With the world on lockdown, a Back to the Future fan recruited fellow fans from around the world to help create a remake of Back to the Future Part II, one scene at a time. In the end, over 300 people from 9 countries contributed to the charming and amusing film, which includes live action, animation, and puppetry:
02/02/2020
•February 2, 2020 • Leave a CommentA palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards (racecar, madam, nurses run), and today’s date happens to be one and a special one at that.
02/02/2020 is the only one of its kind this century making it a very rare eight-digit palindrome.
The previous eight-digit palindrome like this was 11/11/1111, 909 years ago. Weโll only have to wait another 101 years for 12/12/2121, but the next one after that comes on March 3, 3030.
Darn it I wont be alive to see the next one. Considering that the record for the longest human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875โ1997), who lived to age 122 years, 164 days, nah there’s no way. Plus I think men die younger than women. Plus I’d be so old, I probably wouldn’t a give a shit about no date. I’d be way too busy dreaming of sipping piรฑa coladas with Kim Novak, oh feet fail me now!
Here’s Weird Al Yankovic with a song written completely with palindromes in the style of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
The Smashing Pumpkins โ “Thirty-Three”
•November 26, 2019 • Leave a Comment
The music video for “Thirty-Three”, directed by Billy Corgan and then-girlfriend Yelena Yemchuk, is a series of images shot in stop-motion, ending with a re-enactment of the Mellon Collie album cover.
Because the group’s videos so often avoid the literal interpretation of lyrics, the video for “Thirty-Three” was created with images closely related to the words of the song, as an intentional stylistic departure.
Life In A Different Light: Under The Microscope
•November 11, 2019 • Leave a CommentMartin Kristiansen ofย My Microscopic World used a polarized light source, a lab microscope, and an iPhone to capture these incredibly detailed, colorful, and otherworldly images of insect larvae, isopods, and tiny crustaceans:
A few weeks ago, I modified my microscope to be able to use polarized light to illuminate my samples. This gives some incredibly beautiful and alien-like footage, so I of course made a video with this technique. All footage in this video is shoot on an iPhone mounted on my microscope with a LabCam adapter. [More images: Instagram]
Leaf Origami by Japanese Nature Artist @Kusabanaasobi
•November 5, 2019 • Leave a CommentJapanese nature artist Kusabanaasobi, which means โplant playโ in Japanese, creates adorable origami creatures out of leaves, grass, flowers, acorns and peanut shells.
“Keep an eye on the plants on the roads and parks where you are walking. Discover the smell, texture, and interesting shapes of plants that you did not usually notice. Letโs get along with nature through โKusana Play.” ~ ใใฎใ
The artist also has a book about โFlower Playโ that provides helpful tutorials showing how she folds the leaves in order to get such remarkable results. Visit https://ameblo.jp/taiyouinori for more.
Photos of Japanโs Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons by Keiichiro Yasugi
•November 1, 2019 • Leave a CommentJapan and cosplay go hand-in-hand, so itโs no surprise that every year the gigantic Halloween celebration in Shibuya yields a mass of creative costumers. An often overlooked celebration in Kyoto, however, offers a just as impressiveโand possibly more terrifyingโassembly of costumes.
On the third Saturday of every October, Kyoto plays host to a recreation of the Hyakki Yagyล (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), where a massive swarm of Japanese ghouls and monsters are unleashed in pandemonium.
To recreate the legendary event of yokai invading the human world, Kyotoโs Taishogun Shopping Street (which already has dozens of yokai-themed shops and spooky sculptures) welcomes an event called the โYokai Paradeโ, where hundreds of people dress up in amazing costumes based off of ghastly creatures from Japanese folklore.
Photographer Keiichiro Yasugi took some excellent pictures of the frightful night and showcased them on Twitter:
Photographer Keiichiro Yasugi: twitter.com/KeiichiroYASUGI / instagram.com/keyasugi/
DARK EMPIRE: The Destiny of a Jedi [fan film]
•October 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentThe first episode of animator Ian Wilkinsโ Star Wars fan series is here. Many years after the fall of Vader and the battle of Endor, members of the Rebel Alliance must once again defend against the Empire as they strengthen against the New Republic:
Dark Empire is a Star Wars comic book metaseries produced by Dark Horse Comics. It consists of a six-issue limited series written by Tom Veitch and drawn by Cam Kennedy.
No More Blog…Space!! [F]
•August 11, 2019 • Leave a CommentI have run out of storage space to upload images! 3GB worth of uploads from 2008~2019 (RIP) I think is a pretty good damn fine run.
So, is now a good time for me to move on from this blog?
For an extra annual fee of $8.00, I can bump the maximum upload space to 13GB, and continue the longevity of this digital footprint of randomness, my sanctuary of procrastination, this politics and pornography free collection zone of whatever.
However, could my time be better served not in front of a screen? I am hesitant to make a decision. Not sure why that is. Something inside just needs to be communicated. Generosity, I feel, and a desire to be in touch with words and ideas as often as possible.
Was/is Dark in the Boy my bubble of creative gestation, or a crutch, stifling my creative thoughts and inner truth? …Does it sound/read crazy if I think I’m called upon to create something great? Will a random blog get in the way of that belief in myself? And is all of this simply TMI??? ๐ค
*sigh* little hiccups in life. I’m a big picture kinda guy but these little bumps and scratches along the way shut my brain down, for real. Like, what if I have the makings for a bombass sandwich but have run out of butter?! That’s a transitional moment of panic for me OK!
…I’m thinking I should just pay the measly $8 and shut the front door huh.
Jewels in the Night Sea by Photographer Ryo Minemizu
•August 7, 2019 • Leave a CommentI do not think I am allowed to post these images online, but I mean, I am a rebel ๐ and besides, the world must know of life’s unfathomable beauties!!
Japanese marine life photographer Ryo Minemizu focuses his lens on some of the tiniest and most abundant life forms in our oceans. His series Phenomenons explores the diverse beauty and extravagant colors of plankton, and is shot amongst the dark waters of the Osezaki sea near Mount Fuji and other coasts around Japan, the Philippines and Maldives.
Unlike as now that being shed by the tide, when it comes to adults it is not moving at the bottom of the deep sea.
A kind of Paralepididae, which is approaching with interest in the light.
Hyperiidea riding the jellyfish. Itโs lke an alien maneuvering a spaceship/Jellyfish umbrella width 20mm
This fish resembles a color and a way to swim like a flatworm/body length 20mm
Abdominal fin of an unconventional trough pattern is large enough to ensure buoyancy. Body length: 35mm
To capture the small creatures Minemizu sets his shutter speed to just a fraction of a second, while ensuring that his own movements donโt disturb the surrounding organisms.
This is a paralarva of Thysanoteuthis rhombus. It was taken in the Ogasawara Islands. It has transparent body and do the very unique pose that along the arm on top of the mantle. Adult live in Mesopelagic.
Female of Phronima stebbingi. Cut out Salpa like a barrel, and Babysitting inside at it.
Larval stage of Zanclus cornutus at Black Water Dive.
Macgillivryia larva
April 2012 Palau
Spatangoida is a kind of Sea urchins that figure is looks like an Echidna. Adult is spend most of life in the sand.
Phyllosoma larva of Ibacuc ciliatus on Aurelia jellyfish April 2014 Oumijima Yamaguchi Japan
Kume-Island,Okinawa,Japan.Uneven friends. Phyllosoma larva of Scyllarus and crab’s megalopa larva are riding on Jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca).
Female of Phronima stebbingi. Cut out Salpa like a barrel, and Babysitting inside at it.
Zoea larva of Lysmata
Arachnactis larva Cerianthidae sp. July 2016 Kume island Okinawa Japan
October 2016 Kume Island Okinawa Japan
โPlankton symbolize how precious life is by their tiny existence,โ he explains. โI wanted other people to see them as they are in the sea, so it was my motivation from the beginning to shoot plankton underwater, which is quite a challenge. Most plankton are small, and their movements are hard to predict.โ
Tornaria larva of acorn worms (Krohn stage) April 2016 Palau
Eudoxid of Enneagonum hyalinum. Eudoxid is sexual reproduction stage.
It’s a marine benthos, inhabiting sand or under stone. Adults are long and slender, grotesque. However, some larvae are beautiful like this picture, and they are floating.
March, 2012 Yakushima Kagoshima, Japan.
Amazing! I’m all about science fiction, but whenever there is a popular article about anything space related I scoff, because here on Earth is where the real mysteries of unknown life lie swim.
You can see more of Minemizuโs underwater photography on Instagram and Twitter, with prints from his Phenomenons series available in his online shop ๐๐๐
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