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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
BROWN = #1!!!!!! (douchiest college in America)
hahahhahhaha I LOVE IT!! GQ rated Brown the #1 Douchiest College in America.. beating out everyone else for the goal!! hahahha well guess which school also has the #1 Happiest Students?! Yeap Brown!! Here's what GQ wrote:
Home of: The "Peace Sign on My Mom's 7 Series" Douche
Affectations: A belief that grades, majors, and course requirements are just another form of cultural hegemony; using the word hegemony.
In ten years, will be: Living with your family in an old house that you quit your job to refurbish yourself (by overseeing a contractor) with painstaking historical accuracy in a formerly decaying section of the city that's recently been reclaimed by a small population of white guys in hand-painted T-shirts who are helping you put together a health care fund-raiser for MoveOn.org.
Douchiest course offering: English 200: On Vampires and Violent Vixens: Making the Monster Through Discourses of Gender and Sexuality.
Honorable-mention limousine-liberal institutions: Duke, Reed, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Bard, RISD.
hahah my mom does drive a 7-series tho.. that made me laugh but she doesn't have a peace sign.. she has a mashimaro.. haha
Hit the Jump for the top 25 douchiest colleges in America
[GQ.com]
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Holy Crap More Awesome Paintings that look look like Photographs
1. Shower Scene
At first, I thought these were pictures, and it turns out they're all paintings!! enjoy some great art people... Hit the jump to see the rest!
2. Milk Girl
3. Station Scene (with Detail Close up)
This artist used over 15,000 images to compile these paintings together to create this station scene.
4. Lunch in Tiburon (with detailed close up)
5. Self-Portrait
6. People Swimming
7. Graffiti and Wood Peeling
8. Underwater Scene
9. Splash
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At first, I thought these were pictures, and it turns out they're all paintings!! enjoy some great art people... Hit the jump to see the rest!
2. Milk Girl
3. Station Scene (with Detail Close up)
This artist used over 15,000 images to compile these paintings together to create this station scene.
4. Lunch in Tiburon (with detailed close up)
5. Self-Portrait
6. People Swimming
7. Graffiti and Wood Peeling
8. Underwater Scene
9. Splash
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This is NOT a Photograph..
Three guys created this painting and it frickin looks like a photograph.. makes you feel talentless eh?? i know i do...
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Genius Husband
Hahahhahahha!!! That is great! That is just awesome.. sigh.. too bad he's already married.. he cracks me up! or maybe i just like him cause that's the kind of stuff i would do.. o_O
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Video explaining The Big Bang.. concisely and prettily
This is a video produced by Columbia University explaining the Big Bang in terms even a sped like myself can understand. I thought it was pretty interesting, especially the notion that nothing, not even time, existed before the Big Bang. That blew my mind. I can't imagine there being now time and space... omg.. my head hurts.. ok too much thinking...
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Trippyyyy 8-bit music video love
This is a short video entitled 8-Bit Trip that is a tribute to 8-bit video games made entirely out of LEGO blocks. Personally, I would have gone with a 16-Bit Trip, but I like good visuals (one time I saw the face of Loki from Super Ghouls n' Ghosts come out of a brick wall and try to lick me). A brief explanation of the video:
1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of them.
You'd think think with 1,500 hours to kill the maker could have afforded a couple hours of grammar lessons. I jest. But seriously: He who casts the first stone should always aim for the face. And here is the rest of it. Read more!
Beautiful Dancing Smoke Video
let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo.
This is a video created by Esteban Diácono to the music of Olafur Arnalds' Ljósið using "Adobe After Effects, particular v2, soundkeys and a little starglow". It's basically a bunch of smoke dancing around.
i first imported the audio and set up 2 sounkeys layers, one for the piano and one for the strings. Then i worked the particles and the particle subsystem and linked things like the emission, the turbulence, the velocity, the spin amplitude and the strenght of the fields to the soundkeys outputs. Then i set up the colors with 2 different palettes, and well, after that there was a lot of trial and error in order to achieve what i was looking for. There's a lot of randomness involved in here, so there was also a lot of luck, of course.
sigh... i could watch this all day.. i love smoke!!! hehe
[thenextweb.com]
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Bobby McFerrin plays the audience like an instrument.
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus", from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009. Awesome.. Read more!
Little Kid Parallel Parks like a BOSS
Ryan, this kid's 5 years old and he already parks his car better than you can... ahha jk!!
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
In honor of Miyazaki's Ponyo, a Total Recall: Miyazaki's Best Movies
Hayao Miyazaki's last three films (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle) platformed in America to mild success. For his 10th and latest movie, Ponyo (the story of an ocean goldfish and her quest to become human), Disney will be granting it a more confident, nationwide release this Friday. Frankly, the more opportunity America gets to see a Miyazaki movie, the better: they expertly breach multiple genres and fulfill the visual promise of hand-drawn animation. But they also feel deeply personal. Always directing from his own scripts, Miyazaki can take any story and mold it to his likeness, creating across 10 films a thematically consistent, rich and rewarding universe.
9. Howl's Moving Castle
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% Fresh
The film begins with a meek hat girl falling in love with a charming wizard and then being transformed into an old woman by a jealous witch. This is Miyazaki's lowest-rated movie (still insanely high at 86 percent), but let's not think for a second he's slipping in his late period. Howl's Moving Castle is his most challenging work, a patient movie with a purposefully diffused narrative. Even if you're confused by the plot (and it gets pretty weird in spots), it can be enjoyed for its stunningly baroque artwork and playful sense of mystery and wonder. Richard Nilsen of the Arizona Republic was bewitched: "The world it gives us to live in, for a couple of hours, is pure magic. It is one of those places we might wish never to leave."
8. The Castle of Cagliostro
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% Fresh
The first film in Miyazaki's three-decade career, The Castle of Cagliostro is essentially a genre movie, an action/noir set in the canon of the long-running manga and anime series, Lupin the III. Miyazaki recreates the hero as a more humane, sympathetic thief than previous incarnations, while retrofitting the film with his more tactile interests: European architecture and creative flying vehicles. And like most genre flicks, production time was extremely limited (only four months!); it uses rough-edged animation that makes the action feel raw and kinetic, with a plot that breathlessly bounds forward. As Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central puts it, Cagliostro is "a light, irreverent slapstick exercise with a healthy share of nifty gadgets and derring-do."
7. My Neighbor Totoro
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88% Fresh
Two young girls are transported to the countryside to be closer to their sick, hospitalized mother, and while there they meet several fantastical woodland spirits. And that's about it. In My Neighbor Totoro, Miyazaki frees himself from the heavy plotting presumed necessary to hold children's attention. Instead, he enthralls viewers young and old animating the smaller moments of everyday life, hoping the audience shares his (and his two protagonists') curiosity in exploring their world. Most movies don't treat adults with this much respect; seeing it in a movie designed for kids is simply remarkable. Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures calls it "a warm and friendly story that just made me feel good after watching it."
6. Castle in the Sky
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93% Fresh
Castle in the Sky is set on an alternative version of Earth where all of mankind's cities once were skybound and have long since crashed to Earth. Save for one: Laputa. Its existence has entered into legend but a young boy continues to believe and his encounters a girl with a mysterious crystal sends them both onto an adventure towards its location. Light in theme and symbolism compared to Miyazaki's other movies, Castle in the Sky is his most accessible effort: a nimble, entertaining piece of work pieced together with the manic energy of a Saturday morning serial. Channel 4 agrees: "Miyazaki's flying contraptions are a sight to behold, rivaled only by the film's epic sweep and nonstop parade of action set-pieces."
5. Princess Mononoke
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93% Fresh
A cursed warrior-prince falls in love with a girl raised by wolves who has vowed to protect her forest (and the spirits within) from a local mining colony. After a long string of lighter fare in the mid 1980s and early 1990s, Miyazaki comes roaring back with Princess Mononoke: a startlingly violent, angry treatise on Miyazaki's strongest obsession (man's effect on natural ecology), with a finale that borders on pessimistic. If Terrence Malick and John Woo combined forces to make a cartoon, you'd get something like this. "It's big and breathtaking, and it knows how to use music and silence in enthralling ways that make the characters in our animated films seem like empty-headed chatterboxes," states Peter Brunette of Film.com.
4. Spirited Away
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 97% Fresh
Having explored virtually every timeless aspect of youth across his long career, for Oscar-winning Spirited Away, Miyazaki tackles a contemporary dilemma: early disillusionment and cynicism. A spoiled ten-year old girl is transported out of modern Japan, into a bathhouse that hosts a revolving number of spirits and monsters where she must pass several tests in order to return home. Every moment in the bathhouse teems with detail and characters, representing stunning visual maturation for Miyazaki that he would carry over into Howl's Moving Castle. Spirited Away "is a trip, in the literal, metaphorical and indeed lysergic senses of that word" states Salon's Andrew O'Hehir.
3. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 100% Fresh
Upon release, Miyazaki's second film was infamously chopped up, dubbed, and renamed Warriors of the Wind. It's become widely available within the past few years and now we can see it for what it was meant to be: a big, imaginative epic, and an early catch-all for Miyazaki's primary concerns (pacifism, nature, sweeping action, and deeply-characterized female heroes). It's remarkable that he was able to pin down his general M.O. by the time of his sophomore effort, with the 1980s aesthetic (parts look like Yes album covers) giving the film a stark, ominous presence. Nausicaa "is in some ways a grim and serious film, but it mixes a sweet optimism into its horror-filled lessons," wrote Tasha Robinson of the A.V. Club.
2. Porco Rosso
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 100% Fresh
Miyazaki's most romantic movie stars his most decidedly unromantic hero: an Italian Air Force pilot transformed into a cynical anthropomorphic pig. Porco Rosso hangs out inside a remote island in the Adriatic Sea, scuffles with local pirates, and discusses life and love with his would-be romantic interest, a lounge singer named Gina. Set during the years after World War I, Porco Rosso is Miyazaki's soaring tribute to that period's adventurous spirit: aerial battles, submarine shootouts, honor-saving duels and fistfights. And it's his funniest movie to boot. "Animator/fabulist Hayao Miyazaki pays homage to Hollywood's wartime adventure films in this masterwork built around the adventures of a high-flying pig," writes Robert Pardi over at TV Guide.
1. Kiki's Delivery Service
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 100%
In the world of Miyazaki's fifth film, witches are real and, at age 13, they ceremoniously leave home to find a town unoccupied by another witch. Teenage witch Kiki, cheery if insecure, settles seaside in a city called Koriko and begins an air courier service. The film is beloved for its warm characters and metaphors on growing up (adolescence drains Kiki of her powers, and it's a test of courage and faith to get them back), but extra praise should be lavished on its design. Koriko is a lively, bustling amalgamation of several European locations, effectively creating a city as a secondary character. James O' Ehley, one of the Movie Gurus, muses, "With so much nasty and unpleasant stuff floating around in contemporary culture, something as good-natured as this comes as a surprise."
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OMG SOO CUTE
I just think this picture is really cute.. btw.. how the hell did the owners get them to sleep like that..
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Another WTF tattoo
This was just released and apparently, this was Hitler's tattoo... And apparently he was texting before all of us.
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Facebook Fail
We've all seen facebook fails, but this one just has "STUPID" written all over it.. please please pleaseee... don't be like this idiot
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Quality advertisement: Have a guy catch your slim laptop with his buttcheeks... uh?
So. apparently an advertisement agency decided the best way to market the slimness of a laptop is to show how fantastically this laptop fits in between buttcheeks of some guy who obviously took some in the ass before... insert prison joke here... and of course they have a black guy throwing the laptop.. insert black guy & basketball joke here..
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Chinese Astronauts can't even have bad breath
According to China Daily, China's criteria for selecting their astronauts is so stringent that it precludes candidates with scars, cavities or even simple bad breath.
Apparently the stench can be a real morale buster when you're quarantined by the vacuum of space.
The criteria were reportedly leaked by a representative from No 454 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, one of five hospitals putting 100 potential Chinese astronauts through 100 grueling mental and physical tests that, if passed, qualify them as "super-human beings" (as one hospital rep puts it). Of course, these gods among men might just floss twice a day and hit the elliptical on the weekends. And eat lots of parsley. That's a good trick, we hear.
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Sorry for the lull, Giant waterslide! Insane! I want to try!
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