This is a recent favorite of mine by Christoph Niemann, part of a series of six animations done for MoMA.
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11 Feb 02:54
Newswire: “Let’s rebuild the Titanic,” says guy who’s apparently never seen the movie
by William Hughes
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has announced that he intends to build a replica of the Titanic and sail it on the ocean, as history’s proven that that’s the least safe place for a Titanic to be. A representative for Palmer’s company, Blue Star Line, says that the new ship—which is modeled as closely as possible on the famous accidental bathtub—will be updated with all the latest safety features, an assertion which comforted nobody because that’s what they said last time, and then it sank.
People are, of course, already lining up to take the 2018 maiden voyage on the Titanic II, because apparently James Cameron drowned all those poor extras for nothing in the making of his box office-smashing educational film. We can only hope that Palmer and his associates are smart enough to reinforce the ship’s bow—or put up some extra ...
10 Feb 20:05
NASA Releases Series of Beautiful Space Travel Posters to Show a...
Patrick KennedyClick-thru for space futurism goodness in poster form: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
10 Feb 11:51
Newswire: Red Lobster sales surge after securing coveted Beyoncé sex endorsement
by Katie Rife
Patrick KennedyThe power of Bey
Far from the New England-themed Olive Garden equivalent implied by its suspiciously inexpensive shrimp, Red Lobster is actually a very classy establishment perfect for celebrating special occasions like birthdays, engagements, and a vigorous pounding. Don’t take our word for it, though: This comes straight from the internet’s lord and savior, Beyoncé, who sings on her new track, “Formation:”
“When he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster, ‘cause I slay.”
She probably even springs for the Seaside Sampler platter and the Top-Shelf Margarita, because one good d(eed) deserves another. Anyway, creating an association between having sex with Beyoncé and Red Lobster in the public consciousness is the best marketing the seafood chain is likely ever going to get. And the results are already showing: CNBC reports that sales at Red Lobster were up 33 percent this past Sunday compared to last year. And with ...
04 Feb 01:30
Report: Hulu may be getting rid of next-day streaming
by Julia Alexander
Patrick KennedyNooooo...
"Time Warner is reportedly looking to buy 25 percent of Hulu's stock in an attempt to prevent the service from being able to stream current seasons of network and premium television. The company is concerned that having access to next-day streaming will only accelerate cord-cutting across the country."
[...]
"The other potential avenue Time Warner could go down would be including Hulu subscriptions in a bundle package for cable subscribers. This would allow the company to monetize both its traditional television packages and the new wave of online streaming without having to set up more independent streaming services for individual channels (Time Warner owns HBO and therefore owns HBO Go). As of right now, the potential sale is still in its preliminary discussion stage, and no official offer has been made."
02 Feb 22:04
Oh Crap, It's Time To Draft Your Fantasy Puppy Bowl Team
by Barry Petchesky
Patrick KennedyPublic service announcement...
What a time to be alive. You can now draft your three-dog side for this Sunday’s Puppy Bowl. Choose from all the competitors listed here, and I’m going to kick your ass because my team is the best.
27 Jan 03:41
Of Oz the Wizard, an alphabetized version of The Wizard of Oz
by Jason Kottke
Patrick KennedyThis is a completely insane undertaking, though I respect it immensely/irrationally.
Of Oz the Wizard is the entire Wizard of Oz movie presented in alphabetical order by dialogue. So it starts with all the scenes where Dorothy and the gang say "a", "aaiee", "along", and proceeds through "you're" and "zipper". Even the words on each of the title cards are sorted alphabetically.
(I feel like I've posted this before -- or something like it -- but I can't find it in the archives. Anyone?)
Update: Ah yes, I was thinking of this alphabetized version of Star Wars (which I've seen before but somehow never posted):
Another example is Thomson & Craighead's The Time Machine. Matt Bucy, the creator of Of Oz the Wizard, seems to have pioneered this technique (the Vimeo page indicates it was completed in April 2004) but didn't post the video online until a few days ago. (via @Mister_Milligan, @sannahahn)
Tags: Matt Bucy movies remix Star Wars The Wizard of Oz video
26 Jan 20:14
Migration map of American birds
by Jason Kottke
Patrick KennedyFun with animated maps
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, an animated map of the yearly migratory patterns of 118 bird species in the Western Hemisphere.
La Sorte says a key finding of the study is that bird species that head out over the Atlantic Ocean during fall migration to spend winter in the Caribbean and South America follow a clockwise loop and take a path farther inland on their return journey in the spring. Species that follow this broad pattern include Bobolinks, Yellow and Black-billed cuckoos, Connecticut and Cape May warblers, Bicknell's Thrush, and shorebirds, such as the American Golden Plover.
"These looped pathways help the birds take advantage of conditions in the atmosphere," explains La Sorte. "Weaker headwinds and a push from the northeast trade winds as they move farther south make the fall journey a bit easier. The birds take this shorter, more direct route despite the dangers of flying over open-ocean."
The map was created with data from eBird, a database of crowdsourced bird sightings. They also created a follow-up map which labels each of the species. Look at how far Baird's Sandpiper (#5) flies...all the way from central Argentina to Northern Canada and back. (thx, kevin)
Tags: birds maps mesmerizing science
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22 Jan 18:34
Cop Responds To Noise Complaint Of Kids Playing Basketball By Lowering Rim And Dunking On Them
by Patrick Redford
Patrick KennedyAwesome
Some no-fun-haver called in a noise complaint against these kids in Gainesville, Fl. for having the audacity—the nerve—to play basketball loudly in what appears to be the damn woods, or somewhere close to the woods anyway.
21 Jan 11:58
Lurker Doxxed
by Alex Balk
Patrick KennedyPLANET X, Y'ALL
“The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system’s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today.”
—Also, astronomers at the California Institute of Technology “are calling it Planet Nine (and, for the past year, informally, Planet Phattie—1990s slang for ‘cool’).” WE DON’T DESERVE ANY NEW PLANETS.
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18 Jan 14:19
CNN previews The State of the Union address in the style of Wes Anderson
by Jason Kottke
Patrick KennedyCute
They should have roped Mothersbaugh in on the music, but this was actually really informative! And the Bobby Jindal slow-mo was [kiss-fingers emoji].
Tags: politics video Wes Anderson
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15 Jan 13:28
Wolf Parade are back
by brooklynvegan
Patrick KennedyNice
We were just wondering aloud if 2016 might be the year for Wolf Parade's return...and signs are pointing to Yes. As Stereogum notes, the Montreal band just relaunched their website, which right now is just the above graphic of the band's name which changes to "2016" when you cursor over it. They also started a Twitter account (only tweet so far: "Hi, we are Wolf Parade") and an Instagram. It's about time. Stay tuned, but nice to have some good news.
13 Jan 19:53
Lawrence Phillips Dead In Suspected Suicide [Update]
by Samer Kalaf
Patrick KennedyHoly shit.
To summarize - one of the best pure RB talents in football, National Champion winner at Nebraska ('94) while shattering school records that year, legal issues come right after and follow him throughout his short NFL (and eventual CFL) career. In 2015, while serving time for his previous felony assault and domestic abuse charges, he killed his cellmate.
And now this sad story of wasted talent has its sad ending.
Lawrence Phillips, a former running back who played at Nebraska and in the NFL, was found unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison in California today, according to a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Phillips was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. He was 40.
13 Jan 18:23
First-Graders Write Letters To Console Vikings Kicker Blair Walsh: "You Are Handsome"
by Samer Kalaf
Patrick KennedyAdorable
This week, Minnesota elementary school teacher Judie Offerdahl took the opportunity to turn Blair Walsh’s shank into a lesson about empathy for her kids. The first-graders at Northpoint Elementary School in Blaine wrote some pretty adorable letters to the Vikings kicker.
08 Jan 16:00
Great Job, Internet!: Read This: How Starter jackets went from must-haves to becoming passé
by Chris Dart
Patrick KennedyYeah Starter jackets!
TL;DR - the MLB and NHL lockouts of the mid-nineties crippled the finances of Starter (no televised games = reduced visibility = weakened brand) and began their downward spiral. Filed for Chapter 11 in '99, was bought and sold by several companies (including Nike in '04). Now exist under Iconix, who make limted-edition apparel for nostalgic Starter fans (or, most likely, hipster young'uns with a thirst for all things 90s).
If you grew up in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s, you remember the ubiquitous popularity of Starter apparel. The company’s jackets and hats were a must have if you didn’t want to be laughed at in middle school and forced to eat with the janitor. The brand was everywhere, including in TV, music videos and movies. They even helped the Chicago White Sox rebrand to sell more merchandise. By the turn of the millennium, though, the company was all but finished. A new article on Mental Floss explains how the company both invented licensed merchandise for adults, and wound up going bankrupt.
At it’s height, Starter was a major target for acquisition by Nike—they turned down that offer and went public, instead—and so popular that people were literally killing for the company’s wares. As the article notes,
In the early 1990s, Starter’s ...
07 Jan 18:52
Metalcore Vocalist Linzey Rae Sings a Heavy Metal Tutorial on...
Patrick KennedyLovely AND educational
07 Jan 17:44
Watch A Trailer For The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's '70s Bronx Drama :: You will, in fact, get down. (In a good way.) [The Get Down]
by Tara Ariano
Patrick KennedyGood trailer. Kinda excited about this now.
[Internetwork Notes]
Explore the The Get Down forum.
Before watching this trailer, I didn't know much about The Get Down other than that it seemed like kind of a weird fit for a white Australian director in his early fifties to make a drama series about people of colour in the Bronx in the '70s? But after watching the trailer...he seems to have done a lot of things right. In fact, even if the only right thing he did was hire Giancarlo Esposito, I'm still in. You?
Explore the The Get Down forum.
30 Dec 23:55
Knicks Guard Cleanthony Early Shot During Roadside Robbery
by Tom Ley
Patrick KennedyGoddamn
Knicks guard Cleanthony Early was shot in the right leg when a group of at least six men held up the Uber car he and his girlfriend were riding in early Wednesday morning. Early was robbed of jewelry, cash, and his cell phone, and his injuries are not life threatening.
21 Dec 15:15
Sweet Success
by editors
Patrick KennedyLOL
How the Mast Brothers fooled people into paying $10 a bar for mediocre chocolate, and how a food blogger was able to figure it out.
Deena Shanker | Quartz | Dec 2015
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11 Dec 19:40
New York Judge Orders FanDuel and DraftKings To Shut Down Immediately
by The Legal Blitz on Above The Law: Redline, shared by Barry Petchesky to Deadspin
Patrick KennedyThis also gives me an opportunity to link Last Week Tonight's pitch-perfect daily fantasy commercial parody (NSFW language): https://youtu.be/Xh-jygzzmK4
The never-ending circus of America’s inconsistent and incoherent gaming laws added another ring to the act this morning as New York State Supreme Court Judge Manuel J. Mendez ordered FanDuel and DraftKings to cease operations immediately.
10 Dec 12:42
Newswire: Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland are both writing for the new MST3K
by William Hughes
Patrick KennedyThis new MST3K keeps getting better and better...
As the clock ticks down on the Bring Back Mystery Science Theater 3000 Kickstarter—still more than a million dollars short of its ultimate, $5.5 million goal, which would bump the revived series from the current order of nine shows up to a full, 12-episode season—creator and attempted TV resurrectionist Joel Hodgson is pulling out all the stops to push his baby over the finish line. Having already announced a nerd-star-studded telethon to close out the campaign, Hodgson has now revealed a host of guest writers—including Community’s Dan Harmon and his Rick And Morty co-creator, Justin Roiland—who’ll be contributing their snarky acumen to the captives of the Satellite Of Love.
Besides Roiland and Harmon, who are no strangers to pop-culture-laden sci-fi nonsense, Hodgson has revealed that comedy writer and future Lego Movie director Rob Schrab, as well as Planet Of The Apes fanatic and ...
09 Dec 01:22
listen to David Bazan cover The Killers' "Read My Mind"
by brooklynvegan
Patrick KennedyAs a variation of the saying goes, I could listen to David Bazan sing the phone book
by Andrew Sacher
The November installment of Polyvinyl Records' Singles Series had Pedro the Lion frontman David Bazan covering The Killers' "Read My MInd" from their 2006 sophomore album, Sam's Town, and now there's a digital stream of it. David makes it sound like one of his own, which means if you've always liked The Killers' songcraft but could do without their bombast, this cover is for you. Listen below.
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08 Dec 17:44
Newswire: MTV asks the next generation of young whippersnappers to name itself
by Danette Chavez
Patrick Kennedy(1) The Founders is an awful name for any generation. Or anything in general.
(2) You can't have that generation's representatives pick it themselves. It's like trying to force a cool nickname.
The problem with kids these days is that they keep getting older and becoming, well, not kids, which makes it difficult to know just whose poor decisions we should be clutching our pearls over. Most of the tongue clucking over millennials has subsided, as the generation sometimes known as Y now comprises adults who are over 30, jobless, and laden with debt, making them virtually indistinguishable from Generation X-ers. Clearly, it’s time to define another group at which we can direct our ire and disapproval. According to Time, MTV has done just that, with the help of the whippersnappers themselves.
Apparently, there are high school-age people who don’t want to be lumped into the same group as the sad-sack barista who makes their lattes (and advertising executives who are desperate for another demographic to pander to), so a few labels for the aughts kids have been bandied about ...