“The Universe is in us.” - Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
We are the stuff of stars. Probably the most profound thing I’ve heard in, well… too long. Beautiful and inspiring.
And perhaps something we should remind ourselves of a little more often.
via Blame It On The Voices .
Apparently, the original pilot for the iconic Muppet Show was much, much different than what the series eventually ended up being. The pilot was originally aimed squarely at adults and pitched to parody the proliferation of ex and violence on TV. Kermit wasn’t even hosting!
So, check out this segment of the pilot as well as the pilot in its entirety over at Laughing Squid . Cool, but strangely unsettling in a familiar, non-threatening, muppet-esque kind of way.
For a teaser trailer with a guy dressed in a panda head, I actually thought this was extremely well done. interested to see it than Luc-Besson’s Lockout anyhow… ;-)
OK, sure… maintaining credible suspension of disbelief through an entire film of this would be beggaring belief, but still. You know what I’m saying.
A gorgeous trailer paying homage to David Attenborough’s final episode of Frozen Planet on the BBC. So. Great.
I really can’t express how much I’ve loved every second of Sir David’s BBC documentaries I’ve hoarded and been watching over the past few months. I’ve been watching them as I can get them and for sheer profound beauty, inspiration and sense of wonder I cannot think of anything that has affected me more on television. This is what TV was invented for.
This is made of pure awesome. JP Auclair street skiing segment. I love the parkour style (filmed in my old stomping grounds in BC!). I have to admit it’s made my feet even more itchy to get some snowboarding in. Back to Canada? Japan perhaps? It’s too long to wait till Southern Hemisphere winter here in Kangaland I think. (insert long wistful sigh of longing here). Vid starts slow, so for the tl;dr crowd, bounce to the 2:00 mark for the extreme awesome. HD and fullscreen, please.
Wow, this is amazing to watch. Timelapse of the creation of a cartoon mag post-apocalyptic cover art. I’m impressed. Sure, I’m futzing around with getting my drawring betterer more and more , but this is really aspirational. Awesome.
via Jilo Ody .
Wow. Totally epic and Matrix-esque scifi short. Brilliant. Very impressed.
via Geeks Are Sexy
Love this competition by architects and designers for housing solutions for surviving the Zombapocalypse. Cause let’s face it, design will probably be the thing that saves us when the undead rise (Ok, ingenuity then… or possibly the ability to outrun the shamblers… and katanas. Yeah… definitely katanas.).
Run by the visionary (and preparing early!) Architects Southwest amongst others. Inspired. Also, lurv the award names… Golden Shovel, Silver Machete etc…
Loved this idea so much. Wish I’d thought of it for my 40th. Awesome, awesome thing to do.
And yes, this is the same guy who moved from Barcelona and said goodbye to the people there in an similar feat of coolness.