Christopher Lantz

It's not just kittehs that love captions! ALL THE ANIMALS DO! Check out Animal Capshunz for MOAR!

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New Jersey teen McKenna Pope shot a video of her little brother Gavyn “cooking cookies” as a way to petition Hasbro to make an Easy-Bake Oven that is advertised to both girls and boys. The campaign worked: Hasbro met with Pope recently and will soon sell a gender-neutral silver and black Easy-Bake Oven and will market it to both boys and girls.

“I am thrilled that Hasbro has agreed to make a gender neutral Easy-Bake Oven after my campaign on Change.org. I am so thankful to everyone who supported this campaign. With their new product Hasbro is affirming that everyone can cook and I cant wait to share this gift with my little brother Gavyn”.

via Huffington Post

Photo by Mike Vickers

Costume is an original design inspired by the 'cyberpunk'/fantasy genre work of artists including Masumune Shirow, Eric Canete, Joe Benitez, and various modern gaming concept art. The process was a lot of fun and took approximately 3 months of on-and-off planning and building. The assembly is made from over 60 parts designed in Solidworks and sewn/cut/glued/laser-cut/heat-formed using various techniques.

The costume includes color changing LEDs on the spine and front that are controlled by an Arduino microcontroller and onboard RGB controllers (respectively), and is powered by 16 AA batteries, 1 LiPo rechargeable battery, two 2032 coin cells, and one 9-volt battery. In total there's more than 70 LED's on the entire costume and over 60 parts.

And below, the 1.0 version she created for DragonCon 2011:

Design was based on actual spinal transverse sections and lit with ~40 LED's. Design and assembly of smaller accessory pieces for shoulders, chest, and arm were found pieces or designed in Solidworks. In total, ~46 pieces put together over a period of ~2 months.

Photo by Anna Fisher

This television report from 1982 gives a sneak preview of the upcoming (and quite impressive) summer sci-fi movie lineup. Movies from that year include Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Thing, Tron, and more.

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This holiday season, let Andy Richter and George Takei help you ease your parents into the idea of you being gay!

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All of Time and Space, a beautiful Doctor Who themed illustration by New York artist and designer Alice X. Zhang, shows a “cluster of stars in the sky” to represent the TARDIS spacecraft and time machine. Prints, apparel, iPhone cases and more are available to purchase on Threadless, Society6 and deviantART.

I designed this a few weeks ago, trying to capture the essence of travelling with the Doctor… it’s a Tardis but not a Tardis. Just a cluster of stars in the sky in the end…

image via Alice X. Zhang

JibJab Year in Review 2012: The End is Here! is a Mayan-themed animated musical year in review by JibJab. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made.

Hurricanes! The fiscal cliff! Honey Boo Boo Child! The bizarre events of 2012 look a lot like omens of the apocalypse! JibJab takes inspiration from the Mayan calendar in an animated musical extravaganza looking back at possibly the last year we’ll ever have to review. It’s 2012, the end is here!

“1991. Nirvana releases Nevermind…”

Music history in gifs is a Tumblr blog of animated GIFs with musical interest by Joshua Carrafa of the band Old Monk.

8-bit love.
music love.

via Yewknee, Waxy

“Cape penguins and an aquarium keeper…at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama…”
photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images

In Focus on The Atlantic recently ran a photo essay titled “Christmas Time Around The World” which features first-rate images of “many different Christmas celebrations” around the globe.

“Adriana Leiss and her daughters Gabriella and Amelia replace burned out light bulbs on their 1965 Chevy pick-up truck…” photo by Richard Vogel/AP Photo

Credited to Lisa Rogers on Facebook.

Eclectic Method's awesome montage of the future as seen in film. (Thanks, Jason Tester!)

Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog and Mario of Glove and Boots both question and sing about the upcoming end of the world in their latest episode titled “It’s Okay! It’s Just Doomsday!”.

Hang in there! Only two more days ’til doomsday!

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In October 2012, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was perfectly placed in Saturn’s shadow and was able to capture this fantastic image, which has been titled “In Saturn’s Shadow.”

The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings are backlit. (The sun is behind the planet, which is shielding the cameras from direct sunlight.) In addition to the visual splendor, this special, very-high-phase viewing geometry lets scientists study ring and atmosphere phenomena not easily seen at a lower phase.

Since images like this can only be taken while the sun is behind the planet, this beautiful view is all the more precious for its rarity. The last time Cassini captured a view like this was in Sept. 2006, when it captured a mosaic processed to look like natural color, entitled “In Saturn’s Shadow.” In that mosaic, planet Earth put in a special appearance, making “In Saturn’s Shadow” one of the most popular Cassini images to date. Earth does not appear in this mosaic as it is hidden behind the planet.

image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Check out the results from our “Best Meme of 2012” community poll!

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“24×360″ is an incredible 360 degree light painting video that was created with a 24 camera “bullet time” rig. The video is a collaboration by Patrick Rochon, Timecode Lab, and Eric Paré.

via SLR Lounge & PetaPixel

The End by Sluggomatic, from a “Breaking News 5″ photo effects contest on Worth 1000 in 2005.

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This French weather report has predicted that Friday’s gonna be a hot one.

Presenting the Know Your Meme mods’ favorite memes!

Entry moderator Triple Z says: “This song reached number one in 13 countries, appeared in a sketch on Saturday Night Live and inspired the creation of a fad on YTMND.”

Frustrating for gamers, traumatizing for the characters.

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At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, David Macdonald (aka “aSongScout”) shot footage of a pianist playing viral internet songs like “Never Gonna Give You Up,” the Nyan Cat theme (slow version), and more.

via Viral Viral Videos

Nintendo Sixty-Four is a great animated clip by Florida animator Jeremey Chinshue (aka “TerminalMontage“) that reimagines and uses audio from the 2006 “Nintendo 64 Kids” home video meme. That video shows two children losing their minds on Christmas morning when they are gifted a Nintendo 64 console.

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YouTube takes a look back at 2012 with Rewind YouTube Style 2012, featuring many of YouTube’s biggest stars.

We invited some YouTubers to star in a mash-up of culturally defining moments of 2012. Can you spot all the references?

directed by Peter Furia

“And a cat in a Christmas tree…”

The folks at Mashable have created “The 12 Memes of Christmas,” a cute holiday music video that celebrates internet memes like Tard the Grumpy Cat, Chuck Testa, Nyan Cat, Scumbag Steve, and more. Watch out for the rick-roll!

Christmas is that special time of year when we gather ’round the fire with loved ones to demonstrate our shared affections with gifts. As for the other 364 days of the year, we normally show our fondness through the web with GIFs and memes.

Consider this music video our gift to you. “The 12 Memes of Christmas” combines all of our favorite things about the Internet, jam-packed with holiday cheer. (Seriously, there’s more Christmas spirit crammed into this video than chopped nuts in a fruit cake.)

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