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Science student Hugo Germain (aka. Graphonaute) is just 18 years old, but crates animations and visual effects that seem well beyond his years. Though animation is not his primary focus, Germain spends his spare time mixing live action footage with various 3D tools to create quirky visual effects and experiments. You can see more over on Graphonaute. (via This Isn’t Happiness)

did you know there’s lots of ways to zone people? zones aren’t just for friends anymore.

according to behavioral research doctors, the human mind is “lousy with zones”

the phrase was in my ideas notebook. this is what i did with it. i’m sorry, past kris

Kerpow!

#pizzainthewild regram via @jermzlee.

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Pensive Poppy. Miniature schnauzer with @UsAndTheDog on the Transpennine Express to Cleethorpes.

The release of tens of thousands of pages of official documents from the Clinton era means that political journalists looking for gossip (or perhaps crumbs of information on how Bill Clinton personally defeated the alien uprising, but you didn’t hear about it in the papers) have been combing through said documents for scoop. On Friday, Politico uncovered the most important and exciting nugget of them all: Hillary Clinton was approached about appearing on Home Improvement. And from the looks of it, she (or someone on her staff) seriously considered an appearance on the Tim Allen sitcom. “Home Improvement is the most popular television show on the air,” reads the document. “They are willing to do a show on women, children, and family issues or a show on whatever issues Hillary would like.” The document does not reveal if Clinton, like so many women in the ‘90s, thought Jonathan Taylor ...

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Face swap!

Montesquiou’s homosexual tendencies were patently obvious, but he may in fact have lived a chaste life. He had no affairs with women, although in 1876 he reportedly once slept with the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, after which he vomited for twenty-four hours. (She remained a great friend.)

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The correct order to refer to the two is Rocksteady and Bebop, not Bebop and Rocksteady.^{[citation needed]}

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Always carry your dog on the escalator! English Bull Terrier Ruby with owner Matt, sent in by @ArthurBakerDog

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never knew how much I needed this

two unstoppable things, together.

Godzilla (2014)

Synopsis. Nuclear testing awakens an undersea beast that threatens the city of Tokyo, California. The creature is dubbed “Godzilla’s Monster” for its discoverer Dr. Lloyd Godzilla (Bryan Cranston).

Trivia

• Director Gareth Edwards expressed a lot of enthusiasm in remaking Godzilla, saying “I could make a way better Godzilla movie than those stupid old ones. I mean, the first one wasn’t even in color. I turned it off.”
• The original screenplay included the twist ending that the monster intended no harm, and just happened to be walking near buildings being demolished for safety reasons.
• The motion capture for the monster was provided by Greg Waterford, a 500-foot-tall actor.
• Director trademark. Character looking up and accidentally swallowing their cigarette to indicate awe.
• To cut costs, many of the destruction shots were recycled from 2013′s Pacific Rim. This is why the university research facility looks exactly like Gipsy Danger.
• Slide whistle sound effects and comical horn honks were added to each on-screen death to help avoid an R rating.
• Director trademark. Character quipping “That’s gonna leave a mark” after witnessing the trampling death of 80,000 civilians.
• The monster’s only spoken line, “What hath God wrought,” was voiced by Anthony Hopkins in an uncredited role.
• Director trademark. Protagonist’s ability to draw a 140-meter-tall monster’s attention by shouting “Hey, down here!”

Mistakes

• The University of Phoenix does not offer a Leviathanic Sciences doctorate program.
• Plot hole. The attempt to explain how a creature of this size could move when out of the ocean is nonsensical: air is not ”another kind of water.”
• Having been in hibernation for “millions of years” and never having encountered homo sapiens before, it seems unlikely that the creature would come to a populated area specifically to eat children’s brains.
• Remiss ratio. Even with its size, the creature does not possess the arm span necessary to punch the moon from the sky.
• It would take more flour than currently exists on Earth to bake the giant croissant scientists use to lure the creature onto the booby-trapped ferris wheel.
• Motivation mistake. In the attack helicopter, Sgt. Griff Maximum (Hugh Jackman) shouts “Looking for me, ugly?” The monster was not looking for him.
• A 30,000-square-foot rope net would be much too large and heavy to fire from the barrel of an L96A1 sniper rifle.
• The monster has an impossibly huge stride, as indicated by it standing in London, then taking one step to reach New York. Yet somehow Elle Brody (Elizabeth Olsen) is able to outrun the monster, saying “It’ll never catch up to us, thanks to the 2014 Honda CR-V’s superior traction control.”
• To ensure racer safety, ESPN would have likely cancelled the motocross event rather than continue the race on the monster’s back after it walked through the X-Games.
• An animal would have no reason to evolve hit points.
• Crossover confusion. Dr. Lloyd Godzilla uses an Aperture Science portal gun to safely escape debris from the collapsing hospital. The portal gun is never mentioned again.
• The scientists never settle on a classification for the creature, based on dialogue like “it’s like a gecko, it’ll just regenerate forever” and “time to show that giant fucking bird who’s boss.”
• It is never explained how it was possible to stop Godzilla by uploading a computer virus.
• After-credits scene. It would be physically impossible for Godzilla to mate with a household iguana.

Memorable Quotes

Dr. Lloyd Godzilla. This is like the line from the Bhagavad-Gita, times ten billion. “I am become Ultra-Vishnu, destroyer of giga-worlds.”

Sgt. Griff Maximum. Maybe we can kill that thing from the inside.
Elle Brody. You’re insane. We have no idea of that thing’s internal structure –
Sgt. Griff Maximum. I saw that thing gobble my hometown and fart out my high school. If it can fart… that means it has a butthole. If it has a butthole, then it has a tummy. And if it has a tummy… we can give it a tummyache.
Dr. Lloyd Godzilla. He’s right. By God, he’s right.

Otherling Elder. We call ourselves the Otherlings. We are the Men who came Before. Thousands of years ago, this beast laid waste to our civilization. But our surviving ancestors hid on its back, and built new cities. There, we were able to thrive.
Dr. Lloyd Godzilla. So that’s what happened to the neanderthals.

Elle Brody. There’s enough meat here to feed the world’s population ten times over. And its corpse is full of enough healing compounds to usher in a new age of medicine.
Dr. Lloyd Godzilla. Sounds like it was worth it losing the moon.

According to Mark Hamill, studio executives were unhappy that Chewbacca has no clothes and attempted to have the costume redesigned with shorts.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

One man and his dog. Porthos the Weimaraner, sent by @cruellamcg.

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The only recurring character in the original adventures, other than George himself, is the Man with the Yellow Hat, modelled after Adlai Stevenson.^{[citation needed]}

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This delightful little scamp was submitted by A. Sterken who had this said to him while discussing zombies with a young customer. Be sure to check back all week to see the rest of the winners of the 2013 OVC submission contest!