this funny looking guy will grow on you like fungus “Serving in an army of robots tied to the ground makes Breakaway unique. he is one of the very few among the elite autobot flyers, and he is unmatched for speed in a straight line. While other pilots focus on aerial acrobatics that confound the enemy, Breakaway is content to speed over a fight at seemingly impossible velocity, releasing bombs and missles that strike their targets before they thunderous boom of his passage can catch up.” …

A costume is available from popular movie characters, cartoons and even a monkey collection for toddlers. These types of items could be purchased for Halloween or for an event or party. Adults as well as children enjoy dressing up as their favorite character or scary figures past and present. There are various places a person could acquire these products. A costume is an excellent idea for children as well as adults to dress well for the holiday or a special party. Even a children’s or adult birthday party would be a fun way to express a creative tone and an exciting get-together. There are various styles of these products available this year. They are simple to locate. An individual could shop at their local department stores or they could find a costume shop directly in their town. The internet is an excellent place to locate new and popular ideas for a party of trick or treating this season.

There are fabulous ideas for a costume that are new and unique for this season of events. With the new Spiderman 3 movie that hit theaters recently, there are new products to display the original Spiderman and the black version of the costume. This may be a child’s choice for Halloween or an adult may even like to add this to their costume wardrobe. It is a fun get-up and it will certainly be an impressive display at a person’s party. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee will head out from the new Transformers movie. Adults remember this from their childhood, as it is a new feel to an old classic. Children have ran to the theaters in droves for this new adventure. They will be running to the department stores as well for these two new items. Pirates of the Caribbean’s third installment have hit the movie theaters recently. Every one enjoys Jack Sparrow or the various other characters that run wild in this movie. Adults as well as children will love to dress up as their favorite Caribbean pirate this Halloween season. How could an individual forget the intriguing and loveable Harry Potter? With his recent movie coming out, everyone is rushing back to the stores for magic and excitement. As a child, adults loved cartoons. One of their favorites was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Well now the costume as well as a new movie has came out once again. As a new release on an old favorite, these items are now available for children as well as adults.

Each store and business sells a variety of these products. Every location has their most popular selling items. There is an abundant of these products that are new this year as well as old items from past years and additionally past generations. Almost every costume is made in an adult version as well as a child version. A costume is always created for a character of a movie. This is a time-honored tradition. This Halloween season, every individual should try something new and exciting to shock and amaze other people at a party or on the street. A costume is an amusing method in expressing creative ideas. Locate and purchase the most popular brands for this Halloween season.

Clip from Transformers G1 cartoon. My favorite scene.

One doesn’t have to be a romantic to live passionately. But, let me ask this question. Why can’t we be as intense and passionately excited about the best things in life as we are over the more base and unsavory events? Why? Both love and hate have incredible transforming powers, but only one produces good fruit. 

I’ve seen too many fundamentalists and zealous religious individuals becoming the very thing that they hate and have fought against. The devastation of 9-11 brought out some of the worst things in us. When pondering how the enemy could have been so callous to kill civilians and children in the twin towers, we became so obsessed with the evil that we became it.

Abu Ghraib became one of the pieces of evidence with the many accounts of abuse, torture, sodomy and homicide of prisoners held in the prison in Iraq.

The One who created the universe did so with LOVE!

Love is passionate living, but war and intolerant religion is the other side of the coin and it’s butt ugly! All of creation has a purpose and carries some of the image of God, so why kill it? Why even hate or dislike it? It’s ALL God.  Love transforms and is tranformative. Until one experiences love (not from a definition or discussing it), little POWER can come from us.

Some of the greatest miracles are depicted in the book of Acts. It’s the ACTS of the Spirit (power) and not once do you find the word LOVE in the book. Why? They living LOVE, they didn’t talk about it.

Whatcha living today? You, the one sitting here reading this? Now, go love someone. 

It is interesting to see how each generation has it’s own special toys that can define it. When he was a boy, my brother had two obsessions. He loved his Transformers toys and he loved the He-Man series. He had a lot of both of them, and he kept playing with both every day. But playing by himself was hard, so I tried to play with him. I wasn’t a huge fan of either one, so I suspect that he didn’t have much fun with me. I really didn’t know what I was doing, and I didn’t know a lot about the toys. He loved them though, and he would spend hours by himself with them on a rainy day.

It was a lot of fun for me to play with his Transformer Toys though. It was fun to watch how they work as they change from one thing to the other. They were quite interesting. The Transformer Toys that he received as gifts were the very same that we used to watch on television every week. They were mostly trucks and cars that turned into something else, though there were also other types you could buy. He knew he would not get every single one of them that he wanted because some of those transformers toys were very expensive.

A few years ago, I noticed that Transformers toys are making a comeback, but not at the point they existed when my brother was crazy about them. I don’t know if they have a new cartoon or not, but there must be some way that children are getting interested if the Transformers toys are making a comeback. Once a cartoon is successful, the toys will soon follow. You are almost guaranteed success in merchandise if you can get a cartoon made that kids will love.

If you look in your attic and find some of the older Transformers toys, you may want to get them out to give to your kids. They will love the older ones, but you may still have to buy some of the newer ones that are in stores if that is something they are into. You could also sell the old Transformers toys, if you don’t have children, to those who are now collecting them because they loved them as a child. There are always people out there who fondly remember something from their childhood, and they often like to find these things to bring home with them.

Throughout our relatively young life as a video-sharing site for people with discerning tastes, Openfilm has been able to show off the work of some great, yet-to-be-discovered artists. One of our most exciting contributors has been the French-Canadian writer, director and animator Patrick Boivin. From his wacky, battle-bot, stop-motion-animation shorts to his more serious live-action work, Boivin has permanently raised the bar for everyone here at Openfilm. In this interview, we discuss how he does it and where he goes from here.

 

Q: What first got you interested in filmmaking? Were you working on other kinds of art before you started making films?

 

A: My first approach with art was comic books. I learned to draw just to be able to tell stories. Then I discovered that it was faster to tell stories with a camera. By chance, I came to the cinema when it was changing and becoming more accessible with DV cameras and computer editing. So I learned to use those tools as they were developed. Also, since I didn’t go to film school, nobody told me I wasn’t supposed to do everything. In a way, that became an advantage, because I can now perfectly understand every step in the process and, sometimes, create films completely on my own for fun.

 

Q: Your films are filled with striking images, often involving characters with distinctive make-up and costume design. How do you work with your crew to get the pictures in your head onto the screen?

 

A: Actually, for lots of my recent work, I’ve been doing it on my own. But I usually make very precise plans, and then I go shoot my film once with a mini DV camera, alone with an actor, and then edit it as a first draft. If I’m happy with it, I use it as a prototype and show it to every key member of the crew. Then I choose stills from the film to build a precise storyboard for the actual shoot.

 

Q: What challenges are presented in working with animation as opposed to live-action?

 

A: I have to answer that question as two different guys. The first one is Patrick Boivin, who prepares a lot for his live-action projects. The second one is Monsieur Monsieur Boivin, a retarded kid who animates toys for the Web just to have a reason to buy and destroy some. If I have an idea, I buy the toy and begin to think about all the shots without trying them first. Since I’ve done a lot of directing, having a one- or two-minute animation story with all the shots clear in my mind is easy. And so I animate a shot each time I manage to find an hour or two alone in my apartment. I edit the story progressively and change things throughout the process. A real animator would have a great time laughing at me when I do my thing over a corner of my dining table. The bad thing about this is that I sometimes regret choices that I made earlier. When I really regret a shot, I do it again. But since it’s something I do for fun, I’m not too hard on myself and I include a lot of mistakes in the final cut.

 

Q: Your work sometimes has a political bent, from the Confederate flags in Jazz with a General Problem to the brain-dead politician at the center of The Bean. What’s your philosophy on mixing art and politics?

 

A: I’m really interested in what’s going on in the world today. An important part of my day–to-day thinking is about politics and human beings. So when I develop a story, I think those concerns naturally come up. And, of course, those concerns sometimes provoke stories. But it’s not something that I feel forced to do. It’s just part of the process, and having good ideas is so difficult that I don’t trash one for the sake of political correctness.As for the Confederate flag in my last animation, it all began with the desire to invent a Transformer. So I had to find myself a cool car! I’m 34 years old, and when I was a kid, my favorite car was The General Lee on “The Dukes of Hazzard.” I figured from the start that the Confederate aspect of the car would embarrass some people. I even thought of picking the voice of a known black actor to make my General Lee talk, just to add some more confusion. By the time I was ready to animate the segments where he talks, I thought of Michael Madsen, who plays the evil Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs. So General Lee, the Confederate decepticon, is in fact Mr. Blonde, the evil maniac of Reservoir Dogs, killing one of my favorite autobots with his Confederate flag – an unfair weapon in a fist fight. All of this is to say that when you feel you have a great idea, you can easily lose yourself in explanations and justifications. In the end, I personally think that all that matters is to be comfortable with your own sensibility. Doing things to please everybody ends up watering it all down.

 

Q: The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States is not a well-funded organization. Could you talk about the Canadian system and how government grants have helped to fund your work?

 

A: I’m not well informed about the arts funding system in other countries, so I won’t try to make comparisons, but I feel that in Canada, we’ve managed to find good ways to help artists over the past 20 years. But it’s really hard to get funding for any kind of project because I feel the cultural budget is not enough. Also, I’m living in a French reality, here in the province of Quebec, where the market is small. We are a bit over 7 million, and our French movies don’t travel much, so the private funding is almost nonexistent. And, most importantly, the actual government is engaged in a cutting campaign over cultural sector funding. That’s what my film LES COUPURES, ÇA TUE LA CULTURE is all about. It was a commercial made just before the federal elections we had in Canada this October. Personally, 90% of what I have done for the last 15 years has been independently financed.

 

Q: PhylactereCola is the name of one of your channels on Openfilm, but it’s also the name of a TV show you were involved in. Could you tell us about the show?

 

A: “Phylactere Cola” was a French-Canadian TV show that was broadcast in 2002-2003. There were nine of us doing everything, from the set building to the acting. I was the director, DP, cameraman, editor and FX coordinator. One of the team members, Strob, specialized in 3D and makeup. Another one, Eric Pfalzgraf, was the sound designer and music compositor. Everyone had a specialty. An important thing to mention is that we were all cartoonists. That’s how we met at first. Since we started the project as a hobby many years before doing it for TV, we have made over 400 sketches. That was my school.

 

Q: What’s on the DVD that’s for sale on the PhylactereCola website?

 

A: It’s the complete second season of the TV show, plus some extras like making-of.

 

Q: Radio is probably the best film anyone has uploaded to Openfilm so far. Where did the idea for the film come from?

 

A: Wow! I’m glad you appreciate it! One day during a car ride, a friend of mine – who was also a team member of Phylactère Cola – told me he had an idea about a guy hearing news from a broken radio, but he wasn’t sure about doing something with it. It was my birthday, and I asked him to give me this idea. Ten drafts later, I was shooting it in a five-day production. Eric Pfalzgraf took care of all the audio parts, including the beautiful music he made with another great composer named Alexis Lemay.

 

Q: What films/directors inspire you?

 

A: It changes a lot. I think the work of Roy Andersson, who did Songs from the Second Floor, and Paul Thomas Anderson is what I’m going to be looking forward to the most in the next years. But to be honest, I think Tom Waits is my greatest inspiration. Oh, and my all-time favorite movie is 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini.

 

Q: What films/projects are you working on now?

 

A: I just finished two shorts on the same level as Radio. One is a love story. The other is the story of a dead clown discovering that he became a zombie. And I’m actually working on the editing of a 30-minute science-fiction film with a lot of FX work. I’m also working on four feature films. The more conventional one is scheduled to be shot in May. As for the stop-motion, I think I’m done with it for a while. It started as a funny hobby, but the last one took me a lot more time than I had planned. There are many things I’d like to experiment with in life, and I already know that if I managed to live another 50 years, it won’t be enough. So when I do something, I try to be as intense as possible, which sometimes leaves big gaps in my responsible adult life.

Cardboard boxes from the loft = £0. 6 pram wheels = £10. 3 cans of spray paint = £15. Being Optimus Prime for the evening = £ priceless.

The job of the video game tester is very lucrative these days. It is seldom that the passion is transformed into a job. While working as a video game tester one gets to play the video games, which are not even released. Moreover they are paid to have fun. The video game testers have to play the game and post their reviews on that particular game. They also have to come up with the ideas of making the video games more popular. The video game testers can work from home and make all the necessary interaction with the manufacturers through the Internet.

The video games industry is expanding heavily these days. Thus the opportunities for a video game tester are also increasing. The only criterion for the video game tester job is experience. Applying for a video game tester job though is an easy task but is time consuming. The first step is to post a profile on the Internet. The profile must be updated regularly regarding the various recent experiences with the video games. The manufacturers do not directly appoint the tester. First one has to buy membership of their online gaming websites. Then they get to play many of the games already been released by the manufactures. After a certain time the manufactures assess the quality of the gamer. Then only the video tester is officially appointed. Landing a job for the video game tester requires immense amount of patience.

Benefits of the job

The video game tester job does not require any educational qualification. So anyone armed with ample amount of experience in gaming can apply. The job is lucrative for more than one reason. The prime reason is that one can pursue their passion for gaming. It is like having fun at the workplace. Due to the nature of the work one can even continue with his other regular occupations. Another value added feature to this job is that the tester gets access to the unreleased games. Sometimes they get the full version of the unreleased games. The job of the video game tester is also monetarily promising. It often happens that the testers sell the full versions of the game they receive from the manufacturers.

The job of a game tester is gaining popularity among the gamers with each passing day. Thus with growth in the gaming industry the openings for the job is also widening.

I got my ds for christmas and i got transformers decepticons about a week ago.

Main song from the Transformers: The Movie (1986 animated movie).