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Makes you wonder if the townsfolk from any of the incarnations of Animal Crossing actually like you or merely tolerate your presence.



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Today I made miniature roast dinner pendents with lovely filigree frames x

You should all be following Tuck Shop Jewellery for amazing, tiny surprises 

“I want the design to be purely typographic, but not only with letters in it”

Even with so much attention being given to the various movies starring Marvel heroes, from various film studios, it can still be a little confusing to try to figure out which studio owns film rights to which characters. But you know what helps clear everything up, always? Venn Diagrams. With that in mind The Geek Twins have created a helpful infographic explaining where the film rights for many popular Marvel characters are, including which ones overlap.

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New research coming out of the University of Massachusetts’ psychology department reveals that casual game players get some cognitive benefits from playing games on a regular basis.

"Most of what we hear about video games concerns their detrimental effects on players. This study shows that people perceive many positive effects, even though the games can be addictive," said UMass professor Susan Whitbourne, who conducted the study along with undergraduates Stacy Ellenberg and Kyoko Akimoto.

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Violin Heels by Kobi Levi 

It’s Dangerous To Go Alone by girardin27 is available at Redbubble

LEGO CUUSOO has announced the latest round of fan-made sets up for consideration to be made into real products that anyone can buy. Previous winners include the Back to the Future DeLorean time machine with Doc and Marty, Minecraft, and most recently, Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary set. That puts the latest round of sets up for consideration in very good company.

The sets up for the Winter 2014 LEGO Review are:

• Sherlock - "This project has everything you need to act out your favorite scenes from 221B Baker Street, including a consulting criminal and a gaggle of characters for Sherlock to coyly insult."
• Macross VF-1 Valkyrie +Fast pack / Armored parts - "A model of the iconic mecha that you can build and transform."
• Legend of Zelda: Iron Knuckle Encounter - "The third project to reach 10,000 supporters based on the Legend of Zelda; this proposal features the Iron Knuckle in an interactive playset."
• Japanese Old Style Architecture - "A proposal for classic Japanese buildings in LEGO Bricks."
• The Adventure Time Project - "Mathematical! 10,000 Candy People have voted for the Tree Fort from the Land of Ooo to potentially become a LEGO set."
• BTTF – UCS DeLorean Time Machine - "A beautifully detailed large-scale Back to the Future DeLorean, designed for use with Power Functions."

In order to make it into the review stage a proposed project must receive backing from at least 10,000 supporters. Reviews are held three times a year (previously four) and so far seven projects have been approved. 

My thoughts on the new round of finalists: Sherlock doesn't seem to have the world-wide appeal that most LEGO sets have. Harmony Gold is notoriously difficult to work with and could prevent the Macross set from winning. This is the third time Zelda has had a set in the finals, this set may not fair any better, especially if K'nex has the Nintendo license. The Japanese architecture stands a strong chance as LEGO has done similar sets like this before, plus the first two finalists were the Shinkai research sub and the Hayabusa asteroid research spacecraft. Adventure Time seems like a strong possibility as well since the series lends itself well to blocks figures. The UCS DeLorean is different enough from the previous winner that it could stand to win a second time. 

So what do you think, any of these sets look like something you'd buy. I don't normally buy LEGO's, but even I might shell out the money for that Valkyrie.

[via Anime News Network]

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Onett Little League by TeeKetch is available at TeePublic

Attack on Freeze by David Bear is available at Redbubble

Rounding out the last of our industry booth posts are AZONE, ARCADIA, Medicos Entertainment, MEDICOM TOY and a lot more! We hope you enjoyed our coverage of this year's winter WonFes. See you again this summer!

Distributor GKIDS announced this morning that they have acquired North American distribution rights to Cartoon Saloon's highly anticipated hand-drawn pic "Song of the Sea."

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So by my house is an ice cream place called ChillN. It makes ice cream that’s frozen using LIQUID NITROGEN! So they get the base - ice cream or frozen yogurt - and then they add the flavor (say you order Nutella ice cream, they add actual Nutella to the base. Same for the other favors). Then, they put it into these mixing bowls and start mixing, and then in the middle of mixing they just shoot out a bunch of Nitrogen and I swear to God that shit looks like a fucking witch’s cauldron. After that, they add the “Mix-N’s,” and there you go. Fucking Nitrogen ice cream. The reason is that since it cools it super fast, the ice crystals don’t grow as big so that you get INCREDIBLY smooth ice cream. It’s literally the coolest shit ever.

(Ice cream pictured above: Nutella with marshmallows and caramel)

“Right, so how do I email the internet to the printer?”

The event: The UK Game of Thrones season three DVD/Blu-ray release party. The cake: By Choccywoccydoodah. The emotion: Courtesy of Maisie Williams showing what she thinks of the Red Wedding by stabbing the cake with a sword.  It’s so funny, why am I crying?

Hit the jump for a few more shots of this confectionary embodiment of pain and misery (but it sure looks tasty!).

“The daggers, swords and arrows were all created from chocolate, plunged into the cake and chocolate, revealing weeping bloody wounds,” said Choccywoccydoodah founder Christine Taylor. Stahp.

(via Digital Spy, photos by REX: Jonathan Hordle)

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I was designing a female mascot.

Client: I want a mascot that appeals to both male AND female viewers!

I make a motherly figure.

Client: …. Obviously, she’s too fat. Can you make her look like a blonde Wonder Woman?

Against my better judgement, I do.

Client: Make her breasts bigger too! And let’s make those daisy dukes, and we’ll have her holding a shotgun!

How many of those marshmallows do we think Kristen Bell and Jason Dohring ate during he photoshoot? Because I would have eaten all of them.

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In addition to these punderful Pacific Rim Valentines by Benjamin Dewey, we’ve slapped a few miscellaneous geeky Valentines into the gallery as well. Speaking as someone who doesn’t do the whole V-day thing, looking at other people’s jokey cards is the best part of the whole day, and we’d hate to shortchange you. The candy doesn’t go on sale until tomorrow, after all.

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In anticipation of The LEGO Movie premiere, British bookstore Waterstones is holding a fantastic Lego contest. Basically, recreate your favorite literary moment "in brick form" and tweet a picture of it to @Waterstones with the hashtag #LEGOLit (you can only enter once, so make it count). Here's some inspiration:

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Final Fantasy Tactics' Matsuno involved in RPG for PC, Mac, Windows Tablets, Linux, iOS, Android

Yōzaburō Kanari & Fumiya Sato's work inspired earlier TV anime, live-action projects

Nightwing #28, my first comic at DC, is out TODAY!!  Hope you like it!

These pages are some of my faves.  Full preview with words by Kyle Higgins and colors by Pete Pantazis is over here.

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comic from Asaekkiga by Yang Young-Soon. I’ve been trying to find this guy’s actual website/ blog without much success >.

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This is the best idea for a restaurant. - Imgur

I DON’T THINK IT’S LITERALLY POSSIBLE FOR ME TO LIKE OR FAV OR UPVOTE THIS ENOUGH

I would like to see more of these.

Is this not a thing in America?

It’s a thing all over here in Australia. You get a wrist band. Means you can buy no booze, but you get free soft drink.

Give me all the free coffee!

Melting Mystery by CrumblinCookie is available at TeePublic

The Soldier and the Stone by ramyb is $15 for a limited time at TeeTurtle

A new documentary recounts the amazing sequence of events that occurred last spring when visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues declared banruptcy just before winning the Oscar for its work on Ang Lee's "The Life of Pi."

On Friday, George Clooney's new film, The Monuments Men, hits theaters. It's based on the true story of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) program (whose men and women were known as "Monuments Men") established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943 to help rescue art and cultural property from obliteration during World War II. The Monuments Men included servicemembers and art historians who aided in tracking down, identifying, and returning priceless works of art stolen by Hitler's forces.

Here's an example of their heroic efforts being used during the Nuremberg Trials as evidence of the Nazi's large-scale looting of cultural treasures:

Before you decide whether or not to see Clooney's film (which also stars Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, and Jean Dujardin), here are some badass photos of the real-life Monuments Men and other members of the US armed forces as they uncovered hidden and stolen art and treasure:

 

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UPDATE, February 11, 2014, 1:53 p.m. EST: Bob Clark, the supervisory archivist at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, emailed me a PDF of the following approval document initialed by President Roosevelt. This initialed memorandum essentially created the Monuments Men. "In customary fashion, President Roosevelt initialed and 'OK'd' the memorandum proposing the creation of the commission that had been prepared by Secretary of State Cordell Hull," Clark writes. "In the Roosevelt administration, FDR's 'OK' on a document was considered presidential consent for the action proposed in the document. Subsequent to the President's approval, membership on the commission was finalized and on August 20, 1943, a press release was issued by the Department of State announcing the creation of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in Europe."

The approved memorandum is four pages. Here's the initialed first page:

 

Now, here's a trailer for Clooney's The Monuments Men: