Take 20 photos. Cut them in half. Make a
new face by matching them up. It's extremely
well done and kept us amused for about 20
minutes.
http://www.ericmyer.com/stereotypes.htm
>> Cyber lover <<
Infomercial style comedy sketch. Do you have
trouble getting sex? Then maybe Herb Zipper
can help you out.
http://febrile.org/files/Cyber_lovah.asf
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from the 'Badly Misheard' 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 badly mishead instructions:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/misheardinstructions/
We asked B3ta boarder 'razor' to judge the
huge number of entries - here are his 3 faves.
Razor writes -
#1 "Not-so-wise-men - I still find this amusing
even when I go back to it. Highly original,
top marks! (been flikin)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/2/1/6/4/4
#2 "Dave's new job - Genius as always. A lion
tamer? Timer? Yes something that continues
to make me laugh (slim)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/3/2/4/7/2
#3 "Why don't you join us in a cup of tea? -
A simple and well implemented entry. The
expression on the chaps face says it all.
Bravo to this gag." (Brianftang)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/2/1/4/8/6
>> This Weeks Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor Koit gave us
the suggestion, "Cartoon Characters: where
are they now?"
http://b3ta.com/challenge/cartooncharacters/
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* BEST BRITISH BLOG WINNER SCARYDUCK has a
book offer from "a nice lady in America."
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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
* The blackness of the void
* Despair, emptiness and death
* Your projects and crazy ha ha's
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
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THANKS: Links by Fuzzbucket, Fraser,
linkdump.de, Joel Veitch, Agent V. This issue
was edited by Rob Manuel with David Stevenson.
Image challenge handled by Mike Trinder.
Proofing by the sinister b4ta cabal. (49331)
