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An owl is sitting on a branch watching some jerk shoot video footage of him like some sort of wildlife TMZ reporter when BAM! Say hello to my little friend!
And the owl doesn’t seem care about being dive bombed by the little bird, because he’s too busy making sure the paparazzi shoot his good side.
Later, the little bird tried the same thing with a hawk, and the results were dire to say the least. I guess not everyone appreciates physical comedy!
This impressive act of musical nerdery is brought to you in eleven parts by CMustardTheatre, the same fine folks that brought you Jurassic Park: The Musical a few years back.
Watch as Scully and Mulder seek the truth about unexplained phenomenon while trading witty barbs in a way that makes you say “that is soooooo Mulder and Scully!”. Oh yeah, and there’s lots of singing too…
–via Topless Robot
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Sure games like Minecraft and Little Big Planet let you build your own worlds these days, but there’s still something to be said about bringing that video game world into our reality and interacting with it like these guys did.
Via Kotaku
Comments Off This slick looking Megan Man X fan film was brought to life by Olan Rogers, who spent a mere $700 on the entire production. The costumes alone look like they cost more than seven hundred bucks, and yet the average budget of B-movies like Sharktopus is well over a million dollars.
Take note, budding filmmakers-it’s not the size of your budget that counts, it’s how you use it.
–via Obvious Winner
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You know it's coming.
Here's the latest The Hunger Games spoof: The Hipster Games, where five districts - Portland, Brooklyn, Oakland, Austin, and Silverlake - brave the lack of PBR and brunch to fight to the death.
May the trends be ever in your favor!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Adverve
Previously on Neatorama: The Hungry Games | I Blame Hipsters
Comments Off Yesterday, Matthew Inman posted a diatribe at The Oatmeal about people who beg for Facebook likes. At the end of that post, he suggested someone write a sing-along about how to load a dishwasher. The Vlog Brothers thought that was a great idea. -via @Bunnydo2
This is the awesomest thing you will see all day. Okay, it’s a barrel organ that plays Star Wars music, but it’s so much more than that. The surface is made of LEGO pieces, arranged as scenes from Hoth, Endor and Tatooine. The LEGO pieces trip levers that press organ keys, so the scenes play music. The studio Builders of Sound made this marvel, and it deserves a standing ovation right now.
Remember the scammers who reversed their car into another? A similar thief is at work here. He walks into a stopped car, then acts like the car hit him. Watch until the end, when you see him nurse a leg, feigning injury — and it’s the wrong leg!
-via reddit
WARNING: Do not watch this if you are prone to vertigo or have an extreme fear of heights. On top of a skyscraper in Moscow, there’s a spiral staircase rising from the roof. At the top of the staircase, there’s a ladder that goes even higher. A guy with a camera climbs it, even though it’s covered with snow. We do get to see him come down safely after his adventure. -via Everlasting Blort
Update: A commenter has identified the climber as Artem Pirniazov. -Thanks, gorechi!
So many, many webs! This instructional film was shown at the Hubba Hubba Revue Goth Show. Photos of the video shoot are available at Flickr. Link -via Metafilter
This succinct yet informative video reveals how old books get that distinctive smell we bibliophiles know and love, and illustrates the tell tale signs of book deterioration.
Watching it immediately brought the smell to mind, and I had to take one of my oldest editions off the shelf for a quick sniff. Yay for reading stuff!
–via Gizmodo
Aaah the good old days, when a man was free to test his invention of the American football helmet in the manliest manner possible-by letting other men kick him and beat him about the head with a baseball bat.
Take a trip down memory lane and you’ll no longer wonder why brain damage was so prevalent in the early 20th century, but you will wonder how they ever played a game of football without wearing helmets!
–via Stuff I Stole From The Internet
Comments Off Rob and Nick Carter have found a rather interesting way to bring a Bosschaert still life painting from 1618 into the 21st century-by using the 3D software package Maya to make models of everything in the scene, then subtly animating the objects in order to bring them to life.
Here’s more about the scene:
Every aspect of Bosschaert’s painting has been brought to life including each flower stem, insect and background scenery. The film…takes the painted scene from early morning darkness through to noon (where the film exactly resembles the original painting) into dusk and late night.
The idea of recreating a still life scene in 3D seems a bit odd, but I think the idea could be applied to other paintings and artworks with some rather spectacular results. Wouldn’t The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Heironymous Bosch make for an awesome animated scene?
Link –via Cartoon Brew
This video contains twenty little planets modeled after video game worlds. I can name two; how many can you identify? When you give up and want the answers, they are listed at the YouTube page. -via The Daily What Geek
That a dog would tolerate this treatment so readily seems weird until you learn the dog’s name: Corbin Dallas Multipass.
That’s a Fifth Element reference. Two of them, in fact.
Anyone with a name that awesome would have such confidence that nothing could perturb him.
Link -via Super Punch
Ingredients: 2 Krispy Kreme donuts, 1 huge marshmallow, and 1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Nate Smith compared the joyful experience of biting into this wonder with the birth of his own son:
I’m so happy!…This is similar to how it feels when I had my son…This is the greatest thing in the world.
He’s not modest. Nor should he be.
Link -via Geekosystem
American Public Media's "Marketplace" Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz got an inside look at Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures the iPad for Apple. In this exclusive report, Rob takes a look at how the iPad is born:
LinkThe first misconception I had about Foxconn’s Longhua facility in the city of Shenzhen was that I’ve always called it a ‘factory’ -- technically, it is. But after you enter the gates and walk around, you quickly realize that it’s also a city -- 240,000 people work here. Nearly 50,000 of them live on campus in shared dorm rooms.
There’s a main drag lined on both sides with fast-food restaurants, banks, cafes, grocery stores, a wedding photo shop, and an automated library. There are basketball courts, tennis courts, a gym, two enormous swimming pools, and a bright green astroturf soccer stadium smack-dab in the middle of campus. There’s a radio station -- Voice of Foxconn -- and a television news station. Longhua even has its own fire department, located right on main street. This is not what comes to mind when you think “Chinese factory.”
Comments Off Stacked Cakes made a huge custom R2D2 cake by request. It stands on artificial legs, but the rest is cake -and it even makes sounds like the little robot! If you live near Canberra, you can order one, but if not, they have posted the instructions so you can make your own. Link -via Boing Boing
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Did you have an egg with breakfast today? If so, perhaps you shouldn't watch the video clip above. It's truly horrifying.
The Humane Society of the United States went undercover to reveal the problems it found at an egg factory (well, I suppose you could call it a "farm" but it's operates more like an industrial factory, churning out millions of eggs every year) owned by Kreider Farms, a major egg producer in Pennsylvania.
The following problems, among others, were documented by the HSUS investigator.
- Birds were severely overcrowded in cages more cramped than the national average; each hen received only 54–58 square inches of space on which to spend her life.
- Injured and dead hens, including mummified bird carcasses, were found inside cages with living hens laying eggs for human consumption.
- Hens were left without water for days when a water source malfunctioned, causing many to die.
- Hens' legs, wings, and heads were found trapped in cage wires and automated feeding machinery.
- A thick layer of dead flies on the barn floors caused a crunching sound when walking on it.
The welfare of egg-laying chicken has been a battleground between the industry trade group United Egg Producers and The Humane Society for years, and recently, the two sides actually came together to support new rules [PDF] for egg farmers (A few months ago, NPR's Morning Edition ran an interesting story of how the two bitter adversaries actually came to work together - it all started with breakfast, of course).
The Kreider Farms opposed the proposed legislation. That got The Humane Society to start investigation as to why. Before you condemn the entire industry, you should know that it already has voluntary standards on how to raise chicken, but as you can see in the video clip above, Kreider's operation seems to fall well below that (the company denies this).
Yes, it's easy to say that egg producers - whether they be big companies or small farmers - should stick to using cage-free chicken, but that comes at an economic cost, as the Europeans are finding out when egg prices shot up about 250% in some regions.
Perhaps the best opinion is voiced by Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times in his column "Is an Egg for Breakfast Worth This?" who wrote:
For those who are wavering, think for a moment about the arc of empathy. Centuries ago, we humans amused ourselves by seeing other people executed or tortured. Until modern times, we considered it sport to see animals die horrible deaths. Now our sensibilities have evolved so that there is an outcry when animals are abused — unless it happens out of sight on farms.
The police would stop wayward boys who were torturing a stray dog, so should we allow industrialists to abuse millions of hens? Shouldn’t we agree on minimum standards?
Link: Undercover at Kreider Farms [PDF]
Samantha Valle taught her German shepherd Geronimo to jump rope Double Dutch style and other neat tricks, too. See more dogs jumping rope at Mother Board. Link -via Laughing Squid
Enjoy another performance by surreal dancer Marquese Scott, known as Nonstop (previously at Neatorama). This was recorded in one take with no edits. They say there was no pre-planned choreography, but I suppose Nonstop knew what to do. Oh yeah, this is an ad for Peugeot, which explains how the car didn’t have to park next to other cars in an urban parking garage. -Thanks, Tiffany Maddox!
You know you’ve seen some stuff go down on the subway when you don’t even bother to stop eating a bag of chips when a fight erupts right in front of you.
You’re officially the Fonzi of snack food when you break up a fight while keeping a cool head and continuing to chomp down on said chips. I smell an endorsement deal in this guy’s future!
(NSFW due to coarse language)
–via Best Week Ever
This silly short film is called Blow Out Sale, and it features some familiar Hollywood faces, including Danny Pudi from the hit TV series Community, hamming it up like guys who don’t give a damn if people judge them for having a good time while the camera’s rolling.
The story plays out like a scene from Abed’s imagination, maybe it helped shape/inspire Danny’s character on Community?
–via Tastefully Offensive
Rotoscoping is a tedious process that involves animating over a live action film frame by frame, which means it took waaaaaay too long to rotoscope this trailer for the horror classic The Evil Dead.
And, while the end result is pretty cool looking and fun to watch, it’s highly unlikely that PFR Studios will be rotoscoping any more of the film, because this bit is almost three years old!
–via Topless Robot
Comments Off Paddle down the Saigon River in Vietnam. You don’t need a boat engine. You don’t need a propeller. You don’t even need oars. All you need is an excavator.
-via Gizmodo
Watch Zach as he shows you all the necessary steps to chicken bathing. Link -via Swiss Miss
If one waving Maneki Neko or Japanese Lucky Cat brings you luck, then hundreds of them should be enough to win the Mega Millions, right?
For his art installation The Global Pursuit of Happiness, or The Army of Luck, Boris Petrovsky enlisted the aid of 520 Lucky Cats, synchronized to wave us a luck tsunami. Best of all, viewers can command the cats to wave at will:
Flimmaker Walt Thompson asked Nealey to marry him, by showing her this stop-motion video! Star Wars characters showed up as witnesses. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Do you recall The Ennui of Henri? Years later, the existential French cat is back with a sequel. And the angst-ridden Henri is still bemoaning the banality of his existence. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
Aren’t robots supposed to help us? This Japanese beer-pouring robot seems to have had a few too many himself. And just keeps talking. -via Boing Boing
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