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Pongdrian

HappyToast saw the similarities of a Piet Mondrian artwork and the classic video game Pong, and made a gif to illustrate it. This was submitted to a b3ta image challenge for video game art. You can see all the submissions here.

This was such a neat idea for a game, that K.M. Hansen made a playable version called MondriPong 1.2. It takes a bit of dexterity to play both sides. -via Everlasting Blort


Goat is Just Hanging Around

This goat was just doing his goaty thing near Tempi, Greece, and the next thing he knows, he’s hanging from an overhead cable by his horns. “Well, I guess this is my life now.” Who knows how he got up there or how long he was hanging before a work crew came to rescue him.

Giannis Goulas posted a six-minute video of the rescue effort, which involved ropes and ladders and possibly some profanity if you understand Greek. They managed to get the goat down by pulling him back toward the cliff. The goat wandered off without so much as a “thank you.” Or maybe he did thank them, since it’s all Greek to me. -via Arbroath


WonderCon Kids

Look at this adorable BB-8 cosplayer! Kayla has a costume that’s both realistic and maneuverable, depending on whether you are standing or sitting. Then she meets the Xenomorph from Alien, who is really her sister.

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These two were spotted at WonderCon 2016 wearing costumes by their parents William and Nikki Miyamoto, the same couple responsible for this. -via Geeks Are Sexy


On the Catwalk

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Just strolling down the walkway in a nature sanctuary when this happened. It’s hard to tell who is more scared. The top reddit comment says it all.

If I saw that I'd puma pants.

Tina Dorschel recorded this encounter on a walkway at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary near Naples in Florida. -via reddit


Hogancamp's Heroes: How Playing With Dolls Lets a Hate-Crime Survivor Fight Back

Mark Hogancamp was beaten so badly by five men in 2000 that he lost his memory and had to learn to walk and talk all over again. As he recovered, he found his muse in constructing a 1/6 scale world called Marwencol, a World War II fantasyland. The work served as therapy for both body and brain. Hogancamp’s intricate and lovingly-crafted scenes went viral and became the subject of a book and a documentary. And now it’s in development as a feature film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Steve Carell. Chris Shellen, co-author of the book Welcome to Marwencol, tells us about Hogancamp’s life and work.

“He’s fully committed to the image that’s in his head,” Shellen says. “Somebody bought him a model plane, for instance, and the plane was beautiful and perfectly painted, as if it just rolled off the assembly line. Because he was in the Navy and he has an amazing eye for detail, Mark knows how metal rusts and gets weathered by wind. So he took out these rust-colored and metallic paints and weathered the plane to the point where it looks authentically used.

“It’s the same thing with the dolls,” she continues. “He says if you put a doll in a new, starched coat, it looks like a doll. So he’ll put the uniforms on the new dolls, and then he’ll leave them in the elements so that they get soaked in the rain and caked in mud. Then the clothing falls properly, and it looks dirty, like it would. He’ll also use the dirt outside to give the dolls’ faces natural contours, so they look a little haggard. He’s meticulous about the hair as well. He’ll actually style the women’s hair so it doesn’t stick out like doll’s hair sometimes does.”

An article at Collectors Weekly talks about Hogancamp’s attack, his struggle to recover from brain damage, how Marwencol came about, and the interest psychologists are taking in his self-discovered therapy. And there are plenty of pictures, too. 

(Image credit: Mark Hogancamp, courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press)

See also: previous posts on Hogancamp.


35 Facts about Rock Bands

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Oh, here’s a subject you want to hear about! Rock bands are a never-ending source of trivia, with all the weird things they do and go through. From the Rolling Stones to Green Day, you’ll hear something you don’t know, even if you think you’re the rock trivia champ. John Green fills us in, in the latest episode of the mental_floss List Show.


5 Awesome Deleted Scenes from Dramatic Movies

After you’ve put your heart and soul into crafting a feature film, it must be difficult to edit out entire scenes. It’s usually crucial to do so, because audiences aren’t going to sit through much more than three hours of a movie. Some scenes get cut because they turned out not as good as others, but some very good scenes are cut because they don’t change the entire plot and will save time. That’s a pity, but they often are included as extras for home video, so you can choose to watch them or not. TVOM has collected several of those good-but-not-crucial scenes from movies you know and love: The Shawshank Redemption, The Professional, Looker, Boondock Saints, and Terminator 2. Some clips contain NSFW language.


The Evolution of a River

I took my first college courses at the age of six, because Mom got a job and Dad took me to work with him as he taught geology and geography during summer school. I was fascinated by the lesson on how rivers matured. As the coursing water bounces off the banks from side to side, it creates meanders, which widen until they are completely cut off from the main flow, creating oxbow lakes. There’s a pretty simple explanation of the process here.

Fifty years later, we get to see the process happening on earth, thanks to satellite imagery. Google Earth Engine combined Landsat images of the Ucayali River in Peru over thirty years time to illustrate the advancing meanders, which culminate in the creation of an oxbow lake. Read more about this particular progression at Hindered Settling. -via Boing Boing


An Honest Trailer for The Revenant

If you haven’t already seen The Revenant, here’s the Honest Trailer that will convince you not to bother. Sure, it won three Golden Globes, five BAFTA Awards, and three Oscars, but Screen Junkies knows how to sit back and concentrate on a movie’s failings.

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However, you may be intrigued by the concept of a movie that’s both immensely boring and full of violence. How does that happen? -Thanks, Andrew!


Lilica’s Puppies

Earlier this week, John treated us to a dog maternity photo shoot, featuring Lilica before she had her five puppies. Now you can see photographer Ana Paula Grillo’s pictures of the puppies! Doesn’t Lilica look proud? Sorry, all the puppies are spoken for when they are old enough to leave their mom. See more pictures of the family at Facebook.

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Who Wore It Better?

JohnKFisher thought his wife’s new maternity dress looked familiar. Then he figured out what it looked like.

But she wasn’t the only one who liked the dress. Redditor shypye also bought the dress

Redditor doc10house also spotted this dress in the wild last year.

I tried to see if this dress is a sensation, and it was literally the first result when I did a Google search for “maternity dress.” Then it turns out that several women on the subreddit r/babybumps had bought it.

It’s not the first time a dress has been compared to a can of Arizona Tea, although that may say more about the fine design of the drink packaging than anything else. But many think that Homer actually wore it best.


That One Lightsaber

This video tells the story of a family through one object that is passed down from one generation to the next. So far it’s been only two generations, Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, who owned this particular lightsaber, but in the coming Star Wars movies we will learn who the next rightful owner will be. My bets are not on Kylo Ren, although he believes he is entitled to it.

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That part about “Your father wanted you to have it when you’re old enough” was pure BS, but it was easier than Obi-Wan explaining how many people had been killed by that weapon. Christopher Sherwood compiled clips from a half-dozen Star Wars films to tell the story of Luke’s strangely color-changing lightsaber. -via Buzzfeed


Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars Audition

Star Wars UK has posted some of the bonus features from the home video release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I this one, we hear about how Daisy Ridley was selected for the role of Rey.

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You can see more of the extras at YouTube. The home video release dates at the end of the video are for the UK. The US will see the DVD and Blu-ray release April 5. -via Digg 


Television’s Six Best Platonic Relationships

In real life, platonic relationships between men and women are everywhere, mainly because people work together and are married to other people. Therefore, they have a lot to talk about and there’s no sexual tension. However, these friends rarely see each other outside of work. On TV, everyone is younger than average and much less likely to be married. That often leads to sexual tension and/or eventual coupling, so true platonic friends are rare on TV. But they do exist, like Jerry and Elaine on Seinfeld.

Alright, this is cheating a bit as the two did date previously, but “staying friends” after a breakup has never seen a better representation on television. They split their time evenly between scheming, joking and wanting to kill each other, but when it came down to it, were more or less best friends. Yes, I know there’s the episode where they end up having sex, but that’s pretty much done on a bet, and one slip in a million episodes isn’t too bad.

See how hard it was to come up with a list of platonic friendships between opposites sexes on TV? There are five more in the list from TVOM that work out right, but you may have forgotten about.


The Family that Cosplays Together, Stays Together

Spoilers? We'll have to wait for more movies to know for sure. Rey and Finn are a couple, at least when it’s Comic Con time! Victor Sine took his family to the Salt Lake City ComicCon dressed as the perfect Star Wars family. Yes, they could have gotten a BBsitter, but thought it better to start their BB off right for a life of geeky cosplay -and show her off, too.



You can see more pictures at Sine’s blog That’s My Sine. -va Uproxx


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