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• Sozin’s Comet: The Final Battle
  The novelization of the Avatar series finale hits shelves 2 months before the episodes air. Season 2 of Avatar was one of the best multiplatform media, marketing and PR co-ordinations I’d ever seen from a major media company. Season 3 has been something
  (tags: avatar)

• Uncle Iroh Quotes
  Today is the day the new Avatar DVD comes out - as an added bonus, the crew at Dong Be Feng has made a board to play quotes from everyone’s favorite wise tea loving uncle.
  (tags: avatar iroh)

The site was down for a couple of days as a result of some bad mojo at the ISP.  It’s all fixed now (at least I hope it is).

Right.  In other news.  Go see Iron Man.  No, really.  Do it.  Right now.

• Afro Samurai Will “Smack the Taste Out of Your Mouth”
  This may be one of the best game producer interviews I’ve ever seen. The fact that it doesn’t start with “Afro Samurai is a licensed action console product based on Gonzo’s animated series which appeared on Spike.” Every game developer in the world shou

• Victoria Housing - March Condo Sales Graphs
  I move to the East Coast and real estate bubble starts bursting in my favorite city on the west coast.
• ‘Cult of Sincerity’: First Full-Length Feature to Premiere on YouTube
  And with that - we have witnesses the next chapter in independent film making/funding/distribution. That, and it’s the first movie in a long time that actually represents a generation. (reminds me of the Singles/Reality Bites/ Random Seattle movie trend

• YouTube - Avatar NYCC Finale Trailer
  [grin]
• Avatar at New York Comic-Con summary
  It was with a heavy heart that I missed NYCC and the Avatar panels (3 of them!) were the thing I missed most. Here’s a summary of the big Season 3 finale panel from Saturday with videos and everything.

• Flu hits P.E.I. late and hard
  I guess my devastating case of the flu two weeks ago wasn’t that unusual.
• McCloud Family Tourcasts - 4-17-2008
  Interview with Neil Gaiman - by Winter McCloud - cutes Gaiman interview ever?
• Housing sales tumble across Canada
  Has the bubble burst? Will Vancouver prices hold until the Olympics? Now that I’m living in the cheapest market in Canada - does it really matter?

• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm - Exclusive Action Trailer
  Absolutely incredible cell shading - who would have thought that a licensed kids title would have taken video games to the next level? Needless to say, the Naruto fan in me is VERY psyched.

• Foamzilla Interview
  Foamzilla is a student project from VFS that I mentored on which made it to this year’s Independent Games Festival at GDC. IGN Modcenter has an interview 1/2 of the dev team - Johan Eickmeyer. Go Johan!
  (tags: diy media)

• It’s m************ booze time
  This is what happens when a t-shirt builds a cult following. Why every t-shirt on the Internet doesn’t do this, I’ll never know.