Not every cat can be an internet superstar. The rest of us have regular everyday cats that never do anything worth recording, so in the rare moment that they do, we aren’t ready with a camera. That’s okay, we love them anyway. Animation Domination even has a special song for all the millions of not-so-special cats. -via Viral Viral Videos
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When artist Phil Sevy found out the mutant Quicksilver was going to be dressed like a hipster in the upcoming X-Men movie Days Of Future Passed he was inspired to come up with some hipster heroes of his own, but just because someone did it in a movie doesn’t make it right!
Phil created a set for Batman and one for the X-Men, and though his artwork is slick as can be these might be the most horrifying comic book redesigns ever.
Hipster Nightcrawler would be mighty annoying, constantly teleporting in to steal your PBR and change the music to Mumford & Sons, and something about the hipster look makes Wolverine look like he's been declawed.
Via Gamma Squad
Boggie (Csemer Boglárka) is a Hungarian singer. Her song "Parfüm" has a particularly intriguing video. Her video image is "improved" into a magazine-ready image of a celebrity in real time during the song -even while she sings!
On the one hand, it's an illustration of how enthusiastic Photoshop treatments take all the reality out of its subjects to make them adhere to an expected standard of beauty. We've seen that before. On the other hand, the video itself is a technical wonder. And the song is nice, too! -via Viral Viral Videos
They can't shoot straight, and they can barely walk through a door without hurting themselves, so it might surprise you to see that these guys can dance! We've seen Stormtroopers dance, but it's usually a solo affair. This particular group of clones should get extra rations for coordinating so well. There is actually very little Twerking in the routine. Which is a good thing.
A group of friends got together and wrote the song, choreographed the dance, performed it, filmed it, and uploaded it for our pleasure. The song is "Beat Calls" by Scott and Brendo. -via Viral Viral Videos
Johnson Stang has the alchemist’s gift of making solid materials, in this case ceramic clay, bend to his will and take on the characteristics of a fluid without sacrificing solidity, while beautifully replicating humanistic forms in a splash of sculptural liquid.
His latest series is called Living Clay, and it combines ceramic crockery with sculptural element to create the fluid illusion, capturing the look of liquids mid-pour with realistic human faces emerging from the drink.
The sculptural forms flow in such an organic way it's hard to believe they're made of clay and not splashing liquids, and Johnson seamlessly integrates human forms into each piece in a way which makes them feel like they've always been there just waiting to rise up out of the water.
Via Bored Panda
Jason Neilus and friends filmed a seal encounter in October off the coast of the Farne Islands in Northumberland, UK. He says of six dives in the area, this is the most interaction they'd had with young seals, which were friendly, curious, and photogenic. They look like they're smiling! The music is "On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragon. -via Arbroath
Virginia Wade is the pen name of a stay-at-home mom from Parker, Colorado who makes a really good living writing some rather peculiar Romance novels about that elusive ape-man Bigfoot.
Okay, that was a nice way of saying Virginia writes monster porn novels, cryptozoological erotica books that mostly star Bigfoot, which she is having tons of success selling via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
Virginia reports making as much as $30k a month selling sasquatch smut, making at least $6k during slow months, and she even has her family helping her put these hair raising tales together:
“I started cranking them out,” she says. “If there was a market there for monster sex, I was gonna give it to them.” She even brought in her family to help with the workload. “My dad, who’s an English instructor, was my editor,” Wade says. “My mom did the German translations” — including the equally popular “Komm für Bigfoot.”
[...] “I was putting my daughter through college with the profits,” Wade says. “I used to joke with her, ‘Bigfoot smut is paying for your school.’”
Via Gamma Squad
Just like the rest of us, Priya the cat enjoys watching videos of kittens on the computer. But concern kicks in when the screen goes blank! Where are those kittens? Priya does her best to find them. Turns out that the kittens were on a home video, but they were foster kittens from long ago, and Priya never knew them. The best thing to do is -replay! -via Daily Picks and Flicks
Just because you wear clown makeup, base your entire life around rappers Insane Clown Posse, and were once considered thugs by those who mistook your face paint for gang affiliation, doesn’t mean you don’t want to find a Juggalo or Juggalette to call your own.
Now, there’s juggaLOVE, a dating site that caters to clown faced lovers who just want to kick back, down a few bottles of Faygo and get crazy with a fellow face painting superfan.
Created by L.A. based writer and director Chris Capal, whose favorite color happens to be Clown White, juggaLOVE is just what lonely and estranged people of all ages have been looking for, and should help keep them off the streets!
Via DesignTAXI
Eleven-year-old Trinity Rhoades of South Jordan, Utah, played a game of hide and seek with her sister and cousins Tuesday. Trinity decided to hide in the washing machine, but once in, she couldn't get out.
Her sister and cousins tried remedies they recalled from cartoons. First they used butter to lubricate her legs. Then they tried using peanut butter. Then they resorted to ice, which only left the girl cold, so they then poured warm water over her. The children finally called Trinity's mom, who called emergency services. They found the girl not only stuck in a washing machine, but "wet, cold, and covered with condiments."
They eventually had to cut the dryer from the top of the combo unit, and Trinity was freed. She has some bruising on her legs, but is otherwise uninjured. -via Arbroath
We're having a cold snap down here in Texas. It's gotten as low as 50ºF! Brrr. We'll survive though.
Now in Antarctica, they've got it really rough. Here's a video from McMurdo Station, the main American research center in Antarctica. It's a 2006 video showing what the weather is like in what the natives call "Condition 1." That's when the wind speed exceeds 55 knots, visibility is less than 100 feet or the wind chill temperature is below -100ºF. Rather nippy.
-via TYWKIWDBI
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 animated fantasy/comedy/film noire directed by Robert Zemeckis (who directed the live action) and Richard Williams (who was in charge of the animation sequences). The film was a revolutionary mix of live action and animation and was based on the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf. In the novel, cartoon characters interact with real people. Before Zemeckis, Terry Giliam had been offered the directing position, but he declined, saying the job was "too technically challenging."
A common question about the film: Why no question mark in the film's title? The answer is an old Hollywood superstition that a question mark in a film's title is considered bad luck.
The actual lead role in the film is Eddie Valiant, the hard-boiled P.I. who is investigating the death of Marvin Acme. Producer Steven Spielberg's original choice for the role was Harrison Ford, but Ford's asking price was too high. Bill Murray was another early choice, but because he was so hard to locate and contact, Spielberg and Zemeckis decided to pass on him, too (when Murray read this story, he reportedly screamed, as he said he would have happily taken on the "Eddie" role).
Sylvester Stallone, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, and Ed Harris were all considered before character actor Bob Hoskins was finalized for the lead. To get the feel of working with imaginary characters, Hoskins studied his young daughter. After filming, Hoskins reportedly suffered from hallucinations. After he saw the film, Hoskins' young son was furious at him because his father never introduced him to Bugs Bunny!
Christopher Lloyd, who had already worked with Zemeckis in 1985's Back to the Future, took on the lead villain role of "Judge Doom." John Cleese also auditioned for the judge, but Spielberg and Zemeckis both thought no one would take a member of Monty Python seriously as a villain.
Lloyd avoided blinking his eyes on camera in order to perfectly portray the sinister character. Judge Doom's group of weasel henchmen (Smartass, Greasy, Stupid, Wheezy, and Psycho) were a satire of Snow White's seven dwarves.
Dashing through the snow in a one dog open sleigh, over the fields they go, barking all the way. After that, the two discover they can get in even more fun Christmasy adventures, digging through stockings, smashing decorations, ripping open the presents -and that's just the start of the mayhem.
Well, if they're going to get in this much trouble, at least they look cute while doing it -especially with those reindeer antlers. Just imagine the police lineup they would end up in.
Via Cute Overload
Artificial tree or real, every year, cats everywhere think Christmas trees are great new cat condos their loving owners bought them to play with. Unfortunately, Christmas trees just aren't made with that kind of weight in mind and most ornaments aren't made to survive a crash to the ground.
Fortunately for little Sesshomaru here, this tree doesn't have any ornaments on it yet, so he gets to learn his lesson about Christmas trees without suffering any serious injuries or crashing loud noises.
Via Laughing Squid
Surely you remember Paul and T.J. from their video An Engineer's Guide to Cats we posted five years ago. They are back with a sequel! Here they present their particularly geeky views on the behavior of their combined four cats: Sweet William the Furst, who may have been pirate; Ginger, the economic indicator; Oscar, the artist; and Zoe, who just sits on things. -via Tastefully Offensive
See also: Advanced Cat Yodeling
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