Way back in 2005, Saturday Night Live had a parody sketch with a huge ‘Taco Town’ made with fifteen flavors. To celebrate hitting one million subscribers, YouTuber Binging with Babish decided to turn parody into reality.
Ron Howard, director of the Han Solo spin-off movie, has shared several images of shooting. Above is a wardrobe shot which he titled “Care to guess whose closet this is?” The consensus is that there’s little mystery and it’s Lando Calrissian’s. The shot below is of Chewbacca actor Joonas Suotamo reviewing a shot. Look very carefully […]
Only last Friday, staff at an Washington DC were saying hello to their new security robot. It… didn’t work out quite as planned. Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself. We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. pic.twitter.com/rGLTAWZMjn — Bilal (@bilalfarooqui) July 17, 2017
If you need a storage container and you’re an Alien fan with cash to splash, this is the answer. It’s a motion-controlled replica of a Xenomorph egg that opens up to emit a green glow as you stash or retrieve your items. Unfortunately that probably won’t include spare change given it costs $250. [Spotted by: Laughing […]
Volvo has confirmed its self-driving car is baffled by kangaroos because they bounce. The company is working on autonomous vehicles with a planned 2020 release. Because of the markets it plans to target, it’s including a system to detect large animals such as deer and elk, which can be calamitous for animal and driver alike […]
These days you can’t move for videos attempting to blend unconventional objects or pit them against red hot lava balls. But way back in 2009, Youtuber Jogwheel was microwaving inappropriate objects for (potentially perilous) research. Now the people behind a slow motion video channel have decided to replicate one of his more spectacular experiments…
Many Game Of Thrones viewers have commented on the obvious adoration (or lust) that Tormund has for Brienne, with all manner of screencaps, GIFs and musical tributes. Now actor Kristofer Hivju has created a video giving his take on the whole affair… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfGioJvPvM0
To mark the opening of a British Library exhibition on magic and Harry Potter, Bloombsbury is publishing two related books. One is titled Harry Potter: A History Of Magic – The Book Of The Exhibition and is themed on the magic-related subjects taught at Hogwarts: Each chapter showcases a treasure trove of artefacts from the […]
This great video covers how the technologies used to simulate or enhance color in movies has changed over the past 116 years. [Warning: May spoil the magic of The Wizard Of Oz.] [Via: I Heart Chaos]
Childrens author Dick King-Smith shared this example of how the right frame rate can mess with our visual perception. When the GIF frames per second match your leg speed. pic.twitter.com/dB6IVnU8mp — Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) July 18, 2017