Showing posts with label mortal kombat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mortal kombat. Show all posts

Mortal Kombat: The Live Tour tv appearance (link roundup)



Circa 1996, actors from the Mortal Kombat: Live Tour show off their moves and answer questions on an Los Angeles morning news show. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Here's video footage of "Case," the live performance of Neuromancer. (Not quite as exciting as I'd hoped.) Via.

2. The Tim Burton retrospective honors his Southern California roots:
We've attempted to accomplish this by organizing material under “Surviving Burbank” covering the years of Tim's upbringing in Burbank, CA; “Beautifying Burbank” on his years as a student at CalArts and an apprentice animator and concept artist with the Walt Disney Company, including his early collaborations with sculptor and artist Rick Heinrichs, animator Joe Ranft and effects artist Stephen Chiodo; to “Beyond Burbank” for the years since his first feature, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985), to the present.
Read more about the show here.

3. Cruel nicknames for overweight vampires. For example: Taco Bela.

*Previously: Redesigned Mortal Kombat Characters.

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Redesigned Mortal Kombat Characters (and more)



Vincent Proce's redesigned versions of Kano and Raiden. See also: Sonya and Scorpion.

At his personal site, you'll find more art including storyboards for games including Mortal Kombat vs. DC:






*Previously: Care Bears/Mortal Kombat mashup.

*Buy Mortal Kombat action figures at eBay.

Banner ads tied to flies (link roundup)





Jung von Matt/Neckar tied banner ads to flies. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Kanye West interrupts a Mortal Kombat fatality. This should absolutely be a feature in the game.

2. Disturbing print ad about kids suffering from asthma.

3. More creative advertising for Dante's Inferno - - this time someone at Escapist was Rickrolled. Via.

*Previously: Dante's Inferno gift box.

*Buy Mortal Kombat action figures at eBay.

Care Bears/Mortal Kombat mashup (link roundup)




Rainbow Brite, The Care Bears and more engage in Mortal Kombat style Kombat in these images by Jude Buffum. Prints are available in his webstore.

And a few more links:

1. Don't forget to enter the Monster Commute giveaway. The prize is great.

2. 80,000 fans showed up to watch Cristiano Ronaldo as he was officially unveiled as a Real Madrid player last week. Video link.

3. The characters of Shrek reimagined.

4. I'm all for putting figure heads on cars if they're going to look like the Raygun Princess.

*Previously: Shrek's Scottish accent cost Dreamworks $5 million.

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Listen as the Mortal Kombat announcer says silly things

Hernan Sanchez is the guy who says famous Mortal Kombat's catch phrases. Maxim convinced him to say various silly things that you can hear by clicking on the widget below:







Via.



*Previously: Compilation of the Mortal Kombat vs. DC fatalities.



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Compilation of all of the Mortal Kombat vs. DC fatalities

Here's an eight-minute video compilation of all of the Mortal Kombat vs. DC fatalities.



I'd say Shazam's are my favorite, and Green Lantern's the most disappointing. Via.

*Previously: A Baraka I can believe in.

*Buy DC Direct action figures at eBay.

Doctor Doom, Baraka parodies of Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama poster


Move over Barack Obama, here's a Doom I can believe in. Art by Joe D! Available as a t-shirt.



And here's Mortal Kombat's Baraka stepping in for Barack. Art by p_rentfrow. Here's an alternate design.

Via.

*Previously: Tobey Maguire by Shepard Fairey?

*Buy Shepard Fairey's art book at Amazon.