I did my best to track down the artist responsible for this image. I was unsuccessful. That's sad because a work of this greatness should earn the highest accolades from the human race.
Now take a seat. You've missed the beginning of the show. The Enterprise D-Lites (Picard on the flute, Riker on the trombone, and Worf on the triangle), but you're in time for the main act.
How does this image inspire you? What story or caption can you write for it?
The folks at How It Should Have Ended couldn’t wait until the movie actually came out to jump on an intriguing tidbit from the trailer of Jurassic World. Chris Pratt's character is training raptors for a show at the park -isn’t that rather odd? Especially considering what happened in the first movie! Based on that tiny part of a scene, they went ahead and speculated on how it should end. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Documentary filmmaker Jamie Benning has made films onJawsand Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well as three others on the Star Wars original trilogy. This film is a 20-minute long mini-documentary entitled Slimy Piece of Worm-Ridden Filth: Life Inside Jabba the Hutt.
With interviews of Jabba's primary puppeteer Toby Philpott, the film traces Jabba's "life" after his initial creation as one of the most expensive puppets ever made. Interviews are interspersed with behind-the-scenes footage of Return of the Jedi that show how Jabba's movements were accomplished. Viewers are also treated to anecdotes such as the following:
"George Lucas wasn't as impressed by [Jabba]. I think he would have liked to have done it by CGI, even then, but the technology wasn't there yet, and I'm not sure he was entirely convinced by a three-dimensional puppet. He wasn't satisfied that Jabba couldn't walk around for instance, where I quite like that fact that he obviously was a gigantic slug who rarely goes anywhere and when he does, people carry him, I guess."
If you didn't know already, it's safe to say that everyone here at Neatorama loves Awkward Family Photos -and apparently we aren't the only ones. The creators of Frozen also love the site and the proof can be seen in the new Frozen short, called Frozen Fever, which happens to include the above picture that creators outrightly stated was inspired by AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.
If you love easter eggs in movies, you'll want to keep an eye on this short, which will be released before Disney's new live-action Cinderella movie in March.
Remember in Aliens how the xenomorph's blood was acidic enough to burn through the ship? Yeah, well that's not even as bad as fluoroantimonic acid. If the aliens had fluoroantimonic acid in their blood -well, it would dissolve their whole bodies, but if it managed to stay in their bodies until they were shot, it would not only eat a whole through the thickest panels in the ship, but the potent vapors would also kill pretty much everyone on the ship.
While fluorantimonic acid is the most acidic substance on earth, it's only one of the ten crazy substances included in this TopTenz list of over-the-top insane substances. What's the most deadly poison? How about the most flammable substance? Or the most radioactive material? You'll have to find out at the link.
They're not Federation credits or gold-pressed latinum, but if you're in the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, you can use these coins as legal tender. On one side of each dollar coin is the face of Elizabeth II, the Queen of Tuvalu. On the other is either Captain Kirk or the USS Enterprise. The Perth Mint of Australia offers these collectible coins made of almost pure silver.
P.S. If you know of a bank that will exchange quatloos for US Dollars, please let me know promptly. I need a good rate or I'm going to take a big hit unloading these thralls.
That's a real PS3 controller resting on a perfectly crafted replica that serves as a table. It's not functional, but it will certainly impress gamers who visit your home. Scott Blackwell, a woodworker in South Carolina, made it. He's offering the table for sale on Etsy.
We've previously featured other work by Scott Blackwell: this twisted bookcase. That's the dominant theme in his work. It's especially effective in this bookcase that takes inspiration from Dr. Seuss's The Lorax.
Cartoon criminals met their match when groups of teenagers joined by talking dogs, ghosts or anthropomorphic vehicles started looking for clues and solving crimes in 1969.
These meddling kids changed the face of Saturday Morning Cartoons, bringing a bit of mystery and supernatural imagination to an otherwise slapstick world, and kids ate up the meddling kids formula like a great big bowl of Ghost Goulash.
The group's dynamic formula was pretty simple- a Fox and a Stud were joined by a Doofus and the Nyah Nyah to hilarious effect. These crime solving groups were perfectly balanced, visually appealing and teenagers could actually relate to the characters in the group, which meant these shows appealed to a wider audience.
Let's take a look back at ten groups of meddling kids from cartoons past, celebrating their differences while smirking at their sameness.
Scooby-Doo and the gang are the ones who started it all, the first pack of teen detectives to take on the tough cases no standard investigators would touch, and their crime solving abilities helped give birth to the classic line "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
The teenage crime solving game took a turn for the strange in The Funky Phantom, because these intrepid teens were accompanied by two real life ghosts- Revolutionary War era coward Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore and his snickering cat, Boo.
Despite the fact that a ghost is part of the main cast the supernatural baddies still turned out to be nothing but criminals in disguise, how's that for funky?!
Jabberjaw took the teen crime solving formula deep underwater, and far into the future.
It's the year 2076 and Jabberjaw, a fifteen-foot-tall shark named Jabberjaw (who's seems to be the reincarnation of Curly from the Three Stooges) helps teenage songsters The Neptunes solve crimes and defeat any evil villains who threaten the undersea world.
It's more sci-fi than horror, and most of the villains look like they should be hanging out with Ming the Merciless, and as usual teenagers totally rule and the old bad guys look like fools.
From a visual standpoint the NES Power Glove will always represent the technological shift that took place in the 1980s, but from a gamer’s perspective the thing was a piece of junk.
It only worked for a handful of games, it most certainly wasn’t one size fit all, and by the time the SNES rolled around gamers had forgotten all about that gimmicky glove gathering dust in the back of their closet.
Many Power Gloves were sold thanks to a movie called The Wizard, starring Fred Savage, but you know who’s a real wizard? Animator Dillon Markey, the guy who figured out how to transform that cheesy Power Glove into an awesome tool for the creation of stop motion animation.
Dillon's upgraded Power Glove allows him to control animation software via Bluetooth connection, so he can do things like shoot still frames and play back shots all while moving freely about the studio. Now that's how you animate with Power!
The documentary Playing With Power by Ava Benjamin showcases Dillon's ingenious upgrade for the Power Glove, and the numerous ways it aids him in creating stop motion scenes for the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken.
This recap takes you through four-and-a-half seasons of The Walking Dead to get you ready for the show’s return this Sunday. Does it contain spoilers? It should, since its a recap, but I’ll have to say no, because any details you actually pick up from this video will be -how do I say this- wrong. Fans of the show will definitely find more laughs than someone who might try to follow the logic here. Just like The Walking Dead series itself, there is no logic in this video. You can thank College Humor for that. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Reality shows are depressing enough to watch as it is, but they become way more depressing when you learn a bit of the cast's backstory, or if you look into what happened to those “stars” after their show was cancelled.
TV networks love to run those reunion specials and get the reality crews back together, but what about those after stories the networks don’t want you to know about?
Remember when a little lady named Tila Tequila had her own gimmicky dating show on MTV?
I don’t blame you for wanting to forget, but Tila isn’t done grossing out the world with her tackiness just yet, and she came back into the spotlight for a second when she wrote a blog post called "Why I Sympathize With Hitler". The old sympathize with Hitler tactic, eh Tila? And I bet you thought she couldn't go any lower than her dating show!
This colossal snow sculpture is the centerpiece of the Sapporo Snow Festival, which opens today in Japan. The Star Wars-themed sculpture was sponsored by Disney, approved by Lucasfilm, and built by the 11th Brigade of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force based in Hokkaido. You can get a look at the process of building it in a series of pictures at Quartz. -via Digg
Comic book fans express their love of the medium in many different ways, but these expressions are generally quite simple, like a bit of cosplay or a tattoo of their favorite character(s). One guy went a bit further and subjected his face to over a dozen surgeries to look more like Superman, but he looks like the Clark Kent of comic book fandom compared to this guy:
He had the front end of his nose removed, bumps and a coil implanted in his forehead, his brow ridge enhanced and his skin tattooed dark red to complete his vision of the Red Skull look in real life.
I'm not sure I see the Red Skull in his new look as much as Etrigan the Demon, maybe he would've had more success capturing that authentic Red Skull look if he'd dipped his face into a vat of acid?
“Whoever holds this purse, if she be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.”
Thor is now, by the way, a woman. So it’s appropriate that she equip herself for battle. Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor, takes the form of a practical purse in this creation by Meryle Idzerda. It’s made around a cigar box and covered with lambskin leather that has a gunmetal finish.
Patrick Stewart is no ordinary actor- he’s a captain, a superhero, a man of mystery and a guy who has embraced social media in the most hilarious way possible.
Sir Stewart proves the fun doesn't have to end after fifty, and he's such a skilled actor that every role he plays comes to life right before your eyes, including stupid funny bit roles in comedy sketches.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! asked Sir Patrick to use his uncanny acting skills to bring Expedia's list of the most annoying types of airline passengers to life, and boy did he deliver!
His performances are imbued with so much dramatic brio that you'll really believe you're watching Chatty Charlie, the Stinky Snacker or the nefarious Seat Kicker annoy his fellow passengers.
Aw, who are we kidding? He's too darn charming to annoy anyone, which means these are the toughest roles he's ever had to play in his actorly life.
