A contest to redesign everyday objects for use by the Dark Knight:
Batman proved to the world that every object can be improved by making it black and bat-shaped. We wondered what everyday household objects would look like if Batman was put in charge of the design.They've posted the 20 best entries from the contest; I loved the toilet paper but the pearls are for the true Batman fans.
Yeah, he's a little high strung; give the guy a break, he watched his parents get killed:
No cameras or lights were used to film the new Radiohead video. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geomtric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes; we've come a long way from Video Killed The Radio Star:
A tradition of the Soviet/Russian space program has been for the cosmonauts to piss on the wheel of the bus that takes them to the launch site; apparently they've been doing this for over 40 years now. What the women did to fulfill this tradition is mostly suspect and frankly, I don't want to know.
A flock of thousands of the small black birds moves as a single entity; incredibly beautiful and fascinating to watch:
Say what you want about these political parody songs (I eventually start to find them a bit annoying as the election season goes on) but the folks over at JibJib really do have everyone's number this year; and yes, that's me guest starring at the end as the voter taking it in the rear. Please send your fan mail to the usual locations:
Sure, it all seems like fun and games until someone takes it way too seriously; pour a little of your 40 out for Fat Lando:
Fictional of course but I don't see a conservative publication ever actually trying to do irony at the level of the liberal New Yorker with the Republican candidate; the right wing noise machine just seems too organized and disciplined for that. I like the replacement of the American flag with the Constitution though.
Video of a guy in India texting while reclining on his motorcycle. On the freeway. Thank you, come again:
I love the phenomenon of another culture that's language, and subsequent accent, is extremely different from ours while at the same time totally co-opting our slang terms; to me it kind of exemplifies the embrace of the culturally new by the traditional old. Namasté, homies.
