A compilation of times that Commander Riker from Star Trek The Next Generation swings his leg over the back of a chair to take a seat like a whacko:
Western Australia’s Near-Earth Asteroids [time-lapse]
•May 7, 2013 • Leave a CommentAmazing. Damn you light-pollution! The teeny-tiny object passing across the screen from top-left moving down is a 45m wide asteroid dubbed, 2012 DA14. What makes this asteroid significant is that it was predicted to pass at 28,000km from Earth — the closest encounter with an asteroid ever predicted. Scary stuff right? Impact calculations verified that the asteroid had such a low density that it would have burst as it hit our atmosphere, if it indeed was to hit Earth, which obviously it didn’t, Phew.
Photographer Colin Legg, busy making calculations and calibrations of his own 350 km east of Perth, not only managed to capture DA14 passing the 3.24am sky, but a flurry of celestial activity and satellites along with it:
The scene was captured at 50 mm, iso 8000, f/2.2, 8 second shutter, 9 second intervals [using a Canon 5D Mark II and a 6D]. For more details and other examples of my work, check out – facebook.com/ColinLeggPhotography
Wow; I counted at least 25 objects in that short window of time and space. Beautiful!
R.I.P. Chi Cheng
•May 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentMy dad of all people mentioned the sad news that Deftones’ bassist passed away. My iPod reminded me this morning. Shortly after the Deftones formed in 1988, Chi Cheng joined the four-piece garage band, who went on to make hits ever since:
Deftones are right up there as being one of the coolest ongoing bands on the planet. Deftones‘ sound is unique, melodious and struck a chord with me like no other band has the first time they invaded my youth. Thanks Chi. This is the track that made me a fan for life:
AT-AT Cloud
•May 4, 2013 • Leave a CommentSooooo, I’ll take that as a sign of divine blessing or something:
Neat. Doesn’t that look familiar to you?
HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!
•May 4, 2013 • Leave a Comment‘May the fourth be with you’ is a popular pun spoken by most Star Wars fans on this day. Other fans may not say much, but you just watch them close! They could be using Force persuasion to delude your senses:
I must be getting old. Finding office stationary more exciting than a gallery of slave Leia girls should be of concern to many a fanboy. Pretty sweet X-wing though, right?
Johnny Love “Weight of Tomorrow” [music video]
•May 2, 2013 • Leave a CommentMacklemore’s Can’t hold Us featured some brilliant New Zealand scenery, naturally of course, kiwis know where the real hidden gems are. Late night channel surfing put me on this neat, stop-motion photography music video. Johnny Love (real name) walks from Bluff to Cape Reinga visiting all he can of this amazing country in over 20 days worth of traveling. Hmm, I should probably say something about the song too, huh?
Directed by Rajiv Raj / Produced & Concept by Ivan Slavov /
Crew: Trent Hall, Kay Sasse, Josh Finnigan
Yeah, New Zealand is beautiful.
Creativity With Food by Hong Yi
•April 30, 2013 • Leave a Comment
Malaysian artist/architect Hong Yi (nicknamed Red) played with her food for 30 days and managed to create some impressive pop culture homages, animals and landscapes:
Day 5: ‘sonny, if anything, just stay far far away from colonel sanders’
Day 6: ‘all you need is love…’ cherry tomatoes, nori and soy sauce
Day 14: Arctic melting
Day 19: ‘Owl-nion!’ Made of onions and mint leaves.
Day 22: ‘Carnivore vs herbivore.’ Made of beef, spinach, and parsley.
Day 25: ‘Field of tulips!’ Tulips are made of chilli padi, or baby chillis.
Day 28: ‘Red cabbage Marchesa Salad!’ Cabbage, mayonnaise, basil seeds, silver dragees.
…Aah, I thought she looked familiar:
Day 29: ‘Goldfish in my consommé!’ goldfish made of pickled ginger, eyeballs of century eggs (google if you haven’t heard of them…they’re Chinese black eggs!), grass made of dill and jelly made of chicken consomme and gelatine.
“31 Days of Creativity with Food”
Way to set the benchmark for playing with food, Red. Kids, you’ve got some catching pfftthaha just don’t do it OK kids. Unless you want to be laughed at or growled, wait until you’re older. See all her works on her blog: ohiseered and photos on her instagram: redhongyi#
Anzac Day occurs on 25 April. It commemorates all New Zealanders and Australians killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women.
•April 25, 2013 • Leave a CommentAnzac Day commemorates the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.
This is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand; nowadays Anzac Day honours all those who died and served in military operations for their countries.
Takaske Is ‘DanceDanceRevolution X3’
•April 22, 2013 • Leave a CommentEven though he’s barhugging, this dude is a barefoot master! He should learn to salsa:
Pfft, amateur, he only got a C-ranking. At least he now possesses the skill to run on water, can’t complain about that.
The ABCs of Death…
•April 21, 2013 • Leave a Comment…Cannot be unseen. So much death, the unfathomably wrong kind. Is there such a thing as eye soap?! ARGH!!!
I understand what Ant meant in his welcoming speech last night about being proud but not necessarily of the content, lol. Some of those shorts were tough to watch and not always because of their obvious grotesqueness. They just fucking were!
Err, recommend isn’t a term I would use to encourage anyone to see this, rather, Ant’s bloody alphabet soup would be better appreciated by the more curious sorts. Put it this way; If you’ve never sat through an entire movie with sadistic undertones then The ABCs of Death will probably embed your brain with nightmares of bigfoot and the opposite sex, for life. Subtlety wasn’t one of the most favorable techniques among these radical filmmakers — some intense imagery to say the least.
Several standout crazy insane segments had me in stitches, while other shorts found my boots scraping away at the carpet of the Civic as a cat would claw away at its scratching post. Never done that before, which just goes to prove how utterly out of control some of these narratives were. Did I get my money’s worth? Holy WTF yes and then some.
D is for Dogfight
J is for Jidai-Geki (Samurai Movie)
L is for Libido
O is for Orgasm
T is for Toilet
V is for Vagitus
Z is for Zetsumetzu
THE ABCs OF DEATH [RED BAND movie trailer]
•April 19, 2013 • Leave a CommentThe ABCs of Death to me is what black sheep are to the flock, rather fluffy. Unique too. Though I don’t usually go for body-horror (everything Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Takashi Miike and David Cronenberg aside of course) this is going to be an absolute splatter, and it premieres in Auckland tomorrow night!!!
Kiwi film-buff maverick Ant Timpson, notorious for presenting audiences with some of the most offensive creations ever shunned from human awareness on behalf of decency, has a new bloody bag of tricks. 26 directors from around the world were each given a letter of the alphabet to inspire a short film, under the guise of death. An anthology brought about by Ant Timpson himself, with special help of course:
“You are cordially invited to the New Zealand Premiere of THE ABCs OF DEATH, a feature film I produced with Tim League of Austin, Texas and Magnolia Pictures NYC. The film screens in The Mighty Civic Theatre on Sat April 20th, 10pm as part of the Autumn Season of the New Zealand International Film Festival. By the way, when I say ‘cordially invited’, I mean buy a ticket to the event and support my premiere.” ~ Ant Timpson
A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
The ABCs Of Death looks like the complete opposite of whatever romantic imagery I have floating around in my head. I’m not missing this. I’m going because I’m interested in what ideas people have extrapolated out of death and also to support Ant — Thanks for reading my “inane pop-culture blog” 😛 Sonofaguilttrip!
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