These dark makeovers of classic Disney princesses are chilling macabre, and I like em. There is something fascinating about the dark:
Jeffrey Thomas is a California-based artist and character designer. He plays with pop culture in twisted and amusing ways, such as his latest series on eleven of the Disney Princesses. Fantastically wicked renditions of Cinderella, Snow White, Alice and Mulan.
Very cool compilation of movie clips documenting advancements in visual effects over the past century:
It is missing a few milestones, like The Matrix and Lord of the Rings and maybe 1978’s Superman, and what’s with the no George Melies 1902’s film “A Trip to the Moon“?!
| 1900 – The Enchanted Drawing 1903 – The Great Train Robbery 1923 – The Ten Commandments (Silent) 1927 – Sunrise 1933 – King Kong 1939 – The Wizard of Oz 1940 – The Thief of Bagdad 1954 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1956 – Forbidden Planet 1963 – Jason and the Argonauts 1964 – Mary Poppins 1977 – Star Wars 1982 – Tron 1985 – Back to the Future |
1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1989 – The Abyss 1991 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day 1992 – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1993 – Jurassic Park 2004 – Spider-Man 2 2005 – King Kong 2006 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 2007 – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End 2007 – The Golden Compass 2008 – The Spiderwick Chronicles 2008 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
Originally intended for educational use as an introduction to a classroom lecture. The music track is “Rods and Cones” from the album “Audio” by Blue Man Group.
South African born, American sculptor, Jennifer Maestre, creates elaborate Nintoku pencil sculptured works of art — and they look gnarly!
Jennifer’s inspiration is Marine Life, “originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin“ “dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact” and as you can imagine, her works are time consuming, each taking around 2 months to complete:
Neat huh. If you thought her sharp taste ended at a pencil’s tip, you’d be wrong:
This kid is going to be the first to develop a real KAMEHAMEHA!
If you’re thinking this is based on Pyro from the X-men movies, well that’s because it is. This young electrical engineer [pyromaniac], Everett Bradford has designed and created his own Pyro System at home.
…Don’t piss this villian in training off
This is an awesome breakthrough for human rights! It’s funny how insurance companies and positions of higher power can adjudicate policies based on ignorance. Nice picture too aunty 😀
A Hamilton company’s decision to make life insurance available to people with HIV is a “huge breakthrough”, say New Zealanders living with the virus.
For years, perceptions of HIV/Aids as a death sentence had prevented cover being offered to those with the disease, with anyone applying for life insurance required to sign a form declaring whether or not they had the virus.
But Hamilton insurance broker Your Life and Associates has said it will make life cover available to people with HIV, after advocating on behalf of a woman refused cover by insurance companies.
Jane Bruning, national co-ordinator of HIV/Aids support organisation Positive Women, said the extra premium was only about $3 a week. “It’s not astronomical. That would be the same for anybody with asthma or diabetes.”
Waikato woman Marama Pala, who contracted HIV from former partner Peter Mwai, said people with the virus were now “just like everyone else”. Mr Mwai was jailed for seven years in 1994 for having unprotected sex with five women while knowing he was infected with the virus.
Insurance criteria that ruled out cover for those with HIV were written “way back when it was a death sentence”, before the development of antiretroviral drugs that stalled the progress of the virus, Ms Pala said.
“People with HIV are actually living longer than people with diabetes.”
Read Full Article on: Stuff.co.nz
Holy macaroni this is good! A LEGO tribute to 8-bit video games filled with wicked references and in-jokes:
“1500 hours of moving legobricks and taking photos of them.”
Worth every brick. Well-done, Swedish duo Tomas Redigh and Daniel Larsso, aka, Rymdreglage, this is really neat.
Because these things need to be recorded don’t’cha know:
Their twisting aerial manoeuvres with coloured smoke trailing in the wake is not normally upstaged. But the Red Arrows’s display was not the only thing to light up the sky yesterday:
A rainbow cast itself across the coast of Fowey in Cornwall just as the RAF acrobatic team were about to perform its stunts:
It wont happen over night, but it will happen… Well in this case… you get the idea:
Radha Mitchell is in it, YESSS!!! and Bruce Willis is back in a good Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller role:
How do you save humanity when the only thing that’s real is you?
Seth Rogan on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show talks about his attempt to greet Megan Fox with a kiss, only to be coldly rejected:
Ouch…lol — Greeting FAIL!
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