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Quantum Chess — Paul Rudd vs. Stephen Hawking

•February 10, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter in association with Trouper Productions bring you a chess match for the ages: Paul ‘Ant Man’ Rudd vs Stephen ‘one of the greatest minds of our generation’ Hawking in a game of Quantum Chess, narrated by Keanu “whoa” Reeves:

Director: Alex Winter / Producers: Devorah DeVries (Trouper Productions) and Spyridon Michalakis (Caltech) / Associate Producer: Damir Omic / Director of Photography: Joe DeSalvo / Graphics: Jonathan Pope/ Script: Jose M. Gonzalez / Story: Gorjan Alagic, Chris Cantwell, Jose M. Gonzalez and Spyridon Michalakis / Editor: Chris Catanach (Stitch Studios) / Ant-Man footage courtesy of Disney and Marvel Studios. Funding provided by the National Science Foundation.

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Tags: "Quantum Chess" — Paul Rudd vs. Stephen Hawking, ANT-MAN — Kamen Rider Style (TV Spot) 『アントマン仮面ライダー的 TVCM』, Keanu Reeves Is Now An Internet Meme [photoshoped], Quantum Chess Developer: Chris Cantwell, Stephen Hawking on One Direction (Ideas at the House), Video Games

How NOT To Introduce a Female Character In a Script

•February 10, 2016 • Leave a Comment

A new Twitter account via the handle @femscriptintros, created by Hollywood producer Ross Putman, features actual introductions for the female leads in scripts he himself has read. They are questionable, sexiest, confusing, not very insightful, and all together silly.

Putman changes the name of the female leads to Jane, but otherwise, he states that everything else is verbatim. While the intros are hilarious at first, they grow increasingly cringeworthy once reality hits that these are serious. And the trends he uncovers explain a lot about the way Hollywood looks at women. Below are some notable choices:

JANE, 28, athletic but sexy. A natural beauty. Most days she wears jeans, and she makes them look good.

— Ross Putman (@femscriptintros) February 10, 2016

His wife JANE is making dinner and watching CNN on a small TV. She was model pretty once, but living an actual life has taken its toll.

— Ross Putman (@femscriptintros) February 10, 2016

JANE pours her gorgeous figure into a tight dress, slips into her stiletto-heeled fuck-me shoes, and checks herself in the dresser mirror.

— Ross Putman (@femscriptintros) February 10, 2016

Though drop-dead beautiful, JANE (40) has the appearance of someone whose confidence has been shaken. She is a raw, sexual force, impeded.

— Ross Putman (@femscriptintros) February 10, 2016

JANE (late 20s) sits hunched over a microscope. She’s attractive, but too much of a professional to care about her appearance.

— Ross Putman (@femscriptintros) February 10, 2016

A gorgeous woman, JANE, 23, is a little tipsy, dancing naked on her big bed, as adorable as she is sexy. *BONUS PTS FOR BEING THE 1ST LINE

— Ross Putman (@femscriptintros) February 10, 2016

Question; is casually jumping naked on a bed normal among women? I think I can guess the answer, but I blame advertising for skewing my perception of what is not real femininity. I don’t know what’s not real anymore. No really.

Ye old adage, “sex sells”, is a reality, but one has to wonder how absolutely ridiculous selling sex must read on paper, and the people/men who OK it. Video related:

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Tags: #WomenNotObjects, creative writing, Cringeworthy, How NOT To Introduce a Female Character In a Script, Script, sexism, sexual objectification of women, Twitter, visit http://someladyparts.com/

Thug Life: Steven Joyce vs Dildo

•February 6, 2016 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Kiwi Protester Hurls Dildo at Politician, LOL News, New Zealand's Thug News Reporter — Patrick Gower Drops F-Bomb on Live TV, Thug Life: Steven Joyce vs Dildo

Kiwi Protester Hurls Dildo at Politician

•February 5, 2016 • Leave a Comment

It seems, John Key (prime minister) and his party’s legacy to NZ is provoking a nation to hurl dildos in frustration.

New Zealand’s economic development minister, Steven Joyce, had a dildo thrown at him today during a press conference in Waitangi, Te Tii Marae. A woman at the event, nurse and anti-TPPA protester Josie Butler, threw the sex toy at the minister whilst shouting “that’s for raping our sovereignty”. She was soon after taken away by police.

Mananews‘ interview with Josie clears some of the questions surrounding the incident:

Can you explain the reason for you throwing the dildo at Steven Joyce? I’m a nurse and I’m very concerned about the effects of the TPP on my patients. I believe, and I am not alone, that the TPP will have profoundly negative effects on New Zealand, socially, culturally and economically.

Did you expect it to gain this much attention? The aim was to gain awareness about the atrocity that is the TPPA.

Would you do it again? I will continue to proudly stand up for my country and it’s beautiful people.

“We actually thought it was a little bit humorous at the end of it all” ~Steven Joyce

Someone send the gif over to John Oliver so we can get it over with..

— Steven Joyce (@stevenljoyce) February 5, 2016

If anything, that video proves to the world how chillax we Kiwis can be, as well as how serious. Honestly speaking though, if it’s bullshit you’re selling, it will mean war!

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Tags: Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoe at Bush, Josie Butler an anti-TPPA protester, Kiwi Protester Hurls Dildo at Politician, New Zealand Politics, Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, Waitangi

Dream Shadows — Sleep Paralysis Sux [F]

•February 5, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Early this morning (4ish) I experienced sleep paralysis. Before waking, I dreamed I was in a living room in the dark and hiding on the floor under a duvet, trying not to move because there was a presence in the room (dream logic scenario). I willingly kept still, but then realised I couldn’t actually move a muscle, which is when I saw a shadowy figure standing over me, featureless (I saw dark legs anyway), and what felt like a hand pressing down on my chest — this pressure being the thing locking me in my place. I then woke up with a jolt. And then a few seconds later, awake…I threw a punch in the air. …Just to make sure. It’s funny now, yeah, but hey, you tell me how funny sleep paralysis feels if and when you ever experience it.

I like keeping personal things to myself, but just so you know how super uncomfortable it made me feel; one of my biggest fears is a h___ i_v_s___. So this isn’t something I will soon forget in the recess of my mind. Seriously, shadows, stay clear of my personal space bubble. Sheesh.

“The Nightmare” oil painting by Henry Fuseli (1781).

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Tags: "good faith belief", Absolute Dream Logic I love it!, Dream Shadows — Sleep Paralysis Sux [F], Dream Tears — What Is the Meaning? [F], Dreams, The uninvited visitor. Or was it? Earlier that day I do remember tempting the idea of soul selling. Hmm.

Spawn – The Rise of Image Comics [comics]

•February 1, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Marvel and D.C. are the two major comic publishers many have heard about. There are a lot more of course, but one publisher in particular (which happens to be my favourite) is the topic of this short video essay where the publisher’s underdog origin story is revealed — IMAGE COMICS: where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties:

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Tags: creative writing, Happy Birthday, I ♥ COMICS, intellectual property, KEEP DRAWING [animation], Publisher Image Comics, Spawn - The Rise of Image Comics [comics], video essay

R.I.P. David Robert Jones / Bowie 1947~2016

•January 11, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Incarnations of David Bowie by UK-based illustrator Helen Green

Incarnations of David Bowie by UK-based illustrator Helen Green.

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Tags: David Bowie, Incarnations of David Bowie by UK-based illustrator Helen Green, Rest In Peace, unique

Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s Bubble Device & Water Calligraphy Device 水书法器 by Nicholas Hanna

•January 1, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Nicholas Hanna is one inventive fellow, he also made this Water Calligraphy Device:

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Tags: Amphibious Water Bottle Bicycle in China, Bicycle, Invention, short documentary, Taipei Fine Arts Museum's Bubble Device & Water Calligraphy Device 水书法器 by Nicholas Hanna

2016

•January 1, 2016 • Leave a Comment

For anyone wondering how I spent my new year; I was with family and family friends at a house situated on a mountain somewhere in Massey that overlooked Auckland, and I danced with some old lady I didn’t even know. I would have preferred not to as I fu*#king hated it (not gonna lie), but apparently it is rude to turn down a lady.

H a p p y N e w Y e a r !

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Tags: "New Year's Day is every man's birthday." ~ Charles Lamb, 2016, A Few Vintage Pin-up Photos of New Year Starlets, Happy New Year, time

Reddit Q&A with Rick Remender [comics]

•December 6, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Writer Rick Remender (BLACK SCIENCE, DEADLY CLASS, LOW, TOKYO GHOST) opened up to the internet recently in a Q&A session hosted over on Reddit:

Writer Rick Remender offers the keys to life by finding your center in the joys of the universe in this, his second, and best ever, reddit AMA. (self.books)

lvest, asked:

“Hey, Rick, thanks for a lot all your great work. I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying Low, and I can’t wait for it to start up again.

What advice do you have for people who want to write good stories? I don’t care about making money, I just want to write stories that people want to read. How did you learn to write as well as you do?”

Remender, AMA Author/Submitter:

“Write about the stuff you think about all day. Write your obsessions and passions and hates. Write what you know or what you want to explore. Write what you want to read. Care about it or they’ll know you don’t.”

Nazislike, asked:

“Who were your heroes when you were younger and with you being one of the top writers in the industry, what words of wisdom do you have to offer the next generation of writers entering the world of comics?”

Remender, AMA Author/Submitter:

“My heroes by age 12 were painter Robert Willaims, Steven King, John Byrne, Jeff Grosso and Ian Mackaye.

Wisdom… well, make sure it’s what you want. You have to already be doing it. If you’re not making comics, you might not have the sickness. If you are, if you’re writing and drawing everyday, and you love it so much nothing else seems feasible, then my advice is keep making more comics. Anyone can get good at something. I’m no special snowflake, I just love writing and drawing. You do it long enough and give everything you have to it and you’ll get good. Then you have to keep at it for year and years when there is no sign that it’ll ever pay out. Eventually you’ll find where you belong. Mostly.”

[Details can be found at http://www.rickremender.com or @remender. Above art by Bengal @bengal_art.]

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Tags: Chat, Comics, creative writing, I ♥ COMICS, Ian Mackaye, Jeff Grosso, John Byrne, My One Reason to Go to Armageddon, Reddit, Reddit Q&A with Rick Remender [comics], Rick Remender, Robert Willaims, Steven King, Writer

NZCA Lines — “Two Hearts” [♬]

•December 5, 2015 • Leave a Comment

“Two Hearts” is a delightful slice of electro-pop — NZCA Lines, the London-based (previously solo) project of Michael Lovett, is joined by Charlotte Hatherley (Bat For Lashes, Ash) and Sarah Jones (Hot Chip) for their forthcoming album ‘Infinite Summer’.

From the album Infinite Summer. Out 22/1 on Memphis Industries. Preorder from www.nzca-lines.com.

Lovett says that the album is influenced by his love of science fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), explaining the album’s concept in a press release: “The album is based around the idea of a far-future Earth, where the sun has expanded to the size of a red giant and our extinction is imminent. Half of the world is covered by a city [Cairo-Athens] that clings to the past and embraces its destruction, whilst the other half is trying to rebuild, create and make something new. Yet, it’s good on both sides because it’s warm everywhere and people just party most of the time.”

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Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, ♬, Bat For Lashes, Charlotte Hatherley, electropop, I ♥ MUSIC, Michael Lovett, NZCA Lines — "Two Hearts" [♬], Philip K. Dick, Sarah Jones, science fiction

Goutte d’Or [stop-motion animation]

•December 4, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Christophe Peladan’s amazing and beautiful stop motion film from 2013 — As a pirate enters the Kingdom of the Dead he’s met with the beautiful Queen. He instantly falls in love, but love it not always easy…

A co-production between Happy Flyfish Production ApS (Denmark) and ExFool’s Production (France) / Produced with the support from The Animation Workshop, The West Danish Film Fund, The Film Workshop, Open Workshop, The Danish Animation Society ANIS, Viborg Council and more. [gouttedor.com/gallery/]