Richard Miller was an American character actor who appeared in more than 100 films, including my favourite film of all time, Explorers (1985). He passed away aged 90.
Though Miller never became a major Hollywood star, he was highly respected within the film industry. Admiration, enjoyable projects, loving wife and children; I’d take that over mega stardom any day. My condolences.
*Sigh* I avoid celebrity smut, which is to say shameless and misguided publicity stunts, because it always results in me feeling sorry for people. But sometimes, just sometimes, human behaviour takes a big slice of that yolo cake we call life and just throws it the fuck back up, and the resulting mess is so illogical it needs to be shared with the world, lest we forget how uncouth our fellow inhabitants can be.
Case in point, this girl who got a poorly drawn depiction of another person’s face tattooed on her face, and the dick tattoo artist who agreed to do it:
The Los Angeles-based, Gold Coast raised singer Kelsy Karter is from New Zealand, believe it or not. That’s right, she’s a born Kiwi, making her sort of an ambassador for our humble country when abroad (unfortunately).
The tattoo is meant to be of pop star Harry Styles, and her reason for getting it is… Well… On the one hand, self-serving people deserve the consequential shit they put themselves through, and on the other hand, in what society is this not deemed pathetic? To love something so much you believe branding yourself with another person’s likeness, on your face, by means of a strangers’ ability to do so, is a worthwhile step in a positive direction. There’s humour in this, for sure, it’s just hard to see through all that weak-mindedness. Makes me want to yell ‘money isn’t everything, people!’
Really casts a shadow on her potential as a respectable artist, and on society for not having a backbone (parents, friends, fans, career managers and business owner operators alike). This sort of thing just bums me out.
I so wanted to take the shit out of her spoiled decision-making skills, but it speaks for itself. How does someone goes from this:
To this:
Time to redefine your meaning of career girl.
I am an optimist at heart and in mind. It’s one of my better qualities and core beliefs. That also means I see the best in people and their potential to do better. I believe we are all capable of striving for more than what is offered, for things better than what is known to us, and a facial portrait ‘prison-tattoo’ of a yesteryear pop idol goes against everything!! Sorry not sorry, for ranting, but thanks for reading this far I guess.
……Learning is fun!
“This song is about my dream, this fantasy and obsession of wanting someone so bad that it hurts.” ~ Québécois musician Josie Boivin aka MUNYA
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Sun through the blinds |
Gotta be real |
Take a great string instrument, add lasers, win. One step closer to Futurama’s holophonor:
These aren’t just any old microcontroller-generated sounds. Rather than simply generating a tone or controlling a synthesizer, the PIC32 uses the Karplus-Strong algorithm to model the vibration of a plucked string. The result is very realistic, with all the harmonics you’d expect to hear from a plucked string. [Alex] does a decent job putting the harp through its paces in the video above. [hackaday.com/laser-harp…]
Or screw the harp all together and become a one man entertainment machine:
Yeeeaaaah, fuck ancient instruments ｡ﾟ(˵¯̴͒ᗨ¯̴͒˵)ﾟ｡ If that isn’t extra, I don’t know what is.
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Haji was a punk just like any other boy ‘Twas a cold Christmas Eve when Trevor and the skins If God came down on Christmas Day Haji was a bloody mess, he ran out through the crowd If God came down on Christmas Day |
On the roof with the nun chucks Trevor broke a lot of bones Police sirens wailing, a bloody dying man And Haji saw the north star shining more then ever If God came down on Christmas Day |
Watch these poor jewelry shop clerks come close to a heart attack as they leap over counters chasing down customers who are running off with jewelry, except they aren’t:
Jewelry store “customers” try on expensive merch, then sprint towards the exit door. As the store employee chases after them, the prankster then casually stops in front of a mirror near the front door, as if that had always been their intention. Although not so nice, it’s hard not to chuckle at how well the frantic employee transitions into an about face and casually walks away.
The jewelry-stealing prank is believed to have been inspired by an Indonesian influencer’s shoplifting prank, Harvinth Skin, which went viral in Asia last month. Chinese pranksters upped the stakes by essentially pulling off the same prank at jewelry stores:
*Cough-right-in-the-feels-Cough* An endearing animated short about the selflessness of true love that tugs at the heartstrings. A knitted toy dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life:
Lost & Found is an endearing stop motion film that chronicles a dramatic turning point in the sweet relationship between two crocheted animal toys. A foxy fox and smitten dinosaur have enjoyed many special memories in their adopted home of a Japanese restaurant’s lost and found bin. But when the fox topples into a fountain, the dinosaur must give his all to save her. The short film imagines the inner lives of its stuffed animal protagonists and uses the fragile nature of crochet as the crux of the storyline. Lost & Found has been widely lauded at film festivals since its debut this year. You can see behind the scenes of the film below:
HarvardTHUD performs a charming cover of Queen’s Magnum Opus on their colorful plastic noisemakers:
I didn’t know what boomwhackers were before watching this. Impressive coordination, but I still can’t wrap my head around what the crap a boomwhacker is for, as in, humanity has reached a point where we have things called instruments! I’m serious. And…I wanna wear a fancy hat.
Here is the only rendition I need; one man bearing his souly soul:
Electronic music and robots go well together, don’t they just.
Love me a robot uprising. Not sure why but, “Free Yourself” reminded me of “Base 6” which I played the shit out of back in 2002 and is, in my opinion, the cooler track:
Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose marvelous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic-book lovers everywhere, has died. He was 95.
Found these neat panels in one of my 50-cent purchases from back in the day.
Marvel Comics; X-Men Minus 1 Flashback (1997)
I love storytelling in general, and comics are an art-form unto itself with a unique way of enriching the reading experience. If you frequent le blog you would have surely seen the hyperlink tags “Comics” and “I ♥ COMICS.” My love for them comes with its own origin story, and although I feel my content of choice has graduated from the typical costumed Marvel heroes to more self-contained, creator owned creations, there is no denying the history of comics and why they flourished and endured, and for that, my hats off to Stan “the man” Lee.
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