2D in a 3D world

Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

"Sorry I'm Late" is a wonderful piece of stop animation. Stick around to the credits to see a bit of how it was filmed. (via Maison Bisson)

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Where's the fire?

The World's Fastest Everything (via kottke) The ones that really made my jaw drop were the fastest stamper and the fastest game of Minesweeper.




World's Fastest Banjo Player. Not only did they give him "Dueling Banjoes" to play when he went for the world record, he also happens to look a bit like the Deliverance banjo kid, don't you think?





Meet Bob Arno, world's fastest-fingered pickpocket performing his stage act a few years ago (presumably, as it is hosted by John Ritter, who died in 2003).

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Photoshop, not so much. Maybe MS Paint is more your speed...

11 Photos Where Black People Were Awkwardly Photoshopped In or Out

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Time wounds all heels

Worth1000 has a whole series of Photoshop contests where people can submit their favorite celebs to that process that the rest of us averaje Joes and Janes have to deal with without the luxury of biweekly Botox parties and the like.

There's like 12 of them, so I'll just link to the most recent. The rest are listed near the top under "Related Galleries".


Steve Carell


Gwen Stefani


Conan O'Brien


Avril Levigne




When comic book heroes and villains get old (thanks, Tim!)

Technorati tags: aging, old, celebrities, superheroes

Moon People: Great book? Or greatest book?

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/BEGIN SNARK/
You will be Riveted when you read this riveting first page of the new rivetting book Moon People by Dale Courtney!

The story feature's Dave Braymer, a 45-year-old Single man that works at the local High school as a science teacher and astrology at the 12-grade level in Daytona Beach. He is also friends with Cheral Baskel who owns a local Restaurant where everyone gather's when there is a Shuttle launch because you can see the launch real good...
/END SNARK/

I'm not sure who Dale Courtney is, but this 80-page masterwork is a triple-threat of eye-poppingly bad storytelling/ spelling/ punctuation.

If that doesn't convince you, maybe the overwhelmingly glowing Amazon reviews will. (via The Best Article Every Day)

PS. I submitted this at Metafilter, which has spawned an amusing comment thread there as well. Feel free to hop in there (or here) with your comments, reviews, fanfic, etc...

Technorati tags: writing, bad, wtf, sobaditsgonepastgoodanddoubledbacktobadagain

Hail to the #FF0000, #FFFFFF and #0000FF!

A little something for that patriotic-est American holiday of them all... Now get out there and eat an apple pie.


11 most patriotic sci-fi movie and TV moments




LIFE Magazine's Most Patriotic Covers



Note to the young, impressionable and/or easily offended: this next link is not the droid you are looking for. Move along.

That being said, the rest of you wild-eyed jingoistic flag-wavers may now enjoy one of the many versions of America F*** Yeah. (NSFW)

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233 years? Oh, America, you don't look a day over 220!

The Best Way to Photograph Fireworks




Some nice-looking fireworks wallpaper for your desktop.



Tonight on Fox! When Fireworks Attack!



When yer out blowin' stuff up real good this Fourth of July, try to keep it all in perspective by giving a quick once-over of The Top 10 Greatest Explosions Ever.


Barbie says, "Fireworks math is hard!" True or False?

If (sparkler) X 1 =


then (sparkler) X 7,000 =
?


What would happen if you lit 7000 wrapped sparklers?

Technorati tags: fireworks, Fourth of July

One forehead, toasted with butter coming up!

The latest (I hesitate to include the word "beauty") trend among the body mod kids in Japan is what's called "saline inflation" or more descriptively, "bagelhead". Simply put, a saline solution is injected under the skin, usually on the forehead, causing bumps that can be manipulated into various shapes (such as the Bagel Brothers in the pic above) to add interest. Ohhh, yeah. The ladies love the gross misshapen masses on the face and head, am I right? Let me get an "Amen!" from Quasimodo and John "The Elephant Man" Merrick! Testify!

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No wonder my sitcom featuring Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa and a time machine never got greenlighted

Forget "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?". What about Chuck? Richie Cunningham's older brother appeared in a few season 1 episodes of the 70s sitcom Happy Days, only to never be heard from or mentioned again.

Read up on Chuck and 14 other TV characters that disappeared without explanation.




Bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared over the English Channel in December 1944 while en route to entertain troops in recently liberated Paris. Top 10 Notable People Who Disappeared.

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Bueller? Bueller?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, rejoice. You can now wear probably the best quote from the movie.




The "garage" housing Cameron's dad's Ferrari from the film is actually a home, and it's for sale. Asking price: $2.3 million. More photos and details in the article.




File under "Overthinking It": The Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory




Circa 1997, the ska outfit Save Ferris and their cover of Dexy's Midnight Runners' "Come On, Eileen".




The original video of Yello - "Oh Yeah", the song which closes out the movie, as everyone remembers.

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Dear Switzerland, thanks for great chocolate, holey cheese and a tax-shelter-y banking system. But what's up with the whole yodeling thing?

The Emergency Yodel Button. Click only in case of a yodeling emergency. Or, you know, if you just want to hear yodeling.




Instant schadenfreude thanks to www.nelsonhaha.com. Ha ha! You just listened to a yodel!

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Maj rahm, yIQongchu'! (Klingon for "Good night, sleep well!")

Wicked Klingon-inspired baby furniture/art (via Boing Boing)

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24 fps

The Worst Movie Titles Ever



The Worst Movie Titles Ever 2: Electric Boogaloo



Ten Worst Movie Gerund Titles



The Incredibly Strange List Of Really Long Movie Titles Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies



List of Longest Films by Running Time




The Cryptic Canvas - Can you spot references to 50 movie titles in this painting?

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Happy Feet

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. It's a really stupid thing to want to do.” - Elvis Costello

Let's See Tiger Do This! A great performance by Fred Astaire, who makes dancing plus golf look good. (via Neat New Stuff on the Net)




Drinking while driving? Bad
Dancing while driving? Worse. Much, much worse.




Behold the awesome dance power of KAMAL! I'm curious, though... at the 2:04 mark, during one of the brief moments he manages to ensnare a partner... is that the Jitterbug? The Foxtrot? Oh wait, I know! It's The Failed Date Rape!

Technorati tags: dance, Fred, Astaire, worst, dancer

Nail houses

A nail house is a Chinese neologism for homes belonging to people (sometimes called "stubborn nails") who refuse to make room for development, often in an attempt to negotiate a high price in exchange for selling out.

Here are some pics of six particularly stubborn holdouts.

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