Christopher Lantz

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The Dutch team captain Robin van Persie’s early contender for the best goal of this year’s World Cup tournament has sparked a photoshop meme and a planking-esque photo trend on Twitter.

In protest against the Brazilian government’s lavish spending on this year’s World Cup games, members of the hacktivist group Anonymous have launched DDoS attacks against dozens of e-government sites and sponsors of the event.

Allen Park, Michigan-based professional sculptor Bobby Causey has created a beautiful collection of hyperrealistic latex sculptures based on famous Hollywood actors and movie characters. You can view more from Bobby’s series on his website and deviantART gallery.

photos via BobbyC1225

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Wookie and Chew by James Hance

Siobhan Thompson of Anglophenia gives a wonderful verbal tour of the British Isles, performing 17 of the regional accents found in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Yesterday President Barack Obama hosted the first ever Maker Faire at the White House (see previous post). The event featured more than 30 DIY inventions, including a robotic giraffe and a low-cost newborn incubator. The President announced several initiatives during the event intended to help support and educate American makers. He also named July 18th a National Day of Making.

“Our parents and our grandparents created the world’s largest economy and strongest middle class not by buying stuff, but by building stuff — by making stuff, by tinkering and inventing and building; by making and selling things first in a growing national market and then in an international market — stuff “Made in America.” — President Barack Obama

"Our manufacturing sector's been adding jobs for the 1st time since the 1990s." —Obama #NationOfMakers #MadeInAmerica pic.twitter.com/MXuYkvYABP

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 18, 2014

photos by Pete Souza

Don’t Tread On My Internet is an amusing Teespring T-shirt featuring an Ethernet cable coiled up in an homage to the Gadsden flag. Full proceeds for the sale of the T-shirt are being donated to the Internet advocacy nonprofit Fight for the Future.

via Alexis Ohanian

House of Halo has stripped the music out of the music video for the 2013 song “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry. They left in some of Katy’s actual vocals and then added in silly noises, voices, farts, and burps. We previously wrote about their musicless version of the song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.

Here is the original music video:

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MOUNTAIN is a mountain simulator video game by artist David OReilly. The exact gameplay mechanics are still a mystery, but the game asks a series of existential questions when booted up and uses the answers to procedurally generate a mountain with dynamic weather. MOUNTAIN was first previewed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on June 12th at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles as part of Venus Patrol’s HORIZON event.

MOUNTAIN is scheduled to release late June, early July on PC, Mac, and iOS.

MOUNTAIN previewed around 1:15:00

images via David OReilly

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In this new animated episode of Realistic Garfield by The Pete Holmes Show, a veterinarian finds the famous comic strip cat Garfield to be morbidly obese and his owner Jon Arbuckle turns out to be a flat-out psychopath.

Garfield’s diet may actually be the least of Jon’s problems.

The Robot Restaurant is a Tokyo club that has gained notoriety for its mind-boggling sci-fi cabaret show and its garishly illuminated interior. Completed in 2012 at a cost of $10 million, nearly every surface of the club is decorated in lights, mirrors, or flat panel monitors. The robot cabaret show, however, is the main event. The spectacle encompasses seven or so acts including robot boxing, dancers riding a robot tank, and other sci-fi madness. For more on the Robot Restaurant, see this For 91 Days in Tokyo post (featuring a couple videos) and this Tokyo Weekender article.

photos via For 91 Days in Tokyo

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Rat Queens is a sass and sorcery comic published by Image Comics featuring four women kicking butt during fantasy adventures written by Kurtis J. Wiebe with art by Roc Upchurch. The comic follows the trials and tribulations of Hannah, Dee, Violet, and Betty as they deal with sex, drugs, and very angry monsters. The full run of the comic as it currently exists is available digitally via Image Comics’ website.

Variety recently reported that Weta Workshop‘s Pukeko Pictures and Heavy Metal have teamed up to adapt Rat Queens into an animated television series.

images via Rat Queens

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The arid deserts of the Colorado Plateau in the American West are usually barren, but on rare occasions of rainfall, the landscape can bloom with wildflowers. Photographer Guy Tal, who specializes in the landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, documents the rare desert blooms in stunning photographs. According to Tal, the scorpionweed and bee plant flowers shown in the images bloom for just a few days before disappearing for periods lasting several years. There is more landscape photography on Tal’s website.

photos by Guy Tal

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“We got a badass over here.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, played by “Weird Al” Yankovic, and science educator Bill Nye face off in a new episode of Epic Rap Battles of History. Bill receives a little extra help during his battle against Isaac from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The song is available to purchase online from iTunes. We’ve previously written about the epic rap battles created by Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD.

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