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I got piece 26/32. Interesting.

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Fortunately, fans of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP are a crazy-talented bunch, as evidenced by the totally excellent work on display at the official Sworcery A/V Jam fan art site. While the illustration is what really gets my attention, there’s also music remixes and other way cool stuff to check out, and if you’re in the creative mood, there’s still time (deadline is May 13) to submit your own creations.

And if you still haven’t checked out the game itself, the time of miracles awaits you on iOS and Steam.

In addition to that, he’s also releasing audio-only versions of Live at the Beacon Theater and 2007′s Shameless, followed later by an extended version of Beacon and his 1998 feature debut Tomorrow Night.

Five dollars. For an hour with the best comedian walking the earth. Do it!

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Ever since I bought my iPad late last year, I’ve found myself picking up e-books more and more, and while I’m enjoying the selection that Amazon has in their catalog, non-Kindle owners like me (which I suspect far outnumber Kindle owners) will be locked out of the Harry Potter action. It’s understandable that the company is trying to bolster its Amazon Prime and Kindle efforts, and at some point, I imagine it’ll be “subscribe to Amazon Prime and read/watch/listen to anything for free” for Kindle owners, but I wonder how a move like this might sit with the Department of Justice considering their recent antitrust suit against several major book publishers and Apple in which Amazon was clearly painted as a victim of collusion and price-fixing.

Then again, maybe this is akin to when the Beatles finally allowed their music to be sold digitally through iTunes a couple of years ago. It was a nice thought, but for most fans it was a non-event. Anyone who’s into the books probably bought them from Pottermore already, right? And besides, it’s Harry Potter. That’s sooo last year.

The show, which was initially presented as a standard-issue sitcom about young people sharing an improbably large loft, has become more perceptive in other ways as well. Comedies about attractive groups of urbanites—like the granddaddy of them all, Friends, or even the more grounded How I Met Your Mother—tend to gloss over the economic hardships and crippling self-doubt of youth as fleeting plot points. But New Girl is firmly entrenched in its characters’ neuroses and regularly tackles the thorny question of what happens when the trappings of young adulthood (sharing an apartment with multiple roommates, toiling at low-wage jobs, eschewing health insurance), stop being fun and become a little bit depressing/embarrassing.

I could never really relate to shows like Friends—or any others where young, witty people just hang out and be young and witty—but I can totally relate to the frustration and awkwardness of maneuvering through adult life while not quite feeling like an adult yourself. The feeling is more common that one might expect, and I think it’s telling that New Girl seems to hit that sweet spot for so many viewers.

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I’m still impressed with how deliberate Affleck has become with his choices now that he’s moved behind the camera. After Gone Baby Gone and The Town, the tonal shift in Argo is both surprising and yet just what I was hoping for.

The main idea was to make a game about the dream of flying. When I was a child I dreamed about flying. I crafted planes, jumped from the roof of our house with my aircraft. The funny thing is that I am afraid of heights so I don’t fly even nowadays. I also wanted to fill the game with positive emotions. There are many destructive and negative games so I wanted to figure out if it is possible to make a game which makes you feel happy. That was the great aspect of the success, I think. I received a lot of feedback from people who said the game touched them.

Consider me one of them.

via Flow Studio blog

I’m probably late to this party, but I just discovered that a collection of SModimations (animated vignettes from the early days of SModcast) are now available on Netflix’s streaming service.

Listeners of the Smith/Mosier podcast will probably already be familiar with bits like “Aquatic Justice”, “Forgeticus” and “Avatarded”, but at about an hour total, I found a few segments that I’d somehow missed. If Kevin Smith’s brand of humor is your bag, they’re just as crude and just as hilarious. Plus, newer installments are now a part of The SModco Cartoon Show, but you probably knew that already.

The compulsively watchable trash heap that was American Horror Story became one of 2011′s most surprising hits, and its first seasonal reboot is now taking shape. Co-creator Ryan Murphy has now confirmed that season 2 will take place in a spooky mental institution run by Jessica Lange, and somehow Maroon 5′s Adam Levine will be involved. OK!

The preliminary lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was announced today and it’s the strongest slate in years. The big contender from the US of A is obviously Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, which is to this movie nerd’s knowledge the first time Anderson has gone to the world’s most prestigious film festival. Also competing are new films from David Cronenberg, John Hillcoat (The Proposition), Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James…), Lee Daniels (Precious) and past Palme d’Or winners Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach and Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).

It’s worth noting that all of these heavyweights are competing at Cannes. More often that not, big world premieres by internationally-acclaimed geniuses at Cannes are screened out of competition to protect them from bad buzz and embarrassing losses (look at what happened to poor Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales after its disastrous Cannes debut).

“I can carry out directives that my human counterparts might find…distressing…or unethical.”

Chilling. I can’t wait to see how Fassbender fills out the role in the film.

So great to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt continue on his path of finding interesting roles in unconventional films. Meanwhile, with his last top-billed effort being 2010′s Red, it would seem that Bruce Willis is finally moving beyond his leading man days.

From their latest, The Church of Rock and Roll. Five bucks on Amazon all month. Dig it.

And while posters like these are now fewer and farther between, here’s the thing I really don’t get about comic book movies: They are films based on graphic novels, a visual medium that starts with a film-like script and a flesh-and-blood human being putting pencil to paper. Why on earth have I never seen a comic book movie advertised with comic-book-style art for its posters?

I can’t think of a single one.

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If you’re a home video nerd like me, then this should come in super handy when assessing just what you’ve got on your shelves (and what you need to buy) while on the go.

via Blu-ray.com