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Remember James Cameron’s newest Disney film Avatar? Of course you don’t, because the movie had nothing to do with Disney. Nor has it established itself in the public long enough to become a classic like Star Wars and Indiana Jones. But that hasn’t stopped Disney from announcing that they will be creating an Avatar-themed area at Disney World. Construction is expected to begin by 2013.
While I think Pandora was beautiful, I don’t think it warrants its own Avatarland. What do you guys think?
Turn yourself (or anyone you have a picture of) into a Na’vi character from the movie Avatar with the Avatarize Yourself generator! Disregard the part where it says “only in cinemas”, since the movie is no longer in cinemas, but on home video. Link -via the Presurfer
The sequel will be even more original than the first! -via YesButNoButYes
Edit 4/5/10 by Alex – updated the video to a working embed and link.
Barman made a cool helicopter from the movie Avatar out of Lego pieces for the February competition at Brickshelf. Link to pictures. -via Wacky Owl
An 88-year old man was caught videotaping Avatar in the movie theater … for his wife who couldn’t come to see it for herself. The police were called in, but the ending was different than you’d expect:
Police described the alleged film pirate as being 88 years old, about 152 centimetres tall, wearing large glasses and carrying a walking stick.
He said his wife couldn’t come to the cinema, so he was recording the film for her to watch later. Police deleted the file from the video camera and let the man stay.
What? Discretion and compassion by the police? What has the world come to?! What happened to LAW AND ORDER!!! RAWR! RAGE!!1!!ONe
Late last week, film director Kevin Smith pulled an anti-Silent Bob by unleashing a barrage of HateTweets (Is that a word? No? It should be!) against Southwest Airlines for kicking him off a plane because he was too fat. Although they later apologized, Southwest stuck to its gun by labeling him as a "safety concern."
I don’t know about you, but looking at the photo above, Southwest may have a point here.
Just kidding – actually that’s just Kevin Smith "avatized" by Robert Paulson, who has now avatized a bunch of other celebs:
Hey all, I’m the Avatizer. Yeah, that one. I started doing these photoshops the weekend Avatar came out cause I liked the movie and thought it’d be fun to do a few of these. Well people seemed to like them and requested more and soon a few became a dozen and and then a bunch until I ended up with over a hundred of these things seemingly overnight.
As you can probably tell, my early ones are very rough, mainly because I didn’t have much experience with photoshop when I started so I’ve had to essentially learn how to do this as I go along. Each manipulation can take as little as 20-30 minutes to as much as 4 or 5 hours (especially when I wasn’t quite sure how to do it). Now each one takes roughly an hour and a half to do, depending on how detailed the resolution is and whether their are arms/hands/legs to do too. If you want a general idea of how I do it, check out this timelapse video I did for my Ellen Page edit.
Links: Avatized Pics Flickr Set | Kevin Smith on Twitter
When Titanic blasted Star Wars off the top of the earnings throne, George Lucas had a congratulations illustration made to honor fellow director, Jim Cameron. See the whole thing at the link. Interestingly, if you look just above Leia, the backwards shadow of the word “television” can be seen, making me wonder if this was actually doodled on the back of some other document.
Now, what will Jim send to himself now that Avatar has sunk Titanic?
Adam "Ape Lad" Koford did a set of Twitter avatar designs based on the outline of the Twitter bird. I particularly love the one based on Where The Wild Things Are. Can’t wait for the new ones (get crackin’ Adam!) Link | Apelad’s Tweets
