DISTRICT 9
5,624 D9 Screencaps from the leaked DVD copy of the movie.
-- View them here.
-- Download them from MU: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3


AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
Latest News & Updates Regarding Iroh.org / Piandao.org
-- Timeline For the Removal of Screencaps From Iroh.org (10/21/09)
-- Zip files are back. Check this post for the links. (10/28/09)

Looking To Beta / Discuss & Brainstorm Ideas & Plot Bunnies (7/8/09)

I'm still taking requests for screencaps, panshots, and icon bases.

11/20/09: ETA #1: 2,000 shots posted as of 7:00 am EST.

11/21/09: ETA #2: 3,000 shots posted as of 11:00 am EST. Going to see 2012 and then to my parents' for the night. I'll start again on Monday, after work... :)




I'm screencapping ST:XI right now. Rather than make people wait days for any screenshots, I've decided to upload the newest shots every so often so you can start browsing the directory now.

It's here.

I don't know how long it will take to manually screencap what will probably end up being thousands of screenshots (it took me three days to screencap Sokka's Master at 2,000+) so, uh, don't ask. Juggling this between work, family, Avatar stuff, and sleep, I would be shocked if I were done before Thanksgiving. Just be patient.

P.S.: I hate widescreen format. Always have, always will. :/

Fandom, I have not been doing anything constructive. I blame Katamari Forever and Flower.

Flower is the most beautiful game I have ever seen in my entire life. It's like interactive art. The online screenshots don't even do it justice. It looks stunning on my HDTV.

And meh to KF. I've always loved Katamari's music but this music is just not-so-good variations on the old songs from We Love Katamari. :( (They ruined Disco Prince.) But the game play's as fun as it's ever been. Katamari just makes me joyful. :D

Star Trek XI is out now. I saw it at Target and amazon shipped mine out yesterday.

Just got back from seeing The Men Who Stare At Goats.  It was great! It was the only time I actually liked George Clooney (and also the time when he voiced Sparky, Stan's gay dog). As an added bonus, Robert Patrick showed up as some random guy with an unimportant role. <3 My nephew's like, "Oh no! It's Whats-his-face!" and I was like, "Piandao's saying bad words!" :D Also saw The Fourth Kind which was like watching an episode of the X Files.

 

Just got back from a midnight Halloween viewing of Paranormal Activity.  My cousin was afraid to go see it by herself. *lol*  She's still afraid.  And as I was watching the trailer for this movie yesterday, I realized why I thought the ending was so funny.  It made me think of this:



XD

It comes in this handy icon.



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Also, fan fiction.

The Garden, Part 1
Rated: PG
No shipping
Characters: Piandao and some random OCs.
Words: 3,288

Before you read this, you might want to read Chpater 1, The Campsite.

 
 

I've zipped up the screenshots for the episodes (again) and made them available through MU.


DVD Extras And Miscellany:
- Avatar Opening: Extended and Short
- Avatar Finale Pencil Test Animation
- Avatar Panel @ 2007 San Diego Comic Con
- The Essence of Bending
- The Woman of Avatar, The Last Airbender

Special Episodes:
- The Unaired Avatar Pilot
- Bato of the Water Tribe
- The Avatar State Original Animatic
- Bending Battle
- Esacpe From the Spirit World
- Swamp Skiin' Throwdown
- School Time Shipping

Book 1: Water
1.01 The Boy In the Iceberg
1.02 The Avatar Returns
1.03 The Southern Air Temple
1.04 The Warriors of Kyoshi
1.05 The King of Omashu
1.06 Imprisoned
1.07 The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1)
1.08 Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2)
1.09 The Waterbending Scroll
1.10 Jet
1.11 The Great Divide
1.12 The Storm
1.13 The Blue Spirit
1.14 The Fortuneteller
1.15 Bato of the Water Tribe
1.16 The Deserter
1.17 The Northern Air Temple
1.18 The Waterbending Master
1.19 The Siege of the North, Part 1
1.20 The Siege of the North, Part 2

Book 2: Earth
2.01 The Avatar State
2.02 The Cave of Two Lovers
2.03 Return To Omashu
2.04 The Swamp
2.05 Avatar Day
2.06 The Blind Bandit
2.07 Zuko Alone
2.08 The Chase
2.09 Bitter Work
2.10 The Library
2.11 The Desert
2.12 The Serpent's Pass
2.13 The Drill
2.14 City of Walls And Secrets
2.15 The Tales of Be Sing Se
2.16 Appa's Lost Days
2.17 Lake Laogai
2.18 The Earth King
2.19 The Guru
2.20 The Crossroads of Destiny

Book 3: Fire
3.01 The Awakening
3.02 The Headband
3.03 The Painted Lady
3.04 Sokka's Master
3.05 The Beach
3.06 The Avatar And the Firelord
3.07 The Runaway
3.08 The Puppetmaster
3.09 Nightmares And Daydreams
3.10 The Day of Black, Part 1: The Invasion
3.11 The Day of Black, Part 2: The Eclipse
3.12 The Western Air Temple
3.13 The Firebending Masters
3.14 The Boiling Rock, Part 1
3.15 The Boiling Rock, Part 2
3.16 The Southern Raiders
3.17 The Ember Island Players
3.18 Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King
3.19 Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters
3.20 Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno
3.21 Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang


I have a premium account with MU so bandwidth excesses shouldn't be an issue.  You can also access them from either of iroh or piandao's screehshots directories.  Please let me know if the links are broken or they're pointing to the wrong pages.

Paranormal Activity? Seriously, world, this is not a scary movie. It's actually quite funny. Not as funny as Zombieland but still pretty funny.

Movies:
 -- Law Abiding Citizen: Loved it. Saw it twice. :)
 -- Where the Wild Things Are: It was better than I thought it would be.  But i think I was the only person in my group of five who really enjoyed it. :/ Oh well.

Also saw Autopsy last weekend.  It was overrated by my nephew who swore it would freak me out.  My mom and I laughed our way through it. :D  But--and this is very important, Fandom--Robert Patrick was the main guy. :) I was like "MASTER PIANDAO...IS DOING AUTOPSIES ON THE LIVING!" XDXDXD  My mom was like, "Not that guy again."  *lol* My mother laughs at my fannishness. <3

Also, just so you know, I love YMCA. You know, that song by The Village People.  Every time that song comes on when I'm in the supermarket...  I can't resist dancing to it right there in the produce section or the dairy section!  I'll just stop the cart where ever I am and start groovin'.  I like making a fool of myself in public. :D



... Forgot what I was suppose to blog about. @_@

Oh, [EDIT], forgot to say...

menamebphil updated "The Gentlemen of Weapons". XD
       Chapter 12: The Dragon's Doorstep.

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Some inappropriateness from what is supposedly James Cameron's Twitter.

Sometimes I think the New York Times journalistic perspective is autistic. >_<  Wow...  Even if this isn't JC...what an ass!

More fuckery ahead...

( ''Not sure why Twitter won't allow me to register under my full legal name - James Fucking Cameron.'' )



...


I'll stop now...

Honestly though, I thought most of his tweets were hilarious only because he just makes himself look terrible.  I'm not even sure that's really him.  Either he's so fool of his own bullshit that he should be illegal or it's a troll who hates JC and wants everyone else to hate him, too. :b

But enough about that.



It's small but it is up and running. ::)  Need to pimp it over there on district_nine later. :)  Might end up having a forum.  We'll see... (Goes to look for old vBulletin license...)

So apparently, my host has taken on some new administration/management and they are cracking down on sites that have any kind of multimedia in the form of music and sound and video files. (I have those mp3s of The Track Team's music and some video clips from the show.)  So they shut me down, not because they were a copyright violation and therefore illegal, but because they simply don't allow ANY kind of multimedia on the site. So I would have been shut down if I had posted home videos as well. (Weird, I know.)  And, of course they encouraged me to have my video and audio needs serviced by places like YouTube and MegaUpload.

But also, even after I deleted the "offending" files, they decided that I was using their service to back up my PC because of the sheer size, volume, and number of files that are on piandao.org.  Well, I haven't been.  It's just that piandao.org (not even including Iroh.org in on this) takes up 31.4 gigs of hard disk space.  It contains 134,628 files (html docs (including fan fiction) and images (fan art, icons, screencaps, thumbnails, graphics wallpapers, and so on...)). By Christmas time, with the addition of new screencaps, I imagine the site will be nearing the 200,000 file number mark.

So I called around to 23 different shared hosting providers.  None of them want my big ass fansite. -_-;  One guy told me outright that no one wants a huge site like that on a shared server. "Good luck finding hosting." :/  But at least he was being honest.  Not like that other guy who kept saying how everything was "UNLIMITED" (never the case, btw) until I told him what my site actually requires and how it will probably grow to be so big and use up so much monthly bandwidth.  He was like "Oh..." *lol*

So I've leased a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from InMotion Hosting.  Leasing space on it is not cheap but at least maybe people won't bug me about my site's size. D:

I've begun uploading the files to the VPS but it'll probably take at least a day to upload all of that content and it'll take 24 to 72 hours before the domain starts pointing to the new name servers.  So...things might be up and running by Sunday.  Hopefully.

Powweb should revoke Iroh.org's suspension after I've removed Piandao.org's content from their server.

Sorry for the inconvenience. :(

FFFFFFFFFFFFF  How long have my domains been suspended, Fandom?  I haven't checked my e-mail in like five days or whatever. I never pay attention to these things anymore. I've been traveling a lot and really can't be bothered. But then someone CAPSLOCK complained to me about it through Notes over on DA like it was the end of their world. So yeah... I have no idea what's going on and it will probably take a few days to get things going (assuming I'm violating some TOS (maybe, probably, possibly, most likely (I have no regrets. *lol*))). Or maybe Piandao.org is simply getting too big for my current host and they will just ask me to take my business elsewhere.

Saw Watchmen earlier today.  It was one of the most boring movies I have ever sat through in my entire life (right up there with Forrest Gump and JFK) but Holy Mother of Koh does it have an awesome soundtrack and it was pretty to look at!  The Dark Knight didn't live up to it's hype, either. I'm pretty sure the only reason people made such a big deal about it is because Heath Ledger died right before it came out. Joker from Batman: TAS is still the best of the Jokers.

Launching a new District 9 site soon! :)  As if I don't already have too many domains to manage.

Just got home from the parents.  I was there a week longer than I had intended.  *cuddles Windows XP*  I missed you...

Also got some nasty trojan on the latest upgrade of Limewire so I've spent the last five hours scrubbing the thing from my hard drive. :/

Went and saw Surrogates, Pandorum, and Zombieland this weekend.

ZOMBIELAND - AWESOME!  It was like a huge party and the music was sick! Can't wait to order the CD.

SURROGATES - Better than expected. Cool concept. Bruce Willis didn't annoy me.

PANDORUM - Boring as shit. My nephew and I spent the time MSTing it.  ... And there's this one part where this guy's going down a dark hallway and the other guy asks if he sees something and it's quiet for like...five seconds.  Before I can stop myself, I say "The Sweetie Man is coming," Wikus accent and all, and all these people just start cracking up! <-- *lol* @ D9 fans. :) So then there's a part where these two guys are having an argument and the guy across the isle from us is like, "Don't point your fookin' tentacle at me!" :D

I installed a gallery to showcase my photos.

The past two nights, I've had crazy fandom-related dreams.

On our way back from...somewhere, my family and I stopped at this Italian restaurant. Just as they were bringing us our food, Wikus, who is apparently the owner, announces that he has put rat poison in everyone's food. So we leave and then we call 911. It takes all day (literally) for the paramedics to arrive. It turns out, it was just a hoax, but some old guy was so frightened that he had a heart attack and died so Wikus still got charged with manslaughter. At his press conference, Wikus' only comment was "Fook, man! FOOK!"

Also had this dream that Iroh and Ursa were going at it hot and heavy and Piandao comes in.  Iroh's like, "Uh...little privacy, please?" and Piandao's like, "Yeah...  You guys are doing it in a hallway!" So Iroh's like, "Oops!" Out of nowhere, Ursa pounces on Piandao, knocking him completely off of his feet and onto his back.  He's like "Uh...heh...Oh!" *lol*  So then Iroh's like "URSA!" and she's like "Whut?" and he's like "THAT'S NOT JEONG JEONG!"

:D

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forgot to tell you guys that I went and saw The Informant and it's pretty cool. :)  Go see it.  Also, ZOMBIELAND IS COMING OUT THIS FRIDAY!

 
 

Heh...  My mom has Vista on her machine and, apparently,  Vista does not have a Clipboard Viewer.  What the fuck, Microsoft?  Some of us actually used that thing. :/  I can't wait to cuddle up to my XP on Sunday.

I was wondering if anyone knew where one could buy a bootlegged copy of XP?  Has anyone on my f-list ever tried to download a Windows operating system from, say, BitTorrent?  I'm going to need XP when I get my next computer.

I can't screencap because I need the Clipboard Viewer and PowerDVD.  Boo!  So I've been relegated to going back and reading old posts on ASN and KF.net and then I spent some time cleaning things up on piandao.org and iroh.org.  Boring. :/  And, of course, since I spent most of this month doing nothing productive, I've had to update my timeline for the removal of screencaps from iroh.org.