More Joe on SPACE'S TOP TEN COUNTDOWN

The lovely and talented Mark Askwith, producer at SPACE: The Imagination Station, has asked me back to record more segments for Top Ten Countdown. Apparently everyone there was very happy with my energy and what I had to say, and would like me to return and geek out for their cameras some more.

Top Ten Countdown airs Saturdays at 6:30 PM and Sundays at 11:30 AM on SPACE.

New Gallery Image - Think In Human

We're going to be doing a full update on the gallery shortly.

New Gallery Image - Living Dead Girl

The original iteration of any entry in Renderosity's "Wake The Dead" contest. The final entry, which netted me a second runner-up prize, had to be adjusted to comply with nudity guidelines. Though how someone can be nude without actual skin is a bit of a mystery to me . . .

New Gallery Image - It Came From Planet Mutant

My grand prize-winning entry in Animotions' It Came From Beneath The Marquee contest -- a challenge to create a poster with the look and feel of a 1950s sci-fi poster. It'll be added to the Gallery as soon as webmistress Chrissy gets back into town.


The names are all phony, but I really tried to get that "50's actor name" quality ("Rex Rhodes" being a deliberate play on lantern-jawed This Island Earth star Rex Reason and his lookalike brother Rhodes), and the Miracle Pictures gag at the bottom is an ancient Hollywood joke immortalized in Joe Dante's debut feature Hollywood Boulevard.

In the process of putting this together I came up with a complete history for producer Max Schneel and director Sidney Thurman. Thurman was an unremarkable journeyman TV director in the 1950s whose biggest claim to fame was directing five pictures in five days : a sci-fi movie, a monster picture, a western, a Viking picture and a juvenile delinquent movie, using the same cast and crew, in Schneel's "studio", a converted grocery store in Burbank.

It'll end up in something someday.

Keeping Up Appearances - SPACE's Top Ten Countdown

I'm making regular appearances as one of the commentators on Space: The Imagination Station's weekly Top Ten Countdown (Saturdays at 6:30 PM, Sundays at 11:30 AM). Last week's countdown was killer robots, where I geeked out about Daleks and got more airtime talking about The Terminator than James Cameron. This week's countdown is sidekicks, where I sing the praises of Bruce Lee as Kato on The Green Hornet, and talk about how useless Robin is.