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Friday Classic: Mary Poppins Recut
Jan 30th
Last week I totally forgot about the Friday Classic. I was busy, you know. With the booze work.
But seeing that it is Friday yet again, and because I don’t want to post too many Mark “Musical Genius” Gormley videos, I post old crap from many, many years ago.
It’s probably so old that you’ll have conveniently forgotten that you have seen this back in 2006. You might even think that it’s pretty awesome. And then you’ll tell all your friends about it, and about this great site where you found it and … oh well, it’s never gonna happen.
This Friday Classic is a recut trailer for Mary Poppins, that lovely old nanny from the ancient times when Disney still made movies with real people in it.
In this trailer Mary Poppins is not the child loving fun nanny we’ve come to know. But you know that, because this clip is ancient.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and – SNAP – the job’s a game!
Bookmarks for January 30th 2009
Jan 30th
Links for January 30th 2009 from 15:41 to 16:58:
- 10 Moments in Music Censorship History – with music videos for all to see
- Concept Art: A Trilobite Made of Welded Steel and Time – Its carapace has turned to steel in the hundreds of millions of years since it went extinct, but the watch in this Trilobite’s brain never stops tracking the seconds passed since the Cambrian ended.
- FLOODING MCDONALD’S – Superflex are a radical art collective from Copenhagen, with previous hits including a burnt out car and an intriguing ‘Free Beer' enterprise. With their latest exhibit they have flooded a McDonalds.
- The Top 11 Most Depressing Songs of All Time – There’s just something about a depressing song that can instantly shift your mood from light to dark. A lot of music listeners out there will even use gloomy and emotional songs to put themselves in a low-spirited state. If you're one of those people, these are the songs most likely to make you want to wallow in the darkness.
- Bacon Bra » Funny, Bizarre, Amazing Pictures & Videos – indeed, a bra made of bacon.
- YouTube – Prison Escape Fail – These Two People Escape From A Prison Tied TOgether By Handcuffs So They Decide To Do This
- LEGO’s Digital Box Kiosks Use Augmented Reality To Bring The Models To Life – LEGO will apparently be rolling out these new ‘Digital Box’ kiosks to select toyshops around the world that allow you to see a 3D representation of what the LEGO model looks like when fully assembled.
- sansa clip in the hole!: grenade mp3 player – Explosive modder Matt purchased some decommissioned test grenades and decided that it would make for a great MP3 player shell. So does it? Yesno.
- 10 things your great grandchildren won’t remember – we’ve put together a list of 10 things you may be familiar with now, but when your great grandchildren are growing up, they’ll be all like “lol what, people used to sit in front of computers when they worked?”
- Anakin’s Lightsaber Flashlight – Dropping half a grand on a replica lightsaber from a company like Master Replicas isn’t for everyone, but if you’ve got a Star Wars itch to scratch this cheap lightsaber flashlight could do the trick.
- Paramount Takes Trek Merchandise to Warp Nine | The Underwire from Wired.com – Paramount and CBS are going all-in with J.J. Abrams' Star Trek this summer, and the merchandising frenzy is set to arrive before the film's summer premiere.
- DNA Art: The Most Awesome Science Video About DNA Ever Made – It's hard to explain DNA replication, transcription, and protein building in an accessible but non-dumbed-down way. This quick, elegant video does it, though: You get the full story with helpful visualizations.
CSI: Tatooine
Jan 29th
A couple of months ago, when I was bored, I imagined what it would be like if the two universes of Star Wars and CSI: Miami would merge.
You know, by means of evil Sith magic or because Mala Noche are expanding their territory into space.
Stuff happens in my head when I’m bored. So the concept is a bit like Marvel Comics vs. DC, or Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, or my constant fight against sanity.
So I came up with this quick mash-up picture showing Horatio Caine in his standard issue stormtrooper uniform. Plus his sunglasses, of course. Because of the blinding twin suns of Tatooine.
So yeah, this is what CSI: Tatooine would look like. Pretty much.
Our first priority is to find the crime scene:
Bookmarks for January 29th 2009
Jan 29th
Links for January 29th 2009
- The Greatest Snack Food Stadium Ever Built | www.holytaco.com – "So, in honor of the Super Bowl and our need to cram our faces full of processed foods with funny names, we created this football stadium made entirely out of snack foods"
- Top 7 Most Tradable Lunch Box Snacks « The High Definite – Whether you were the kid with the awesome packed lunch that wielded limitless trading power due to the quality of your snack foods, or the school lunch kid that was willing to sacrifice entire sections of your lunch for that one badass snack, cafeteria bartering made a nutritional and educational impact on us all.
- Triceracopter: If Only Evolution Had Worked Out Differently – The Triceracopter is half Triceratops, half helicopter. Built as a sculpture in 1977 by artist Patricia Renick, it's now available now for the discerning collector/dinopilot.
- ‘Organic’ robots to mimic primitive life – Pink Tentacle – A University of Tokyo research team led by professor/computer graphic artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi is developing robots designed to imitate primitive life forms. Mockups have been put on display at a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, and working versions of the robots are scheduled for completion in two years.
- I.Z. Reloaded: Online Refreshments: Relive your childhood with this huge toy collection on eBay – For US$29,999, you can be the proud owner of this vintage to modern toy collection which was purchased in Ohio from a retired collector/dealer. The collection with 9,185 different toys, games, etc has a retail value of way over $100,0000. Check out the pics!
- OhGizmo! » Archive » 3D Star Wars Kites – Three of the more recognizable ships from the Star Wars universe are represented including the TIE Fighter, the X-Wing and the Millennium Falcon.
- Scifi Art: Pulp SF Book Covers That Channel Pure Id – The greatest pulp science fiction book covers aren't just trashy, they're lurid: filled with half-naked squirming and misplaced eyes, with Prince's man/woman glyph bursting out.
- Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky auf Flickr – Fotosharing! – "On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal – it was really seeing the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city!"
- Spanish steampunk clock – Boing Boing Gadgets – A great clock by Tenerifean artist of Gonzalo Álvarez. It looks something like the center timepiece of a steampunk Swiss Family Robinson.
- The Most Extravagant Dinner Parties in History – I’ll have the Ostrich Brain and the Exploding Breast Cake, Please
- Best complaint letter ever? – This is a letter recently received by the Virgin Atlantic customer complaints team and is currently being hailed on several blogs as possibly the funniest customer complaint letter ever.
- Cake Wrecks: Sunday Sweets: Lord of the Rings – Awesome looking LOTR inspired cakes
- Light Saber Umbrella – LED and rain protector together at last - The Red Ferret Journal – The Light Saber Umbrella. Take the trendy and illuminating properties of an LED flashlight, mix in a light emitting multi-coloured handle, throw in the terribly useful water repelling function of an umbrella and you’ve got a hip and wacky way to brighten up a dismal day in the city.
- How to make Lego valve stem caps. – Want to make your own LEGO valve stem caps for your full-scale LEGO car? No problem. Take a LEGO block, hollow it out and glue in a regular cap.
- Awwww! Real Monsters! – Urlesque – Internet Trends, Viral Videos, Memes and Web Culture – Chilean artist Relleno De Mono knows monsters. And he knows that they're pretty nice. And that they make great babysitters. They also like street meat, the beach, and they may have even been around when you were a kid (you just don't remember).
Mark Gormley is my new hero. You heard me.
Jan 29th
Now, many of you young and hip internet people (yes, you with your shiny MacBook and your tall, nonfat decaf latte, wearing a black turtleneck sweater) out there have probably already seen the videos of one Mark Gormley. The thing is, those young and hip internet people don’t come here much. They only visit this site to show others how things on the web should not look.
So for all the other people out there that do visit this site, my fellow internet losers, let me explain what Mark Gormley is all about.
I first saw his masterpiece Without You about 2 weeks ago, laughed about it but found myself playing it over and over again. Seriously.
Mark looks a bit like your average science teacher. Or if you prefer, your average normal white guy, age 45plus with a moustache. He seems not to care too much about his appearance and ist just doing his thing. More or less, he appears to have given up on any sorts of prospects for the foreseeable future and is recording his songs and putting them out there for all of us to see as a hobby to disctract from a boring life. At least that is my interpretation of him. Or in short, he’s a bit like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but with a musical talent.
The videos themselves have little production value, mostly greenscreen with some cheapo effects and miserable CGI pulled from the archive of an old Amiga 500. Now, of course, this is just my interpretation and has by no means any validity. Like anything I say, really.
So that you know what I am talking about, let’s have a look at Without You. This is my favourite Mark Gormley song so far.
Now that you have seen that, what do you think? Is he a menacing predator or a nice guy?
Actually, he is a nice guy. After his videos on Youtube took off, unlike many other internet “stars” that go viral, Mark Gormley stays down to Earth (although he goes into space in many of his videos) and comes across as a rather nice guy. See here:
Godspeed, Mr Mark Gormley!
Bookmarks for January 28th 2009
Jan 28th
Links for January 28th 2009 from 12:28 to 13:34:
- Hello Kitty Keyboard | GeekAlerts – Great news for those of you who have a thing for computer accessories inspired by a certain japanese cat, like this webcam, the USB fan and this small speaker. You will now be able to expand your collection with this brand new Hello Kitty keyboard.
- Bandai’s New Speaker Looks Like Tokyo | GeekAlerts – This new and impressive diorama speaker from the Japanese toy manufacturer Bandai has been designed to look like the Ginza district in Tokyo, Japan did back in 1955.
- YouTube – Dancing Inside – Originally conceived to synch with "Stayin' Alive", the famous Bee Gees disco number used in Saturday Night Fever, this (crude!) stop-motion animation has been re-cut for You Tube with a swaggering ragga/house/dancehall floor-filler called 'Consequences' by Andy Higgs.
- Covered – Comic covers recovered.
- Restored Brooklyn Subway Art Offers Trip to 1970s – NYTimes.com – The New York City subway is full of more or less secret works of art, salvos of illicit shape and color that you can appreciate only if your Lexington Avenue train slows near an abandoned platform or you make a life-threatening spelunk into the tunnels and stumble across scraps of manic autobiographical wall writings painted by a semi-mythical graffiti artist known as Revs.
- Mangajet! | Doktorsblog – awesome jetplane with manga and anime paintings on it
- How to Get Things Done with Twitter | Zen Habits – Let’s face it: a growing number of people are using Twitter these days, spending a lot of time on Twitter, and still need to get things done on Twitter. If you want to spend a lot of time conversing with people on Twitter, that’s great … but many people still need to get their tasks done. Let’s take a look at how to do that.
- YouTube – Wrestling "Holy Shit" Moment 229 – Awesome Japanese wrestling fail
- TOP 50 BEST MOVIE DEATHS Movie Feature at TheShiznit.co.uk – Movie deaths are an integral part of the filmmaker's arsenal. Can you imagine how dull flicks would be without the occasional fatality, assassination or cheeky moider? They offer a chance for imagination and inventiveness and have given the creators of the Saw series an outlet that has probably stopped them going on a killing spree in real life. But the most important thing to know about movie deaths is that they are so much cooler than your Nan's.
- Nikon D3 Cut In Half « Tokyobling’s Blog – a Nikon D3 cut in half for all of our camera porn pleasures!
- LiveLeak.com – Para-Glider With A Steel Lined Stomach. – CRAZIEST PARAGLIDER EVER
- Flickr Fotodownload: Big Red Ball of Yarn – A big red ball of yarn … and someone's in it!
- YouTube – Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys – "Time laps of Charles-Edward, my 9 month old son, playing with his toys and creating chaos in the dinning room."
- Living Moss Carpet Adds a Touch of Green to Your Bathroom – This Moss Carpet by Nguyen La Chanh brings the outside indoors in an unconventionally natural way by placing it underfoot. The lush green lawn thrives in humid environments, which makes your bathroom a perfect place to grow.
- Camera Sock Art Doesn’t Stink | Walyou – This is great Camera Artwork that is created by actual socks and believe me…these socks do not stink and neither does the art. It is a great design by Netta Amir that shows socks do not have to be only made into sock puppets.
Bookmarks for January 26th 2009 through January 27th 2009
Jan 27th
Links for January 26th 2009 through January 27th 2009:
- SEXY PEOPLE – a blog with pictures of "sexy people"
- Super Mario Bros Cupcakes | Geeky Gadgets – Check out these fun geeky cupcakes
- Artoo’s Premium Beer T-Shirt – Apparently R2-D2 has his own range of premium beer, which is an official sponsor of Galactic Rebellion.
- Partial Solar Eclipse on Chinese New Year: Pics!!! – The bad weather nearly ruined everything but thankfully, there were some breaks in the clouds that allowed us to enjoy the first solar eclipse of 2009.
- NOW IN COLOR only smaller 70s by *dusty-abell on deviantART – Artist Dusty Abell posted this panoramic — and brain-melting — image of television's science fiction characters and superheroes of the 1970s
- Kure Kure Takora – Gimme Gimme Octopus – Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus) is a children’s television show that aired in Japan from 1973 to 1974, running for 260, two minute and forty-one second episodes. It featured a cast of characters led by Kure Kure Takora an octopus who has a propensity for exclaiming “Kure! Kure!” (”I want it! I want it!”) and who —along with the rest of the cast— is enamored of the pink walrus Munro. The show is delightfully bizarre in a way that only the Japanese have managed to perfect, in the sense that each episode feels like a horrible NyQuil induced hallucination featuring characters inspired by a sushi menu.
- Eminemmy Hill – CollegeHumor video – Perhaps the finest Doctor Who/Benny Hill/Eminem mashup ever produce
- Zombie Playground by Jason Chan – Jason Chan’s Zombie Playground is now available in print form in three sizes including a spectacular 24″ x 36″ version.
- Mexican chefs make world’s biggest cheesecake – Weird news- msnbc.com – Chef Miguel Angel Quezada says 55 cooks spent 60 hours making the world's biggest cheesecake — a 2-ton calorie bomb topped with strawberries.
- Jump London – Jump London is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television. It later spawned a sequel, Jump Britain that first aired in January 2005. Both feature documentaries were directed by Mike Christie.
- Panoramic Inaugural Photo – Fullscreen Gigapan Viewer –
The Benefits of Laser Eye Surgery
Jan 27th
If Laser Eye Surgery went like this, I’d sign up straight away.
I have always dreamt of having eyes that could shoot lasers, or at least own a jet-pack like Boba Fett. I imagined how cool I would look. This was before I got beaten up in middle school for wearing a Star Wars is Forever T-Shirt, of course.
Now I am haunted in my nightmares by a bunch of school bullies with rocket powered jet-packs hunting me down an alley. But then out of nowhere appears Falkor, the luckdragon from Neverending Story and saves me. We then have ice-cream.
I tell you, looking into my mind is not pretty.
If I had lasers shooting from my eyes my dreams would look very different. And I would probably not need a Death Star after all.
You may fire when ready:
This awesome picture was made by Happy Toast from the b3ta community. All credits go to him.
Fanboys Clip – Burn the Ewok! Burn it!
Jan 27th
Who knows if Fanboys, the movie about a bunch of Star Wars fans breaking into the Skywalker Ranch to watch Episode 1, is going to be a success or a miserable failure. I don’t know. I hope it won’t suck when it comes out (Feb 6th).
If I have to judge by this clip though, it’s a winner.
Not only am I one of the many, many Star Wars fans out there who detest the Ewoks, I also agree with anyone in this clip who wants the Ewok to burn. Set it on fire! Now! Go ahead!
The Ewoks were to the original Return of the Jedi what the stupid muppets musical interlude in Jabba’s Palace was for the Special Edition. The nail in the coffin. One of many nails, in fact. But I won’t get bitter here and rant about it. Instead, I will share this great clip with you. And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire, the ring of fire…
Fire, fire, fire! Heh,heh,heh:
via Topless Robot
Bookmarks for January 25th 2009
Jan 25th
Links for January 25th 2009:
- Obama Chia Pet – Boing Boing Gadgets –
- Video: Wood Chopper From Hell – From trees to toothpicks in 15 seconds.
- Kevin Kelly — Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution – When we look at technology we see pipes and blinking lights. But in the cosmic view, technology is the acceleration of evolution.
- Offworld – Plain Sight is a 3D multiplayer arcade game with robots; robots who bounce around cityscapes on mini planetoids and wield swords which are used to destroy one another.
- Record Store Documentary "The Final Days of Full Circle Records".wmv – The Final Days Of Full Circle Records – A Documentary By Michael Greene. In October of 2006, a small mom and pop record store in Southern New Jersey named Full Circle Records announced that it was going out of business and that the liquidation sale would continue until mid December.
- Superman: The Man Of Steel… And Braaaaiiinnnsss – He may have died and returned to life in the early '90s, but this summer, DC Comics are going to give us what we've all been waiting for: Zombie Superman. No, really.
- YouTube – Dr Zeus, Light Sabers, 12KW Tesla Coils – Dr Zeus aka Terry Blake energizes his brilliant new light sabers with two 12 kilowatt Tesla coils that produce music through the sparks.
- ‘Flying Car’ Goes to Market : Discovery News – The aptly named Transition takes a stab at bridging the gap between automobiles and airplanes. Some people call it a flying car. The company designing and selling the vehicle prefers the term “roadable aircraft.”
- Celebrity Zombies – Photoshop contest – When celebrities die and then… undie.
- YouTube – Johannes Kreidler – Charts Music – Melodies derived from Stock Charts, arranged with Microsoft's Composition Software "Songsmith".
