April 12, 2008

Calvin & Hobbes vs. Fight Club - a retrospective website:

Photoshop Disasters!

Magic cereal that will turn you WHITE!



Either Kirsten Dunst's right left arm is five feet long and has two elbows.



Holy crap! What happened to Rachel Bilson's legs?!?!



Not only is she haphazardly comped with Mandy Moore - just where is she looking? - her mouth has been hacked into the kind of grin that clown morticians might favor. Also, does Diane Keaton really have only three fingers on her right hand?

See more from my new favorite blog here!

April 11, 2008

Duck Tales!

Lego Millenium Falcon - Awesome Stop Motion

Mystery virus attacks R2-D2!

Kenny Baker, 73, fell ill as he flew back to England from a holiday in the US, reports UK tabloid The Sun.

The short-statured star was taken to hospital once the plane touched down at Manchester Airport, with friends fearing him to be seriously ill.

But last night a family member said he was recovering and expected to be back at his home near Preston, Lancs, in a few days.

The relative said: "Kenny's conscious and talking, hopefully hell be absolutely fine."

Kenny was inside droid R2-D2's costume in all six of George Lucas' sci-fi Star Wars flicks, starting with A New Hope in 1977.

How to Ruin a Trip to the Museum

A nice simple little interactive Flash thing:

A Walk In The Woods

April 10, 2008

"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"



A video by Job & Roel Wouters
recorded in Amsterdam at studio Xelor early 2008

Hand 1: 5 year old Gradus W. Wouters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hand 2: 28 year old Job Wouters, Leiden, the Netherlands

Blog of Montreal Street Art:

Expose on Charles Humble

Bring Back the A-Team!

Watch this amazing show about reuniting the cast of the best action series of the 80s!













April 08, 2008

No Country For Old Men - New Trailer

24 pics of Hollywood stars and their Muppet counterpatrs:

Watch a drunken Jeff Goldblum pitch the iMac

What happens when you take the classic 1999 Jeff Goldblum iMac commercial and slow it down about 30 percent? You get a hilarious piece of footage capable of taking Goldblum’s kids away in any future custody battle! This works particularly well because of Goldblum’s somewhat slurry speech pattern to begin with.




Huge Manitoba Tornado

Stephen King Weighs in on Video Game Violence

Best-selling author Stephen King points up and rips down the double-standard of what's tolerable in violent films, compared with video games, in a brilliant op-ed for Entertainment Weekly. You should take a look at this, because as a creator of worthy stories filled with violence and suspense, he speaks with real authority. Plus, it's great to see this kind of defense in a mainstream medium.

King's been writing horror novels for nearly four decades, many of them reaching the big screen, some of them even winning Oscars. And he rightly points out that to a politician, a 17-year-old can see gruesome flicks like Hostel or Saw, but would be a danger to society playing the less graphic Grand Theft Auto or Hitman series.

Then he loses it on a bill before the Massachusetts state legislature, and it gets good.

You really should read the whole thing, but his kicker is well worth quoting here:

What really makes me insane is how eager politicians are to use the pop culture — not just videogames but TV, movies, even Harry Potter — as a whipping boy. It's easy for them, even sort of fun, because the pop-cult always hollers nice and loud. Also, it allows legislators to ignore the elephants in the living room. Elephant One is the ever-deepening divide between the haves and have-nots in this country, a situation guys like Fiddy and Snoop have been indirectly rapping about for years. Elephant Two is America's almost pathological love of guns. It was too easy for critics to claim — falsely, it turned out — that Cho Seung-Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) was a fan of Counter-Strike; I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Cho used it in a rampage that resulted in the murder of 32 people. If he'd been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn't even have been able to kill himself.

Case closed.

Via kotaku.com

Motion Graphics

What happens when you combine typography with motion? That''s the process of kinematic typography and the results, when paired with some excellent scenes from your favorite films and TV shows, can be moving and marvelous. Here are some of the best examples of film kinematic typography on the web.

Pulp Fiction




Kill Bill




V for Vendetta




It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia




The Office


Fight Club




Ocean's Eleven






Psycho




The Big Lebowski






The Devil's Advocate







Full Metal Jacket



Who's on First




Superman!



Also, see creator Chris Appelhans' awesome comic strips here.