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Ghostbusters-Trailer-Mashup aus 50er-Filmen inkl. Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope und Dean Martin


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Jesus H. Christ in a chickenbasket, it’s I’m afraid of no Ghostbusters! In einem Mashup aus alten 50er-Jahre-Filmen mit Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope und Dean Martin! Fan-tas-tisch! Inklusive tausend nerdigen Details, die man in einem Frame-für-Frame-Vergleichsvideo nochmal genauer gezeigt bekommt kann.


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Ghostbusters, the movie, was shot in 1954 instead of 1984? Who should be part of the cast? Would they have the same equipment? Who would they battle? Considering Dan Aykroyd’s concept owes a lot to Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello, and Lewis and Martin comedies of the 40s and 50s, it is not that big of a stretch to speculate.

I hope you enjoy this re-imagined concept for Ghostbusters. Here’s the recipe for the trailer:

Ghostbusters, The Three Stooges, Scared Stiff, Ghost Breakers, Topper Takes a Trip, The Ghost Busters, Abbott and Costello meet the Invisible Man, Star Trek, Ghosts on the Loose, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Spooks Run Wild, Flubber, Son of Flubber, The Caddy, 100 ans d’histoires de Bibendum

Original Ghostbusters Ectomobile auf Ebay

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Heute kam mein Ghostbusters-Game (und das Buch „Say everything – How Blogging began, what it’s becoming and why it matters“ von Scott Rosenberg), das Wochenende ist also gerettet. Die Auktion für das obige Original Ectomobile auf Ebay ist schon zu Ende, das Ding ging für nur $45100 über den Tisch. Viel zu wenig für einen 1959er Ghostbusters-Cadillac.

There is not a lot that can be said about this car once you see it you know what it is. This car was owned by Universal Studios as you can see by the copy of the title. This is the real Universal car not a copy. The car runs and drives good it has new tires on it know.

Original Ecto-1 Ghostbusters Car on eBay (via Laughing Squid)

Ghostbusters, simpsonized

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Springfield Punx did it again: Diesmal haben sie die Ghostbusters in Simpsons-Charaktere verwandelt. I ain’t afraid of no ghosts und das da oben ist natürlich der allseits beliebte Marshmallow-Mann.

Ghostbusters Week

Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Everyone, simpsonized plus Star Wars, batmanized
Springfield Punx
Watchmen Simpsonized
Marvel-Universum, simpsonized

Dan Akroyd über echte Geister und die Entstehung der Ghostbusters

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Dan Akroyd hat in der American Society for Psychical Research, also im Institut für echte Parapsychologen, ein wenig über Geistererscheinungen in seiner Familie und die Geschichte hinter den Geisterjägern erzählt, deren Spielumsetzung diesen Sommer veröffentlicht wird. Das Game kommt in weniger als vier Wochen und ich freu mich tierisch. Don’t cross the streams!

Hier nochmal der Trailer:


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Just steps off Central Park in the Beaux-Arts town house of the American Society for Psychical Research, in a library lined with books like “Gods From Outer Space” and “Wall Street and Witchcraft,” Mr. Aykroyd is presenting his family’s supernatural bona fides with the same earnest yet vaguely ironic delivery that has sustained his entire comic career. Deadpan, he dares you to take him seriously even as he seems to wink at his own torrent of outlandishness.

“My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist, and he basically was the local critic, the local reviewer for any psychic show or act that came through his hometown in Kingston, Ontario, in the 1920s,” he said. Referring to the young women who helped build the Spiritualist movement of the mid-1800s, he added: “The people who came through his hometown were people like the Fox sisters from Rochester, N.Y., who communicated with Mr. Splitfoot, the ghost of a person who was murdered and buried in the basement of their house. And not only did they communicate with Mr. Splitfoot in the house, but they took him around the world on a tour with them. So it was almost like they were traveling with the ghost who made them famous.”

Continuing his tour through the Aykroyd family’s cabinet of otherworldly curiosities, he said, quite off the cuff: “My mother claims that when she was nursing me, a man and woman appeared at the foot of the bed, so she called to my dad, and they opened up the family album, and it was Sam and my great-grandmother Ellen Jane coming to welcome the new baby.”

New Video Game? Who You Gonna Call? (via Gizmodo)
Amazon-Partnerlink: Ghostbusters: The Video Game + Blu-ray Film

Ghostbusters Retrogame Präsentation


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Hier zeigt der Programmierer vom Original C64-Ghostbusters-Game die Features des Spiels aus den Achtzigern.

Activision’s David Crane gives a demo of Ghostbusters the video game for the Commodore 64 during the GAMES episode of the Computer Chronicles which aired on January 21, 1985.

„Here’s my Slimer“. We’ve come a long way, baby.

Ghostbusters Game – Neuer Trailer


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Nach einigem Hin und Her und nachdem es zunächst hieß, das Game würde überhaupt nicht mehr erscheinen, ist es jetzt offiziell: Ghostbusters kommt definitiv im Sommer 2009. Hier der neueste Trailer. Who ya gonna call?

Breaking News: Geisterjäger-Büro wurde geschlossen, New York im Chaos!

Aaaah, der Onion, wunderbar wie immer.

According to EPA agent Walter Peck, employees of the company—located in an old fire station in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York—had repeatedly refused to grant him access to their storage facility, which posed a health hazard to the surrounding community.

“The facility in question unlawfully used public utilities for the purpose of non-sanctioned waste-handling, and was in direct violation of the Environmental Protection Act,” Peck said. “Additionally, this company possessed several unlicensed portable nuclear accelerators that were frequently discharged within mere feet of civilians.”

Some who witnessed the arrests felt that Peck had launched a personal crusade against the business, possibly due to a previous verbal altercation with one of the ghost-removal professionals, former parapsychology research professor Dr. Peter Venkman.

“It definitely seemed as though Agent Peck had an ax to grind,” said Consolidated Edison technician Brian Holmes, who was ordered by Peck to turn off the containment system located in the basement of the company’s headquarters. “I had never seen anything even resembling that type of equipment before. I was extremely hesitant to shut it down, but I didn’t want to lose my job.”

EPA Shuts Down Local Ghost-Entrapment Business

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Tokyopop to Publish Ghostbusters Manga

Who ya gonna call?

Or in this case, read? Why, Ghostbusters, a 192-page one-shot from TokyoPop this fall, of course.

Find out what happens between the Ghostbusters films and the video games as Peter Venkman, Ray Stanz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore and the Ghostbusters team make their first manga appearance! The phrase “Everyone’s a critic” takes on a whole new meaning when the crew is called in to help out a troubled Broadway production. Later, Ray learns that being a Ghostbuster isn’t always the thrill-a-minute job he’d imagined it would be. And Egon has a touching interlude with a former instructor who still has a thing or two to learn about the afterlife. Then it all comes down to the ultimate showdown between our heroes and a team of peeved poltergeists.

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Gameplay-Trailer-Madness: Ghostbusters, Little Big Planet, Destroy All Humans

Dass die Ghostbusters als Game zurückkommen würden, ist schon lange bekannt. Damals schrieb ich:

Mit allen vier Hauptakteuren Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray und Harold Ramis plus einigen Nebenrollen plus den Scriptschreibern (Akroyd, Ramis), die eine Story für das Teil schreiben werden, die an den zweiten Teil anknüpft.

Jetzt ist das erste Gameplay-Video aufgetaucht und ich denke, wird eine sichere Bank. Sieht mir in diesem Trailer zwar nicht besonders abwechslungsreich aus, aber hey: das ist nur ein Level, wahrscheinlich das erste… da geht noch was. Video nach dem Klick.
Gib mir den Rest, Baby…

Restored Ghostbusters Ecto-1 ambulance photo gallery

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Nerdcars

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Elf nerdgepimpte Autos inklusive Ghostbusters, Pacman und natürlich Star Wars. Nuff said.

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Links vom 17. 11. 07: Harder Bodies, Frankenweenie, Ghostbusters 3, Laser Pistolen und 28 olle Flimmerkisten

Music

Youtube: Harder Bodies Faster Stronger
Zwei halbnackte Roboter-Mädchen machen Daft Punk.

Aphex Twin Mashups
How ill is Aphex Twin with the beats? I’ve been listening to his work for about a decade now and none of it sounds dated. Maybe more heads will recognize if I throw some vocals on top… here we have some quality mashups including verses by Busta Rhymes, Peaches, Nas, TI, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Q-Tip, Afrika Bambaataa, OC, and Kool Keith. Technically one of the instrumentals is co-produced by Squarepusher, but whatever. That dude is crazy too.

Movies

Tim Burtons Frankenweenie
Als ich damals „Nightmare before Christmas“ im Kino sah, lief im Vorprogramm sein Kurzfilm „Frankenweenie“ von 1984. Ein wunderbarer Film, der das „Frankenstein“-Thema mit einem Kind und einem Hund nacherzählt. Und genau den wird er als Film realisieren. Yeah!

Ghostbusters 3 kommt. Als Game.
Und zwar nicht einfach so irgendwie, sondern richtig: mit allen vier Hauptakteuren Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray und Harold Ramis plus einigen Nebenrollen plus den Scriptschreibern (Akroyd, Ramis), die eine Story für das Teil schreiben werden, die an den zweiten Teil anknüpft.

Ghostbusters 3 Videogame – erste Ausschnitte

Friday 13th – Script Spoiler
After that the Survivor Girl and her boyfriend wander off into the woods, where they find a shitty old cabin. Inside are some clues, like a bed with the name Jason carved in it. An old picture of a girl who looks just like Survivor Girl. And Mama Voorhees’ head.
Cue Jason. He murderizes the other four kids, and as he grabs Survivor Girl… slam into the opening credits.

Star Trek Home Theater
Someone thought it would be a good idea to model their home theater after the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The result is super geeky, but actually rather cool.

Only Shatner can make Satanists melt
All hail 70s-era Shatner! He began his career with some rather prestigious projects, appearing in The Brothers Karamazov and Judgment at Nuremberg, as well as some rather high profile appearance in Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But even then, there were hints of exploitation, such as 1961’s The Explosive Generation, in which Shatner played a teacher whose job is endangered when she speaks candidly to kids about sex. And there was 1962’s The Intruder, a Roger Corman film from 1963 in which Shatner played a carpetbagging racist inciting violence in a southern town. And, of course, there was Incubus from 1965, a horror film in Esperanto. But, after Star Trek, at the start of the 70s, something went haywire.

Muppet Wiki
Muppet Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to Jim Henson and the Muppets.

Design

Flaming Lotus Girls
The Flaming Lotus Girls are a San Francisco-based fire art collective.

Marvel Stamps

Food company annual report has to be cooked first
Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read.

New York Times Books: My Favorite Book Covers of 2007

Und so.

School in a Cave
Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally meaning “in cave”) primary school at a Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China’s Guizhou province, November 14, 2007. The school is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts.

Video: “The Computer Chronicles” Visits Japan Tech Expo ‘85
A full half-hour video from a show called “The Computer Chronicles” as they travel to Japan for the 1985 Computer Expo in Japan, full of dancing robot girls, an early version of the French Minitel, early text-to-speech, the first JumboTRON—pretty much all the stuff we’re currently enjoying today, just in boxes much more beige and square.

A History of Matching Tile Games
This article aims to write the history of a video game genre. The genre is that of matching tile games, video games where the object of the player is to manipulate tiles on a grid in order to create matches.

Laser Pistol from Lost in Space
Sci-Fi Metropolis in collaboration with master propsmith Richard Coyle, created this 1:1 scale model of a laser pistol from the 1960s sci-fi TV series Lost in Space.

28 fantastic vintage tvs
As flat screen TVs become ubiquitous, vintage TVs look more and more interesting and unusual. From early mechanical TVs consisting of a spinning disk and lens (which look even better without an enclosure), to Sony’s original transistor TV and portable LCD sets from as early as the 80s. Here are some of our favorites from collector sites around the web.

Femtroopers – Frauen als Star Wars Sturmtruppen… mit Ghostbusters!

Die hatte ich schonmal in den Links, aber das hier ist zu abgefahren: Geek Star Wars Army Girls, hier mit Ghostbusters! Yay, da muss ich ja wohl…

Soll ichs posten? Oder nicht? Immerhin: es hat Ghostbusters

Mein Bloggewissen und icke im Zwiestreit:

Is ja schon ein wenig billig, ich weiß, aber hey: es hat Ghostbusters!
Und seit wann postest Du Tittenbildchen?
Ach was, sind ja nichtmal Nippel drauf.
Trotzdem.
Joa. Aber Ghostbusters! Mensch! Ghostbusters!
Ja, ich weiß. Trotzdem… irgendwie…
Jaja, schon klar. Aber is doch auch bald Halloween!
Hmmm…
Siehste.
Trotzdem.
Oh Mann. Und jetz?
In den Kommentaren?
Hmmm…
Geht doch? Oder?
Hmmm… Na jut. In den Kommentaren is okay. Aber nur dieses eine mal!
Versprochen! Und ey: Ghostbusters!
Jaja. Mach schon.

YEAH!

Links vom 2. 10. 07: WASP, Ghostbusters, russische Uhren und die Mondlandung

Music

Youtube: Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P.
Chris Holmes is infamous for his contribution to the 1988 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, during which he was interviewed while floating in a swimming pool, fully dressed and extremely intoxicated. This interview stood out in stark contrast to the more light-hearted and humorous interviews conducted by director Penelope Spheeris, which mostly portrayed rockers as good-natured party animals.

A Bunch of Bootlegs:
Nirvana – Fecal Matter Demo – It’s about the fist Nirvana’s demo. The sound is not as good but it’s a great piece of story.
Elvis Presley – 1969 – Memphis Session
John Lennon – Rehearsals S.I.R. Studios August 21~22 1972

Movies

HOWTO make a Ghostbusters costume
I made two complete packs, suits, belts and goggles in just over two weeks working mostly nights and weekends. I also made a ghost trap and pedal- it clips onto the belt just like in the movie. The guns come off the packs and the packs light up, as does the trap. I made two lighting circuits for each pack using a simple homemade 555 timer circuit, a few LED’s and 9v batteries. The trap weighs around six or seven pounds and the packs weigh about twenty- five pounds.

The 12 Craziest Moments From The Late Show With David Letterman

Design

Fine Art Photshopping Contest
The rules of this game are thus: You will take any famous painting or artwork (any period is fine) and alter it in such a way that it is obviously a forgery

Soviet Watches
ll Phil is a remarkable collector of Soviet watches, and has produced a lavish website to show off his collection, called Russian Times.

Moon landing recreation as art
Visionary artist TOM SACHS finally managed to transcend Earth’s orbit through art when his “Space Program” show opened at GAGOSIAN GALLERY this weekend. Featuring a life-sized replica of the Apollo 11 moon lander, mission control, and NASA’s uniform room, all customized to his personal specifications using ordinary hardware store materials (including weaponry and hard-liquor delivery systems), the enormous display was the must-see big bang that announced LA’s fall art season.
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Storys

Spreeblick: Eine Frau wie Krebs
Diese Frau ist wie Krebs, du musst sie herausschneiden, auch wenn du dich dabei selbst verstümmelst. Entsage den Frauen, lies einmal ein Buch. Und geh verdammt nochmal nicht an die Tür, wenn es überraschend klingelt, das ist ja nicht zum Aushalten.

Kraftfuttermischwerk: Er trägt Glatze
Fantastisch, Alltagsnazis, stripped down to the bone: „Er trägt Glatze – nassrasiert, fährt einen tiefergelegten und breiter gemachten japanischen Kleinwagen. Er hat nur einen mäßigen Schulabschluss, aber das stört ihn und seine Kumpels nicht, denn er hat Arbeit. Seine Kollegen mögen ihn, er sagt nicht viel und das was man ihm an Arbeit überträgt, erledigt er – ohne Wiederrede. Als er jünger war, hat er Landser gehört und Störkraft, aber die hört er heute nicht mehr. Er sagt, die seien ihm “zu dumm” und außerdem sei “er kein Nazi mehr”.

Und so.

Flickr: Abandoned paper mill

New York Times über Blogs und Kommentare: All-Stars of the Clever Riposte
“People are doing it for the same reason another generation of people called in on talk radio,” said Shel Israel, a social media consultant and a columnist for Blogger & Podcaster magazine. “They are passionate, they live in a world where nobody listens to them, and they suddenly have a way to speak.”
Since many blogs have a readership of one — or, at best, the writer, his mother and some guy he sat next to in seventh grade who found him on Google — piggybacking on a more popular site offers a wider audience for a keyboard jockey’s gripes and quips. Not everyone is up to the task of creating a blog with the kind of consistent tone and provocative topics that attract visitors.
“There are people who react rather than act,” Mr. Israel said. “As much as we talk about joining the conversation on the Internet, the most popular bloggers start a conversation.”
And some folks react a lot.

Color Photographs from World War II
WWII in Color website has the Internet’s largest collection of rare color photographs from World War II.

PC: Hulk Mod!

Agitpop: Der Staat als Demokratiefeind
Als Bürger, der sich nichts zu Schulden hat kommen lassen, möchte man nur ungern auf einer Liste auftauchen, die potentielle linksradikale Gewalttäter identifiziert. Und schon gar nicht, weil man möglicherweise nur durch Zufall auf dieser Website landete. Bei Google dürften offizielle Seiten weiter vorne gelistet sein und “Militante Gruppe” wird nicht der einzige Weg sein, wie man auf besagter – und aus verständlichen Gründen hier nicht verlinkter – Website landen kann. Was also tun, um seinen Unmut zu bekunden? Stefanolix verweist auf die Möglichkeit dem BKA eine E-Mail zukommen zu lassen.
Aber: Will ich das überhaupt? Wie schon bei den Bissigen Liberalen in der Kommentarsektion angemerkt: Das Bundesinnenministerium spielt ja auch mit dem Gedanken den Bundestrojaner auch per Behördenmail zu verschicken. Und jetzt haben wir ein Conundrum. Traue ich mich, einer Behörde zu schreiben, die mich möglicherweise überwachen wird? Gehen wir mal positiv davon aus, dass der Bundestrojaner nur an “potentielle Gefährder” verschickt wird. Dadurch dass ich besagte Website des BKA besucht habe, stehe ich inzwischen doch möglicherweise auf dieser Liste. Und weil ich auf dieser Liste stehe, hält es das BKA möglicherweise für notwendig mir den Bundestrojaner auf die Platte zu pflanzen.

Der allseits beliebte Marshmellow-Mann

Ben Stiller as a Ghostbuster?

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