John Sears | October 15, 2011
When I first saw the flyer for Z-Town on State Street, I was concerned, but cautiously optimistic. ‘Sing, Dance, Love, Death, Brains’ as a tagline provides ammunition both for fears of Anti-Zombie stereotyping and for hope that the production would rise above casual pigeonholing of the Differently Animated (ala Romero, Kirkman, Brooks, etc) So which [...]
John Sears | October 13, 2011
Being October now we’re seeing an awful lot of events like this one come up, sadly Anti-Zombie: For the past six months, Metzger has held down her administrative duties at Davis, as well as a part-time job at Naro Expanded Video in Ghent and a demanding gig as a community organizer of sorts. Last year, [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
We’re all for education about the history of Anti-Zombie media here at the ZRC, but it can all too easily cross the line into scaremongering or glorification of Anti-Zombie violence, and I think the folks at SFX have easily vaulted over that line: Like zombies? Then you’ll love our latest one-off special issue! Zombies: The [...]
John Sears | September 7, 2011
We received a comment here on the blog recently from an ‘animelover’ who seems to have trawled our archives back for months and discovered the post covering the ‘Zombie Walk Against Walker’, a prominent and highly successful bit of political activism by the Differently Animated here in Madison last spring. For the record, as we [...]
John Sears | September 5, 2011
The ZRC blog previously looked at ‘A Zombie’s Day Out’, a short film by Travis Betz, and that in turn led us to a previous film by Mr. Betz also relevant to our mission titled ’4 Years’. ’4 Years’ has an interesting premise, whereby a young woman about to be Zombified left her future Zombie [...]
John Sears | September 4, 2011
I think it’s about time for another short film review, don’t you? ‘Zombie’s Day Out’ is a quirky and very inventive little film that you kind of have to see to understand. How else can I get across the idea of a movie whose story is told entirely from ankle-height? Here, it’s only a couple [...]
John Sears | August 17, 2011
Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of the modern re-imaginings of the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ image from World War II. Here in Madison it was very readily taken up by the protesters and used on all sorts of things, for example. Ironically enough, despite its relatively recent and immense popularity, it never served [...]
John Sears | August 17, 2011
Even the jerks and miscreants over at the ZRS can bring some positive Zombie-related media to light from time to time, and here’s an example: Digital artist Aaron Fulcher creates rocked out designs for the tattoo set. We spotting this Johnny Cash inspired piece and just had to post it for your viewing pleasure. Yes, [...]
John Sears | August 11, 2011
At conventions we talk to a lot of Zombie fans, as well as, frankly, fans of Anti-Zombie media (who just need some counseling I think to reform completely) and we always get lots of suggestions. ‘Fido’ usually comes up. ‘Colin’ has been mentioned a lot lately too. For a while there we heard quite a [...]
John Sears | August 4, 2011
BuyZombie pointed us to this video cover/parody of the song ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries: Zombie (The Undead) arranged and performed by Lizzie Pyxx parodying The Cranberries song “Zombie” Edited by Alex Gamble Clips from ‘Night of the Living Dead’, ‘Vengeance of the Zombies’, ‘Oasis of the Zombies’ were used as projecting material. The video itself, [...]