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at 7:47 PM on February 4, 2012
(20 comments)
First Person Monster Blog with your host,
special effects artist Shannon Shea.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 8:16 PM on January 29, 2012
(6 comments)
"Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there's no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths.
The Debunking Handbook boils the research down into a short, simple summary, intended as a guide for communicators in all areas (not just climate) who encounter misinformation."
Direct PDF link.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 2:39 PM on January 3, 2012
(33 comments)
Animator James Curran has created an
unofficial title sequence for Steven Spielberg's
The Adventures of Tintin, "featuring elements from each of the 24 books."
Evidently Spielberg likes the work
and has offered Curran a job on a future film.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 11:51 AM on November 29, 2011
(44 comments)
METACHAOS, a short film by
Alessandro Bavari [
previously]. Via
MONSTER BRAINS.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 10:58 AM on November 3, 2011
(9 comments)
After the Final Curtain: Photographically documenting neglected and abandoned theaters throughout the United States. [
via]
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at 4:40 PM on October 4, 2011
(6 comments)
Character actress Frances Bay has passed away at the age of 92. You may recognize her from
Happy Gilmore, the work of David Lynch (
Twin Peaks,
Blue Velvet,
Wild at Heart) and
Seinfeld.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 10:54 AM on September 17, 2011
(17 comments)
"These giant monsters of the past are seen to breathe, to live again, to move and battle as they did at the dawn of life!"
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918), by
Willis O'Brien.
Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 3:05 PM on August 18, 2011
(4 comments)
Classroom Wars: a middle-school history teacher on the seductive stories of mankind's battles.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 7:18 PM on August 1, 2011
(19 comments)
"If they simply professed unusual beliefs, movement leaders wouldn’t be remarkable. But what makes the New Apostolic Reformation movement so potent is its growing fascination with infiltrating politics and government. The new prophets and apostles believe Christians—certain Christians—are destined to not just take 'dominion' over government, but stealthily climb to the commanding heights of what they term the 'Seven Mountains' of society, including the media and the arts and entertainment world. They believe they’re intended to lord over it all. As a first step, they’re leading an 'army of God' to commandeer civilian government. In Rick Perry, they may have found their vessel. And the interest appears to be mutual."
Previously. Via.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 3:29 PM on July 14, 2011
(136 comments)
"Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English writers, two very imaginative writers — I’m gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this ‘cause it’s a fantasy, the whole thing is animated — but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes, wrote a thing which they called ‘A Short Vision’ in which they wondered what might happen to the animal population of the world if an H-bomb were dropped. It’s produced by George K. Arthur and I’d like you to see it.
It is grim, but I think we can all stand it to realize that in war there is no winner." [
via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 12:41 PM on June 27, 2011
(13 comments)
Some early test shots from legendary filmmaker and animator
Ray Harryhausen's unfinished film,
Evolution.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 4:48 PM on June 8, 2011
(29 comments)
Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: Taxonomic Data of the Breadties of the World [
via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 9:45 AM on June 6, 2011
(15 comments)
Our Blood Stained Roof is a comic by Ryan Andrews. We've
seen his work before. Via
/r/TrueReddit.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 6:16 PM on June 1, 2011
(15 comments)
Dinosaur Battle Town: a short film by
Eddie West
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 10:51 PM on May 28, 2011
(12 comments)
Boxoffice, an industry magazine for the movie theater business,
has been posting back issues dating to 1925. Via
Trailers From Hell.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 12:31 PM on May 26, 2011
(11 comments)
Scientific Illustration is a Tumblr blog devoted to... well... scientific illustration.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 9:18 PM on May 20, 2011
(14 comments)
Indian Street Graphics: a Flickr set.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 1:44 PM on May 9, 2011
(4 comments)
Project Neon is an attempt to document the
neon signs of
New York City.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 5:22 PM on May 4, 2011
(9 comments)
marbleo.us: an online marble run.
More information.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 7:39 PM on May 2, 2011
(23 comments)
"Prehistoric Beast" (1984), a film by
Phil Tippett
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 1:11 PM on April 18, 2011
(8 comments)
"You may have heard the name Christopher Butler in the news lately but certainly not for reasons that the 49-year-old Concord resident would want you to know about. I’ve been following Butler’s mysterious story since last August, when he invited me to write a
Diablo feature about his business.
It unexpectedly turned out to be the most interesting—and frightening—story in my 14 years of being a journalist."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 1:10 PM on April 5, 2011
(69 comments)
Osada is an "interactive music video" from the creators of
Machinarium.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 12:51 PM on April 4, 2011
(9 comments)
CSSPivot: Add CSS styles to any website, and share the result with a short link.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 5:38 PM on March 30, 2011
(23 comments)
"Many Wikipedia articles are tagged with geographic coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Cross referencing these two subsets and plotting them year on year adds up to
a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history." Via
curiosity counts.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 4:55 PM on March 25, 2011
(38 comments)
Streetview Zombie Apocalypse!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 1:27 PM on February 25, 2011
(26 comments)
"I have been collecting for more than thirty years, and my collecting wanders around the theme of visual entertainment, and almost all of the collection dates from before 1900. Over time you will find
magic lanterns,
peepshows,
shadows,
transparencies,
thaumatropes,
phenakistascopes and a variety of other optical toys. You may find things that seem odd in this collection, however, always remember that collecting is a very personal thing and these items may stretch the boundaries of visual entertainment but nevertheless
have found a place in my collection." Via
@CarinBerger.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 2:10 PM on February 18, 2011
(2 comments)
"The result is almost unprecedented in film studies, I think: an effort to test a critic’s analysis against measurable effects of a movie." -
Watching You Watch There Will Be Blood
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 3:22 PM on February 14, 2011
(41 comments)
Inspired by the
Seven Roads Gallery (which is no longer being updated),
this Flickr group contains over 900 images of book trade labels, also known as
bookseller labels.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 2:34 PM on February 9, 2011
(1 comment)
The Kingston Lounge is a photoblog about "guerrilla preservation and urban archaeology". Via
How to be a Retronaut, which drew my attention to their excellent photoessay about
North Brother Island.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 2:22 PM on February 8, 2011
(7 comments)
Evolution Made Us All
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 10:48 AM on February 7, 2011
(52 comments)
"Over the last few years, I've been collecting examples of metagames — not the strategy of metagaming, but playable games about videogames. Most of these, like Desert Bus or Quest for the Crown, are one-joke games for a quick laugh. Others, like Cow Clicker and Upgrade Complete, are playable critiques of game mechanics. Some are even (gasp!) fun."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 12:56 PM on February 1, 2011
(44 comments)
CHUD.com presents "Horror 101".
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 12:53 PM on January 31, 2011
(10 comments)
25 Free John Wayne Westerns [via
@brainpicker]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 9:35 AM on January 24, 2011
(22 comments)
This is an illustrated cross-section of Hong Kong's
Kowloon Walled City
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at 8:51 PM on January 3, 2011
(32 comments)
"Cablegate Comix" is a series of comics "recounting true stories that came to light on November 28, 2010 — when WikiLeaks published confidential documents of detailed correspondences between the US State Department and its diplomatic missions around the world."
1,
2,
3,
4
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 10:43 PM on December 29, 2010
(17 comments)
Unusual Off-road Locomotion documents vehicles that are often "too eccentric, too expensive compared to the improvements or too far ahead of their time."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 8:48 PM on December 27, 2010
(6 comments)
"Dungeons and Drawings," in which
two artists reinterpret
the D&D Bestiary.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 3:03 PM on December 21, 2010
(27 comments)
Planet Hunters lets users comb through data from the
Kepler mission in search of
exoplanets. [via
Bad Astronomy]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 2:15 PM on December 17, 2010
(4 comments)
Darren Tanke has been
guest blogging at
Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings about his preparation of a
Gorgosaurus (as seen
here).
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 9:46 AM on December 2, 2010
(4 comments)
"The project was the brainchild of three good friends of mine. One was an astronaut, one was a communications genius who used to work with Walter Cronkite and the third was a highly respected scientist, and the one thing I won’t tell you about them is their names. You see, the three of them collectively cooked up one of the very best ideas I have ever heard, and they overcame all obstacles to make it come to pass. But then they messed up one tiny, inconsequential little detail. That turned the whole enterprise into a catastrophic confusion which gave great pleasure to some but cost others, including one of its principle intended beneficiaries of the idea, the Holland America cruise ship line, a ton of money." -
Frederik Pohl [
previously]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 4:03 PM on November 30, 2010
(47 comments)
Lost In The Garden of the World is a documentary shot at the 1975 Cannes film festival. It contains interviews with Paul Bartel, Tobe Hooper, Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese and Dustin Hoffman.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 9:52 PM on November 17, 2010
(3 comments)
Uncertain Futures: Americans and Science Fiction in the Early Cold War Era [via
Futurismic]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 3:04 PM on November 15, 2010
(4 comments)
Frankenstein Film Stills, a Flickr set.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 12:49 AM on November 13, 2010
(12 comments)
"The Science of Godzilla," by
Tetrapod Zoology
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 5:13 PM on November 9, 2010
(16 comments)
In September,
Jon Schindehette [
previously] and
Lars Grant-West [
wiki] issued
a challenge to students at the Rhode Island School of Design: "Create a creature based upon
a non-humanoid critter from
H.P. Lovecraft's literature. The creature should have a fully resolved form, convey motion where appropriate, and be believable. Creature can be shown as either 3/4 view or 'turn-arounds'."
Here are the entries and
here are the judges' comments.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 11:48 AM on November 8, 2010
(58 comments)
Mondo Tees create
absolutely gorgeous movie posters.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 4:10 PM on November 2, 2010
(58 comments)
"His Face All Red," a comic by
Emily Carroll. Happy Halloween! [
via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly
at 6:43 PM on October 31, 2010
(41 comments)
