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You don’t have to be a film scholar to notice one interesting/signature thing about all of Wes Anderson’s movies- they contain an inordinate amount of extremely symmetrical shots. Clearly Mr. Anderson is obsessed with symmetry, and has no problem disregarding the rule of thirds while he explores his obsession on film.

Vimeo user kogonada edited together clips from many of Wes's movies, complete with a dotted white line dead in the middle of the frame, which helps illustrate the symmetrical nature of each shot.

Once you've seen the symmetry it's impossible to unsee, but knowing it's there may make you appreciate how much work and planning Wes Anderson puts in to directing his films.

-Via /Film

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Laser Cat is coming to the ADC Festival Of Art + Craft in Advertising and Design in Miami, Florida on April 7th and he is hungry for your art!

Many artists have already fed him their works, including Banksy and ten thousand other creative folks, and there's still time for you to feed your art to the all mighty Laser Cat!

Laser Cat will arrive at the ADC Festival in the form of a giant art installation created by Hungry Castle, and he will project artworks via laser beam vision onto walls and such at the Festival, so you can hear the drawings go "Pew Pew!" and watch Laser Cat as he LOLCats you straight in the eyeballs.

-Via Laughing Squid

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Tony Starktopus

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The ever-crafty Darcy made octopus plushes of The Avengers and Loki. Avengers, assemble--then spray ink!

In addition to her plushes, she’s a top-grade cosplayer. Darcy has been Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan and Asami Sato from Avatar.

-via Geek Art Gallery

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J.R.R. Tolkien’s original stories, like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, get all the attention and overshadow the fact that Tolkien is known in academic circles as an authority on Beowulf, citing the work as having a major influence on his writing.

He delivered a passionate lecture in 1936 on Beowulf's merits as a classic work, and this lecture succeeded in convincing many scholars to take Beowulf seriously.

Tolkien felt that Beowulf should be appreciated as a work of fantasy fiction, and not as just some silly vikings versus monsters story, and in 1926 he finished his own translation of the poem, a translation that would never see publication-until May 22nd, 2014 when Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary arrives in bookstores.

-Via Gamma Squad

These are the Star Wars behind-the-scenes photos you're looking for.

Ever since the iconic sci-fi series joined Instagram back in December 2013, the Star Wars Instagram has amassed an empire of followers (it stands at about 327K follower right now - it got 50K followers right off the bat with just three pics. What can we say? The Force is strong with this one.)

Since then, they added over 200 posts, so it's time that we take another look at some of the best behind-the-scenes photos posted to the Star Wars Instagram account so far:

A never-before-seen behind-the-scenes image of Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala

Gamorrean Guard feet, found at the Lucasfilm Archives

This prop is used to create the hyperspace-jump effect, with a little help from fancy lighting and camera tricks

Sound designer Ben Burtt petting George Lucas' pet dog Indiana, the inspiration for Chewbacca and the eponym of Indiana Jones

"We named the dog Indiana" is actually true!

Wampa hair sample

This wampa hair sample was sent to costume makers to ensure color continuity

Extras line up for the final scenes of A New Hope

The resident blogger at Attorney Work Product had a great Halloween last year. Her kids dressed up as two of the most terrifying monsters on Doctor Who. Both of them got into the destroying humans mood:

Cora was very pleased with her costume, and got lots of compliments.  She was also happy to torment her sister with her "scary angel face."  Vee was not amused.  (She grumbled at her and said "No!" and walked away in a huff.)  Vee seemed to at least not be offended by being a Dalek, but she did refuse to carry around the egg beater and plunger.  She carried around a Dalek and a sucker instead.  She does, however, oblige me in answering the question, "What does the Dalek say?" with an enthusiastic "Exterminate!"  I'm so proud.

Now, now: exterminated humans can't become clients.

-via The Geek Twins

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When you think of computer animation from the mid-70s some pretty rough images probably come to mind, but Hunger might change your mind about what could be done with a computer in the 70s. 

Hunger was made by Peter Foldes in 1974, and it was meant to be a "film satire of self-indulgence in a hungry world", an educational piece created with funding from the National Film Board of Canada.

However, watching it will probably creep you out rather than teaching you anything, but it's not to be missed if you're a lover of vintage and/or surreal animation.

-Via Dangerous Minds

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Hiring Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to make puppets for your music video means your video will definitely have visual appeal, and a unique look that’s hard to beat, but the question will arise- to use humans or not to use humans?

Animal Collective member Avey Tare decided to include humans, but only in the most terrifying way possible, in this video for his Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks song entitled "Little Fang". The band members show up as ghosts, and strange creatures with floating facial features, and the scariest monsters of them all- clowns!

"Little Fang" was inspired by Avey’s kitty, who may or may not be a ghost whisperer but is definitely a better driver than Toonces the Driving Cat ever was.

-Via Juxtapoz

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Space is the place where nobody can hear you scream, the final frontier full of strange new worlds, alien lifeforms and lots of stars, and it’s also the setting for this retro sci-fi themed short Malaise.

Malaise is a short that feels like a segment from a feature length film-it's punchy, bloody and very stylish, with CGI characters and backgrounds that have the look of stop motion animation. It was created by Daniel Beaulieu from the Vancouver Film School, made as a final project for a 3D animation class, and from the look of this short Daniel has a bright future ahead of him.

-Via Nerd Approved

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Image: Photo Manipulation to Blow Your Mind by Erik Johansson (Martineken Blog)

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Billy Dee Williams played Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars movies. He recently reprised that role on the reality television show Dancing with the Stars. Here he is dancing with Emma Slater, who is appropriately coiffed with Princess Leia buns. They cha-cha-cha to a medley of Star Wars tunes, including the title and cantina themes.

Before you condemn the judges: keep in mind that if the Emperor has a Death Star pointed at your planet, you’ll follow his lead, too. The audience should be more understanding.

-via Tor

When you call tech support with a computer problem you usually reach someone who is really far away, but you probably had no idea that some of those calls were being routed to Middle Earth!

Tech Support Gandalf is the meme flavor of the year month week, and he’s full of all kinds of computer wisdom- You should always let the installation wizard finish doing its thing, for the installation wizard completes precisely when he means to, and when in doubt Google it.

We’ve included a blank version, so you can try your hand at creating a Tech Support Gandalf image of your own.

-Via Uproxx

Actress, fashion designer and Sith seductress Ashley Eckstein is planning to debut a “Geek Couture” line, from her fashion label Her Universe, at Comic-Con 2014, with a little help from the geek royalty at Nerdist. 

From the look of her preliminary drawings those who can afford to shell out hundreds, possibly thousands, of dollars for a TARDIS themed outfit, or a pair of shorts and a top inspired by Bumblebee from the Transformers are going to be mighty excited to get their hands on one of her fancy geek getups.

But even if you can't afford to buy a piece from the collection you can still submit your own design, and thirty lucky winners will have their designs entered into the show, with two grand prize winners selected to co-design new clothing for Her Universe.

-Via Topless Robot

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10 Different Takes on All the Different Doctors (Mental Floss)

Image: We Pretty Much Love These Tiny Felted Pokemon by xxNostalgic (The Mary Sue)

For some reason movie titles don’t survive the trip across the ocean unscathed, and when international audiences go see a movie they may not be totally sure what they’re going to see because the title has been so badly butchered.

A website called Rocketnews24 has taken it upon themselves to reveal this title butchery by translating Japanese versions of Hollywood movie titles back into English, showing us how easy it is for Being John Malovich to become Malcovich’s Hole, Despicable Me de-evolves into Mysterious Thief Gru’s Moon Theft, and a third Final Destination becomes a ride on a Final Deadcoaster.

-Via DesignTAXI