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I KNOW this makes me sound like a teenage girl, but SQUEEEEAAAALLLL!!! I love the horrible warped snowmen Calvin comes up with and this video realises them in beautifully lit 3D. The scene is made from flour and sugar, and there’s a breakdown of how the makers did it here. It’s just awesome and perfectly recreates the brilliant strips Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson drew every winter. And the “we miss you, Bill” at the end just kills me.
Watterson didn’t just do the famous snowmen scenes for comedy. He used them to satirise pretentious art critics, with Calvin spouting […]
WHEN I was a young Mut I used to watch a lot of telly. Seventies and early 80s television was a lot different than it is now; for starters, we only had three channels until the aptly-named Channel 4 appeared in 1982, 27 years after the the third channel, ITV, came along.
For reasons best known to the dark recesses of my subconscious, what sticks out in my mind the most from those days — apart from Morph, Clangers, The Goodies and that episode of Grange Hill when Jeremy Irvine drowned in the pool — are the public safety films that would occasionally appear between children’s shows […]
AFTER much intense discussion between me and Ev, and after she pointed out that I’d named Sponja, Frosty, Emric, Iestyn and Snowy, we’ve decided to change Squeaker’s name to Mr […]
SAY hello to Squeaker, the latest addition to our cat sanctuary home. Ev called me on the freeway because she could hear a kitten meowing non-stop in our neighbour Richard’s shed, the same one that used to house Sponja’s offspring. I arrived home to have a torch shoved in my hand and was ordered to climb through our broken fence into Richard’s garden to rescue the little sod (the kitten, not Richard). Hoping our neighbour was a) a heavy sleeper and b) not armed I found Squeaker trapped in a cardboard box, unable to get out. Once I’d moved some stuff […]
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ALTHOUGH I’m a huge fan of both Portal games I hadn’t got around to seeing Dan Trachtenberg’s short movie Portal: No Escape til about 10 minutes ago. And holy shit, it is superb. Looking more like the pre-credit sequence to a big-budget movie than a seven-minute short filmed by a commercial director, it gets just about everything right: the dystopian setting, the sense of bewilderment, the portal gun and the portals. They, in particular, a realised brilliantly; in the game they’re glowing holes, but Trachtenberg’s made them look as if they really are tearing through space and time. Danielle Rayne’s […]
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The Liberty Belle, the B-17 bomber I took pics of in March last year, crash-landed and burned in a field in Illinois today. Luckily all seven people on board escaped safely. The fire seems to have been caused by a fuel leak in one of the engines. It’s a real shame as the Belle was one of the few remaining B-17s, the planes that did so much damage to Nazi Germany in World War II. After going aboard her and seeing for myself the horribly cramped conditions the crew had to fly their dangerous missions in, I had a […]
Sub Zero — winter night timelapse from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
AN AMAZING timelapse video. You have to watch it in fullscreen mode to do it […]
February 2nd, 2011 | Category: Home, Video |
SO THIS woman:
1. Makes a habit of dating small green lizards of the genus Phelsuma.
2. Is a bit of a bunny-boiler.
3. Doesn’t appreciate being stood up and possibly missing a night of hot reptile lovin’.
Either way, it’s disturbing.
Why can’t Geico go back to doing ads like this?
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BRITAIN is many things — small(ish), damp for most of the year, green, prone to electing idiots — but one thing it’s not really famous for is chilli. Well, at least I’d never connected my home country to the small red things that make a lot of food inedible for me. But apparently the UK is now famous for producing the Naga Viper, which has just been recognised as the the world’s hottest chilli.
Even more amazing is that it was grown in Cumbria by Gerald Fowler, who grew it in his small greenhouse by crossing the previous hottest chilli, Bhut Jolokia, with two other varieties, […]
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