To promote an upcoming monster movie, Sony Pictures installed a holographic rig in Tokyo Bay that projects the monster onto a haze of water. What you’re seeing in the video wasn’t added after the fact–that’s actually what it looks like in real life.
Monthly Archive: January 2008
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Jan
31
2008
Isabella Rossellini Does Bug Porn
Isabella Rossellini has made a series of short films in which she dresses up like insects (always the males, for some reason) and acts out bug sex. You’ll find a quartet of stills at the link.
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Jan
31
2008
Love at first smell, and what stinky t-shirts tell us about attraction
“There’s no Brad Pitt of smell,” Herz says. “Body odor is an external manifestation of the immune system, and the smells we think are attractive come from the people who are most genetically compatible with us.” “Not only does kissing serve the utilitarian purpose of providing a sample of MHC, but it also magnifies the …
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Jan
29
2008
BMW M5 Crashes, Kills 5
A BMW M5 crash that occurred in Ocala, Florida over the weekend. (video – with a car advertisement opening, ironically). The five teenagers in the car flew 200 feet off an airport runway, then hit a tree, splitting the car in half. The driver, Josh Ammirato, was an active member of m5board.com, an online BMW …
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Jan
29
2008
Casas’s ballpoint pen artwork
Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas creates his large artworks using just a blue ballpoint pen.
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Jan
29
2008
American Code Words
Would you vote for an articulate horizontal-thinking Canadian? Race and religion in America defined through obfuscation.
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Jan
29
2008
Canadian Songwriters propose $5 licence fee for P2P
A proposal for the monetization of the file sharing of music from the Songwriters and Recording Artists of Canada. “Most Canadians are aware that the Internet and mobile phone networks have become major sources of music. What they may not know is that songwriters and performers typically receive no compensation of any kind when their …
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Jan
29
2008
Kitschy French Postcards
Popcards.fr is a collection of kitschy French postcards from the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s. Kitschy barely does justice to this collection. Categories abound, including pets, humor (and I use the term loosely), lovers, cuisine and perhaps the two most interesting sections, guys and gals.
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Jan
29
2008
Nasty, Nasty Scrabble Gram
The Washington Post publishes a fine array of puzzles. You are given four sets of seven tiles-each of which spells a six or seven letter word. The following Scrabble Gram ran last week on Friday. Can you find the hidden word in the first set of tiles? (You can click on the image to make …
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