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Submarine Base For Sale!!

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:40:49 -0400

Submarine Base For Sale!!

Go Slinky Go!!!!

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:41:58 -0400

Go Slinky Go!!!!

iheartchaos: A look inside Jim Henson’s animatronics...

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:37:52 -0400

iheartchaos:

A look inside Jim Henson’s animatronics workshop

In a video simply titled Animatronics, special effects creator Adrian Parish gives us a brief look behind the scenes of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Highlights include a polar bear from The Snow Queen,a very thirsty Camel from a Volvic commercial among other wonders.

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The time when same-sex marriage was a Christian rite

Fri, 11 May 2012 06:09:35 -0400

iheartchaos: One of the most common arguments against same sex marriage is that “one man, one...

Sharks With Laser Beams!!!!

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:55:12 -0400

Sharks With Laser Beams!!!!

Quantum simulator can outperform a universe-sized computer

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:54:46 -0400

iheartchaos: Quantum computers are going to be so incredibly badass, but here’s exactly how...

iheartchaos: FUCK CRACK LET’S GO ROLLER SKATING! This is a real...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:10:55 -0400

iheartchaos:

FUCK CRACK LET’S GO ROLLER SKATING!

This is a real commercial for Roller Kingdom in Reno, Nevada. The commercial was done, not surprisingly by Rhett and Link.

iheartchaos: The definitive video on why the ban on using cell...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:37:51 -0400

iheartchaos:

The definitive video on why the ban on using cell phones in airplanes is stupid

While the argument is sound, I’m also not entirely sure I want to spend hours and hours on a plane full of a hundred people constantly yammering away on their cell phones.

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iheartchaos: Space Shuttle Enterprise flying over New York...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:40:06 -0400

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Space Shuttle Enterprise flying over New York City

On its way to its final resting place at the National Air and Space Museum, the 747 hauling the Space Shuttle Enterprise flew within visible range over NYC give the world one last look at the space shuttle in flight. Kind of in flight. Oh space shuttles, you will be missed.

Downhill Maryhill Freeride 2012

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:39:42 -0400

Downhill Maryhill Freeride 2012

Motorized kazoo-equipped Hall and Oates cover Nicki Bluhm and...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:30:19 -0400

Motorized kazoo-equipped Hall and Oates cover

Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers cover Hall and Oates’s “I Can’t Go For That” while crammed into a van, with Bluhm driving, singing, and playing a kazoo, and seeming to do a rather good job at all three. Talent!

Hall and Oates - I Can’t Go For That - Cover by Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers - Van Sessions (via Wil Wheaton)

If you’ve ever heard Meco’s classic space disco...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:26:00 -0400

If you’ve ever heard Meco’s classic space disco version of the Star Wars theme, or played the Xenon pinball machine, or saw the original Atari TV commercials, then you’ve heard the pioneering electronic music of Suzanne Ciani. From her earliest days studying with Don Buchla at UC Berkeley and Max Mathews at Stanford to her commercial work in the 1970s and 1980s to Grammy-nominated New Age music in the 1990s, Ciani has been a prolific composer and electronic music innovator. Here is a 1979 interview with her about creating the sounds for Bally’s Xenon pinball machine:

http://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/suzanne-ciani-liberator

The excellent Finders Keepers Records has just issued Suzanne Ciani: Lixiviation, a fantastic collection of her early recordings — TV spots, corporate IDs, advertising jingles, and other short bits of brilliance. Check out her music for an Atari Liberator television commercial:

A classically trained musician with an MA in music composition this American Italian pianist was first introduced to the synthesizer via her connections in the art world when abstract Sculptor and collaborator Harold Paris introduced Suzanne to synthesizer designer Don Buchla who created the instrument that would come to define Ciani’s synthetic sound (The Buchla Synthesiser). Cutting her teeth providing self-initiated electronic music projects for art galleries, experimental film directors, pop record producers and proto-video nasties Suzanne soon located to New York where she quickly became the first point of call for electronic music services in both the underground experimental fields and the commercial advertising worlds alike. Counting names like Vangelis and Harald Bode amongst her close friends Suzanne and her Ciani Musica company became the testing ground for virtually any type of new developments in electronic and computerized music amassing an expansive vault of commercially unexposed electronic experiments which have remained untouched for over 30 years… until now.

Check Out Cutting-Edge TMNT Robotics Circa 1992 1992 was a...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:03:14 -0400

Check Out Cutting-Edge TMNT Robotics Circa 1992

1992 was a simpler time. Bill Clinton was elected, The Bodyguard came out, Windows 3.1 was released. It was also a time when puppetry and animatronics still had a place in fantasy films.

Specifically, in 1992 special effects wizards were hard at work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, the worst in a succession of three live-action TMNT flicks. The above video shows a glimpse of the animatronics used by the All Effects Company to create Donatello. The results were impressive for the time. But when will they show the brave puppeteers who controlled Vanilla Ice in TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze. [YouTube via Reddit]

Worst album covers of all time!

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:06:40 -0400

Worst album covers of all time!

Parenting win: A secret wardrobe passage to a Narnia themed playroom

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:13:33 -0400

iheartchaos: Having a separate play room when you’re a kid is pretty cool, but it’s about a...

iheartchaos: Man bests Icarus, creates bird-like wings that...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:11:09 -0400

iheartchaos:

Man bests Icarus, creates bird-like wings that allow him to fly by flapping his arms

Some have called this fake, some have said there had to be motors in there somewhere, but Dutch engineer Jarno Smeets appears to have achieved what some of humanity’s best minds have been trying for thousands of years— building a pair of wings that are powered by flapping your wings like a bird.

This is his latest attempt, and he doesn’t go terribly far, but neither did the Wright Brothers on their first airplane flight.

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So RAD!!

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:28:04 -0500

So RAD!!

Amazing!!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:33:29 -0500

Amazing!!

The old invade Russian press conference flying dildo trick, very...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:46:20 -0500

The old invade Russian press conference flying dildo trick, very sneaky!

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Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:59:22 -0500