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When the entertainment industry needs a far out creature puppet created they turn to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, who have been in the business of bringing fantastic puppets to life since 1979. Their signature style and dedication to quality makes their screen worthy creations sought after for TV shows, movies and commercials by companies worldwide.

Here's their current commercial reel, showing all the awesome puppets and far out creatures they've created for TV ads such as the Snuggle Bear, the Jack in the Box puppet and that little green guy who keeps talking about how easy it is to get a loan from home.

-Via Laughing Squid

Capture a snapshot of the Russian Empire circa 1910 and you’d expect to see images of turmoil, chaos and an empire on the verge of bloody revolution, but these color portraits by photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii are full of a sense of serenity and peace.

Sergey used an early tri-color photo process that involved shooting the subject through three different filters-red, green and blue. These three color images were then projected through the same color filters onto a screen and superimposed, creating the realistically colored final image.

Sergey's amazing and rare color photographs come from negatives purchased by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1948, and now they're available to view online here.

-Via Bored Panda

Photographer Brian Finke is an American bystander, someone who is there to see the Heartland go about their daily business and catalog the key moments via camera.

Frinke’s America is simple and technologically unadorned, caught in a moment by a suburbanite with the eye of a street photographer. The only problem with this theory is the fact that Brian Finke is from Brooklyn, so he's about as middle America as a slice of New York cheesecake.

His vision of cheerleaders, construction workers, flight attendants and football players is from an outsider's perspective with total access to the scene, giving each image a feeling of uninterrupted life and human energy.

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The figures sculpted by Bruce Catalano seem to be disappearing from, or phasing into, our reality from another dimension, and even though the figures aren’t in particularly dynamic poses they carry a sense of movement with them, leaving the viewer waiting for the figure to fully materialize.

The series is called "Travelers" and these visitors to our world bring with them one piece of luggage and a look that says who they are and where they've been. The partially complete figures seem wispy and light as air, but each one is cast in bronze and quite heavy, so there's no chance these visitors will be drifting away just yet.

-Via Beautiful/Decay

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Children’s television used to be a pretty far out adventure, full of psychedelic animated shorts and music by bands enjoyed by both the kids and their parents, but ever since music went bubblegum pop, and kids shows lost their cool, it’s easy to forget how hip children's television used to be.  

A new Tumblr called EMOCTV is busy collecting instances of strange and experimental music found in children’s television shows, like this clip from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood where he demonstrates an ARP synthesizer that should be set to a dubstep beat immediately, and a classic clip from Pee Wee's Playhouse with music supplied by The Residents.

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All your base are belong to us is a legend among memes, although milennials may not get the reference unless they’re a meme historian, and many remember this video game themed meme fondly as one of the ones that started it all.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. are a pair of musically minded fellows that have a healthy love of nostalgia and mad love for teh interwebs, so when the supergeek powers of the Nerdist Channel combine with the animation skills of Ron Yavnieli and the Jr. Jr. of bands, our beloved memes turn toony and battle it out for online supremacy!

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When you think of who you want speaking at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services hearing on Alzheimer's Research comedian Seth Rogen may not be the first name that comes to mind, but as this C-SPAN video shows Seth is the right guy for the job.

Seth breaks the ice with a signature stoner joke that has the normally stoic crowd cracking up, but when he gets into the specifics of why he's fighting for Alzheimer's funding (because his mother-in-law has early onset Alzheimer's), and how his charity organization Hilarity for Charity is working hard to fund research into the uncurable and unstoppable disease, Seth seems like the natural choice for leader of this noble cause.

-Via Gamma Squad

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Psycho changed the way audiences saw movies back in 1960, which is exactly what Hitchcock was going for according to the recent biopic, but that same kind of revolutionary response proved to be too much for Gus Van Sant to hope for with his 1998 remake.

But what happens when the two films are combined, classic and panned remake coming together in a surreal feature-length mashup? Steven Soderbergh decided to address that question with his hybrid horrorfest called Psychos, which you can watch here.

Soderbergh's version bounces between the two films, with the occasional superimposed stacking of the two for artistic appeal, and he posted it to his site Extension 765 with the explanation “This post comes from a place of ‘total affection, openness, and honey bought directly from a beekeeper.’”

-Via /Film

It’s easy to forget that most classical landscape (and cityscape) paintings were based on real life locations, and it can be hard to place the exact location in question when you’re viewing a work of art from inside the sterile walls of an art gallery.

But when the painting is superimposed over a modern day photo of the scene it all falls into place, and both art and history come to life in a way that's hard to imagine otherwise.

London based redditor shystone has been hard at work revealing the modern day locations featured in classical paintings from the 18th and 19th century, showing us around old London town through the eyes of Canaletto, Logsdail and Nebot.

-Via Laughing Squid

Most 4 year olds love to play, do arts and crafts and spend their days letting their imaginations run wild, but it’s safe to say that the girl they call Mayhem is unlike other 4 year olds, mainly because she already has a career in fashion design picked out for herself.

But Mayhem can’t use a sewing machine or needle just yet, so she creates her fabulous dresses out of paper. Some are original designs, others are based on dresses she saw in photos and on TV, all are incredibly detailed and quite wearable considering the inflexible medium.

Mommy Shorts interviewed Mayhem's mother Angie about the fun fashion crafting they've been doing together, creating very wearable outfits out of construction paper, tissue paper, gift wrap and any other kind of paper product they can find around the house.

You can see more of Mayhem's fabulous designs at her Instagram account and website Fashion By Mayhem, and I hope the fashion houses are paying attention because this girl is really going places in the world of fashion design!

-Via DesignTAXI

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With all the comic book crossovers that have occurred, many of which have involved Batman or one of his extended Bat-family, it’s hard to believe that SkyNet never sent a killer android to Gotham City. Batman squared off against the Predator, and the Xenomorphs from Aliens, but never faced the Terminator in combat- until now.

Animators Tony Guerrero and Mitchell Hammond have brought our bat shaped crossover dreams to life with this slick looking short appropriately entitled “Batman versus The Terminator”. 

The style is suitably dark and gothic, and the character designs are so cool Batfans will be pleasantly surprised by what they were able to accomplish in a five minute long film.

-Via ComicsAlliance

Everybody loves to take selfies these days, so they keep their smartphone in hand wherever they go so they don’t miss an opportunity.

The Muppets are no different, they love a good selfie and since their new movie Muppets Most Wanted is coming out soon it's the perfect time to get their fleece covered faces out there again via Instagram.

Rizzo's smartphone must be as big, or bigger, than his whole body- how does he carry that thing around with him?

-Via Nerd Approved

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It’s safe to say that Yosemite National Park is one of the most beautiful places to visit in the world, and it draws over 4 million visitors a year with its idyllic valleys, softly roaring waterfalls and gorgeous greenery.

Yosemite is one of those places where every picture you take is a classic, and when you show those pics off you get lots of oohs and aahs, and more than a few “I really want to go there” responses.

Take a look at these 45 incredible photos of Yosemite National Park and see if you can resist the call of El Capitan and the Yosemite Valley.

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Have you ever found yourself wondering what caused that strange little bird to fly off his comfy tree branch and flap his way in-between a bunch of pipes brought straight from Mario's world? Does the lack of a Flappy Bird backstory haunt your dreams?

Don't give it a second thought, watch this animated explanation created by Kud and get to know how Flappy Bird began. By the end of the short you'll feel Flappy's pain, and you'll never want to push his buttons ever again.

I know why the badly drawn bird flaps, it flaps for thee...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

If animals became bipedal, anthropomorphic members of what was originally a purely human society they would probably be extremely quirky individuals, prone to chasing cars, licking themselves in public and chewing on everything in sight.

Since genetic hybrids have yet to become a reality we have to settle for imagining what human-animal hybrids would look like, but if your imagination machine is out of order then leave the imagining to illustrator Helena Frank.

Her fun illustrations feature hybrids that look like humans wearing realistic animal mascot costumes, with big fuzzy heads making appropriately animalistic faces and generally looking a bit strange set upon humanistic bodies.

-Via The Fox Is Black