Appleseed Figure Landmate

The new Hot Toys snapkit sets of the Appleseed crew are pretty impressive but I really just wanted to show you the Landmate addition. The Landmate was a type of bio-suit mecha that the main character Deunan Knute uses in the finale of the movie.


Apparently, in order to create the Landmate, you have to buy the full set of figures as certain Landmate's parts are added to the other figure's boxes.


Pretty cheeky if you ask me, considering that the Landmate is by far the best part of this whole series. Crafty marketing eh....





The Landmate in action, screenshot from the 2004 Appleseed Movie

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Radiohead Mashups

This is going to be a Radiohead Mashup special:


Radiohead's "High & Dry" instrumental fits perfectly with Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" vocals.


Jay-Z & Radiohead create "I Know The New Up"


Radiohead's "Don't Get Any Hope" with Nas & Tupac providing the rap.

Bento Lunchbox Art

Obacchi Jacket Lunchbox are taking the age-old Japanese mumsy art of decorating your kids lunchboxes onestep further with these wicked album cover art renditions:


Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album: Potato, umeboshi (pickled plum), fish/vegetable flakes, nori, kamaboko, rice


Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire: Egg, paprika, nori (seaweed sheet), kamaboko (fish sausage), carrot, potato, ham, black sesame, rice


Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland: Nori, paprika (red & orange), egg, rice


Weezer - Green Album: Cabbage, nori, ham, kamaboko, paprika, rice


Public Enemy - Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age: Nori, kamaboko, umeboshi, rice

I wouldn't want to eat my own lunch anymore!

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Klein Bottle House

The Klein Bottle House was designed by McBride Charles Ryan and is located in the town of Rye, just outside Melbourne, Australia.






The house is described by complex shapes and spaces that revolve around a central courtyard with a grand regal staircase that connects all the levels. Dunno if I could actually live in this house but thought it was very progressive in terms of its design.

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Fullmetal Alchemist the movie

Fullmetal Alchemist the movie: Conqueror of Shamballa premiered in Japan on July 23 2005 and is a continuation of the TV series. The story is set two years after the series, and fallows Edward Elric after he is dragged into a different world through the gate, and ends up in Munich Germany in 1923. In this reality (Earth) he can no longer use his alchemical powers. He has spent the past two years researching rocketry with a young man named Alphons Heiderich (who looks like his own brother). Earth is a parallel world to Amestris (Ed’s home world) and because of this ED encounters may familiar faces. After rescusing a gypsy woman named Noa who looks like Rose Ed is thrown back on the path to get him back home.

Back in Amestris Alphonse Elric continues looking for a way to get him his brother back when Wrath takes him back into the underground city. Ed and Al are able to open the gate from both sides and Ed is able to get back to Amestris. He is fallowed by Dietlinde Eckhart who has been working for the Thule Society; on a way to get to the legendary 'Shamballa' in order to gain access to power and weapons beyond belief. When Diethinde crosses through the gate she gets alchemical powers and decides to destroy everything she sees. At this point everyone from the “old gang” joins up and tries to stop her.

I felt that this movie could have been better and was a bit of a let down. It felt as if the movie was slapped together to end the series. If the creators had spent a little more time and possibly made 2 movies then this had the possibility of being really good. I loved the series and was looking forward to this movie so I had very high expectations and I think others like me will feel the same. The movie was not bad enough for me to say give it a miss but I would say don’t get your hopes up.

Alien Toy by Medicom

This cute caricatured version of Alien is set for a release in the 3rd Quarter of 2008. This monster is produced by Medicom and distributed by Sideshow. Known as the Alien Vinyl Collectible Doll, this one should be a very popular edition for many toy collectors out there, including myself.

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UKAdapta May Update

Our May update is now online! We have two very different Graphic Designers Richard Robinson and Alice Chan as well as 2 very sought-after DJ's Krafty Kuts and System7.
Check out UKAdapta.com to read the interviews.

The Cans Festival UK

I headed down to the Cans Festival yesterday which was located in a disused ex-Eurostar train terminal in Waterloo. The queue to get in was enormous and I could see why. Around 40 stencil artists from around the world had been invited to paint their stuff in a 600 meter tunnel.


The show is officially on until Monday 5th May but the tunnel will become pedestrianised straight after. To be honest, I don't know how long the pieces will last with all those street-art haters out there. There will be probably be some vain attempts at stealing some of the owrk straight off the walls too.









I'd also like to thank Fark FK for managing to let us in the back way and making sure we didn't have to queue for the hour and a half like everyone else! Thanks a bunch mate!

Master Street Painter Kurt Wenner

Kurt Wenner has been around longer than Julian Beevers, but wasn't lucky enough to have the viral email element that Beevers had. Some say Wenner was the creator/pioneer of Anamorphic Street Art (using geometry to create an illusion of depth).




His work may seem same-same but he was the first. And there's no denying that he knows how to paint that Italian Masters style!

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1st Person Football View

I never thought I'd be posting about football, especially not after my team was just knocked out of the Semi-Finals of the UEFA Champions League last night by Chelsea (wankers!). But this video by NikeFootball is a pretty darn good rendition of what it must be like to play on the field with a bunch of superstars. Only 2 minutes long and well worth a watch!