There’s one very important thing to consider when packing for a trip, whether it’s a weekend away or an extended stay, and that’s making sure you've packed enough underwear.
Simply figure out how many days you’ll be away, and whether you’ll be doing any laundry while traveling, and this handy infographic will tell you how many pairs to bring along.
It may seem like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many people find themselves briefless in Seattle, a pair of boxers short in Brooklyn, or thongless in Thailand when they're trying to travel light.
Blade Runner is such an amazing and beloved film that it just wouldn’t be right to bring it back with a new cast and cutting edge CGI effects because it looks amazing just the way it is, but if you're going to give it new life you have to recreate it as an animated feature.
YouTuber Chris Kessler agrees, and he put together a trailer using clips from various anime series like Bubblegum Crisis and AD Police, with audio from Blade Runner, which is quite entertaining to watch and Blade Runner-y in all the right places.
If Hollywood filmmakers would stop turning cartoons into live action movies and flip the adaptation process around we might see some animated remakes of movies like Blade Runner that'll be worthy of those high box office prices!
It’s almost unbearable to watch some humans shovel food into their faces, and we may even call those who make a huge mess or smack loudly while they eat "animals", but watching messy humans eat can’t even compare to the disgusting way most animals devour their prey:
Photographer Catherine Chalmers is fascinated by the different ways animals eat their prey, so she created a photo series entitled Food Chain to show us how much more disturbing meal time can be.
Here's a bit of what Catherine has to say about her delicious photo series:
The project grew out of a desire to be more engaged with the natural world. Over time, I became fascinated by the strange disconnect between what people seem to want to believe happens in nature and what actually does. Humans are incredibly efficient killers, yet we are remarkably queasy at facing, or acknowledging, what we do. I’m an omnivore. Eating a chicken running around the yard is an ecologically sustainable thing to do. But supporting the industrial feedlot system of mass produced chickens, for example, is gross and distressing. I try to eat in a way that is easy on the planet. Unfortunately, though, there is really no innocence in eating. Something dies for us to live.
It looks like the maker of this video took notes from Castor, the Swedish art director we recently featured who created an epic video to help sell his old 93 Volvo Wagon, but the creator of Buy My Barina decided to go for less comedy and more slick, modern and sexy:
The 99 Barina is like the Ford Fiesta of Australia, and generally not thought of as a very sexy car, but somehow the mysterious man behind Buy My Barina has succeeded in bringing the sex appeal to the little league helmet of cars.
What's more- he's auctioning off this hot little blue number for charity, with proceeds benefitting Cancer Council Australia, and whoever wins the car is going to get tired of explaining why they spent so much money on such a crappy car!
Whenever a new fad sweeps through the populace, especially if it involves physical activity of any kind, there’s always some Dr. Oz type ready to hand out dubious medical advice and warn against what may happen if the participants aren’t careful.
When bicycling became all the rage in the 19th century doctors acted no differently, especially because bikes offered women a sense of liberation that made these stuffy old men feel threatened. Physicians began to warn women about the dangers of "Bicycle Face", in an effort to dissuade them from becoming avid bicyclists, to no avail.
Usually flushed, but sometimes pale, often with lips more or less drawn, and the beginning of dark shadows under the eyes, and always with an expression of weariness. Bicycle face is also characterized by a hard, clenched jaw and bulging eyes.
Little did these doctors know that Bicycle Face was only the beginning, and over one hundred years later ladies would go totally gaga over Poker Face...
The latest entry in the ape dystopia franchise Planet of the Apes is called Dawn of…, and even though it doesn't feature any real primates, aside from those studied and photographed while making the CGI character models, doesn’t mean this new film won't appeal to our real life primate cousins.
Some may see this as an adorable and innocent outing for the chimps, but we know the truth: these chimps are being taught how to take over the world by careless Hollywood filmmakers, and it's only a matter of time before they share this information with their fellow primates...
Are you so lazy that getting off the couch is becoming a bit of a chore? Looking for a way to practically live on your couch so you can avoid leaving the living room altogether, and begin a new phase of your life as a couch potato?
Then you need to bring these amazing products into your life and never leave your beloved couch again!
First off are Cereal Pants- lounge pants with a built-in bowl in the crotch, so you can keep your snacks handy and put your lap to good use at the same time.
But where will all that food come from? Heading to the kitchen is way too much hassle, so how does a couch potato who has taken root keep food available at all times?
The SmarSofa from Gorenje Group comes complete with mini-fridge and cooling snack trays, so you never need to worry about being far from your favorite foods, and it looks all swanky too!
Or, for the ultra rich sofa resident, there's this one-of-a-kind couch created by Domino’s Pizza:
3. The Ultimate Man Cave Couch-
The Ultimate Man Cave couch has two swivel mounted flat screen TVs, mini fridge, gaming console, DVD player, paper towel dispensing headrests, and many more fantastically manly features all built into a couch that costs a cool $30k.
If you can’t afford one of these fancy schmancy couches, and your diet mainly consists of canned beverages, then maybe all you need is someone to toss you a beer every once in a while:
With San Diego Comic Con about to begin, and the possibility of geek love in the air, it’s a sure bet that geeky pick-up lines are being rehearsed, tested and rewritten so they're ready to be unveiled at bars and clubs around the big event.
Conversations are already going to be awkward, so why not make them even more awkward by infusing your pick-up lines with Pokemon references?
Why not? Because those lines don't sound as funny when spoken aloud as they do in your head, as demonstrated in this hilarious video by Nacho Punch.
Chances are the Pokemon fan/cosplayer/trainer you’re exposing to these horribly niche flirtations has already heard every line from “Star you single?" to "Are you a cat that shoots out random gold coins? Cause you got a pretty Meowth", so you might as well give up the hunt now before you take a critical hit.
If you’re dreaming of a sequel to the cult hit movie Napoleon Dynamite you’ll just have to go on dreaming, because chances are Napoleon, and his little politician pal Pedro, aren’t coming back to the big screen anytime soon.
However, if you're wondering what Pedro and Napoleon will look like when they're all grown up wonder no more:
It looks like our unlikely heroes are still best buds, and their unique taste in fashion hasn't changed much either, but how did the future incarnations of two fictional characters find themselves waiting in line at a Subway restaurant, circa 2014?
It probably has something to do with extraterrestrial ligers....
Backpacking and hiking can be a fun, relaxing way to spend some quality time outdoors, and every nature lover knows it’s the best way to see critters up close and personal like.
That’s where the trouble begins- getting close to animals that see your presence in their neck of the woods as an intrusion, or a threat.
Bears, snakes, and mountain lions sometimes lash out at uninvited human visitors, and the little guys just love to bite too- spiders, ticks and scorpions are by far the biggest biters of the bunch.
Prepare for what may try to chomp down on you with this fully illustrated infographic created by Backpacker magazine, it’s handy to have around when you’re exploring the great outdoors, and it serves as a colorful reminder of why homebodies like to stay indoors…
Kids love to draw, and they don’t care what those drawings look like because why should they? They’re kids, having fun doing something that also helps them develop skills like hand eye coordination, spatial awareness, and proportion, skills that might someday develop into serious art skills.
Dutch muralist Telmo Pieper was one of those free sketching kids over twenty years ago, and to show how his artistic skills have blossomed over the years he created a series of digital paintings that reprise masterpieces created by his four-year-old self.
Telmo tries to match the forms from the original kid drawings, while adding shading and dimension to each piece, which only serves to make them look even more odd than the original sketch! Still, I would totally drive that stretchy car...
Attendees at the Allentown, Pennsylvania Comic Con were treated to an impromptu performance by a real life cartoon character, a man who looks, sounds and (kinda) acts like a real life Peter Griffin from that Family Guy cartoon show.
This spot-on cosplayer also happens to be from Rhode Island, he has a Facebook account where he has proclaimed himself to be the Real Life Peter Griffin, and guess what- nobody’s arguing with him, because this is clearly the role he was born to play!
Thankfully someone caught the whole thing on video, and even though the audio is pretty terrible, and really hard to hear at times, you kinda get the picture...oh, and he’s not punching a giant chicken so it’s not terribly exciting. Still, real life Peter Griffin you guys!
Bass lines are the bridge between the guitar and the drum, "anchoring the harmonic framework and establishing the beat", to quote Wikipedia.
Behind many of the most famous songs of all time lies a strong, catchy bass line that drives that groove and brings the song's distinctive sound home, even if you don't notice it as much as the singer or lead guitar.
Badass bass player Davie504 put together an incredibly comprehensive thirteen-minute-long medley that incorporates a whopping 100 famous bass lines from songs like YYZ, Disco Inferno and oh so many Red Hot Chili Pepper tracks, just to name a few:
It's a rather long video to watch in its entirety, but if you're a budding bass player, or someone who appreciates the power of a solid bass groove, then you gotta watch Davie do his thang 'cause this guy's got talent to spare!
It's safe to say video game sprites weren't meant to faithfully represent what the characters would look like in real life, game designers were just doing the best they could with so few pixels while trying to keep their characters visually interesting.
Sprites are better off in 2D, and as illustrator Scott Johnson demonstrates when you try to bring those 8-bit sprites into any sort of three dimensional space you end up with a total horrorshow:
It would have been mighty hard to root for characters that look like they just crawled out of a radioactive swamp, although there's still something cute about little misshapen Link.
Contact lens wearers know the risks that come with placing that little piece of plastic directly on to their eyeballs, and cleanliness is king when it comes to keeping your eyes healthy, which means taking your contacts out, and disinfecting them, on a daily basis.
Here's an example of why it's important to take them out daily- Taiwanese college student Lian Kao left a pair of contact lenses in for six months, which allowed a microorganism called acanthamoeba to move in beneath the lens.
Acanthamoeba feeds on bacteria, not human tissue, but her eyes were already home to tons of bacteria from leaving the lenses in for so long, so as the acanthamoeba fed on the bacteria it burrowed further into her eyeball to keep feeding on bacteria, which left her blind. *shivers*
Her condition is called acanthamoebic keratitis, which can occur from not properly disinfecting your contact lenses, so take a lesson from Lian and disinfect your contacts daily!
