“Fuck that Shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!” Legendary actor Dennis Hopper was recently pronounced dead at his home in California at the age of 74.
Hopper, whose career included roles in such movies as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Space Truckers, Speed and Super Mario Bros the Movie had been suffering from complications from prostate cancer.
Dennis Hopper as the awesome Frank Booth in David Lynch’s surrealist noir flick Blue Velvet (1986). Blue Velvet was so out there you could argue it qualifies as urban fantasy:
I was expecting a really funny sketch, what I got though was very, err, informative…
From the show Sports Science, it’s a sciencey look at what happens when a MMA fighter kicks a martial arts master in the wedding tackle, complete with official looking 3D rendered skeletons and testicles and muscular systems …But it’s still just a guy getting kicked in the balls with 1100 pounds of force. [IHC]
One commenter argues that this campaign is really more Justin Long vs the very cool John Hodgman:
“I always thought this was the stupidest thing ever. Basically the world divides into two camps: 1) people who go by appearances, who think Justin Long looked hip, and 2) people who know how awesome John Hodgman is, and who therefore thought: “Hey, being a PC must be pretty cool if he’s one”. Good casting, Apple!”
…ending a particularly irritating chapter of tech advertising history. The window for nostalgia here is impossibly small, so watch this comprehensive recap while you still care.
In five years time you’ll probably be glad to have forgotten these ads ever existed, but today and today only, it’s worth watching OneMoreThing’s amazingly thorough recap of all the spots. Who knew so many of these even existed?
Not that anyone truly cares; but this was a clever ad campaign.
Dedicated to character actors who occupy the no-man’s land between fame and obscurity, That Guy! is a collection of guys that you always see in movies but YOU probably can’t name … you know, that guy!
Leamington Spa is a small town about 30 or so miles south of Birmingham (England) and this would have to be its best nightclub, if only because of these lights:
It’s easy to see why this practical solid object illusion won – No fancy computer graphics. Just cardboard, glue, and some wooden balls:
The illusion shown is all the more remarkable in that it is a solid object whereas most entries were computer-generated.
See the top ten finalists from the competition, and marvel at what your brain will make you see. Which one do you like best?
This cardboard sculpture by Koukichi Sugihara of the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences in Japan won the first prize at the 2010 Illusion of the Year competition.
No Disassemble stephanie!!!! Listen to R2DJ drop a phat Binary Solo:
Eclectic Method brings their mixing wizardry to our favourite buckets of bolts, including R2-D2 and C-3PO, Twiki, Johnny 5, WALL-E and EVE, Teddy, Robby the Robot, B9 and my personal favourite Marvin the Paranoid Android. Could have used some Bender though. [poppedculture]
“In 1979, the U.S. Air Force closed a section of Area 51”. What could it be I wonder???
J.J. Abrams, the creator of television series Lost and the producer of monster flick Cloverfield, is teaming up with Steven Spielberg for a new feature film called Super 8. This is your first look at the picture:
The viral marketing for this thing is going to be big. Better than Cloverfield and Transformers I hope.
I don’t know if you noticed, but during the last seconds of the trailer, some letters flash through the lens of the film camera. Here’s what they spell:
The website ScariestThingIEverSaw.com was register a little over a week after the film’s official website super8-movie.com, and by the same registration company. The website shows a PDP-11 16-bit microcomputer display:
Don’t know much more than that. And if you are unsure about who this J.J. Abrams guy is, then you should watch his TEDTalk below. He’s an onto it guy, & TED is awesome:
J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery – a passion that’s evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias — back to its magical beginnings.
Has anyone collected statistics on this? Because I wouldn’t mind seeing the films that do conform to this rule:
“The Bechdel test” requires a movie to pass three questions:
1) Does it have two or more women in it (who have names) ?
2) Do they talk to one another?
3) Do they talk to one another about something other than a man?
The Bechdel Test is a simple way to gauge the active presence of female characters in Hollywood films and just how well rounded and complete those roles are.
It was created by Allison Bechdel in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. It is astonishing the number of popular movies that can’t pass this simple test.
It demonstrates how little women’s complex and interesting lives are underrepresented or non existent in the film industry. We have jobs, creative projects, friendships and struggles among many other things that are actually interesting in our lives… so Hollywood, start writing about it!
If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win. Forever. / Chuck Norris once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills. They made him blink. / Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding. / Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun. …I can go on…
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