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Colbert Interviews Smaug on The Colbert Report [cameos]
•December 19, 2014 • Leave a CommentThe fearsome fire drake Smaug dropped by The Colbert Report and bragged about being the OG wyrm (dragon):
Grrr, I hate it when videos get disabled. Here’s a look at Stephen Colbert’s sneaky cameo appearance in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
The End of an Era
•December 18, 2014 • Leave a Comment
Tomorrow I am going to see the final installment of the LOTR/Hobbit movies. I will be entertained, and it may be a bittersweet experience leaving the theatre knowing nothing of that calibre will ever grace my retinas again — because all other fantasy films in general bore me, — and I know it will be a good send off.
The one thing that would ruin it for me however is if Tauriel, the Woodland Elf played by Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly, dies. I know she wasn’t part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s original book, so in that sense her character is sort of expendable and not bound to the same literary authenticity as the others, but I liked the inclusion of her character in the movie and the little love triangle thing going on. Plus I’m sick of seeing Orlando Bloom/Legolas defy every notion of gravity and propulsion. “Auta miqula orqu”, show off. Evangeline Lilly needs more big-screen time.
Ghost Loft “Seconds” [♬]
•December 18, 2014 • Leave a Comment
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Baby I love you, Be there in seconds flat That means he don’t need to know |
Give me a second chance That means he don’t need to know Baby I love you, |
“WEEDS” by Mona Caron [stop-motion animation]
•December 12, 2014 • Leave a Comment
As part of her ongoing Weeds project, artist Mona Caron has begun photographing the progress of her murals step-by-step, creating short animations of growing plants in public spaces:
The Power of Empathy — Dr. Brené Brown on Vulnerability & Human Connection [animation]
•December 12, 2014 • Leave a Comment“The truth is, rarely can a response make something
better — what makes something better is connection.”
What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities:
Voice: Dr Brené Brown / Animation: Katy Davis (AKA Gobblynne)
What’s Wrong with the ‘Terminator: Genisys’ Trailer? Not Enough ‘Flight of the Conchords’ — Affirmative:
•December 10, 2014 • Leave a CommentStreetPong!
•December 10, 2014 • Leave a CommentOfficially installed two weeks ago in the city of Hildesheim, Germany, these interactive traffic lights lets people play Pong against the person on the other side of the road. The ActiWait devices aren’t just a clever way to pass the time while waiting for cars, hopefully they dissuade impatient pedestrians from darting through traffic:
“What started as a fictional project within our interaction design course at the HAWK University for Applied Sciences and Arts is now up and running in the real world!”
HEBOCON: The Robot Contest for Dummies, where “crappiness trumps strategy!”
•December 7, 2014 • Leave a CommentHebocon is a robot sumo-wrestling tournament for those who don’t have the technical skills to actually make robots:
All We Are “Keep Me Alive” [♬]
•December 7, 2014 • Leave a CommentLiverpool trio All We Are just released the video for “Keep Me Alive,” one of many fine tracks on their upcoming self-titled debut album, released on Domino/Double Six on 2nd February.
THE SCRIBBLER
•December 7, 2014 • Leave a CommentJust finished watching this, and I love it. I am a big fan of low-budget, indie and avant-garde filmmaking. Although small budget films don’t have the luxury of big budget production values; more often than not, smart casting, an enthusiastic director and a savvy crew will produce a really neat story that bigger studios wouldn’t even consider touching, either due to its risky themes or the studio’s ridiculous financing mandate and incapacity to appreciate originality & coolness. The Scribbler is one of those stories and it also happens to be a faithful adaptation of the mind-bending graphic novel of the same name, which is something else I am a big fan of. Not sure how my dad found out about The Scribbler before me, but he referred me to this trailer and it got me amped like no big-budget Hollywood exhibit has all year* — Check it out for yourself:
THE SCRIBBLER follows Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using “The Siamese Burn,” an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being “cured,” she’s haunted by a thought… what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?
Based on a sci-fi/psychological graphic novel by former political cartoonist Daniel Schaffer. “The Scribbler” is a dark and twisted sci-fi thriller starring Arrow‘s Katie Cassidy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Eliza Dushku and Michelle Trachtenberg, The Big Bang Theory‘s Kunal Nayyar, The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli and The Rocketeer star Billy Campbell.
The film, which deals with a woman who is confronting her multiple personalities using an experimental process, was shot in 2012 and debuted early this year at a foreign film festival, but has taken a long path to theatrical release.
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