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LOST is long gone, and yet people continue to find inspiration from the show, and create some pretty sweet fan art as a result. This Star Wars inspired poster series by JJ & Jen Harrison seem to be opening a new chapter in the story of the survivors, and the artwork is quite well done. Maybe LOST took place a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away as well?
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Just like “The Sopranos” the hit J.J Abrams show “Lost” had an ending that you either loved or hated. Now an irritated Abrams is asking fans how they would have ended the show better. So what would your Lost ending have been had you been in J.J.’s shoes?
“For years, I had people praising Lost to death, and now they say: ‘I’m so pissed at you for the end of Lost.’ I think a lot of people who were upset with the ending, were just upset that it ended. And I’ve not yet heard the pitch of what the ending should have been. I’ve just heard: ‘That sucked.’”
An inflated sculpture named “Is Land” was deployed at the Secret Garden Party music festival in Cambridgeshire, England. The £9,000 helium-filled sculpture is seven meters wide and looks like a chunk of land with grass and trees on top. The island drifted off after someone cut the ropes tethering the balloon on July 24th and is now nowhere to be found. Anyone who sees the island is asked to report it to the project’s website. Donations to the site will go toward getting a second sculpture ready for Burning Man. Link to story. Link to website. -via Fortean Times
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Lost as a Friends-esque sitcom? The Simpsons as real people? It could have all happened if only producers had edited their opening credits a little differently. Check out these and a few more over at Shortlist. I didn’t quite buy the Lost as Friends, but I was amused. And the Gorillaz soundtrack coupled with original The Walking Dead comic book art is nothing short of amazing.
Link via Flavorwire
If you were disappointed by the lack of explanation in the last episode of Lost, then this deleted scene from the end of season one will probably leave a bad taste in your mouth. Is this clip for real, or just a clever way for the show’s producers to get revenge for the backlash they received at the end of the show? Makes you wonder what else ended up on the cutting room floor.
We see “missing” and “found” posters all the time, but they usually are a source of sadness as a reminder that someone has lost a loved one or a pet. These nineteen posters featured on sidewalks around the globe are funny plays on the classic signs you’re used to seeing.
Is it just me or does this poster remind you of that old wives tale about the old woman who had a pet sewer rat and thought it was a dog?
Image via Dig Your Own Grave
Here’s a great twist on the poster above.
Image via Babyanimalz
Fans of the classic educational game are sure to recognize these types of options that come at a river (or street) crossing.
Image by Jeff Wysaski, featured on his website Pleated Jeans
I have to admit, this cat is pretty darn awesome. Anyone know what breed it is?
Update: Thank you to Miss C and Sir P-S, who have pointed out it is a Palla’s Cat.
Image created by Running Amok Zine via Lizzy Stewart [Flickr]
Really, Lost and Gilligan’s Island are just ripe for a full-length parody mashup. Until then, we’ll just have to be content with Gilligan and the Skipper discovering the hatch, as Flickr user Legohaulic has imagined.
Link via Super Punch
Previously: Lost on Gilligan’s Island
Seventy-two-year-old Mohammed Bellazrak dropped his wife off at the airport on December 23rd with no problem, but became disoriented in the snow as he was driving home to Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England from Gatwick airport. He should have made it home in a couple of hours. When he didn’t, his relatives contacted police. Sergeant Jo Spencer tells about the investigation.
“We contacted other forces with no success and then asked for the ANPR systems to be activated to see if anyone spotted the number plate CF53 BHE, the car in which Mr Bellazrak was known to have been when he left Gatwick for the 70 mile journey home.
“We were surprised to discover that ANPR cameras had recorded him in Bracknell, Wokingham, Burnham and High Wycombe – all presumably attempts at finding his way from Gatwick to Wiltshire.
“The last ANPR ‘hit’ we had showed him at about 6pm on Christmas eve in Hiugh Wycombe but then the trail went cold again,” she added.
On Christmas day, a CCTV camera recorded his license plate number in Oxford, where police were able to flag him down. He was reunited with his family. It is not yet known whether Bellazrak drove around the clock or stopped at night. Link -via Arbroath
(Image credit: Flickr user Jeff Van Campen)
Raynor Ganan discovered, to his dismay, that Google Image Search tends to identify “John Locke” as a LOST character, rather than as an English philosopher. It was this discussion that prompted his investigation:
i was trying to explain jeremy bentham’s panopticon to my 5 year-old nephew this weekend and he was like, “geesh uncle ray, i already know all about that because of lost.” and then i was like, “look here half-pint, just cuz the producers of that television programme copy-pasted philosophers’ names for their characters’ names to spice up the mystery (despite the fact that the relationship is tenuous at best) this does not mean that you know the first thing about jeremy bentham or his panopticon.” and then my 5 year-old nephew turned on the waterworks and his mom made her way over to us and gave me disparaging looks.
Link via Geekosystem
From flickr user Snappymoosetree:
Bill always brings his A++++ game. I found this amazing invitation on my desk this morning from my coworker to watch the series finally of lost.
This is why Bill V. is the coolest person ever and designs theme parks for a living.
But I wonder what themed attire is. Dharma jumpsuits?
Link via Super Punch
Lost fans have marked May 23rd as the ending of an era, when the final episode of the TV series will air. Executive producer Jean Higgins took some time to reveal some secrets -no, not how the show will end, but a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to film the series in Hawaii and how they recreated other settings in the island paradise. There’s even some travel tips in this interview at National Geographic Adventure. Link
(Photographs courtesy of ABC, Jean Higgins)
Remember in the movie Wayne’s World when they had an ending, then the alternate ending, then the Scooby-Doo ending? When the Lost series finale airs on May 23rd, they could go straight to the Scooby-Doo ending, which would make about as much sense as the rest of the series. See a preview now at NeatoGeek! Link
Graphic designer Alex Griendling made these tarot cards inspired by the television show Lost. He wrote about the project’s focus on the first season:
After making all of these I may take a break. The characters in later seasons are not quite as archetypal, which makes it more difficult to assign roles (The Believer, The Devoted, etc) to them.
Link via Popped Culture | Artist’s Website | Image: Alex Griendling
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Artist Alexandria Neonakis created Valentines inspired by the TV show Lost. At the link, you’ll find her deviantART gallery, which also contains valentines for The Office, Left 4 Dead, and Team Fortress 2.
Link via Popped Culture
Remember Travis Pitts and his awesome design, “We’ve Got Some Work To Do, Now?” Well, he’s still coming up with great ideas, mashing up different threads of pop culture in clever ways.
To paraphrase Travis, I’m frankly surprised no one’s thought of this yet. Bigger image at the Flickr link.
Link (via Super Punch)
How hard is it to walk in a straight line? Very hard, actually – according to a new study by psychologist Jan Souman of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, people who are lost in the woods or desert actually do walk in circles:
At first, Souman wasn’t sure if that common sensation was actually true. When lost, he suspected, people might veer to the left or right. But he didn’t expect them to actually walk in true circles.
To find out, he instructed nine people to walk as straight as possible in one direction for several hours.
Six walkers forged through a flat, forested region of Germany. Three trekked through the Sahara desert in southern Tunisia. (A sandstorm stopped further testing in the desert). All walkers wore GPS receivers so that the researchers could analyze their routes.
The results, published today in the journal Current Biology, showed that no matter how hard people tried to walk in a straight line, they often ended up going in circles without ever realizing that they were crossing their own paths.
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A British man and his Spanish sweetheart have finally married after 16 years apart, brought together by a love letter thought lost.
Steven Smith and Carmen Ruiz-Perez, both 42 years of age, first met 17 years ago when she was a foreign exchange student in Southwest England. The relationship ended when she moved to France a year later for work. In an effort to rekindle the romance, Steven sent a letter to her mother’s home in Spain a few years later, where it was placed on a mantelpiece. It slipped behind the fireplace and was hidden for years, before being discovered by workers dismantling it for renovation work.
“When I got the letter I didn’t phone Steve right away because I was so nervous,” Ruiz-Perez told the Herald Express local newspaper.
“I nearly didn’t phone him at all. I kept picking up the phone then putting it down again.
“But I knew I had to make the call.”
When they were reunited, it was as if time had stood still, said Smith, a factory supervisor.
“When we met again it was like a film. We ran across the airport into each other’s arms. We met up and fell in love all over again. Within 30 seconds of setting eyes on each other we were kissing.
“I’m just glad the letter did eventually end up where it was supposed to be,” he said, after the couple married last Friday.
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Jorge Garcia who plays the loveable Hurley on LOST posted pictures on his own blog. The show will air in May.
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A bag belonging to a World War II soldier from Lancashire has been discovered in the Egyptian desert after lying there for more than 60 years. Alec Ross, from Burnley, lost the bag containing personal letters and photos, while serving with the 8th Army. Egyptian tour guide Kahled Makram found the bag in the Sahara desert and traced Mr Ross’s family through a BBC website on World War II. The bag is being sent to Burnley to Mr Ross’s sister, Irene Porter.
