Make Westeros Great Again. Donald Trump in Westeros actually makes a disturbing amount of sense — see for yourself:
Armed with a Valyrian steel sword named Deal-Maker, Donald Trump embarks on a quest through Westeros to take care its border policies.
Ooo that smirk at the end is rather telling, no, and I also heard a rumor that he has a moon door in one of his buildings. Donald Trump has had a meteoric rise to be the clear cut leader for GOP presidential candidacy. He has done so by making some controversial statements. Some would go so far as to say that Trump’s ideologies are out of this world. However, it turns out that Trump’s rhetoric fits perfect in the Seven Kingdoms of Game of Thrones — returning April 24. It will not feature Donald Trump.
The surface of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota is a frozen ice sheet but the water underneath still flows, faster than it freezes, creating this phenomenal effect with sheets of ice cracking and stacking along the shore:
“The seemingly endless ice sheets broke into large plates and stacked on shore, sounding much like breaking glass. The ice thickness ranged from about 1/4″ to about 3″ thick. The sights and sounds were incredible! As the water became exposed, the sea smoke was whisked across the surface by the breeze. The sparkles visible in some segments were from the sun gilding the frost flowers that had formed on top of the new ice overnight — icing on the cake!”
Holy Moses! This man is excavating a large nest of invasive German Wasps (Vespula germanica) somewhere in New Zealand, and it looks terrifying:
[…] for my research on biological control wasps at Landcare Research in NZ. I’m not removing the nest to kill it. I need to keep the nest alive for my survey for parasites (like mites, fungus, etc.). Some nests will be re-housed into nest boxes for use in behaviour assays. I have many years of experience and use specialized equipment to do this and still get the odd sting, so please don’t try to dig an active nest yourself! As you can see from the copious amount of venom on the camera lens, these wasps meant business.
I’m no exterminator, but honestly speaking here, if wasps grow any bigger (and somehow learn to breath fire?), yo, we humans are done for man!, as this prophetic and highly-underrated *cough cough* movie trailer shows:
Written by fast-becoming genre connoisseur Mark Atkins (Sand Sharks), the film stars Corin Nemec (Stargate SG-1; Smallville; Supernatural), Dominika Juillet (Dark Angel), Benjamin Easterday (Stargate SG1; Fast & Furious 5) and Nikolette Noel who’s set to star in the 2012 Summer Blockbuster “The Expendables 2”.
In their PAC-12 meet against the University of Utah, UCLA gymnast Sophina DeJesus competed floor and pumped up her fellow teammates and their home crowd with her trendy floor routine, where in between her flips she pulled off sensational dance moves like the nae nae, the Quan and the dab:
DeJesus scored a 9.925 and She truly captivated the crowd, helping lead UCLA to a win over Utah 197.1 to 197.075. Her floor routine went viral on Facebook after the meet.
OKGo, in association with Russia’s S7 Airlines, have released an impressive music video set aboard a zero gravity airplane. Parabolic flights are used to train astronauts in zero-g maneuvers, giving about 25 seconds of weightlessness out of 65 seconds of flight in each parabola. So expect to see the usual meticulous choreography, but delight in the level of genuine fun they are obviously having throughout their experience:
How is OKGoever going to one-up themselves now? The group have continually made music videos that follow the trend of their original six treadmills one-take wonder, “Here It Goes Again”, and because it doesn’t really cost anything to mention said videos; here:
The Simpsons’ tribute to Film industry — Another reason why old skool episodes of The Simpsons are superior to whatever the hell, damn, fart it is today. Here are 27 side-by-side comparisons that show just how much detail went into these homages:
Music: Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing) — The Benny Goodman Orchestra.
Films that appear:
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) [S5 E5]
A Clockwork Orange (1971) [S3 E19]
Pulp Fiction (1994) [S7 E21]
Requiem for a dream (2000) [S14 E12]
The Gold Rush (1925) [S5 E21]
Full Metal Jacket (1987) [S19 E5]
The Fugitive (1993) [S6 E2]
Terminator 2 (1991) [S5 E16]
Reservoir Dogs (1992) [S8 E13]
The Birds (1963) [S4 E2]
Risky Business (1983) [S4 E3]
Citizen Kane (1941) [S5 E4]
Psycho (1960) [S2 E9]
The silence of the lambs (1991) [S4 E12]
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) [S3 E23]
Basic Instinct (1992) [S6 E1]
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) [S1 E9]
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (1975)
2001: A space Odyssey (1968) [S3 E24]
Trainspotting (1996) [S15 E4]
Thelma and Louise (1991) [S5 E6]
The Godfather (1972) [S4 E9]
Taxi Driver (1976) [S5 E18]
The Shining (1980) [S6 E6]
Spiderman (2002) [S15 E19]
ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) [S06 E18]
Dr. Strange Love (1964) [S5 E11]
Cool video, but 27 is honestly not nearly comprehensive enough an homage to the show’s original writers and animators who brought them to life and to audiences around the world. Love the enthusiasm Celia, but you totes missed some of the best (sorry I am being such a comic book guy right now). Classic Simpsons is not only hilarious but filled with many overlooked gems, like so:
However prophylactics were sold before we had the technology to depict hot dino-on-dino action, I can’t even remember, but after seeing this, I will never forget — consider yourself warned:
When it comes to condoms you can’t really make a commercial that shows the user having the time of his life while actually using the product being pushed. So Japanese condom maker Okamoto decided to do the next best thing, and create a CG video of two Tyrannosauruses getting it on.
I can’t imagine a man who prefers the feel of wearing a condom to not, but they definitely serve an invaluable purpose no matter how you look at them.
You tell it, Gandalf (out of context). Learn them kids.
STAR WARS and MARIO KART collide for one incredibly realized fan made mashup — so incredible in fact that it is actually hurting a few people by them knowing this is not a real game that they will ever get to play (lol), as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Yes, it is that good:
Created by Casen Sperry, Mike Brown and Landon Sperry using 3ds Max, vray, and FumeFX!
The Kart Awakens! This video took us much longer to complete than we initially thought it would, but we learned a HECK of a lot along the way! Mario Kart and Star Wars just go together so perfectly now! We didn’t even realize it before, but now we can’t live without it. This game needs to be made! Super Mario Star Wars is an absolute necessity!
3DAR’s latest short film explores the frightening potential of our next technological revolution — virtual reality; its ramifications and exploitation of fantasies and behaviour.
In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment. An expert player discovers that the line between games and reality is starting to fade away.
Interesting concept. Well executed. Good twist. Great title too, as ‘uncanny valley’ is a term used to describe computer generated humanoid characters that although they may resemble people, they just look intuitively wrong. The concept was identified by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Genshō (不気味の谷現象) in 1970.
used in reference to the phenomenon whereby a computer-generated figure or humanoid robot bearing a near-identical resemblance to a human being arouses a sense of unease or revulsion in the person viewing it. “anyone attempting to build a believable human facsimile also has to beware of the uncanny valley.”
Uncanny Valley director Federico Heller is already shopping a feature version of the idea which will be part of a massive multi-media experience including a VR game on Oculus Rift, with the help of INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE writer Carter Blanchard who took it under his wing after it blew him away.
If you liked that you may be interested to hear about an upcoming feature film THE CALL UP that takes on a similar premise, whereby gamers are faced with real-world life or death consequences within a virtual space:
A group of online gamers are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality simulation.
The film’s US sales rights were recently picked up by Altitude Films, and the film is expected to release worldwide in the second quarter of 2016.
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