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A one-photo review of Sherlock. We’re in the POV of an...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:51:14 -0800

A one-photo review of Sherlock.

We’re in the POV of an iPhone. Just FYI.

New trailer for the show I worked on, The Last Airbender: Legend...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:41:31 -0800

New trailer for the show I worked on, The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra. Coming soon!

TV Show Promo of the Day: IGN has just released a brand new trailer for The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra — Nickelodeon’s long-awaited follow-up to Avatar.

The new trailer is chock full of new footage, including a scene of Korra destroying a 2,000-year-old treasure that probably shouldn’t have been used for airbending training if they didn’t want to risk it being destroyed jus’ sayin’.

Though no official premiere date has yet been set (coming soon? Thanks for nothing), it has been confirmed that the first episode will air sometime in 2012 — possibly as early as this summer.

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EXCERPT FROM THE LOST EPISODE OF "THE BIG BANG THEORY" IN WHICH THE CHARACTERS DISCUSS GLOBAL WARMING

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:18:33 -0800

INT. LEONARD AND SHELDON’S APARTMENT

Penny enters, struggling with a cooler and surfboard.

LEONARD
Let me help you with that.

SHELDON
Oh, please. That’s obscene.

Leonard grabs the cooler.

LEONARD
What’s “obscene?”

SHELDON
The male of the species using his physical strength to impress the female. I’ve never seen such a raw and primal sex act flaunted so close to my face.

PENNY
Ain’t that the truth.

Sheldon can’t comprehend the use of the word “ain’t” and is momentarily stunned.

LEONARD
(TO PENNY) Don’t you find this a little weird?

Wolowitz enters the apartment wearing a bright-red wetsuit, a snorkle, mask and floaties.

PENNY
No. Not that weird.

Koothrappali enters, struggling with beach chairs and towels, just like foreigners struggle with English.

KOOTHRAPPALI
Happy Presidents Day, everyone!

LEONARD
Even though it’s the middle of February?

Wolowitz spits out his snorkel loudly, just like all ethnic people are all the time.

WOLOWITZ
So what? This is Los Angeles. We can go to the beach in February if we want.

Sheldon finishes rebooting and rejoins the conversation.

SHELDON
Leonard, if you’re suggesting this unseasonably warm winter is the result of global warming, I’d like to hear you back it up with something other than one of your “gut feelings.”

WOLOWITZ
Between his lactose intolerance and his years of wedgie experience, Leonard’s probably an expert on feelings of the gut.

LEONARD
Well, this is one of the warmest seasons on record. And global temperatures have risen every year since the mid nineteen seventies.

SHELDON
What year were you born, Penny?

Penny blushes noticeably because she’s a woman over the age of twenty-two. Men find her less attractive with time.

PENNY
Sometime after… that. Why?

SHELDON
Ancient Christian texts suggest the apocalypse will be ushered in by a devil in disguise, whose very presence would heat the world’s oceans.

LEONARD
Penny is not the devil, Sheldon.

WOLOWITZ
Trust me, if the devil is a woman, I know better candidates than Penny. (THEN, FOR MIDDLE AMERICA, [THAT’S COAST-SPEAK FOR “DUMB PEOPLE”]) Like my mother.

PENNY
Would the devil really have a frequent spenders card from Forever Twenty-One?

SHELDON
Revelations thirteen seventeen: “No one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.”

WOLOWITZ
Penny, what’s your number again?

PENNY
You have to dial six, six, six, three one two…

LEONARD
You know she bought her phone in Thailand. The country code is sixty six.

PENNY
They had really cute pink phones.

LEONARD
And that third six is just a coincidence.

SHELDON
Don’t worry, Penny. I don’t really believe in all the religious hocus-pocus. The Earth won’t be destroyed by some mystical devil. (THEN) It’ll be overridden with trash, like in WALL-E.

PENNY
And I suppose you’ll think I’m responsible for that.

SHELDON
Well, your sweatpants do say “trashy” on the buttocks. For once, I suspect the talking coming from your ass is probably be correct.

LEONARD
So you don’t believe in global warming?

SHELDON
Of course I do. But there’s no evidence that this unseasonably warm winter is directly related. So surf’s up.

LEONARD
Whether it corresponds with natural weather patterns or not, the Earth is hotter than it should be. Don’t you think we should do something about it, instead of… (THEN, TO CAMERA) fiddling while Rome burns?

WOLOWITZ
How about this? You and Sheldon stay home in protest, and Raj and I will give the devil, I mean, Penny, a ride.

PENNY
There are going to be a lot of jokes about me being “horny,” aren’t there?

WOLOWITZ
I was going to offer you use of my “hot poker,” but that’s good, too.

SHELDON
Why can’t I go to the beach? I want to see the dolphins.

LEONARD
You can’t see dolphins, Sheldon.

SHELDON
What? Why not? Because you want to make some pointless statement about your liberal agenda?

LEONARD
No, because the sharks swam up from warmer waters and killed them all.

Sheldon dies on the inside, but outwardly looks gassy.

PENNY
Who wants to go be shark chum?

Wolowitz and Koothrappali raise their hands like homosexual children.

WOLOWITZ
We do!

PENNY
Leonard?

LEONARD
Oh, fine. But only because none of you drives a hybrid. Thank god the newly-reformed automotive industry is too big to fail.

Koothrappali licks Wolowitz’s ear with his voice.

WOLOWITZ
Raj says that was his nickname in high school.

Leonard, Wolowtiz, Koothrappali and Penny exit.

SHELDON
Don’t they know today is an Air Quality Action day? (THEN, PICKING UP A GAS MASK) Dolphins have survived five ice ages and a catastrophic comet impact. If they’re not getting out of this one alive, neither are we.

Sheldon straps on the gas mask. As the audience contemplates their mortality, not for the first or last time this episode, we…

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Fans of Portlandia and/or Washed Out: Prepare to be amused/let...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:22:00 -0800

Fans of Portlandia and/or Washed Out: Prepare to be amused/let down.

Gary Low - “I Want You”

“Feel It All Around” samples this song the way a fat guy samples a smörgåsbord.

Classic adaptations of modern movie posters. More of the same...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:28:59 -0800

Classic adaptations of modern movie posters.

More of the same guy’s here. Another set here.

If there’s anything this makes clear to me, it’s that modern movies are better than classic movies.

In the 1970′s, Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, with the help...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:21:23 -0800

In the 1970′s, Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, held a series of studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. More of their results here.

"Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to get people to do what..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:24:02 -0800

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Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to get people to do what you want them to. It’s what drives our consumer culture, it’s what drives our politics, it’s what drives our art. Music, movies, books, fine arts, it’s part of every research grant proposal. I don’t want to participate. I don’t want to tell you how to sell a screenplay or tell you how to write a hit, or tell you how to fit into the existing system. I want to tell you that I have a hope that there’s another way to be in this world, and that I believe with courage, vulnerability and honesty that the stuff we put into the world can serve a better purpose.

The way movies work now, and I’m talking about mainstream industry, the only goal is to get you to buy a product. The only goal. THE only goal. The ONLY goal. THE ONLY GOAL. And this intention creates the movies that we sit through, and the movies that we sit through create us. In government we’ve been reduced to the same game, through trickery, obfuscation, bullying, fear mongering. The goal of marketing a candidate is achieved. I don’t understand many things, I don’t know as much as I’d like about anything, but I’m a human being and I won’t be in competition for the right to be treated decently.

I won’t play that game. Nor should anybody have to. And in turn I will try not to use whatever access I have to the public sphere to sell things, including myself. The world is very scary now. It always has been. But something grotesque and specific to our time is blanketing us. We need to see that it is not reality, it is a choice we are making or allowing other people to make for us.

”

- - Charlie Kaufman from his BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture

Chairlift - “Met Before” Best song off one of the...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:29:48 -0800

Chairlift - “Met Before”

Best song off one of the first great albums of 2012.

Never forget.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:23:12 -0800

Never forget.

Is this really not Parks and Recreation writer Dana Gould...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:59:28 -0800

Is this really not Parks and Recreation writer Dana Gould playing the drummer of Mouserat?

According to IMDB, it is actually Adventure Time/Moral Orel writer Mark Rivers. But I am skeptical.

This is from S02E16, “Galentine’s Day.”

Artwork by Guy-Pascal Vallez

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:23:18 -0800

Artwork by Guy-Pascal Vallez

At ranches in Texas like this one, you can hunt...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:01:00 -0800

At ranches in Texas like this one, you can hunt zebra, wildebeest, and rare antelopes that are extinct in the wild.

Packages include… all the food you can eat, snacks and beverages for the hunt, and your own personal experienced guide … high quality blinds… and [a] safari-styled vehicle. … Our expert guides will field dress, cape, and handle your trophy processing needs.

Though animal rights groups are working hard - with some success - to shut these resorts down, some animals, like the Scimitar Oryx, would be virtually extinct without them.

Is the best way to save a species really to allow John Q. McDonalds to shoot one from the window of his RV?

Hate to say it, but… yes?

"Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:41:07 -0800

“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art itself, and the proper expression of emotions, was the most sublime thing in the world, he thought political power and wealth served only one purpose: to make art possible.”

- Haruki Murakami in Kafka on the Shore

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Think Different. Also, when I graduated from college just a few...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:07:21 -0800

Think Different.

Also, when I graduated from college just a few years ago, only nerds brought computers to class.

(My fantastic two-year-old Acer on day one.)

The Economist: States as the Nation with the Most Similar GDP I...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:23:56 -0800

The Economist: States as the Nation with the Most Similar GDP

I guess it makes sense that Michigan is the Taiwan of America?

The International Space Station passing in front of the Moon...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:27:00 -0800

The International Space Station passing in front of the Moon (Animated GIF)

The GIF has been slowed down. In real-time, the event lasted less than half a second. Captured at 10:30am on January 12, 2012 in upstate New York. Larger version on photographer Alan Friedman’s website.

(via unknownskywalker)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - “Blue Rondo A La Turk” If I...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:54:09 -0800

Dave Brubeck Quartet - “Blue Rondo A La Turk”

If I ever made a heist movie, this would be the theme song.

James Brown vs Led Zeppelin - “Whole Lotta Sex...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:11:05 -0800

James Brown vs Led Zeppelin - “Whole Lotta Sex Machine” (Fissunix Remix)

The Decemberists will release We All Raise Our Voices To The Air...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:45:03 -0800

The Decemberists will release We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11), a twenty-song live double-album March 13th.

The trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie, Moonrise Kingdom, is...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:04:27 -0800

The trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie, Moonrise Kingdom, is online.