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During high school and a couple years of college I worked at a plant nursery and every so often some guy would pull up in a truck and ask if he could buy any plastic drums we had left over from pesticides or herbicides we used around the plants. Turns out guys would buy these drums, cut them up, and fashion armor out of them. Then everyone would assemble in field, clad in their homemade plastic drum armor, and proceed to beat the ever loving crap out of each other in some sort of middle ages LARPing. Me thinks that many of these guys didn't properly clean out the drums before they made suits of armor out of them. Alas, many years later and there is still that segment of humanity that loves dressing up in armor and pummeling each other, but with decidedly more creative flair and likely more recyclable remnants of battle after.
Toronto-based director Justin McConnell (Working Class Rock Star, The Eternal) has announced another project, currently in long-term production. The feature-length documentary SKULL WORLD will continue production until late 2010, aiming for a release in early 2011. The film follows two years in the life of Greg Sommer, aka Skull Man, as he builds the Canadian chapter of Box Wars, an international underground movement of cardboard-based combat.
We have a mid production trailer to share with you and I cannot help but be utterly drawn into the manic personality of Greg Sommer. This guy is a riot! And I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's started a couple either. And please go to Skull Man's Box Wars site and see Box Wars in action. I'm saving up my cereal boxes for the big day!!!
yeah so I just crapped my pants.
Ok that's pretty damn awesome right there.
lol that could turn out to be quite entertaining.
I've seen these guys on SPACE more than once, it always looks fun.