Fan-Made Entertainment Trifecta: Aidan 5, Real Ghostbusters, Perspective
Need something to watch on your lunch break? Here’s a nerd web series, movie and a short that are all well worth your time.
? This is a trailer for season one of the recently started web series Aidan 5, based on a short from 2008 that actually made it to Cannes. It’s about a clone who starts killing his other clones, but the real draw is the hand-drawn backgrounds and action set-pieces — it looks like a low-tech Sin City movie to me, and I love it. After you watch the trailer, the first two episodes are available here.
? Remember that well-made, excellent-looking Ghostbusters fan flick I showed the trailer for last month? Well, the full movie is out, and you can download it here. I’ve only seen a bit of it so far, but if anything, my desire for it to be recognized as the only true Ghostbusters 3 movie has only been strengthened.
? Here’s a cool, 8-minute and totally NOT SAFE FOR WORK (there’s a naked lady!) video called “Perspective,” a little cyberpunk story about a guy who jacks in to the cyber-whatever to have virtual sex when things get weird. It’s all from a first-person perspective, is very well shot, and the set is amazingly well-done. Plus, boobies. Watch it here, if/when you can.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.