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If Nicolas Cage can be critically acclaimed, then Ben Oviatt can still be an astronaut. Our “Greatest Actor” series continues.
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Here’s an entirely unsettling interview between New York Times reporter Amy Harmon and Bina48, a robot bust that’s a cross between Max Headroom and Dr. Sbaitso with a Cosby sweater.
Adding to the lush foliage of this uncanny valley is the fact that Bina48 is partially made up of recorded data from a real person named Bina, one of the robot’s owners. Yikes. Check out the video below and see for yourself.
Submitted for your approval…something 3-d and strange….with Bats….and Men….and creepy women.
No this is not news of an unreleased horror feature….It’s a bit of New York centric geek news. I know…I’m surprised too!
Growing up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn I occasionally used to visit the Sheepshead Bay area (which isn’t too far away,) mostly to see a movie with my folks or buddies of mine. Once in a while I’d go there to get some food but once I reached college the place kinda skeeved me out.
More often than not people went there to get on a boat that would take you further out to sea for fishing. In recent years it’s become haven for a bunch of shoddy restaurants and randoms stores that have shut down or reopened alongside weird rinky dink mini malls and the odd assortment of strange homes.
Strange homes indeed….in fact one of them used to belong to legendary Illustrator and Animator extraordinaire Winsor McCay. Winsor McCay created “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” and also “Gertie the Dinosaur.”
His home still stands in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn though it’s a shadow of it’s former self. Squating tenants, Bedbugs, Drugs and other general nastiness have taken refuge in this once beautiful home. Hence the new title.
This article over at Sheepshead Bites tells you more.
Another awesome tidbit: The home is on Voorhies Avenue. Like Jason Voorhees…it’s spelled slightly differently but it’s still kinda creepy.
When I was but a wee geek, I was obsessed with everything Nintendo. So naturally I didn’t miss the Super Mario Bros. show with Captain Lou Albano. Occasionally besides showing a Mario cartoon, or awkward live action with Lou as a very Brooklyn (Flatbush) inspired Mario, they would also show a legend of Zelda cartoon.
This was a treat because it came on infrequently and It was just so different from Mario.
Well I watched the first episode this morning and while it’s far from perfect it’s hilarious now in an entirely new way.
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