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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Rollin' Safari
Life can be difficult when you are not only round but extremely buoyant! This is one of four delightful animated trailers produced to promote the 2013 Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, all featuring peculiarly inflated animals. (via the Presurfer)
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's 1975 opus. From Wikipedia:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin), and directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived during the gap between the third and fourth series of their popular BBC television programme Monty Python's Flying Circus.
In contrast to the group's first film, And Now for Something Completely Different, a compilation of sketches from the first two television series, Holy Grail was composed of new material, and is therefore considered the first "proper" film by the group. It generally parodies the legend of King Arthur's quest to find the Holy Grail. The film was a success on its initial release, and Idle used the film as the inspiration for the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical Spamalot.
Miss Cellania's Links
Collectors Weekly has a fairly comprehensive article on the evolution of black dolls, from homemade dolls to racist caricatures to darker versions of white doll molds to specialty doll companies to what's available today. Because children should have dolls that reflect who they are -and that reflect the people around them.
The weirdest news stories of the week.
Our long nightmare is over -one of the worst tattoos that ever went viral has now been fixed.
Vaguely Rude Place Names Of The World. (via b3ta)
Do children owe anything to their abusive parents?
Fill out your bracket for Pope Madness 2013!
10 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started My Transition. Even when you know who you are, it can be a surprise to find how the world treats who you become.
This web toy has autoplay music and may be a trigger for certain epileptics. That said, if you choose, bring in the cats! (via Metafilter)
The man who keeps falling in love with his wife. He has no memory of what just happened, but he knows what's important. (via mental_floss)
To This Day
Shane Koyczan eloquently describes how childhood bullying leaves lifetime scars. A huge numbers of artists helped with this project, you can see who they are at the To This Day Project site. (via reddit)
Friday, February 22, 2013
10 Artworks Made from Matchsticks
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Surreal Landscapes by Jim Kazanjian.
High-tech Surveillance Makes Work More Like Prison. Productivity is king, no matter what it does to real people. (via Daily of the Day)
A First-grader Judges Oscar-nominated Movies by Their Posters. (via Laughing Squid)
What the Tea Party has done to Florida. (via Metafilter)
6 Non-Existent People Who Were Nominated for Oscars.
Academy Award nominees will go home with a gift bag worth $45,000 even if they don't win an Oscar. But some of the weird stuff in those bags will make you scratch your head.
The 1963 book A Cat-Haters Handbook contains quotes about how awful cats are. But the overall effect will make you want to get another cat.
An Illustrated Guide to Recognizing Insane People from 1883. That was back when developmental disabilities and mental illness were equivalent and you could diagnose people by looking at them.
In 1912, Douglas Mawson and 30 other men set out to explore the uncharted territory of Antarctica. But Antarctica, unmapped with no wireless communication, was a treacherous place to survive, much less explore.
How to Become Pope
C. G. P. Grey tells us how you can work your way up to the job of replacing Pope Benedict. It's pretty difficult. It may even be too late to get started, at least for the next conclave. (via mental_floss)
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Black History Month for White People
Chris Menning talks about Black History Month from a white guy's perspective, but a perspective that few white guys seem to have. The links he talks about are all available at his site. (via Metafilter)
Crows in the Snow
One crow is taking full advantage of a snow-covered car, not only by sliding on the window, but also by making snow angels! Look closely, and you'll see him throwing snowballs, too. Before the day is over, he'll have that entire back window cleared. (via Arbroath)
ABCinema - Take 2
Evan Seitz has another fast-moving video quiz in which 26 movies are represented, in alphabetical order. How many can you name? He says this is the final episode of his ABCinema series, which includes movies by numbers, movies by colors, and alphabetic video games, as well as the earlier alphabetical movie quiz. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
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I have a friend in Montreal, a chic shopkeeper and an adoptive mom from my online support group, who's been diagnosed with cancer. She is organizing an online auction to raise funds for cancer research, and is looking for items to fill the sale. More here.
Profiting From Human Misery. Gotta keep keeping those prisons!
How To Tell If You Were Adopted.
11 Reasons The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus Is The Biggest Badass On The Planet.
Guilty Dogs Caught in the Act. Much funnier than cats in these positions, because cats don't care about guilt.
The Delicate Architecture of Water Droplets. If we slow down and take a close look, they're works of art.
32 Crazy Hamantaschen For Purim. With recipe links and a short course in what Purim is about.
The still-unidentified Technoviking is suing Matthias Fritsch for recording his dance and making him a meme. He rejected a generous compromise deal in the case that may have global consequences for artists.
Wesley Snipes is in prison, but he stars in a new movie this year anyway. In Gallowwalkers, he's an Old West gunman pursued by zombies.
Best Picture Oscar Winners: the Supercut
The 85th Academy Awards will be handed out this Sunday. That's a lot of history! This supercut from Nelson Carvajal has clips of all the previous Best Picture winners for your enjoyment. How many have you seen, and how many can you identify? The answers are at the end of the video; you will probably have to see them full-screen to read them. The music is “November” by Max Richter. (via Slate)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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