Richard Ayoade might not be too familiar to many people in the United States. Well, that’s unless you watch a lot of Adult Swim or like to get your British comedy from IFC. Well, you should get to know him and his work a little better. I’m honestly not too familiar with his Britain-only work, but let’s take a look at what he’s done that most Americans might have seen.
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People We Admire – Richard Ayoade
On June - 10 - 2010
People We Admire – Alex Garland
On May - 28 - 2010
With the exception of 2008′s Slumdog Millionaire, Alex Garland is pretty much the secondary reason why Danny Boyle’s filmography for the past decade kicked so much ass. The Beach, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later (Boyle directed the opening cabin sequence), and the unbelievably underrated Sunshine are all products spilled from this Brit’s noggin. Oh and by the way, he also wrote the script to the Halo movie that was reviewed many times as being complete awesome sauce (and was supposed to be directed by helmer of District 9, Neill Blomkamp) before the suits at Fox started hiring terrible writers to defile it over and over again until it ended up sucking royally, but never mind about that! Read on to find out why Mr. Garland just truck-sticks everyone!
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People We Admire – Dave Grohl
On May - 13 - 2010
I promise to try to keep this short and sweet. There has yet to be a musician as a person we admire. When trying to come up with someone I gravitated toward Dave Grohl. He has had such an amazing career, that I don’t think is anywhere near over.
Just like most musicians his first few bands weren’t that big. But, coming up in the time frame and scene he did he ended up befriending The Melvin’s Buzz Osborne, who introduced him to and helped him land a try-out with Nirvana. He obviously got the gig, and then the amazing career really began.
People We Admire – Michio Kaku
On April - 29 - 2010
Dr. Michio Kaku is someone I’d refer to as a super-scientist. He has a few TV shows (one of which is currently developing a second season), has written or co-written eleven books, hosts two weekly radio shows, and has appeared in many documentaries. He was recently interviewed about the volcanic eruption in Iceland (he’s not even a Volcanologist) and will be appearing on Larry King Live tomorrow night- April 30th,(which I didn’t know when I started writing this) to talk about the special where Stephen Hawking said extraterrestrials most likely exist, but we don’t necessarily want to meet them.
People We Admire – Cheech and Chong
On April - 20 - 2010
Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong are names that have become bigger than the duo themselves. Household names for smoking it up and getting into crazy predicaments, not since Shaggy and Scooby have there been such trouble-making stoners (yeah, they were stoners, understand that) getting trapped in a serious pickle. Dozens of movies and comedy sketches have put these two over the top in terms of hilarity, and rightfully so. Therefore, let’s take a look at the work these gentlemen have done.
People We Admire – Patton Oswalt
On April - 15 - 2010
I can’t believe I haven’t done a People We Admire on Patton Oswalt yet !! Believe it or not(why wouldn’t you though?) a blog post Patton wrote on his Myspace page about TV shows he enjoys was actually one of the things that inspired me to start this amazing blog. It’s time for me to repay him by confessing my great and completely heterosexual man-love.
People We Admire – James Jean
On April - 2 - 2010
Taking a look at James Jean today, one of my favorite artists. He has done the covers to Fables and the first issue of The Umbrella Academy. He has done posters, prints, and advertisements. He’s done covers to novels and all sorts of paintings. God, he just does such amazing, surreal works of art. In his work you can identify such a fluid understanding of how things flow and how things interact. Graceful human figures and well balanced placement of all elements works quite well in his work. So instead of spending too much time trying to describe his colorful masterpieces, I think I’ll just show you some of them.
People We Admire – Terrence “T.C.” Carson
On March - 12 - 2010
This is probably going to be one of the shorter People We Admire’s, but it’s relevant. Terrence “T.C.” Carson may not be a name known by too many people, but for video game and Star Wars fans, you’ve seen, or should I say heard his work before. He’s had some film and television roles in the past, the one that sticks out most in my mind is Final Destination 2, but he is without a doubt the star of the God of War franchise. He has voiced Kratos in every iteration of the game to date, and if they decide to continue making games in the God of War universe I have no doubt he’ll continue to voice the angry Spartan. He has also voiced the Jedi Mace Windu (no, I didn’t plan to feature him right after Samuel L. Jackson) in most of the video games he has appeared in as well as the Star Wars: Clone Wars series airing on Cartoon Network.
I’d bet that a lot of people are going to be picking up God of War III this coming Tuesday, or even at midnight that night. And If you didn’t know who was behind that powerful angry voice of Kratos, now you do.
People We Admire – Samuel L. Jackson
On February - 25 - 2010
Samuel Leroy Jackson is a BAMF. For example, his middle name is Leroy . Not enough? OK, Jackson has also been an extremely prolific actor and overtook Harrison Ford as the highest-grossing movie star of all time.
People We Admire – J.D. Salinger
On January - 31 - 2010
Unless you’ve been hiding in seclusion for the past few decades (ironically) you know that J.D. Salinger, great American novelist, has died this past week. Therefore I felt it would be appropriate to take a look at the writer of The Catcher in the Rye, one of our most famous modern works of literature from this country. Salinger created Holden Caulfield, who has grown into one of our easiest to associate with teenage characters. It’s why we have The Catcher in the Rye in so many reading lists across schools in the U.S. The argument is often made that nowadays the character can not be related to as easily with today’s youth. However, there’s always someone out there that has plenty to learn from a young man who is clearly unhappy with the way their life is panning out.
