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.
Hollywood Regurgitation & The Crossguard Lightsaber
•December 6, 2014 • Leave a Comment
…Meh. Not a big fan of the new lightsaber though. I like the idea of it being an ancient weapon, not some, iSaber with customizable attachments and shit! It aint no Sith army knife!
What kind of Sith needs a crossguard, pfft.
Grannies Hitting the Bong for the First Time
•December 6, 2014 • Leave a CommentThese three grandmas gathered together in Washington state, where weed is now legal, and all took a hit from a bong for the very first time — and then they played cards, ate snacks and waxed philosophical about junk:
I’m still unsure as to why exactly this needed to be filmed, but whatevs. Elders. Respect.
SHAMELESS IS RETURNING! Season 5
•December 6, 2014 • Leave a CommentShameless season 5 premiere Sunday, January 11th, 2015.
Are These People Cumming or Drumming?
•December 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentAppropriately titled CummingOrDrumming.com, the site gives you ten photos of faces and it’s on you to guess whether each belongs to a cummer or a drummer. Forewarning: the site contains graphic sex scenes which, for some reason, rely heavily on the 1970s pornographic variety — So get ready to see lush thickets of pubic hair:
The O Face is that short moment in the seconds before orgasm is achieved where physical ecstasy manifests itself to the world via your sweaty, contorted face. The Ancient Egyptians believed that it was during these fleeting moments that you could peer into a person’s very soul. It also bears a striking resemblance to the face people make when they are in the middle of a really ripping drum solo. One website shows you the close-up faces of various people and asks you to guess whether those people are mid-orgasm or mid-drumming. And not to brag (not sure if this is something I should be bragging about actually), but I totes nailed it:
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