Who is this? It’s DeviantART member problematiiques, all decked out for cosplay! But who -or what- is she dressed up as? She’s BMO, an animated video game console!
Adventure Time‘s BMO is a simply delightful character. Completely asexual, adorably cheerful and both a friend and source of entertainment in the post-apocalypse, BMO is the electronic friend we only wish we could have. While BMO may not be real (at least not yet), we can at least celebrate him/her through the power of cosplay and here are some of the most delightful BMO cosplays out there.
You know who hunts eggs at the Cincinnati zoo Easter egg hunt? Gorillas! And it looks a bit like a human Easter egg hunt, except for the basket flinging, the immediate eating of real eggs, and the lack of crying.
The first-ever kiss in a movie took place in 1896. It was between Mae Irwin and John Rice. The kiss itself only lasts for a few brief seconds, but it caused quite a scandal in those simpler times.
“They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house.” -The Edison Catalogue
2) Most kisses in a single film
John Barrymore kisses various beautiful women a record 191 times in 1926's Don Juan, the first Warner Brothers Vitaphone film that mixed sound and music. A 167-minute film, 191 kisses- that comes out to a kiss every 53 seconds.
3) First girl-on-girl kiss
Okay, here's your question of the day: which took place first in cinema history, two women kissing or two guys? The first all-girl kiss took place a full 41 years before two guys caught up.
In 1930, the gorgeous Marlene Dietrich, dressed up in a man's tuxedo, presses her lips against another woman in the 1930 film Morocco. Marlene was nominated for an Academy Award for her role. This despite knowing little English and speaking her dialogue phonetically.
The 13th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest has announced their winners. The Grand Prize went to image above, by Albert Ivan Damanik of Medan, Indonesia. It is the June 2015 eruption of Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra.
The Reader’s Choice Award photo is by Alice van Kempen of Rockanje, Netherlands. Her dog Claire is posing in an abandoned train in a picture from her series "Leave Only Pawprints: Urbex Adventures With My Bull Terrier Claire."
Face it, you’ll never have time to read those books you’ve heard about all your life. Most of them are pretty long. The Grapes of Wrath is probably the shortest of these, and it’s so depressing it may as well be nonfiction. John Atkinson has those stories boiled down to a couple of pithy lines, so you have the plot in a nutshell. And I heard that boiled pith and nutshells are full of fiber, if not flavor. These comics are from Wrong Hands, here and here.
The days of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs busting cocaine dealers on Miami Vice really do seem like thirty years ago. The show was very very much a product of its time, and at the same time, was very influential in shaping our memories of that time. My husband quit wearing socks and put a blazer (a cheap one) over his t-shirts for work. Whatever song the show played would be heavily requested the next day. And then suddenly, that all stopped, and the ‘80s were over. Let’s go back in time and find out a little more than we already know about Miami Vice.
1. “MTV COPS” WAS THE MAIN CONCEIT OF THE SERIES.
There have been differing opinions as to who came up with the idea of “MTV Cops” as a summary for what Miami Vice should be. While many sources claim that it was Brandon Tartikoff who scribbled down the two-word idea as a brainstorming memo, show creator Anthony Yerkovich has maintained that he spent years developing the idea that would become Miami Vice. “I thought of [Miami] as a sort of a modern-day American Casablanca,” Yerkovich told TIME in 1985. “It seemed to be an interesting socioeconomic tide pool: the incredible number of refugees from Central America and Cuba, the already extensive Cuban-American community, and on top of all that the drug trade.”
Regardless of whether you believe the story about the Tartikoff memo, there’s no denying that Miami Vice did become a cop show for the MTV generation. “The show is written for an MTV audience, which is more interested in images, emotions, and energy than plot and character and words,” said Lee Katzin, who directed two episodes of the show’s first season.
4. THE NETWORK DIDN’T WANT DON JOHNSON.
Though the casting conversation kept coming back to Don Johnson for the role of Sonny Crockett, the network was against casting him, deeming him pilot poison. “I had made five pilots for Brandon Tartikoff back then, and none of them were picked up,” Johnson told Rolling Stone.
Well, the sixth time was a charm. The show went on to influence fashion, music, tourism, and even architecture. Read the behind-the-scenes trivia about Miami Vice at mental_floss.
Everyone knows Bob Ross, the artist who wanted everyone to enjoy painting as much as he did, and feel good about the creative process. There were no mistakes, just “happy little accidents.” Ross’ television persona was familiar to everyone, but there was much more to the man to learn about. Elliot Morgan hosts this week’s episode of the List Show from mental_floss.
How many movies have you seen with firemen in them? Probably more than you realize. When I saw this title, I thought of Backdraft, and then… couldn’t think of any others. But the list does contain a couple other movies I’ve seen. Still, Backdraft is the most memorable for the firefighters in it, particularly Lt. Stephen “Bull” McCaffrey.
I don’t know about you, but when I think of “firefighter movies,” I immediately think of Backdraft – an intense movie with a great cast and a great director (is Ron Howard really that great? Eh, I suppose it’s a discussion for another time). Anyway, Kurt Russell plays McCaffrey, an aggressive firefighter who has no problem entering a building engulfed by flames, often in a pretty reckless manner. He leaves a lasting impression on his brother, Brian, who continues to fight fires after Stephen is no longer, uh, active.
Check out the others in this list of movie firefighters at TVOM. Then send it to a firefighter you know.
The production team from the TV show The Walking Dead goes through buckets and buckets of blood. So much blood. Of course, it’s all fake blood, and it comes in many different types. Property master John Sanders explains the many different types of blood the show uses. There are different colors for the zombie blood, depending on how rotten they are, different viscosities for the specific ways blood is used in a scene, and some workarounds, too, because shooting blood on film is different from real life.
If a weapon has to remain bloodied for more than one scene, they'll usually paint onto a plastic or rubber version of the prop weapon. This way the team won't have to worry about permanently staining the weapon, as the alcohol based blood is easier to wash off. This trick is especially handy because one scene may take multiple days to film, and constantly re-staining with prop blood may damage the weapon.
"We have a number of alcohol based paints that we’ll paint on there because they may have to match that for a whole scene," Sanders explained. "That weapon’s supposed to be bloody for the next 10 scenes of the show, but those 10 scenes may be over eight days. We have a lot of tricks."
Altogether, Sanders must keep track of a dozen different kinds of blood. Read more about the complicated world of fake blood in the production of The Walking Dead. -via Digg
The industrial metropolis of Glasgow, Scotland, has extra-large abandoned places. These include factories, stadiums, hospitals, railway stations, stockyards, pubs, and even a zoo. The institution pictured here is the interior of the imposing Gothic Gartloch Asylum.
Unnerving as it may have been in its heyday, Gartloch now is simply bleak – in a beautiful sort of way. Opened in 1896 and once serving 800 psychiatric patients, this grand, Grade A listed structure finally closed its doors exactly one hundred years later. While other buildings have been repurposed into flats, its haunting administration block has thus far remained eerily empty.
The YouTube channel How It Should Have Ended takes a left turn with their latest video. Instead of taking The Force Awakens and making it more logical (which they’ve already done), they imagined a scenario in which Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker face off in battle. And it’s in LEGO!
HISHE collaborated with Brotherhood Workshop to produce this video for SXSW’s Video Game Awards ceremony. They should do more of these. Contains minor spoilers. -via Tastefully Offensive
A naked man ran down Broad Street in Birmingham, UK, in front of the Saturday night crowd. The unnamed 47-year-old man run up and down the street, occasionally pausing to pose for the onlookers and their phone cameras, until police arrived. But that wasn’t the weirdest part of the caper. It was when a superhero showed up.
Then the night became even crazier when a man dressed as the superhero Bananaman, in a yellow cape, yellow boots and blue bodysuit, sprang into action at the sight of the streaker.
New footage shows Bananaman bravely holding out his hand out to halt traffic and pedestrians while the streaker stops a silver car and is seen jumping in front of a double decker bus waving his arms around.
Female onlookers cheer Bananaman as the dynamic duo join forces and prance around on the pavement.
The streaker was booked on a drunk and disorderly charge. Bananaman went back to whatever it is Bananaman does. -via Arbroath
Last week, we linked the story of Paramount’s search for a story to tell in the first Star Trek feature film. The followup is the tale of how the movie got made, although it was a mess of a production from the beginning. After dropping the idea in 1977, Paramount suddenly decided in 1978 that there would be a Star Trek movie one way or another, and it had to be made within a year. That led to all kinds of struggles, even after the principle filming was finally finished. For example, the computer visual effects, which the producers were counting on.
“They made some really big, fundamental mistakes in trying to pre-vis on computers that weren’t ready for primetime,” Trumbull told The Hollywood Reporter. “They spent a year and nothing was finished, and nothing worked.”
As a result, Trumbull found himself at the centre of a massive panic at Paramount. Theatres had paid advances amounting to $30 million with the understanding that Star Trek would open on December 7th. Yet here they were, with the movie just months away, and not a single effects shot had been completed. The size of the situation was such that, if Paramount couldn’t deliver the movie, they’d almost certainly be sued into oblivion by angry cinema owners.
These ducks know who the good guy is. The one who feeds them! They are so excited when they see him coming down the hill that they rush to meet him. If that means holding up traffic, so be it.
I live near a river with ducks and geese. For years, the ducks were shy and the geese were hateful. Then the city installed vending machines so people could buy duck chow for a quarter, and suddenly we have the world’s friendliest ducks and geese. Food really does make the world go ‘round. -via Viral Viral Videos
A group of Vermont friends staying at Elk Country Inn in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were drinking and got into an argument. Quinn McElwain was upset and left the room. He may have said something about going home. His friends called police about his disappearance. Not long afterward, police received another call, about a missing pizza delivery vehicle that disappeared from the Elk Country Inn. They checked with the Jackson Hole Airport. Lt. Cole Nethercott tells what happened.
When police determined that McElwain bought a ticket to Chicago with cash, he was already in transit and had transferred flights in Denver for the final leg of the trip.
Security officers at Chicago O’Hare International were contacted to intercept the suspect, but he lucked out of being apprehended.
“For whatever reason,” Nethercott said, “they ended up at the wrong gate and they missed him.”
The Toyota RAV4 was returned to the Pizza Hut driver, and nothing was missing from the vehicle. That means that the charge, under Wyoming law, is not grand theft auto, but only unauthorized use of a vehicle, which is a misdemeanor. Nethercott said the question at this point is whether the prosecutor will want to go to the expense of extraditing McElwain for a misdemeanor charge. -via Daily of the Day
