The Pop Culture of Gus Lequerica

Around Youtube, there are many interesting people, like Isabella Brave, Aron  Yonda and Matthew Sloane (a.k.a. Chad Vader) and many other more, but there aren’t many poets as singers in the web page, one of those poets that is worth to mention is Mr. David Randall Curtis, there is not much information in the net but here are a couple of videos of one of the coolest poets in youtube.

Talented is the word to describe this multifaceted entertainer, but probably many of you haven’t heard of this painter and German actor named Branko Tomovic. His works with independent filmmakers, short movies are quite exceptional, really interesting to see and he recently started to appear in major Blockbusters such as The Bourne Ultimatum and the upcoming remake of the Wolf Man but only in minor roles.

 His most recent upcoming movie A Road Apart by Olivier Kaempfer, is about two men who have some personal connections in their past and they found each other in an apart road in Italy, the previews look good but in terms of acting we see a similar facet of Branko, as he plays the misunderstood individual, a role that he has play in the past, we can even classify him as a character actor due his choices.

 Other aspect of Branko, as it was said previously, he is a painter, if we have to classify his work we can tell he has influences from the German expressionism, drawing in a grotesque form but yet human, as he blends with gloomy and dark colors to give a melancholic expression; amusingly Branko signs his work with the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, I dare to say as a homage to both of his parents as they are Serbian.

 If you are familiar with Branko’s work you had probably seen some of his work in films and painting, and he have to say as we said on the beginning of the article, he is indeed a talented entertainer.

I know a few weeks ago I wrote an article praising Heroes 3d season, and before I start writing the article I am going to say that I will write in first person as I couldn’t find any other way to say it, and what I will say is just my personal opinion and nothing more, so please don’t take it personal.

Season One, showed Sylar (played by Zachary Quinto ) a villain then turned anti-hero who stole superhuman powers because of a hunger of “knowledge”, many of us we thought it was cool and we liked the character development trough the next seasons, and now in season 3 we are introduced to Arthur “Dallas” Petrelli, Sylar’s biological father (and father of Nathan and Peter) who has a similar ability like his son, but more of extreme version (I compare him to X-Man Rogue) at the begging of the season when he killed the immortal Adam Monroe, I thought it was cool and we could have a reference that many of the younger generations have similar powers as their parents, as season progressed in my opinion I started to get annoyed with Arthur as he is just a pastiche of Sylar but with a suit and a more complex argot.

Arthur started to depower people, even his own son Peter who has a vast range of powers, thus when Peter lost his powers he made his dad a one man army, technically “Dallas” is unstoppable right now with the incredible amount of abilities he has, and with the last episode Villains, we see Arthur attacking fan favorite character Hiro. We have to wait what will happen next week, if only “Dallas” erased Hiro memories or if he will kill him, if the fans see that Hiro is kill or another Hiro from a different timeline appears, fans will stop watching it, as many people see the show just of Masi Oka character, almost everyone knows that Masi Oka is one of the elements that Heroes appealed to many people. But again, we have to wait.

Last episodes was ok, was not the best, but at least it wasn’t a clip show, we could have a back look to one year before the events, but the episode created a loop at least with Sylar and the introduction of Elle, but I am not going to discuss the technical aspects of the story now. One positive point I have to remark, the new intro was cool, I guess I didn’t expect it to see Villains at the end. I beg to the producers and writers to give us the viewers a huge surprise by the end of the volume so we can look forward to volume four next February.

PS: Cristine Rose, great as usual!

Searching through the net, you probably will find many interesting things, such as eBay or YouTube (just to name a few), one of those times I was searching for web comics (to be exact, yesterday) I found a new interesting comic called Galaxy Zero. The art is reminiscent to old 1929 Fritz Lang movies like M, or in a strange example similar as the Cabinet of Dr. Caligary where the leading man is shown as a taciturn character who reflects about his past actions and his future, other example it can be said is that the comic has a mix influence between B&W art and Color, similar as Frank Miller Sin City to denote when an object is important or has a transcendent point in the story.

According the web page , the main character name of this one shot is named Stanley, an amoral individual who passes as a private eye to fulfill his agenda against a powerful firm called Vargas and Hart which is said to be the responsible of the day called Zero Day. There is no much work yet from this new comic since it started to be uploaded on November the 10^th of 2008, and it only has one page (yet), and the uploads are going to be twice a week. For now we leave you with this sample of the first page of Galaxy Zero.