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True Blood v Sesame Street vid is wrong in every way imaginable but also awesome and pretty wow.

David Bigler — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:16:02 +0000

Now I really, really dig True Blood (like, a lot), and I’m a guy who doesn’t watch much television. But this video is…us.. well it’s True Blood v Sesame Street. And it’s pretty incredibly disturbingly awesome. Just watch it.

Messed. Up.

Hey You ’80s kids – Here’s the A-Team Movie Trailer!

David Bigler — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:16:37 +0000

I’m a child of the ’80s, so of course I have to share the first trailer for The A-Team movie with you! Here’s what I had to say about it in a tweet for @theanimeblog:

“Just saw the trailer for the new A-Team movie. It alternates between awesome and horrible. You’ll see: http://bit.ly/7j5GOO”

I’m sure we’ll see several trailers before the release date. The A-Team comes out in theaters on June 11, 2010.

“In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”

The Best Job Ever

David Bigler — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:02:00 +0000

Here’s a great interview (via MTV) of a dude that has done all sorts of awesome movie/toy related stuff…someone who does exactly what I would LOVE to be doing RIGHT NOW:

Best Job Ever: Sculptor Handles Depp’s Dreads, Chewbacca’s Fur

Check out the excerpt:
How He Got Here: Why does a guy like Brooke get such prime gigs?
Easy — he’s one of the best. The work-at-home dad lives in a rambling
Victorian near the University of Cincinnati campus, which is overrun by
his playfully ghoulish paintings, homemade puppets, handcrafted train
sets and kids’ art projects, got his start drawing as a kid, later
obsessing over the monsters in magazines like Cinefex.

After college, Brooke got work as a “doll-eye specialist” at
Kenner Toys working on Baby Alive, when he discovered his real passion.
“Pretty soon after that I started building models, and they bumped me
up to a full-time model maker, which is when I got into sculpting,”
said Brooke, who used to play bass in local bands Red Math and
Roundhead.

Awesome article – be sure to check it out!!!

Makes me want to go back into toy design SO BAD!!!