Going to the see the doctor? That's not icky at all. And Karolyn Gehrig wants you and everyone else to feel that way. That's why she created a series of sensuous and fashionable photos of herself in real-life medical settings. Gehrig calls the project #HospitalGlam.
Dealing with medical issues doesn't make you less beautiful. Gehrig explains:
#HospitalGlam is a movement for and by people with disabilities that started by appropriating fashion imagery and reinserting it into medical environments using bodies that don’t outwardly present as sick or disabled.
Do you need to power your rotisserie while camping? Forget a generator. Nature provides all the force you need. Here's a rack of beef ribs rotating on a water wheel. The fire is in a metal pan so that it doesn't get wet.
Koneko, a cosplayer who calls herself "Your Average Nerd," made this far above average costume of Thor, God of Thunder. She wore it last month at Katsucon.
Her Mjölnir was made not by the dwarves of Nidavellir, but by the employees of PropNerd Props, who are, to the best of my knowledge, human.
You can see more photos of this marvelous cosplay at Fashionably Geek.
You're impressed, but the Master is just bored. This is nothing to him. In fact, he doesn't even need a knife to perform this feat. He can use just his mind. But he knows that makes the other cooks uncomfortable.
The motion picture industry has ironically had a very negative impact on the movie theaters that show their films, and as a result ticket prices keep going up and fewer people are going out to the movies.
In an effort to "fix" this problem some Hollywood filmmakers are backing the Screening Room, a home viewing service which would allow people to watch a movie at home the same day it comes out in theaters.
Viewers would have to buy a set-top box for their home (which costs around $150) that would make new movies available to rent for 48 hours through the anti-piracy equipped box for $50 per flick.
Many big name directors are backing this "bold new vision" of a home based Hollywood movie experience dreamed up by Napster founder Sean Parker, with Peter Jackson being the most vocal in support of the service so far.
But Screening Room is truly dividing audiences and talent alike, and just as many directors, actors and movie fans have come out against the service, saying it will cause even more theaters to close even though theaters will get a cut of the profits.
Andy Akiho is a composer and percussionist. He has radically different approaches to the creation of music and refuses to limit himself to traditional precepts. Akiho demonstrated that last year with his composition of "Ricochet," an orchestral piece that uses surprising objects as musical instruments.
At the center of this piece is the humble ping pong ball. Akiho's performers in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra batted ping pong balls around to create ricocheting sounds. Here's the full performance:
Rémi Gaillard, a professional prankster par excellence, pretended to be blind. This was simple enough: all he had to do was get a white cane and a pair of dark glasses.
Then he went for a drive.
This alarmed many people. And when Gaillard went walking through busy streets, along rooftop ledges, and the wrong way on escalators, they intervened to help him.
When an actor really nails a role, making us believe the character they're playing truly exists, audiences don't really think about how the actor prepared for the role, they just enjoy the show.
But even great actors need a little help now and again to get really in touch with the role, and for some method acting means they're actually drunk as a skunk while playing the role.
It makes sense to drink up before playing a character like Tyler Durden in Fight Club or Willie Stokes in Bad Santa, but it's surprising to find out Daniel Radcliffe struggled with alcoholism while playing Harry Potter.
I bet the booze made everything seem that much more "magical" during filming!
But Daniel is in good company, because some of the most iconic performances of all time were delivered by drunk actors.
Martin Sheen got nice and saucy before "acting" out during the opening scene of Apocalypse Now, and his drunken fit was so compelling to watch Coppola kept the cameras rolling even after Sheen sliced open his hand when he punched the mirror.
Tarot decks are the stuff of mysticism, but they don't need to be dark and foreboding. As artist Ariel Hart demonstrates to us, even the vivid, brilliant artwork from beloved 80's and 90's artist Lisa Frank can make for a delightful tarot card deck.
It's sure a lot easier to hear about death when it's illustrated with a beautiful white unicorn. Finally you can predict your future with the rainbows, puppies and smiley faces of your past!
YouTube user MarcoRubo created this video of him juggling 3 Rubik's Cubes and successfully solving all 3 puzzles in just 20 seconds! That's amazing!
But it doesn't impress everyone. The Telegraph notes that some people on the internet think that the video is fake:
"It's definitely being played in reverse," says Reddit user TarmacFFS. "The throws are too effortless and the catches have too much force. You don't just open your hand and something flies out of it, and you don't yank objects out of the air. […]
The theory that the video is played backwards appears to be the most popular – with other critics suggesting that the sound effects were dubbed in afterwards. One commenter even notes that viewers conveniently can't see the mouth of anybody speaking.
YouTube user ThisIsVegas says that a few years ago, he and his mother visited the Samphram Crocodile Farm in Bangkok. He recorded a shocking accident at one of the public shows when one performer stuck his hand down the throat of a crocodile.
There's an episode of the X-Files that is so disturbing Fox promised they'd never show it again, and yet this dark and dangerous episode actually has an interesting origin- Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography.
The standalone episode is called "Home" and finds Mulder and Scully investigating the murder of an infant, which leads them to the home of three deformed brothers who are keeping a dark secret.
It's later revealed that their quadruple amputee mother, who supposedly died years ago, is alive and had given birth to the murdered infant, making an already dark episode even more cringe inducing.
Co-writer of the episode Glen Morgan says the episode was inspired by a peculiar section of Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, in which Chaplin describes an incident that took place while staying at a miner's house in a British town called Ebbw Vale.
The miner then convinced the legless man to dance and do some tricks:
A half man with no legs, an oversized, blond, flat-shaped head, a sickening white face, a sunken nose, a large mouth and powerful muscular shoulders and arms, crawled from underneath the dresser … "Hey, Gilbert, jump!" said the father and the wretched man lowered himself slowly, then shot up by his arms almost to the height of my head.
"How do you think he’d fit in with a circus? The human frog!"
I was so horrified I could hardly answer. However, I suggested the names of several circuses that he might write to.
Archer the fox not only has a cool name for a fox, he also has the coolest and most hilarious laugh I've ever heard come out of a fox's maw.
And every time his human starts cracking up Archer literally hits the floor laughing his bushy little tail off, either that or he's got something caught in his throat.
On second thought, maybe Archer is laughing at how messy his humans are, clean up that room people!
Around the same time as the folks at NASA were faking the moon landing with a little help from Stanley Kubrick (sarcasm) the mighty Led Zeppelin was becoming one of the world's most popular rock bands.
A few years later (1973 to be exact) Led Zeppelin started making a movie called The Song Remains The Same that supposedly contained live concert footage from the band's three night gig at Madison Square Gardens.
Only that was a great big lie, because while the band did play three consecutive sold out shows at the Garden in July of 1973, and director Joe Massat was there filming the show, his footage turned out to be mostly unusable and he was fired.
New director Peter Clifton came on board and discovered Massat's footage couldn't be properly synced to sound or edited so he decided to reshoot the live footage, in the same running order, at Shepperton studio in Surrey, England.
It's pretty easy to tell which parts were reshot when you watch the film armed with this knowledge, but Jimmy Page didn't actually reveal this secret reshoot until he was interviewed by Uncut magazine in 2008:
“I’m sort of miming at Shepperton to what I’d played at Madison Square Garden, but of course, although I’ve got a rough approximation of what I was playing from night to night, it’s not exact. So the film that came out in the ‘70s is a bit warts-and-all.”
