Cosplayer Chronicles – Episode 2: Sean [Video]
A new episode of Cosplayer Chronicles by our pals @ Distractotron. If you missed the first episode featuring the lovely Honor Herrera, you can check it out right here. [Distractotron]
Category Archives: Culture
Featured Sci-Fi Short: Tears of Steel [Video]
This 12-minute short film (which includes the credits) is quite a creative masterpiece. Created using Blender, an open source 3D content creation suite and crowdfunded from the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, it’s quite a feast for the eyes. Without giving too much away, the story is centred on a man who is trying to make […]
The Mysterious Reality of Artist Kathy Tardif (Kardif)
While celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary last week, my wife and I visited multiple art galleries in Baie-Saint-Paul and Quebec City to purchase our first “real” piece of art. So while admiring the work of various painters at the Beauchamp Art Galleries, we fell in love with a painting titled Reinventing my Life (pictured above […]
A Starry Night…in NASA Images
What does an astrophysicist do on a cloudy day? Create art. Alex Parker, who is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was bored when a cloudy day meant he couldn’t do work at the observatory. So he got the idea to make a mosaic-style version of the famous Van Gogh, “Starry Night”, […]
Hungry In Echo Park
Another of our favorite Food-nerds, Adrianna Adarme, who has a fun blog called A Cozy Kitchen, eats her way through LA’s Echo Park – visiting her favorite cheap, and not-so-cheap eats along the way. And if you missed Josh Ozersky talking about NYC’s Hamburger Alley, well, that’s right down this way. [The Hungry Channel]
Beat Down Boogie’s EPIC Dragon*Con Cosplay Video
Beat Down Boogie does it again; a great look at some of the amazing and fun costumers throughout Dragon*Con weekend. It always reminds me just how much I miss at DragonCon, I didn’t see half these costumes!
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty [Vid]
Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world’s leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment. [Via IHC]
Facebook Asks Users to Report Fake Accounts
In my opinion, Facebook is focusing on the wrong problem here – they’ve got plenty of other things they need to research and fix! With roughly 955 million users, Facebook is concerned that not all their users are real people. And now they’re asking you to nark on your friends who aren’t using their real […]
11 Year Old Wins $20,000 in App Contest
An 11 year old has won $20,000 from AT&T in an app competition to try and discourage texting while driving. In collaboration with the designer David Grau, Victoria Walker created an app called Rode Dog for the “It Can Wait” campaign. How the app works is that you join a “pack” with your friends (you all have […]
Lessons to Not Teach Your Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ctwl63XCg My friends and I have been laughing at this for weeks. If this were an actual children’s game, I’d fear for the world and restaurant owners across the country.