With Mad Max: Fury Road to be released in one week, fan anticipation is high. In honor of the release, i09 presents not only the video above, but don't miss this article that serves up "the weirdest facts you never knew about the making of Mad Max and The Road Warrior."
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After watching the keepers take care of the tiger cubs at Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina, an orangutan decided he wanted a chance to do the same. The loving way he handles the cubs is sweetness come to life. -Via Tastefully Offensive
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Between Star Trek I through Star Trek VI there are countless items of trivia of interest to fans. The article linked below aims to please even the nerdiest of Star Trek nerds with its list of 57 bits of trivia. For example, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home:
"31. Hello computer?!? The Apple Mac wasn't supposed to be in the factory, and the original Commodore Amiga model was originally supposed to be in its place. Commodore Business Machines refused to send a sample machine for filming and simply told the film crew that they had to buy one. Apple just sent a machine and a member of staff to help out. Commodore also stated it didn't want to be associated with Star Trek. Facepalm..."
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country:
"42. Boom! Cue the 'Praxis Wave' (aka the 'Praxis Effect')! Not only an ear splitting and audience awakening moment, but one that resulted in an iconic special effect being created by Industrial Light & Magic, which would be re-used in other future productions, most notably for the destruction of the Death Star in the special edition of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope."
See all 57 bits of Star Trek film trivia here.
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It's hard not to be moved by Milos Foreman's classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The film can lead even the most hardened of filmgoers from laughter to tears. Yet it's not only the audience that is emotionally affected by the material. One cast member even had his sanity questioned by the end of the shoot.
The place in which the actors lived during production didn't help the situation. In fact, all of the actors who played patients in the film lived at the Oregon State Hospital psychiatric ward during the shoot. The men brought personal effects to their sleeping spaces, spent their days inside the ward and regularly interacted with the psychiatric patients there. That's more than a flyover — it's moving right in.
Read more interesting facts about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest here.
San Antonio resident Cynthia Rodriguez opened the wrapper on a Nature Valley granola bar and got more than a snack. A small Ziplock baggie printed with dollar signs fell out of the wrapper, causing Rodriguez to think she had won a prize.
When she realized the baggie was full of white powder, Rodriguez called the San Antonio Police Department. Sergeant Javier Salazar said,
"Disturbingly enough, it came back positive for cocaine."
When he tested it, the surprised officer further exclaimed,
"Oh my goodness, it's high-quality cocaine!"
The police have no leads as to how the drug got into the package. Rodriguez says she's thankful that one of her young grandchildren didn't open the package. Nature Valley said that they were confident the drug did not come from their facility. -Via Grubstreet
Above are Elsa and Anna from Frozen. Below are Merida from Brave and Rapunzel from Tangled. They're costumed a bit differently from the movies. Korean artist Byajae imagined them in the traditional clothing of his homeland. They're beautiful! Rocket News 24 reports that Byajae is marketing these images as postcards.
The Made Shop created this music video for the song "Change Is Everything" by Son Lux. It's an impressive work of stop-motion animation. The Made Shop composed it with map pins and rubberized thread painstakingly moved and plotted in sequence over a foam board.
The video consists of approximately 4,000 frames assembled over 3 weeks. You can read more about how it was made and see a behind-the-scenes video at NPR.
-via Junkculture
(Photo: Flight Report)
A Turkish Airlines 737 travelling between Istanbul and Nevsehir, Turkey, hit a bird nose-on. The dome forming the front caved in. The plane landed safely with no injury to any of the 125 passengers on board.
A spokesman for Turkish Airlines insists that it's not a big deal. That portion of the plane is made with soft materials in order to absorb impacts like this. The Daily Mail reports:
A spokesperson for Turkish Airlines told MailOnline Travel: 'The damage of the nose area (radome) by bird hit is a common incident on civil aeronautical operations.
'The radome area of a plane is constructed by soft materials (composit) to minimalize the impact of such hits.
'Therefore, such standard/normal deformation occurs as a natural result of such incidents.
'One can also state that the critical bird hits in aviation is the ones that occur on the engine area. Any other area of the aircraft than the engine area, such as radome, wings, hull, do not pose a risk when hit by a bird.'
That's good news. Perhaps Turkish Airlines can use this photo for its optimistic advertising.
-via Daily Telegraph
(Photo: Freightliner)
Earlier this week, the State of Nevada granted a self-driving Freightliner tractor trailer rig a license--the first such license in the United States. To promote this event, Freightliner piloted the truck over the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. As the truck passed over the dam, projectors shined on the face of the dam, turning it into an enormous projection screen.
That projection earned a Guinness World Record for the brightest light projection. The Associated Press reports:
The company said 60 projectors used 1.17 million lumens — equal to about 1,400 household lightbulbs — to stretch videos, images, animation and an American flag onto the surface of the modern construction marvel finished in 1935 on Nevada and Arizona's border.
The program included live footage and recorded video.
Daimler says the video projection was equal in size to nine football fields or more than 87 average-sized IMAX screens.
(Photo: Aphrodite-in-NYC)
James Franco is an American actor famous for roles in movies that include The Interview, 127 Hours, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He now has fame, wealth, and influence. But he wasn't born that way. He worked his way up from the bottom, starting as an 18-year old in Los Angeles trying to break into acting. For three months, he worked at a McDonald's restaurant.
Today, Franco published a reflective essay on that experience in the Washington Post. It's a lovely affirmation of the dignity of honest labor:
All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me. When no one else was. […]
I didn’t have a car, so I tried to get a job at all the restaurants within walking distance of my post-dropout Valley apartment. (I shared it with two other aspiring actors and slept on the couch.) I had very little work experience. In high school, I was fired from a coffee shop for reading behind the counter and from a golf course for reading while driving the cart on the driving range. All the waiter jobs were taken by more experienced actor/waiters.
Someone asked me if I was too good to work at McDonald’s. Because I was following my acting dream despite all the pressure not to, I was definitely not too good to work at McDonald’s. I went to the nearest Mickey D’s and was hired the same day. […]
I was treated fairly well at McDonald’s. If anything, they cut me slack. And, just like their food, the job was more available there than anywhere else. When I was hungry for work, they fed the need. I still love the simplicity of the McDonald’s hamburger and its salty fries. After reading “Fast Food Nation,” it’s hard for me to trust the grade of the meat. But maybe once a year, while on a road trip or out in the middle of nowhere for a movie, I’ll stop by a McDonald’s and get a simple cheeseburger: light, and airy, and satisfying.
-via Glenn Reynolds
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Don’t punch the yellow question blocks. There are no coins inside them, but you might lose some of your security deposit.
This is a short-term apartment in Tokyo available for rent from Airbnb. From the bedroom to the kitchen to the bathroom, it’s decorated for your inner plumber. It’s conveniently close to a train station. Do not slide down any pipes in the apartment—they’re purely decorative, not a form of transportation.
(Photo: Dan the Chemist)
The only thing better than a chocolate bar is a chocolate bar that’s been chilled. Why? Dan, a doctoral student in chemistry, explains that the cocoa butter in chocolate exists in six different forms depending on the temperature. When chocolate is about 34-36⁰C, the structure of it begins to break down. This is called “fat bloom.” You can see it when chocolate appears to turn somewhat dusty and splotchy, such as the example above. Dan writes:
You then might ask how you can tell this has happened? The change in crystal structure is usually accompanied by something called ‘fat bloom,’ which is where the chocolate begins to look dusty, and pale spots appear on the surface as shown in the attached image. We’ve all been there (you’re incredibly lucky if you haven’t). It’s off putting, but still safe to eat. It happens because of partial melting in the solid which cases the fats within it to rise to the surface. It’s this strange occurrence that leads me to believe that keeping my chocolate in the fridge is in fact the correct way to keep it, and also why all the chocolate I bought on my exchange year in Australia just didn’t taste as good as the stuff at home in the UK due to their hotter climate!
-via TYWKIWDBI
The blogger Reality Collective spotted this flyer in Brooklyn. Sauron could have avoided a lot of trouble if only he had taken this approach. It was unnecessary to draw so much attention to his search. As the 49th item on the classic Evil Overlord List points out, it’s more effective to act discreetly.
Posted paper flyers can be helpful for satisfying local needs with a limited advertising budget. They’re also great for pranks and jokes, such as these:
Once it was a rasp that shaved horse hooves on Chelsea Miller’s family farm in Vermont. Now it’s a knife for an elite kitchen.
Chelsea Miller makes knives. Her materials are the old tools and reclaimed wood from her father’s home workshop. It’s a neat take on repurposing. But the process is than just that.
As this endearing video about her work explains, it’s about connecting with her father and the traditions of her family. Making these knives is a way of carrying the past into the future. It’s a sentiment that I recognize immediately. When I visit my parents, I work with my father as much as I can, building and repairing, learning new skills, and simply being with him as time slowly runs out.
-via Core77
(Photo: Peat Bakke)
This is the earliest known appearance of Einstein’s most famous equation. It was written in Einstein’s own handwriting, which typographer Harald Geisler describes as a mixture of the Latin alphabet and Kurrent, which is a classical German form of cursive.
Two years ago, Geisler turned samples of Sigmund Freud’s handwriting into a usable digital font. You can type like Dr. Freud wrote by using the font called Siggy. Now Geisler is doing the same with Einstein’s handwriting. Fast Co Design describes the process:
Like his Sigmund font, Geisler started his digitization efforts by combing through samples of Einstein's handwriting, and identified four versions of each character, both uppercase and lowercase, which could be considered typical samples. Simultaneously, Geisler tried to get a sense for the rhythm of Einstein's hand: how the discoverer of general relativity linked an 'a' to a 'b', or a 'b' to a 'c', making notes of the kinds of slopes and distances Einstein used. From there, Geisler meticulously copied every sample letter into a grid, and started tweaking it to make sure that it worked as a typeface.
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