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Color by Numbers – Halloween  Free Game: First Start Gameplay Review [Mac Store]

Every year, boys and girls all over the world eagerly await Halloween. For on this night, the most mysterious supernatural things occur. These coloring pages depict the main symbols of Halloween, conjuring up all the ancient stories and legends. In coloring these in, your kids will feel the distinctive mood of this mystical night. Ask any questions. ♥ Thanks for watching ♥ Subcribe – www.youtube.com for more gameplay review of games on  Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. Features include: ★ Three coloring modes ★ Very simple program interface that any child can master ★ Easy-to-use palette that allows you to put together your own unique set of colors ★ High-quality drawings of all pictures ★ Visual effects and sound effects ★ Pleasing background music ★ Colored pictures automatically saved on closing the program ★ And many other useful features that make coloring entertaining By changing the coloring mode, painting can be a fun activity for children of any age. In Beginner mode, the pictures are easily recognizable, simplifying the painting process for small children. Children don’t just play — little by little they also learn to focus their attention on memorizing identical numbers. If they try to color an element of the picture with the wrong paint, they are shown a hint with the correct tube number. In this way, they always color the picture correctly and quickly memorize the numbers. In Advanced mode, the picture is broken into a bigger number of elements and

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Halloween masks used in robbery outside high school

Halloween masks used in robbery outside high school A 15-year-old high school freshman was robbed on Halloween outside his West Rogers Park school by three guys wearing masks who made off with his iPod, according to police and the boy's mother. “He was so scared,'' according to his mother, Lily Cloyne, … Read more on Chicago Tribune

A Post iPod Playlist A couple of weeks ago, within days of each other, two of my iPods breathed their last. The 160 GB Classic (circa 2009) gave up the ghost first. It simply lost all of the 120 GB or so of music that it had on it. And then, my all-time favourite, the … Read more on Hindustan Times (blog)

Jimmy Kimmel: iPad Mini is just a bigger iPod that you can't talk on First came the iPod, then a slightly thinner iPod, then a tinier iPod, then a taller, thinner iPod, then a taller, thinner iPod that shuffles your songs, then a pink one, a blue one, a green one, then an even smaller iPod, then a wider iPod. [After … Read more on CNET (blog)

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Halloween Special!!

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CHUBBY BUNNY CHALLENGE | HALLOWEEN EDITION!!

CHUBBY BUNNY CHALLENGE | HALLOWEEN EDITION!!

Thanks for watching!! Comment us with some more challenges! (PS Sorry the quality goes from good to rubbish, Georgia’s camera decided to die on us so we had to use the iPod :’c) Me and Georgia thought we’d be cute and film a Chubby Bunny Challenge with a Halloween twist. ;) Mickie’s Twitter: www.twitter.com Georgia’s Twitter: www.twitter.com Filmed by: www.youtube.com Music by: www.youtube.com Video Rating: 0 / 5

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Halloween Light Show 2011 – Party Rock Anthem

My website: www.creativelightingdisplays.com Facebook www.facebook.com View video on mobile: The video has been blocked from mobile phones (mainly iPhone/iPad) due to the content owner….record company. Nothing I can do. Most Android phones work. A work around is to click on the “Desktop” link at the bottom of the Youtube page in your browser (ex: Safari). Do not use the Youtube app. When you want to return back to mobile version, click on “Mobile” at the bottom of the page. 2011 Halloween Light Show — Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO. 4 singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand carved pumpkins, strobes, floods and thousands of lights. Most all lights have been changed from incandescent to RGB LED so power consumption is a lot less than previous years. Also DMX added to show. All lights, faces and props are custom made (DIY) by me except for the roof line which are CCRs. Controlling channels have gone up 8X from last year. 1144 channels. Riverside, CA Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Halloween tradition continues at Steve Jobs’ home in Palo Alto

The family of the late Steve Jobs has continued an annual tradition of hosting trick-or-treaters for Halloween at a “haunted garden” outside their home in Palo Alto, Calif., with two neighborhood children even coming by the house dressed up as an iPad and iPod. Add to Twitter

A British Employment Tribunal has upheld Apple’s decision to dismiss a retail store employee who violated company policy by posting derogatory comments about his employer on the Facebook social networking site. Add to Twitter

Apple CEO Tim Cook is starting to initiate change at the tech giant, looking to create a more streamlined and disciplined organization without straying from the company’s forward thinking culture. Add to Twitter

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The Engadget Show returns today! With Windows Phone 7, Aaron Woodman, Google TV devices, and our first Halloween costume contest!

Attention all humans and empathetic robots: The Engadget Show is back in a big way today, October 23rd at 6:30pm! To get things started, Josh and the gang will be taking a first-hand look at a plethora of Windows Phone 7 devices with Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman, then we’ll be demoing Google TV, and Engadget’s own Darren Murph will be joining Josh, Nilay, and Paul on stage, Guinness World Record in hand. What’s more, we’re hosting our first ever Halloween costume contest! There will be giveaways at the show for the best costumes (as voted on by you, the audience), so get to work on your winning masterpiece now! We’ll also have the usual random giveaways, but why leave it to chance when you could win stuff with a little creativity and a black turtleneck? There will also be music from Kris Keyser and visuals from noteNdo and plenty of other giveaways at the live show only, so make the trek and join us at The Times Center in person. We have a new ticketing policy, so if you’re coming to the live show, be sure to read about it below. If you’re geographically incapable of joining us in New York City laster this evening just tune into the stream right here on Engadget.

The Engadget Show is sponsored by Sprint, and will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times Building in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues (see map after the break). Tickets are — as always — free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served… so get there early! Here’s the updated info on our new ticketing policy that you need to know:

  • There is no admission fee — tickets are completely free
  • The event is all ages
  • Ticketing will begin at the Times Center at 2:00PM today, Saturday October 23rd, doors will open for seating at 5:45PM, and the show begins at 6:30PM
  • We now have assigned seating, so the first people to get their tickets — and the Sprint text-to-win winners (see below) — will get priority seating. This also means that once you get a ticket, your seat is guaranteed — you won’t have to get back in line to get a good seat.
  • We still had plenty of tickets left over at the last taping, so just because it’s 5:00pm and you finally finished Halo: Reach doesn’t mean you won’t get a seat at the show — so get your butt up to the Times Center this evening!
  • Ticketing will continue until all tickets are given away
  • You cannot collect tickets for friends or family — anyone who would like to come must be present to get a ticket
  • Seating capacity in the Times Center is about 340, and once we’re full, we’re full
  • The venue is located at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City (map after the break)
  • The show length is around an hour

If you’re a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we’ll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.

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The Engadget Show returns this Saturday, October 23rd with Windows Phone 7, Aaron Woodman, Google TV devices, and our first Halloween costume contest!

Attention all humans and empathetic robots: The Engadget Show is back in a big way this Saturday, October 23rd at 6:30pm! To get things started, Josh and the gang will be taking a first-hand look at the myriad Windows Phone 7 devices with Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman, then we’ll be demoing Google TV, and Engadget’s own Darren Murph will be joining Josh, Nilay, and Paul on stage, Guinness world record in hand. What’s more, we’re hosting our first ever Halloween costume contest! There will be giveaways at the show for the best costumes (as voted on by you, the audience), so get to work on your winning masterpiece now! We’ll also have the usual random giveaways, but why leave it to chance when you could win stuff with a little creativity and a black turtleneck? There will also be music from Kris Keyser and visuals from noteNdo and plenty of other giveaways at the live show only, so make the trek and join us at The Times Center in person. We have a new ticketing policy, so if you’re coming to the live show, be sure to read about it below. If you’re geographically incapable of joining us in New York City, just tune into the stream right here on Engadget.

The Engadget Show is sponsored by Sprint, and will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times Building in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues (see map after the break). Tickets are — as always — free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served… so get there early! Here’s the updated info on our new ticketing policy that you need to know:

  • There is no admission fee — tickets are completely free
  • The event is all ages
  • Ticketing will begin at the Times Center at 2:00PM on Saturday, October 23rd, doors will open for seating at 5:45PM, and the show begins at 6:30PM
  • We now have assigned seating, so the first people to get their tickets — and the Sprint text-to-win winners (see below) — will get priority seating. This also means that once you get a ticket, your seat is guaranteed — you won’t have to get back in line to get a good seat.
  • We still had plenty of tickets left over at the last taping, so just because it’s 5:00pm and you finally finished Halo: Reach doesn’t mean you won’t get a seat at the show — so get your butt up to the Times Center!
  • Ticketing will continue until all tickets are given away
  • You cannot collect tickets for friends or family — anyone who would like to come must be present to get a ticket
  • Seating capacity in the Times Center is about 340, and once we’re full, we’re full
  • The venue is located at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City (map after the break)
  • The show length is around an hour

If you’re a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we’ll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com. Subscribe to the Show:

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The Engadget Show returns this Saturday, October 23rd with Windows Phone 7, Aaron Woodman, Google TV devices, and our first Halloween costume contest! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Beyond Biff, Bam, Pow: 10 Graphic Novels To Enjoy With Kids of Every Age

Comic books, graphic novels, sequential art or manga; whatever you call them, illustrated books are a great way to tell a story. I’ve been reading comics for most of life, except for a brief period from age 12 to 16 when I though I was too old for them. Boy was I wrong. I’ve been reading comics to my kids almost since the day they were born, mixing them in with other storybooks and eventually novels. One of the great things about reading comics is that graphic stories cut out all of the boring “He said” and “She said” stuff. If you combine this with distinctive voices for the different characters, your kids will always know who’s saying what, making stories much easier to keep up with. Here are a few of their favorites, roughly arranged for age appropriateness from younger to older readers. 1. Owly – Andy Runton Owly by Andy Runton Don’t let the insanely cute art and lack of text fool you: there’s some great story-telling going on in Owly . With the aid of his friends Wormy the Worm, and Scampy the chipmunk, Owly roams about his forest home facing challenges, overcoming obstacles, but always trying to help out. Winner of the 2006 Eisner Award for “Best Publication for a Younger Audience,” Owly escapes coming off as saccharin sweet by showing Owly dealing with problems most kids encounter, helping teach them how to persevere and overcome disappointment. One of my favorite Owly stories has Owly building a birdbath and entering it into a contest. Although he is very disappointed when his does not win, Owly is later delighted to discover that his is the bird bath the birds actually prefer swimming in, rather than the birdbath the judges chose as the “winner.” This teaches kids that there are actually more important things than winning a contest. It may seem odd at first to “read” a book without words, but what I do with my kids is point to panels and talk about what’s going on, explaining some of the pictograms that the author uses in place of speech. Even better is when your kids begin “reading” the stories to you, explaining what they think is happening. You can purchase the Owly series from Top Shelf Comics in the single issue magazine format or as part of the 5 collected trade paper backs. 2. Tiny Titans – Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani Tiny Titans by Baltazar and Franco The only Super-hero comic books I have in this list, Tiny Titans has short vignette stories with characters drawn from the youth of the DC Universe. The stories rarely go on for more than a few page, generally telling a story to get to a punch line at the end. This format makes it easy to read a few stories before bed time or the entire issue as time allows. The jokes are often really bad, but if you love bad jokes (like me and my kids do) they can be really funny, especially if you are a fan of the DC Universe (like me and my kids). My favorite schtick is having the Monitor (from Crisis on Infinite Earth ) as the Hall Monitor (hahahah) who is constantly being thwarted by the The Anti-monitor (bwahahaha), and Lunch Lady Darkside makes the Tiny Titans take their exams early, leading to the Finals Crisis (BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA). There are a lot of inside jokes, but whether your kids have read the DC books or not, there are plenty of great groaners in every issue that they will get. You can get a free preview online of the monthly Tiny Titans magazine or purchase the two collected trade paperback volumes Welcome to the Treehouse and Adventures in Awesomeness . 3. The Little Endless Story Book – Jill Thompson The Little Endless Story Book by Jill Thompson Although The Little Endless Storybook might be classified as a story book (thus the title) I’m including it in this list because it uses characters based on one of the best comic series ever: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman . Little Endless uses characters Jill Thompson created as an artist for the original Sandman series—basically cute wide eyed versions of the Endless: Death, Dream, Destruction, Despair, Desire, and Delirium. The story revolves around Delirium’s dog Barnibus who loses his mistress one day—not hard to do, since she’s a wee bit scatter brained—and has to visit all of Delirium’s brothers and sisters (the Endless) looking for her. If you’ve ever read any of The Sandman series you might be asking how this could possibly be a children’s book, especially since it says “Recommended For Mature Readers” on it’s back cover. I can only assume that this warning was because of the original source material. I’ve been reading The Little Endless Storybook to my daughter since she was 6, with no ill effect. Well, she did dress as Delirium one Halloween. But she didn’t get lost. At least not for very long. The Little Endless Story Book is available in hardback , but it’s only $9.95 (US). What a deal! 4. Magic Trixie – Jill Thompson Jill Thompson makes the list again with the story of a little witch named Magic Trixie. Trixie whose friends include a Werewolf, a Mummy, a Frankenstien’s Monster, and Twin Vampires—is precocious as she learns the ins and outs of witchcraft from her very cool witch parents and struggles with her monster school lessons. Magic Trixie is full of energy and a lot of fun to read, but also shows kids as having relationships and interactions, having to learn about the strange habits of other families. For example, when Trixie spends the night, her friend Loupie (yes, she’s a werwolf) her family likes to stay up all night howling at the moon, a bit later than Trixie would like to be up, especially on a school night. There are three Magic Trixie trade paperbacks available. 5. Here Be Snapdragons – John Kovalic & Liz Rathke Here Be Snapdragons by John Kovalic and Liz Rathke GeekDad’s own cartoonist-in-residence — John Kovalic — makes the cut, but as an author. Along with Liz Rathke taking care of the art duties they have created a wonderful collection of stories about a group of young roll-playing gamers, with the occasional cross over of characters from John’s other series about gamers, Dork Tower . These are stories about the power of imagination, but always with a little twist when reality stampedes in through the door. My favorite is when the kids goth baby sitter, Gilly, helps the kids pull together last minute Halloween costumes. All is fine and dandy in their imaginations, but the final results leave a bit to be desired. There is currently only one volume of Snapdragons , but my daughter is hoping for more soon (hint, hint, hint John and Liz). 6. Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures – Various Based on the cell animation style of the Genndy Tartakovsky series rather than the current 3D animated stories, these books deal with the earliest part of the Clone Wars in the Star Wars universe that happens almost immediately after Star Wars: Attack of the Clones . Although the stories stand alone, they are full of action and adventure, recapturing what was always best about the the Star Wars universe: a sense of the mystery and majesty in a galaxy full of exotic planets and people. There are nine volumes of Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures available in trade paperback . 7. Bone – Jeff Smith Bone by Jeff Smith Bone is that rare bread of epic fantasy and light hearted humor that will keep you as interested in the story line as your kids are. The main character is Bone whose appearance is not unlike a cartoon bone from Tom & Jerry. He is accompanied in his adventures by his two similarly cartoonish cousins Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone who, for some reason, my son always insists I do with an Elvis voice. Despite the cartoonish nature of some of the characters, the characterizations are always strong in this book. The first volume, “Out of Boneland”, begins with Bone and his cousins fleeing to the other side of the mountains from their home land—yes, it’s called Boneland— when Phoney is caught in some shady scheme, a reoccurring them in the story. The cousins become trapped in the new land by a sudden snow storm—the entire blizzard falls in a single panel of the book in one great big “WHUMP”—and begin to make friends (Rose and Thorn), enemies (the horrible, but stupid “Rat Creatures”), and some uneasy but important allies (Lucias and The Great Red Dragon). Bone can be purchased in nine volumes or as a single massive Omnibus edition . I recommend the individual volumes, though, as they are easier to read to your kids in bed. 8. Myth Adventures – Phil Foglio & Robert Lynn Asprin Although commonly thought of as a multi-book fantasy series, my first exposure with the Myth Adventures stories was when I found the first three issues of the comics at a convention. Although I later grew to love the Robert Lynn Asprin books, it was Phil Foglio’s black and white comic adaptation of the first novel that won me over. I have never laughed as hard in my life as I did at those first few issues, in large part due to his incredibly expressive artwork. The story revolves around Skeeve, a magicians apprentice whose having a hard time with the basics, until his master, Garkin, is assassinated in the middle of summoning a demon. Hilarity ensues when Skeeve’s new master (the same demon who was being summoned when Garkin is killed) looses his powers and has to rely on Skeeve’s unsteady abilities. This is one of my daughter’s favorites, but, alas, I could only find a few of my back issues. So, joy of joys the day we found the entire Myth Adventures series collected and colorized in a single trade paperback . 9. Sugar Sugar Rune – Moyoco Anno There is a lot of great manga on the shelves, but, to be honest, I find it a little difficult to read to my kids. It’s not the whole left–to–right reading thing, but the nature of Japanese sequential art visual language that I find hard enough to follow while I’m reading it, but even harder when I’m reading it out-loud. So when my daughter brought me a copy of Sugar Sugar Rune and insisted I read it to her, I sighed and tried my best. Much to my surprise it turned out to be a great read. Like Magic Trixie , Sugar Sugar Rune is about witches. However, unlike the aforementioned story, there are multiple witches (Chocolate and Vanilla) who are best friends. There’s only one catch: they are competing to be Queen of the Magic World and only one of them can win. There are 8 volumes in the series. I recommend starting at the beginning . 10. Girl Genius – Phil & Kaja Foglio Girl Genius by Phil & Kaja Foglio Phil Foglio strikes again, this time with Girl Genius, a steam-punk extravaganza he is creating with his wife  Kaja Foglio. This is a fascinatingly detailed world full of clanking technology, floating airships, and early 19th century styles. The story centers around Agatha Clay and her quest of self discovery, as the ditzy young girl grows to realize that she is a lot smarter than she had thought. Agatha is a “Spark”whose had her intelligence inhibited so as not to reveal her true identity as the heir to a great lineage of thinkers: The Heterodynes. My daughter especially relates to the character of a brainy girl trying to make her way through the awkward phases of growing up. The Foglios moved Girl Genius online a few years back, forgoing individual printed issues, helping to pioneer online comics. You can read the entire series on the Web Site , with regular updates. But I would highly recommend buying the issues in PDF format , and then reading them on an iPad or laptop. If you are more *ahem* technologically challenged, you can purchase printed versions of any of the nine volumes . 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Voice of a Geek: An Interview With Dee Bradley Baker

The many faces of Dee Bradley Baker, a GeekDad exclusive image. (c) Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Photo by Joel Aron. Dee Bradley Baker needs no disguises. By voice alone, the actor leaves Fletch and his list of aliases in the dust, and his credits are stacked with geek power: From roles in the Halo and Gears of War franchises to regular parts in animated standouts like Batman: The Brave and the Bold to GeekDad favorite Perry the Platypus on Phineas and Ferb . Baker’s also the voice of Captain Rex and every other clone trooper on Cartoon Network’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars , which is how he wound up at Star Wars Celebration V this month in Orlando – though you get the sense that as someone who meticulously re-marked his Star Wars soundtrack as a kid to match the movie sequences, Baker probably would have been here anyway. In an enthusiastic interview at the convention, the father of two talked about his career, raising his kids and being a geek (and > ahem!< a GeekDad fan!) as well as teasing some neat insights into the next season of Clone Wars and Nickelodeon’s upcoming cartoon spinoff of its animated Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Before we even sat down, we started chatting about geekdom and fatherhood, and the conversation was off and running before I had my recorder switched on, which is why the interview starts right in the middle of things: Dee Bradley Baker: I’m a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox. We play, actually, two of my favorite games which I’m on, which are Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 . I’m three new creatures on Left 4 Dead 2, so we kill me while catching up a little bit. GeekDad: So, how many kids do you have? DBB: Two. I have five-year-old and 10-year-old daughters. And actually, we watch a lot of my cartoons. My 10-year-old loves Clone Wars and Phineas and Ferb , and my five-year-old loves Phineas and Ferb as well. GeekDads gotta stick together, you know. Image: Jim Carchidi DBB: I am a geek dad, believe me. I’ve got my iPad with me; I’ve got my iPhone 4; I’ve got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I’m living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way. GD: When you talk about being a geek dad and having those kinds of interests, does it just happen that you get this work and a lot of it has that geek appeal … or do you naturally gravitate to those projects? DBB: The way that I’ve followed my life is actually more of the latter. When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then Star Wars came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with Close Encounters , and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome. But really, instead of drawing monsters or studying dinosaurs, I just continued doing things I liked to do. I didn’t really target how it was going to pay off. And so, because I just followed these things that I liked, it led me to producing sounds for these things, and being involved with them in that way. It’s from a pattern of me continually doing things that I really loved to do, and then trying to get money while doing that. And it’s led to this. I mean, I cannot tell you how ecstatic I am to be involved with Star Wars . I twittered yesterday about how sad it is that a kid now can’t see Episode V and not know up until that moment when Darth Vader says, “I am your father” how it rewrites those two movies with one sentence. They can’t know that surprise now, and I think that’s a little sad. You go to a movie, and you’ve seen it already. The trailer shows you the whole thing, you’ve read all the reviews, you can pretty much know every single twist. But back then, when I saw that, I remember sitting in that theater in Denver, where I saw it, and just the electric feeling of right up to that moment. GD: So, as far as showing your daughters Star Wars , how have they been exposed to it? DBB: I started showing my now 10-year-old the Star Wars stuff … and started with Episode IV when she was probably about seven or eight. I thought she’d be OK for it then. When she was nine, I had shown her IV , V and VI , and then I and II , but I was holding off on III , because that one, that’s pretty rough. That’s pushing the border. You want to protect your kids, you want to be a good dad, and even though I make this stuff, I don’t just throw everything at them. And we’re watching that episode – and she’s a sharp kid: She’s watching it, and halfway through it, she said, “Daddy, I don’t think I want to see the end of this movie. I think I’ll wait ’til I’m 10.” And I said OK, that’s good. I’m very proud that my kids can tell me things like that, and that she can see that coming. But also, I mean, she had been watching the television series … and it’s established that the clones are heroes, and that Anakin is a hero, and in Episode III , everything falls apart, and it goes south, and the good guys become bad, and frankly, that’s a lot for a little kid to handle. You’re establishing what’s good and what’s bad and just the foundation for them to have a bigger perspective on the world, but I don’t need to shoehorn that into her childhood. I want her to have a childhood, which I think is harder and harder for kids to have these days. I was very proud of her for that (decision), and I felt very good about it. GD: (As a parent), you’ve got to know your kids. DBB: The main thing is that you’re present. That’s what it gets down to, to me. People, they kind of conjure a lot of fear about the media or about video games, and fo rme it’s about, “You know what? Just parent your kids . Don’t let the device babysit your child. You’ve got to be present. If you’re present, you can talk them through stuff, and they can tell you if they’re uncomfortable, and you can check their reactions. Right now (my) kids are working through Nickelodeon’s Avatar series, which I’m very proud of and which – it’s something that’s really important to me: Clone Wars means a lot to me, and Avatar means a lot to me too – I did all the creatures in that. Well, the new Avatar, they put out an audition and they wanted a flashback for the younger Avatar – who is now a girl – from when she was this little fireball five-year-old. I had my 10-year-old audition for it, and it was just two sentences, and, well, my five-year-old said, “Daddy, I want to audition. I want to try this, too,” and so I let her give it a shot. And she booked it. And the name of the series is The Last Airbender: The Journey of Korra – and my daughter’s name is Cora. It was just kind of an odd serendipity. To have her involved, with her playing a namesake, the heroic character of the show, that’s pretty cool. Pretty wonderful. ( Note: Nickelodeon announced the spinoff will be called The Legend of Korra in a July 21 press release , and Baker has confirmed he’s working on it, too.) DBB: But here I am (at Celebration V), in the middle of this thing that was just my dream as a kid, to be involved with Star Wars . I drew a lot of monsters and creatures, and I wanted to send them to George Lucas and say, “I’d like to design your next Cantina bar creatures,” but I never did. I’ve still got the drawings, though. My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after Star Wars opened in ‘77. In ‘78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch Star Wars Episode IV all summer long and get paid with movie passes. I really feel like I am living the dream of the thing that I loved so much as a kid. It’s ridiculously exciting. We saw the first two episodes of the new season of Clone Wars – just mind-blowingly good. It’s a prequel of the “Rookies” episode, which is all clones. One of my favorites. And it’s showing them getting their training and getting certified as clones, and in the second half, they’re attacked by Ventress , and Kamino gets this major attack, and there’s this big battle, and it’s incredible , just to be such an integral part of this thing. Dee Bradley Baker’s birthday is coming up on Aug. 31: You should give him a Twitter follow and a Perry-style “ Prrrrrghhht!” Read the rest of this entry »
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