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‘Hold your pea’ for 2am ideas featured at Comic Con 2009

July 29, 2009 by Katie Skow  
Filed under Biz, EG

At Comic Con 2009, I went on a quest to find the guys and girls with the best ideas. After being carried miles around the exhibit hall by the massive crowds and chatting with dozens of entrepreneurs, here are my favorites:

Featuring:

monstercommute Donna, the monster bag maker

MonsterCommute.com

CrazeeComicsSam, host to the alien in the toilet

CrazeeComics.com

JapanesePopStar A random Japanese Pop Star

Name & URL unknown, just check out the dance

conducthappiness Joe, the ‘hold your pea’ guy

ConductHappiness.com

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Comic Con 2009: The Hottest & Most Powerful Superheroines

July 28, 2009 by Katie Skow  
Filed under EG

What was in at Comic Con 2009? Hot and powerful superheroines not leaving a lot to the imagination.

What wasn’t found at Comic Con 2009? Superheroines in burkas or without cleavage. Seriously. I looked and could only find pop icons who would fit right in at a sexy pajama party.

Don’t forget to check out the post on Wonder Women at Comic Con: Shattering Hollywood’s Glass Ceiling in Gucci Boots

Thoughts? What is your inner feminist whispering? Leave your comments below!

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Wonder Women: Shattering Hollywood’s Glass Ceiling in Gucci Boots

July 24, 2009 by Katie Skow  
Filed under EG, Featured Goddess

Comic-Con 2009 beams superheroines into the San Diego Convention Center to jump start the weekend.

They’re beautiful, they’re fantastic, some dress like us, and some not…

An amazing ensemble of Hollywood’s leading superheroines graced the audience with their sharp minds, humor, and an insider’s look at being a female who kicks butt in the entertainment industry.

Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture panelists included: Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost), Zoe Saldana (Avatar), and Eliza Deshku (Dollhouse).

Watch these superheroines in action at Comic-Con:

Other panel highlights:

Sigourney Weaver: Hollywood “was not controlling women in Science Fiction, we just swept through.”  Women have made far more breakthroughs in Sci-Fi than other areas of pop culture.

Zoe Saldana: More minorities need to be cast as superheroes to change public stereotypes, “Have you ever met a superhero named Juan Gonzales?” We’re getting there (and way faster), but we still have a lot of ground to cover.

Elizabeth Mitchell: “I love what Sci-Fi can do for women, it allows you to be as sexual or non-sexual as you want to be.”

My personal favorite: “I think the sky is open. I don’t believe in the ceiling and if there is one we will KICK. OUR. WAY. OUT.”  -Sigourney Weaver

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Quantum Quest: Intelligent, out of this world entertainment

July 23, 2009 by Katie Skow  
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Quantum Quest Comic Con

Sci-Fi lovers and haters alike are bound to enjoy Quantum Quest when it is released early next year.

What will make Quantum Quest such an extraordinary experience? It looks like a promising animated 3-D flick with an honest educational component.

Filmmaker Dr. Harry Kloor has been working closely with NASA to get the actual space imagery used in this movie. The film uses millions of dollars in scientific data from the Cassini Mission.

Quantum Quest is a (somewhat scientifically accurate) coming of age story about a photon particle of light (Chris Pine) born into the center of the sun that must make his journey to earth.

The movie is based on how sunlight really reaches the earth.

The all-star cast includes Neil Armstrong, William Shatner, Sandra Oh, Amanda Peet, Samuel L. Jackson, and Hayden Christensen.

Get ready to be entertained and outsmarted by kids who know all about photons.

Sorry ladies, Chris Pine will only be heard and not seen.

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