If you know me at all you know my two favorite actors of all time are Sean Connery and Harrison Ford. That's just the way it is. So it should come as no surprise to those of you who know me that I love Indiana Jones and dressed up and Indy for 65 percent of my childhood Halloweens. A few of my adult ones as well. Check out this great collection of behind-the-scenes photos from Raiders of The Lost Ark.
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How good are you are predicting viral videos? Do you also happen to enjoy the stock market? Then you will love the Viral Video eXchange - an online stock market game. You can view trending videos, buy stock in videos, spend and earn (fake) money, and so on. I personally just bought 100 shares of Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix with William Shatner.
The game is the creation of Dave Ganly, a 31-year-old Irishman who settled in London four years ago. “I wanted to make a throwback to web based games like the BBC's Celebdaq, which I played in college,” he said in an email interview with the Dot. “I love viral video as well, and was annoyed at the poor quality of discovery of really original viral content (as opposed to just 'what had a million views yesterday’).”
“The game has two major 'goals' from a player perspective – one is to finish an in-game story that reveals itself as players become more wealthy … and the other is to hit the overall target of one million voins. Like lots of games of this type, having seriously rich users (e.g. people on one million + voins) would cause too much imbalance, so players are awarded a final in-game achievement and reset to one thousand voins.”
It's Carrot Top Leeloo from The Fifth Element! Are you a supreme being? Do you know what love is!? I wonder where she has got her Multi-pass... I have so many questions! Oh well. IF I can get my dog to dress up as this next year, I promise to go as Zorg.
Warning- NSFW Strong Language. I don't think anyone could cook as perfect a Thanksgiving meal as these two meth dealers! While their costumes might not be the best, and their voices a little bit off, they nailed the mannerisms of their respective characters. They even have the classic corny yet cool montage. Which of your favorite factional characters would you like to make your Thanksgiving feast? Some of that Harry Potter food, like Cauldron Cakes or Chocolate frogs, would be... magical.
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It was only a matter of time before someone did it for real. Well, actually it has been done a few times but It still is cool every time I see it. The floating house from Pixar's Up. This was the first time, however, it was pulled off with a human passanger. Jonathan Trappe is a "professional" cluster-balloonist. Check out more images at Geakologie.
The people of New Zealand are so excited for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that they are renaming Wellington, the capital city, to The Middle of Middle-Earth for the week of the premier. I have to say I am equally as excited. I have never been into Cosplay, never dressed up, or been to a premier of anything, but I am considering it for this film. As a kid I loved The Lord of The Rings, but I lived and breathed The Hobbit. I don't think I have been this excited since I found out Evangeline Lilly (Kate from Lost, AKA my dream girl) was going to be in the movies. Which was today. I might just lose it.
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We have had R2-D2 engagement rings, as a dancing machine, as a Vespa, and even as a keg. Now meet R2-D2 as a canned foodstuff creation. He was on display at the Canstruction Exhibit at One Market in San Francisco, Ca. The Canstruction exhibit is part of a competition where people make things out of cans, essentially.
Canstruction, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that holds annual design and build competitions to construct fantastic, giant sized, structures made entirely out of canned food. In each city after the structures are built and the winners declared the creations go on view to the general public as giant art exhibits. At the close of the competitions all of the food used in the structures is donated to the local food banks for distribution to community emergency feeding programs.
Pretty creative cause if you ask me.
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People all over the world - join hands. Start a chocolate train, a chocolate train. That's how that song goes right? I think I might prefer a chocolate train (photo L'Avenir) over a love train. Love can be tough, but chocolate... ...chocolate is always there for you. Chocolate doesn't let you down or leave you for that football player two times your size.
Created by "master chocolatier" Andrew Farrugia of Malta, this is a choo-choo train made entirely of chocolate. It's 2,755 pounds of fine Belgian chocolate and is about 111 feet long. That's 6.5 million calories.
Farrugia got the idea for the train last year, when visiting Belgian Chocolate Festival in Bruge. ”I had this idea for a while, and I said what do you think if we do this realization of a long chocolate train, you know, because a train you can make it as long as you like,” he told the press.
Check out more photos via Oddity Central
Doktor A. News wants to congratulate you on gaining immortality. The directions are as follows.
1. Remove strap and leads from the storage drawer.
2. Place electrodes against forehead and tighten strap.
3. Attach bulldog clips to terminals in the jaw.
4. Set over-ride timer to desired duration.
5. Crank the main handle to build electrical charge.
6. Close the main switch to engage the electrical flow.
7. Increase the electrical voltage using dial.
8. Wait until your Asphyx manifests within the tube.
9. Shut off charge to electrodes using the main switch.
10. Transfer the Asphyx to a long term containment device.
11. Congratulations you have gained immortality.
Well that was easy and not the least bit dangerous. This was created by toy maker Doktor A and took nearly 2 years to finish. His inspiration was from the 1972 film The Asphyx.
The Asphyx appears in Greek myths as an angel of death like deity who appears at the moment of demise to seek release from it’s eternal pain by possessing the dying soul of its victim. This piece is directly drawing on the iteration of the Asphyx as seen in the 1972 British horror film starring Robert Stephens and Robert Powell and imagines what may have come to pass with the success of Sir Hugo Cunningham’s experiments in trapping an Asphyx, if the events of the film had not taken such a terrible turn for the worst.
This guy is a toy maker, where were these toys when I was growing up? My parents messed up, I never had anything nearly this cool.
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She is shaking so much you'd think there was something on her butt she is trying to get off! No matter how bad my day gets I think happy puppies will always cheer me up. If there comes a day where I become such a cynic that they no long do the trick- then I don't want to live in this world anymore.
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Welcome back Nick Gentry. Gentry creates art on floppy disks. I think there is something to be said about his idea of beauty in this piece and the medium in which Gentry chooses to portray it. Clearly no one uses floppy disks anymore, they are out of date as time has passed them by. How does that Socrates quote go? Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Time touches us all and even beauty will fade through time. As the digital age has taken over this idea could easily work on CDs as well, but aesthetically might not hold the same power.
What are your thoughts?
Foxes are about the coolest feral animal imaginable. I wish there were more foxes in the world. Less coyotes and more foxes- that's what I say. I can safely conclude my connection to the animal all started with The Fox And the Hound. I am tearing up just thinking about it, poor Tod and poor Copper. Both put into a situation where they are supposed to be enemies but all they want to do is be is the best of friends. Ugh, damn you Disney. How do you still have a hold over me some 20 years later?
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You know how when you were growing up, you were just waiting for the day when those McFly hoverboards were finally reality? Well, while you were doing that I was waiting for the ability to animate miniatures in real life - probably though holograms. Sort of like the movie The Indian in the Cupboard. Sadly, neither of those things have become reality quite yet.
That sad fact doesn't change my excitement for this miniature Hobbit terrarium though. By the same artist that brought us the Beetlejuice terrarium. This beauty can be yours for only $400. Great, anyone have $400.00 they want to lend me?
Check out this list of other awesome terrariums as well.
Hostess may be broke, but that doesn't mean you have to take Twinkies out of your diet. Well, hopefully if you were dieting Twinkies were not included in your diet, but you get what I mean.
Instructables member Scoochmaroo has made a Twinkie recipe. While normally I would not indulge in such things, as I clearly treat my body as a temple, I think I might try this a home. With ingredients such as golden pound cake mix and coconut oil, these treats are most definitely delectable.
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Remember the jeweler who made that awesome scorpion out of watch parts? His name is Jason Gershenson-Gates, a Chicago-based jeweler, and he is making more awesome bugs.
The son of a “gearhead”, and the grandson of a railroad man, he used to always take apart his toys to see how they worked, but never seemed to be able to put them back together again. Nowadays, he takes apart old watches collected from all over the world and rearranges their parts into fantastic designs. Although his Mechanical Mind jewelry series is nothing short of awe-inspiring, in both size and design, it’s his latest series of mechanical insects that caught my eye. The idea of making miniature arthropods and insects out of watch parts and dead automotive light bulbs apparently came to him recently, after a jewelry show this past summer. He was experimenting with watch part anatomy when he decided to create fragile spider and insect legs. One thing led to another, and now Jason has an entire menagerie of incredibly detailed mechanical creepy crawlers.
You can check out more pictures of his awesome creations here.
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