Life preservers don't get to see as much action as fellow donut shaped objects, the car tires, but they stand out more because they're flashy and colorful yet utilitarian.

And if you ever lose your life preserver among thousands of discarded tires you'll be able to spot it in a second, just look for the bright orange ring bobbing along the surface of that rubber sea.

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Here's what Spanish artist Pejac has to say about his film "Heavy Sea":

The desolate images of environmental havoc seen here are real—no CGI, no Photoshop, no illusions. It’s a simple mixture of art direction and the scourge of human waste. ‘This project was actually born some years ago when I painted ‘Heavy Sea’, a water-colour artwork featuring a lifesaving ring in a sea of disused tires. Later, during a voyage abroad, just some months ago, I found myself in front of that very same landscape. It was a poetic nightmare made real.

-Via Laughing Squid

I've only recently discovered Anime Maru, a parody of anime news websites (of which, yes, there are a great many). It presents spoof articles in the style of The Onion that satirize anime and its fans. Yes, it's true that the great Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli invented anime to solve a desktop computer background shortage, so the KanColle background on my computer right now can be ultimately attributed to him.

Here's a sampling of other great Anime Maru articles, all of which skewer fandom accurately:

Deadpool proved he has what it takes to make lots of moolah as a leading man when his movie Deadpool made over 130 million dollars on its opening weekend, making some people wonder what's so great about that masked merc Deadpool.

But as this comic by Julia Lepetit of Dorkly proves Deadpool is less about the character Deadpool and more about the actor Ryan Reynolds' rise from the ashes of the Green Lantern fiasco...or maybe it's just a super cool superhero flick about Deadpool.

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

These days Kanye West is known less for his "music" and more for his utter lunacy, and it's anybody's guess whether the whole thing is just a cry for attention or simply the result of fame taking a toll on his mental health.

If Kanye wants people to take him seriously ever again in his lifetime he should probably stop posting all those crazy Tweets and cancel his social media accounts!

But if you're a fan of Twitter based comedy then you'll be hard pressed to find any Tweeter nuttier, zanier or more madcap than Kanye West, he's like the (insert crazy comedian's name here) of our time!

See the 25 Craziest Kanye West Tweets Ever here

When people get tired of creating content about alternate princess costumes or easter eggs found in Disney films they resort to formulating opinion based pieces that start all sorts of arguments.

The Official Disney Movie Matrix is one of those opinion based, argument inducing pieces.

Now that you've taken a look at the way Willie Muse and Amir Khan ranked and classified some of your favorite Disney films you've probably got a few bones to pick with them.

Why did they relegate The Black Cauldron to the bottom left corner when it's clearly belongs on an entirely different matrix labeled "awesomest of all Disney films"?

Why is Lilo & Stitch sitting squarely in the middle when it's totally out of this world? And Hunchback of Notre Dame is "genuinely great" while Fox And The Hound is "not your favorite" and "doesn't hold up"? Poppycock!

-Via College Humor

Cosplayer Dani Skye made and wore this delightful punny dress to Katuscon in the DC area. She caught her boyfriend with it, who danced with her at the con ball. That was a challenge because, Skye explains, "the dress is quite poofy so it was hard to get close to my boyfriend to dance."

You can see more photos of her dress here.

-via Fashionably Geek

The works of J.R.R. Tolkien have yet to be fully adapted for the big screen, and even though Peter Jackson's films delivered a few dozen hours of material from Tolkien's stories lots of great content and characters haven't made it into the movies.

Some of the biggest and baddest villains in Tolkien's lore, such as Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, or Ungoliant, mother of all giant spiders in Middle Earth, were featured in The Silmarillion, a posthumous collection put together by Christopher Tolkien that many see as the prequel to The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.

Morgoth will definitely make his way onto the big screen if an adaptation of The Silmarillion is ever made, and when he does we may get to see his dragon Ancalagon the Black in action.

Ancalagon was so large and fearsome it was said he could "blot out the sun from miles away", and when he died his fallen body was responsible for destroying a volcanic mountain range, which led to the destruction of the northwestern portion of Middle-Earth.

Something tells me that sequence will be done in CGI...

See 5 Tolkien Villains Too Intense For The Big Screen here

Legendary guitarists don't use industrial machinery to shred on guitar, but Auguie Henry of SSI Shredding Systems, who never got to live out his rock 'n' roll dreams, prefers to let the Dual-Shear Shredders do all the shredding for him.

For Auguie, the sound of an electric guitar being shredded by the whirling Dual-Shear blades is the sweetest rock ballad he will ever play.

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Watching this video may result in feelings of nausea and dizziness if you love guitars, but you've gotta appreciate the efficiency of their shredding machine!

-Via Laughing Squid

Some of the main stars of The Muppet Show had their backstory expanded when they were shown as babies during a flashback scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan, and then those Muppet Babies got their own cartoon show.

Jim Henson's Muppet Babies further expanded the Muppet lore and showed us why Kermit, Fozzie, Scooter, Gonzo and the rest of the gang are such close friends.

But there was one cute little Muppet who disappeared right after Muppet Babies went off the air in 1991- Scooter's twin sister Skeeter.

Skeeter was cute, bubbly and much bolder than Scooter, an empowering figure for little girls who was never seen outside of that animated nursery.

So why was Skeeter resigned to the animated realm, denied that signature fleece and foam Muppet body she deserves?

Read Her Name Was Skeeter: The Mystery Of The Missing Muppet at mental_floss

Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in Star Wars, owns a copy of an early script for the movie that eventually became Episode IV. At the time, it went by the title The Adventures of Luke Starkiller. He's tweeting photos of the pages of the script and promises that he's got a big announcement coming up.

The script includes an early vision of R2-D2 that is quite diferent from his eventual form:

Artoo is a short claw-armed tripod. His face is a mass of computer lights, surrounding a radar eye. 

A tripod Artoo might have had an easier time with stairs.

-via io9

Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are one of those Hollywood couples who like to share their love with the world, appearing alongside each other in everything from commercials to big budget movies.

And while it may seem a bit sappy at times their partnership is also enviable, sharing the spotlight and helping each other shine.

But they are both actors after all, and sometimes they don't know how to shut off that star power and just enjoy a trip abroad, which results in the creation of "projects" like this ridiculous music video called "Africa".

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They said their "sole objective was to rage hard and honor Toto properly." Mission accomplished famous folks!

-Via FAIL Blog

Believe it or not, there are actually gamers out there who have never played Tetris, and for their sake someone needs to deliver an honest and trustworthy review of the game so n00bs know what they're getting into.

But Video game vlogger Darkk Mane is definitely the wrong man for the job because, for one thing, he keeps calling the game "Teetris".

It's like come on, how are you going to review a game if you can't even read the title? (NSFW due to language)

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Man, if this review had come out back in 1984 Tetris might not have made it out of the Soviet Union!

-Via Laughing Squid

Even if you exclude the 15-part 1943 serial, Batman movies still go back 50 years! Most of the eight movies since then are very different from each other- different actors in the title role, different directors, different visions, and some fared better than others. Now you can compare and contrast your favorites with the others, with a timeline of each movie, illustrated and analyzed through their trailers, at TVOM. You know my favorite: Michael Keaton in the 1989 Tim Burton version. Which do you prefer?

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The Twitter feed @AwfulFantasy writes pithy fantasy stories using tortured metaphors, misplaced characters, and realistic but undesired scenarios. Jake Young of Dorkly rounded up 1d10 of the best and then paired them with appropriate fantasy art.

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Once upon a time MTV aired a twisted satirical kiddie show called Wonder Showzen, which featured puppets doing inappropriate things, on the spot interviews that made people angry, and overdubbed clips from old kids shows like Vegetable Soup.

Wonder Showzen was obviously meant for adults and was cancelled after its second season about 10 years ago, but that didn't stop pastor Daniel Castle from condemning the show for being a gateway drug to Satan addiction.

It seems pastor Castle thinks that quaint little MTV show was the real deal, and he's not gonna stand by and watch the youth of America be "spiritually exploited" by one the most evil shows ever made.

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"I've got the spirit in me, and it's yummy in my tummy" Now I see why pastor Castle took the show so seriously...

-Via Dangerous Minds