Great, if somewhat shocking, video compilation of children going completely ballistic after getting a Nintendo Wii as a surprise Christmas present. I couldn’t help but smile.
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Aw, aren’t these really cute ? These tea cup plushies are the handiwork of Teresa from Sewing Stars.
Wow! This is super-trippy stuff. I mean, just look at all these colors.
Ark is a poignant, multi-award-winning short film directed by Grzegorz Jonkajtys.
Synopsis of the story:
An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man…
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This particularly racist Dennis the Menace cartoon strip was published in the U.S. in 1970.
The outraged reactions to the cartoon made at least one newspaper, The Cleveland Press, to actually print an apology instead of the next installment of the strip on the following day.
The rare cartoon has been featured in Backstage at the Strips, a book by cartoonist Mort Walker (of Beetle Bailey fame).
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Why didn’t anyone think of this before ?
The Wireless Key Finder helps you find your lost keys at the press of a button.
The gadget comes with two color-coded key fobs, that can be attached to your keys. Simply pressing on the pager buttons on the key finder will make the matching key fob respond with a loud alarm.
The makers claim that the device can locate keys up to 60 feet away.
The Wireless Key Finder is priced at a reasonable $49.95.
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Ascension, a short film directed by Stephen Irwin (not ‘The Crocodile Hunter’), tells the story of Timothy, a nerd and bumbling trainspotter, who stumbles into the wrong flat during a power cut, and accidentally manages to interrupt a human sacrifice ritual by a secret cult.
The film has plenty of funny moments and a twist ending too.
Watch it after the jump.
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Charles Bronson, all round tough guy and macho star of such films like The Great Escape and the Death Wish series, acted in this cheesy Japanese commercial for a body powder product called Mandom.
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I found these funny, DIY paper models of DC and Marvel superheroes based on various South Park characters (or is it the other way around ?).
Anyhow, you can download the printable pdf plans here.
Watch a surreal and trippy music video for the song ‘Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants’, the second single from the British band Wild Beasts‘ debut album - Limbo Panto.
The visual effect in the video is known as the ‘Droste Effect’, a technique pioneered by graphic artist and illustrator M.C. Droste. The directors of the video, OneInThree, were able to adapt the technique and apply it to the video.
Visit this huge Flickr gallery to see some cool imagery created using the technique.
You can also read this tutorial by Josh Summers to create your own Droste images using Gimp and the Mathmap Plugin.
This super-cute Evangelion Rei 4GB memory stick is a limited edition product, and is priced at $54.25 plus shipping. The product will be available from September 30, 2008.
You can pre-order it here.
The Well Medicated blog has compiled a collection of 50 mind-bending film posters created for American films released in communist-era Poland.
This poster for Short Circuit 2 featuring Johnny 5, really made my day.
In a rather interesting experiment, Dorothy Gambrell, the “best underground cartoonist”, applied every Photoshop filter on this picture.
Guess how the final result looked like ?
