Appropriate because I am in Berlin, notable because I cannot watch this video here without a proxy. How many other Nazi dinosaur-related documentaries are being suppressed by the German government?
[thanks to Steen for retrieving the embed code for me, as I was unable to do so, and thanks to the person who recommended this, whose name I have lost]
Moon Nazis are, as I’m sure we can all agree, quite possibly the worst kind of fictional Nazis. On the other hand because Space Nazis are so easy to dislike, even if they are so stylish, they make the perfect adversaries for this science fiction comedy film directed by Timo Vuorensola.
So, what we have here is a low budget science fiction film made by Finns and Germans. Cool, eh?
The nice thing here is that teaser above has some of the final shots and effects that will be in the film when it is released. For a film with a budget of approximately five million euros this is an ambitious project, but one that appears to be, at least visually, managing to eke out every last cent from that budget and putting it to very good use.
Space Nazis, I hate Space Nazis, but I like Iron Sky. I like Iron Sky an awful lot so far.
Everyone’s favorite holiday is swiftly approaching. That’s right, December first is World AIDS Day, that magical day when we all gather around the AIDS tree and sing AIDS carols. Or maybe it’s a holiday invented to help spread awareness about a horrible disease. I can never be sure.
To bring awareness to this awareness bringing day in Germany Regenbogen e.V. has teamed up with das comitee to bring us “AIDS IS A MASS MURDERER” an inventive — and NSFW — campaign featuring nubile young women copulating with the likes of Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin, and, of course, Adolf Hitler making for disturbing images like this. Of course, if you are going to go all Godwin’s Law on the HIV you might as well go balls deep, so to speak, which leads, of course, to the horror of the television ad shown above; an ad that really draws the attention away from AIDS and places it squarely on, well, fucking Hitler.
Ye gods. Once the image of a sun containing Hitler’s face rising over an idyllic landscape passed before my eyes I knew that it was too early for my brain to process this sort of thing and I had not yet consumed nearly enough caffeine. From the Danish talk show “Den 11. Time”.
In the history of secret weapons programs and government cover-ups, none is so chilling as Germany’s Volkswaffe program. It was begun sometime before the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, under the guise of producing a cheap, reliable automobile for the common man. Instead, Ferdinand Porsche’s bulbous design was used in an effort to produce an agile, lightweight fighter car for use as an elite airborne unit in Hitler’s plans to bring Europe under his control; a squadron of death-dealing Herbies emblazoned with the Balkenkreuz.
Seen here for the first time are documents, declassified footage, and eyewitness accounts of an unknown chapter in German aerospace history, and a testament to the extent of Nazi ambition and hubris. For the first time, the story of those madmen who attempted to build a car that would touch the sky will be told; and hopefully those who would attempt the same will take note, lest history be repeated.
“She’s tough. She’s dangerous. She’s all woman. She’s Leroy’s mama; and as long as she’s alive the Surf Nazis Must Die!”
The trailer for this 80s-era Troma production doesn’t really explain who Leroy is but his mama is on a mission; a mission to take down members of the Surf Nazis whose leaders have historical, Nazi names like Adolf, Mengele, and Hook. I would be lying if I said that the most realistic post-apocalyptic scenario was one in which Nazis took over California’s beaches and waged war on gangs of Asian stereotypes and blond-haired preppies in DayGlo Jams, however, this trailer seems to paint a fairly believable picture of just such a future. I can’t help but feel that I should prepare in some way, perhaps by attaching blades to the edges of my long-board.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
