RIP Michael Jackson

so i wake up and i see this on twitter:

"oh no; MJ's in Hospital"
"RIP Michael Jackson"

and etc

i was honestly shocked by the news and the fact that it was unconfirmed at first, but gradually fiction was turning into fact.

but here's the thing.

amidst the tweets and status updates of condolence there were some of these:

"good riddance to that pedophile"
"ding dong the freaky freak is dead"

really?
the man is DEAD

leave him alone already. (i'm not gonna go chris crocker but hear me out)

he influenced alot of things. he was one of the first to make music videos that was like a movie (best eg THRILLER). he popularized popping and locking; and i'm not gonna say he "Invented" the moon walk cos he didnt - he just renamed it and popularized it. (it's called the glide btw)

he freaking wrote some of the best pop songs known to man. he was one of the best performers out there, he was a singer, dancer, song writer... he was THE Package.

a death is a death. no matter how bad the person is; their life does not mean any less than that of someone with a better reputation. i agree he's made tremendous mistakes but the fact of the matter is that a man has died. would you want someone to remember you through your faults or your achievements?

i can tell you that he shouldnt have changed his looks so much, i can tell you that he shouldnt have done those things that he's now so famous for, but i can tell you this.

God loves him as much as he loves you.

everyone is equal to His eyes; and for that - i'm not gonna celebrate that an accused pedophile and over all mess has died.

i'm going to mourn that another human being has passed on.



RIP Michael Jackson,
You'll be Missed.

Last Air Bender Teaser Trailer

here it is guys; it's finally out.
it's not much but i guess it shows promise.

Complete WTF-ery

i dont know if you guys know, but there's gonna be an AVATAR: The Last Airbender Movie.

as a fan of the show i initially thought it was gonna be so cool; being able to see this bald monk with arrow tattoos gliding around in his air scooter.

well i was half right.

there IS going to be a bald monk kid that can bend all 4 elements...

But he's gonna be white

i dont know if M. Night Shamalamadingdong watched the LAST movie that had an asian character cast with a White Kid.
cant remember? lemme refresh your memory.



oh wow that's horrible.

anyway; it seems that a couple of picture have been leaked on the net as to who Aang and Prince Zuko is.
have a look.





Aang doesnt even look like freakin Aang, he looks like some white kid who decided to cosplay Aang at his local ComiCon or some crap.
And Zuko (who BTW is Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire) is just well...

WEREN'T THEY ASIAN?!

ok technically Dev Patel IS asian... just the wrong kind.

And on top of that apparently the casting calls SPECIFICALLY

i repeat - SPECIFICALLY stated that the characters of Aang, Kitara, Sokka and Zuko were to me (and i quote) "Caucasian or any other Ethnicity"

OR ANY OTHER?!

like it was going to be a back up idea that Kitara was going to an Inuit girl.
She was meant to be one in the first place!


that's just only a fraction of what i read on this site:

http://www.racebending.com/

have a good look and decide for yourself.
i know it kind of seems like they're making a big fuss out of this but if you think about it in the stance that for this movie to work with the white actors; they're going to have to strip all Easter Culture from this movie for the characters to even barely blend in the story.
in short, they have to white wash the movie, just so the actors dont look so out of place.
oh and while i was reading the rest of the site - i was taken aback by the fact that the movie "21" - yknow, the blackjack movie - was based on a book that had Asian students INSTEAD of what we've been given, caucasian.

but that's ok - i guess, seeing that there wasnt much culture to "whitewash" other than the characters themselves, it still made the story work somewhat.

i'm rambling here, but all i want to say is that if they go through with the casting on this movie - it's going to suck the same balls that dragonball: evolution did.
and not the glowing yellow ones.

Ps.
there's an online petition boycotting the casting for the movie; here's the link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/racebend/petition.html

and dont forget to check out the website at: http://www.racebending.com

ZOMG VlogBrother!

so yeah i got to meet john green on sunday (it's now almost 3am monday as i type this) and it was pretty cool.

it wasn't in a Youtube gathering Environment but it was still Rad nonetheless.

He talked about Paper Towns; what was the meaning behind it and he took questions from the crowd (of like...30, it was 11am sunday morning).

he was really chill and cracked some funny ones. i kinda wanted to stay back for the 2pm one just to see if he had something different but i had to go home and work on a church video.

i was trying to figure out if i should bring my VidCam or my(ahem Dads ahem) DSLR.
i decided on the DSLR and sometimes i regret not having a close friend who knows about the VlogBrothers to go with me yesterday just so they could maybe film while i take photos or vice versa.

cos john freakin danced his happy dance; i mean it's one thing seeing it on YT but it's another seeing it IRL.

ok i sound like a fan girl - shutup.

anyway - it came time for john to sign books and what not; and they let us go out if we need to get anything - and get something i did.

they were selling john's 3 books that he wrote by himself.

Looking For Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
and of course Paper Towns

i wanted to get the 1st 2 cos i CBS looking for em in bookstores.

and i found out - that AAoK isnt even going to be released here in Aus. until like... July or something. Air Freighted Copy - Booyah!

but i didnt have enough cash on me and i only had my card. so i ran - RAN - to the nearest Commonwealth Bank ATM (which was fortunately 100meters or so away - because i dont wanna pay $2 surcharge... freakin banks.) and ran back.

only to find out that they had an eftpos machine thingie anyway! gah.
i bought the two books (for a cheap $30 may i add), waited till my row got called (i arrived slightly late so i was 4 rows before the last) and waited.

while i was waiting i recognised some Aussie YT in the line infront of me; but by the time i could say hi - they've already gone.

except for 1. we'll get back to that later.

so i got to meet john green, Far out he's a REALLY nice guy. i'd love to hang around his house and just listen to him ramble on about his passion for cartography and race cars. i mean he already does that in his videos but IRL there's no jump cuts :P

that aside he was pleased to know i lost sleep because i couldnt put his book down. and he then proceeded to sign all 3 books ( i bought my copy of PT aswell.. duh). i took a photo with him and we said our farewells.

so yeah the other YTer that was there was FREZNED (who is 2nd most subbed comedian in YT Australia) i asked him if i could take a photo and proceded to rave about how he hasnt made a video in months (so have i actually - i promise to make one after this week). we talked for a couple more seconds and i then went on my way home. if i seriously didnt have anything to do - i woulda hung around.

definitely.

anyway - i went home and got some Chicken Curry Don for lunch.

got cracking on the Promo Video and i ws hit with complication after complication; in the end the thing stopping me was FinalCut's inability to export videos fully and to constantly leave 5-10 secs off the end so you have your video (which is around 100mb) being incomplete, and having taken about 15 mins to export.

i did that about 7 times. as i waited i read Looking For Alaska.

i'm 1/3 done. that's how long it freakin took. and i leisurly read - didnt do any speed reading. like any one cares.

finally it finished and i sent it to my friend who gave me the thumbs up.
all done.

so yeah - i'm now doing this while listening to the ambient sounds of Garbo's Room.

speak to you all later!

DFTBA


The Man himself



Frezned and I


more pics on my FB btw.