Tuesday, August 30, 2011

I'm Going to Be a Dad




Photographer Tom Robinson snapped pics of friends and family as he broke the news that he and his wife Verity are going to be parents. Some of the reactions are amusing. Go to the link to see and read more.


Link Via My Modern Metropolis

Great Big Wine Picture

Wine and art, two of my favourite things! Argentinian winery Bodega Navarro Correas used a robotic mechanism responding to cell phone text messages to fill 1000 acrylic cells with 6 different shades of wine to recreate a Van Gogh self-portrait.


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The Mirrifcation of 20 Iconic Male Movie Roles

Linda Holmes imagines the wonderful Helen Mirren playing some iconic male roles.

It occurred to me that given the dearth of good roles for women, it was a good opportunity to consider how many roles written for men would have been, if tweaked appropriately (including, in some cases, the use of a time machine), perfect Helen Mirren vehicles.
Which ones did she choose? Find out at NPR

On This Day in 1957 Paul Anka had a #1 hit

She was so old. And he was so young! Paul Anka, an unassuming 16 year old singer from Ottawa, reaches the top of the UK charts with his hit single Diana. The song about a May-December romance has catapulted both Anka and his former babysitter and inspiration, Diana Ayoub, to fame. Ayoub talks to CBC Radio about what it's like to be a muse, their friendship and the whirlwind attention she's received since the song hit the airwaves.




Listen to the interview with Diana at CBC Archives

PinkAxolotl's Amazing Fallout Monopoly Game

This is genius! PinkAxolotl (aka Elisabeth Redel) created it for her boyfriend.
The board was printed on a 50 x 50 cm PVC plate. Every street is a location from the Fallout game. “GO” is now “G.O.A.T.” and “free parking” is the “please stand by” screen. Every card has one of the Fallout3 or Fallout New Vegas perks on it and has a really cool old playingcard image on the back.

PinkAxolotl on deviantART
Via Geeks Are Sexy

Llamas excel at dog training school - and learn to fetch and roll over

David, Dillon, Thomas, Oscar, Toby, Mary, Ann and Bansky train for about one to three hours a day, their favourite game being fetch which makes 'their little faces light up'. Did I mention that they are Llamas?


More at Metro.co.uk
Thanks Bruce!

Monday, August 29, 2011

Kyle Hilton's Paper Dolls For Adults

Kyle Hilton creates paper dolls with figures from Arrested Development,Breaking Bad, Parks and Recreation, Tim and Eric and various film characters.
Characters from Party Down,Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office coming soon.



When my sisters and I were little we spent zillions of hours playing with celebrity paper dolls.
Via Neatorama

Curse of the Crying Boy Picture


The year is 1985. the place is the Mining town of Rotherham in the UK. Ron and May Hall had been the victims of a devastating house fire, the result of an unattended chip-pan, which reduced the lower story of their terraced house to ashes.
Although the ground floor was ravaged and reduced to little more than charcoal and cinders, there in the middle of all the devastation remained one solitary item, completely untouched by the inferno that had raged about it - A cheap framed print of a crying child.
Ron Hall's brother was a Rotherham-based firefighter. and he told Ron that his station manager had told him that he knew of a number of other incidents where the same print - The Crying Boy" had remained unscathed after infernos had reduced the rest of the building to ashes.
This story was picked up by the media and it gripped the nation, culminating in a public burning of the cursed artwork. Was it cursed or is there a more rational explanation?

Read more at Mystery Files
Via Presurfer

Sarah Blackall’s Illustrated Craigslist Missed Connections

Sarah Blackall, a Brooklyn-based artist recently completed a project illustrating a collection of Craigslist Missed Connections postings, ranging from the painfully sweet to the delightfully strange.




You can buy prints from her Etsy page.
More at Flavorwire

Rolling Stones Rocks Off (1972)

Edited to music by Videodrums 2009. Super 8 footage shot by Robert Frank of The Rolling Stones in LA and NY, 1971. Rephotographed by Frank for the cover of 'Exile On Main Street.
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Digital Light Painting

Via Frogsmoke

A TRip To The Zoo

via Blort

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Rusty Blazenhoff Makes Fluffernutters

Archie McPhee

Dark Dark Dark – Celebrate

Sweet accordion.

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Blackfoot Decorated Tipis c.1900

Photographer, Walter McClintock, took beautiful photos of the Blackfoot community of Northwestern Montana over a period of 20 years.



McClintock believed that Indian communities were undergoing swift, dramatic transformations that might obliterate their traditional culture. He sought to create a record of a life-way that might disappear. He wrote books, mounted photographic exhibitions, and delivered numerous public lectures about the Blackfoot.’
More photos of tipis from the Beinecke Collection at HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT

Would You Decorate Your Daughter's Locker?

I read this at Mouthy Housewives:

Last week a friend of mine was at the middle school with her daughter Megan for student orientation. After getting her class schedule from the front office, the two of them went to find Megan’s locker and were shocked to see a group of moms busy decorating their daughters’ grey metal lockers with (wait for it) this:



Does  this happen in the real world? I wouldn't know because I live in a bubble and have my own warped reality which includes neither daughters nor Barbie dolls. Do my sons feel deprived because I neglected to decorate their lockers with soccer ball or marijuana leaf patterned wallpaper when they were in high school? If so they'll get no sympathy from me. When I was a kid a photo of the Monkees torn out of the latest issue of Tiger Beat was good enough for me.


Friday, August 26, 2011

Master the Delicate Art of Social Media Etiquette

Details has posted comedian Nick Kroll's helpful tips on the etiquette of social media use. Here are some examples:

  • Don't give me constant updates of where you are eating or shopping. The only person who cares about that is your stalker, and the real joy for him is the hunt.
  • If I send you a text and you don't respond and then I see you tweet something or post something on Facebook, I know that you are straight up ignoring me. Just remember that everyone on the Internet is taking note of your goings-on and judging you all the time. Isn't that comforting?
  • Let's take it easy on the hashtags, folks. It's fun to build on others' ideas, but the long-hashtag-as-a-punchline needs to be well thought out. And, BTW, capitalize the first letter of each new word. #AmIRightLadiesWhoAmIKiddingNoOneWillReadThisArticleImSoDesperatelyAloneWhatShouldITweetNext
  • Do not tag me in photos that I am not in to get me to look at them. This little game does not ingratiate you to me, it makes me hate you. All I do all day is look for photos of myself on the Internet, and when I am pic-teased, I get super-angry about it. Do not be a pic-tease
    • More here - Via

    Thursday, August 25, 2011

    1944 The Liberation of Paris in Color!

    Paris was liberated on this day in 1944.
    Soundtrack by Alec Harrison (Sailing) added (Demo Only) in 2009 by ROMANO-ARCHIVES.
    Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES.

    'Conching,' is the Latest Crazy Dolphin Fad

    The intelligence of dolphins never ceases to amaze me.

    Attention hipsters and other people seeking hipness: there’s a new fad catching on in Western Australia's Shark Bay, and you won’t want to be the last to to post pictures of yourself imitating it to your Tumblr feed. “Conching” is a method by which Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins are trapping small fish in conch shells, bringing the shells to the surface, and then shaking them with their rostrums to clear out the water and dump the fish into their mouths. More remarkably, the trend appears to be spreading throughout an entire population of dolphins, and fast.
    Read more at Popular Science
    Via

    The Mysterious Death of Nine Campers in Russia's Dyatlov Pass

    This story brings The Blair Witch Project to mind. Very creepy.


    “If I had a chance to ask God just one question, it would be, ‘What really happened to my friends that night?’” Yury Yudin, expedition survivor.You may think horror films are creepy, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. In 1959, ten normal, healthy cross-country skiers set off on a camping trip in Russia’s Ural Mountains. Nine never returned. When their bodies were finally found, many elements of eerie mystery hung heavily in the air. Three of the individuals had fallen victim to inexplicable crushing injuries. The tongue of one of the others was missing.

    Read more at Environmental Graffiti - Via

    Movie Line Rhymes


    Jordan Laws delivers an energetic and poetic ride thru cinema history, both high and low art merged into a single piece. There are 48 films in this mix, how many can you name? The answers are here
    Via

    Google gets behind the wheel

    “We regret that a Google driver recently caused a minor accident,” the company said in a statement. “One of our goals is to prevent fender-benders like this one, which occurred while a person was manually driving the car.”

    The car is part of Google’s prototype fleet of driverless vehicles, technology designed with the idea of eradicating the human error responsible for so many highway accidents and traffic jams.

    Wednesday, August 24, 2011

    Monday, August 22, 2011

    Jack Layton's Tea Towel

    A touching story about Jack from 1993. He had that effect on people.

    On the way out, he gives me a tea towel with his picture printed on it, riding information, all that. I'm a bit baffled, and he says "I was thinking before the election of how wasteful all those posters are, and thought it might be a good idea if I gave people something useful for a change."
    I ask him if he's aware -- this I do remember -- that people all over the riding are going to be wiping dishes with his face. He laughs and says that's a risk he's willing to take.
    I voted for Jack. I've been voting NDP ever since that day.

    More here.

    Contributed by NOTL reader CCBC

    Jack Layton, 61, dies after struggle with cancer


    NDP Leader Jack Layton died early Monday morning after a struggle with cancer. He was 61 years old. The news comes mere weeks after Layton announced he had been diagnosed with a second form of cancer.
    The New Democratic Party issued a statement Monday on behalf of Layton's wife Olivia Chow, and his children Sarah and Michael Layton.


    "We deeply regret to inform you that The Honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at 4:45 a.m. today, Monday, Aug. 22," the statement said.
    "He passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family and loved ones."
    Layton's death is not only heartbreaking in how quickly it came after he announced his illness on July 25, but that it came so soon after what is considered Layton's greatest political achievement.
    After an entire life spent in politics -- first as an academic, then as a city councillor, then in federal politics - Layton had been riding a wave of popularity ahead of his death. It was his personal popularity that many credit for the NDP's "orange crush" in the 2011 federal election. Buoyed by his party's success, Layton had even put the prime minister's office in his sights for the next election.
    Now, with his death, those dreams come to an end and put the very future of his party into doubt.
    While not everyone agreed with Layton's socialist views, there were few who didn't respect the man's passion and work ethic.
    The politician who had once been a scrappy city councillor with a brash, sometimes strident style, matured into a federal party leader renowned for his dedication.
    Layton's colleagues say he was a master politician who knew how to both work a crowd and work out compromise within his team. All the while, he seemed to never abandon the causes he held most dear: poverty, the environment, public transit, workers' rights.
    In the 2011 election, voters who had once seemed a little wary of the camera-loving politician appeared to finally connect with Layton, embracing his energy, his no-nonsense approach and his promises to represent the average Canadian in Parliament.
    Many voters, particularly in Quebec, said it was Layton himself that drew them to vote for his party and push the NDP into official Opposition status.
    Layton had likely dreamed of reaching the higher echelons of power his whole life. He had been steeped in politics from an early age, growing up in Hudson, Que., under a father who was a cabinet minister in Brian Mulroney's government and who became the Progressive Conservatives' caucus chairman.
    Layton's grandfather too was a cabinet minister, under Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale government in Quebec, and his great-great-uncle was one of the Fathers of Confederation. The Layton political legacy continues today, with his son, Mike, now a Toronto city councillor as well.
    Layton became student council leader in high school and was voted by classmates as most likely to become a politician. He went on to study political science at McGill University and received his PhD in Political Science from York University.
    He briefly aligned himself with the Liberals while at McGill but, impressed by Tommy Douglas's opposition to the War Measures Act, he turned to the NDP in 1971.
    Layton married at 19, wedding his high school sweetheart, Sally Halford. They had two children: Mike, the Toronto city councillor; and Sarah, who works for the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
    But his marriage to Sally dissolved in 1983, shortly after Layton decided to leave behind life as a politics professor at Ryerson University (then called Ryerson Polytechnical Institute) and make a run for Toronto city council.
    A few years later, Layton met Olivia Chow, who was then a school board trustee, and married her in 1988. She ran for Toronto city council in 1991, the same year that Layton decided to make a bid for mayor. Layton lost badly to June Rowlands; but Chow won her council seat.
    Many have credited Chow, an ambitious politician in her own right, as being one of Layton's greatest assets, acting as both his closest adviser and his soulmate. Former Toronto city councillor Howard Moscoe told The Canadian Press he always thought of Layton and Chow as a single political-family unit.
    "They were so good at playing the council," he said earlier this year. "They were kind of meant for each other."
    Together, Layton and Chow became Toronto's political power couple, fighting for public transit, the homeless and sustainable urban development. As councillors, they were often accused of grandstanding, once wearing black gags to protest being silenced by other Toronto politicians when they attempted to object to a deal with Shell Oil.
    Layton loved to spend time in the outdoors with Chow and cycled to work every day while in Toronto and worked out in the House of Commons gym every week while in Ottawa. NDP MP Pat Martin once said that Layton and Chow even thought of their work as recreation.
    "I've never met anybody so perfectly matched to a life in politics," Martin said of Layton.
    But Layton did have some brushes with controversy. In 1988, he came under fire when it emerged that he and Chow were living in a housing co-operative subsidized by the federal government, despite a combined income of $120,000. Toronto's solicitor cleared the couple of any wrong-doing, and the couple soon left the co-op and bought a house in Toronto's Chinatown.
    In the 2011 election, three days before voting day, it emerged that Layton had also been caught up in a sting on a Toronto massage parlour. Layton insisted he had entered the salon seeking a legitimate shiatsu massage and didn't know the place was used for "illicit purposes." Police chose not to charge him in the sting.
    Despite the scandals and Layton's failed 1991 mayoralty bid, his ambitions didn't falter; they simply shifted. In 1994, he decided to make a run for federal politics, vying for a seat in the riding of Rosedale. Again, he fared badly, finishing fourth.
    He pressed on with his Toronto city council duties, but in another example of his trademark energy, he also took on work as well as the head of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, where he said he broadened his understanding of the priorities of towns outside Toronto.
    Along the way, Layton also penned three books; "Homelessness: the Making and Unmaking of a Crisis" in 2000; "Speaking Out: Ideas That Work for Canadians" in 2004 and "Speaking Out Louder" in 2006.
    He ran again for MP in 1997, this time in the riding of Toronto-Danforth but lost yet again, to longtime incumbent Liberal, Dennis Mills. Layton was finally able to make his move into federal politics in 2003 by taking over as leader of the NDP from outgoing leader Alexa McDonough. He grabbed a seat in Parliament a year later, in the 2004 election.
    In that first federal election campaign in 2004, Layton insisted to reporters without any irony that his aim was to increase the party's standings from 13 seats to 150. The party earned 19 seats. But the NDP was able to win 15 per cent of the popular vote -- its best result in 16 years.
    Layton's flamboyant leadership style seemed to re-energize the party following the staid leaderships of McDonough and Audrey McLaughlin before her. He was constantly in front of the microphone, moving easily between English and French, always ready with the quick sound bites that had made him famous in Toronto.
    But Layton stumbled in that first federal campaign when he accused then-Liberal prime minister Paul Martin of being responsible for the deaths of homeless people because he had failed to provide funding for affordable housing.
    He managed to smooth out his edgy persona during the 2006 election campaign and consistently scored well in leadership polls, with voters giving him high marks in the areas of principle, honesty.
    Queen's University political scientist Jonathan Rose told CTV.ca during the 2006 campaign that voters seemed to respond to Layton because of his tireless campaigning and infectious energy.
    "He has all the hallmarks of what we demand from traditional leaders: a clear persona, someone who has a high trust level, and someone who is able to articulate clearly what they believe," Rose said.
    Layton added 10 more seats for his party in the 2006 election, and then again in 2008, when the party's seat count rose to 37.
    Throughout the 2008 election campaign, Layton opened every speech with the eyebrow-raising declaration that he was running to be prime minister. Longtime friend Peter Tabuns said at the time that Layton was never anything if not an optimist.
    "He is one of the most optimistic and hopeful people that I know, and I think that gives him a lot of strength to get through tough times," he told CP.
    Those tough times were soon to come, when Layton was diagnosed in early 2010 with prostate cancer. Layton chose to push through it, taking to the hustings for the 2011 election campaign with the save fervour as ever. He even suggested the illness gave him further motivation.
    "People that go through serious illness – you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important," he said in an interview with Metro news.
    The election began as a traditional two-horse race between the Conservatives and the Liberals, but at some point after the leaders' debate, Layton surged. Layton was suddenly no longer the third-place outsider; he was being embraced as the candidate of hope and change for those opposed to the Conservatives.
    Election Day brought what became known as the "orange crush": 31 per cent of the popular vote for the NDP, 59 seats in Quebec, as well as 44 other seats across the country -- the party's best showing ever.
    Former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney told CTV News afterwards that he believed Quebecers embraced Layton because they thought of him as one of their own.
    "He's always referred to here as, ‘Our boy, Jack, a good guy,'" Mulroney said.
    Ahead of the 2011 campaign, many had said that with four elections already behind him, if the NDP didn't make big strides, this would likely be Layton's final federal election.
    In fact, it was Layton's last campaign. But not for the reason that anyone would have ever predicted.

    The Journey of Helianthus annuus

    You may not think that there is much to know about the sunflower. After all, the plant is virtually everywhere. Yet it has a something more than a simple, straightforward history and is more of a globe trotter than you may imagine. Its story has the historical and continental sweep of a Hollywood epic, from the pre-European Americas to Tsarist Russia and back again.
    Native to Central America the sunflower has collected more air miles than Rick Steeves and undergone a few changes in the course of its travels. This post at Kuriositas tells the story of the plant and the photos are awesome!

    The Wire/Lion King Mashup


    More mashups at MetaFilter

    Sunday, August 21, 2011

    Saturday, August 20, 2011

    The Loneliest Plant In The World

    In 1895 botanist, John Medley Wood, saw an unusual tree. He sent a stem from it to London. It was originally placed in the palm house but was later moved to a bed along with other South African plants at Kew Gardens. 




    Named E. woodii, in Dr. Wood's honor, it is a cycad. Cycads are a very old order of tree and it turns out this one, which is still there in London, may be the very last tree of its kind on our planet, the last one to grow up in the wild.
    It has grown a male cone which produces pollen but has no female mate to produce seed. It appears that the days of this cycad, once so plentiful, are numbered.


    Read more here.
    Thanks to frequent NOTL contributor xoxoxo Bruce.


    ***UPDATE: Commenter Kathleen has pointed me to this Wikipedia article. You can dry your tears now! It appears that this plant is not as lonely as I thought but was merely pretending to be lonely in order to get sympathy.

    Owney the Post Office Mascot

    Owney was a puppy who appeared at the Albany, New York, post office in 1888. He loved the texture or scent of the mailbags and began to  follow them onto mail wagons and then onto mail trains. Owney rode with the bags on Railway Post Office  train cars across the state, the country and even around the world. Although train wrecks were common in those days, no train Owney rode on was ever involved in a crash.

    Railway mail clerks considered the dog a good luck charm and adopted Owney as their unofficial mascot, marking his travels by placing medals and tags on his collar. Each time Owney returned home to Albany, the clerks there saved the tags. 
    The Postmaster General at the time gave Owney a harness on which to display his tag collection. Like many of us the dog grew a little ornery as he grew older and died of a bullet wound in Toledo in 1897. He was stuffed and put on display at the Smithsonian Museum where he remains to this day.
    Link - Via Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities & Treasures.

    What if I had been…?

    HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT contributor MLLA imagines herself as her own great grandmother, grandmother and mother, among others, in this series of photographs and wonders what life was like for them.



    Niagara Falls Running of the Brides

    Brides hit the Honeymoon Capital of the World for a charity run to benefit Wellspring Niagara.

    On August 14, 2011, Kim Cartmell & Kathy White from Elope Niagara joined 23 other brides to chase after one groom. The day started with a gathering of the brides and then made a trip to the majestic Niagara Falls and then ended the day with a splash in the water at Sherkston Shores Resort.

    Friday, August 19, 2011

    1934 BMW R7

    Lovely!

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    Tiny Gliding Dragons

    Draco Volans or the Flying Dragon, is a member of the genus of gliding lizards Draco. The dragons can grow to 20 cm in length and are found in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. They move from one place to another by spreading the skin flaps along their abdomens and glide out of trees or from other high areas. I think they're cute as can be.


    Today I learned something new

    Vintage Man Caves

    There’s a good chance the first interior decorator was a guy, scratching pictures of a glorious hunt on the wall of his cave, trying to show off for his friends. This was the first man cave, if you will. Unfortunately, the modern man tends to be as afraid of “decorating” as the stag is of the spear. But it doesn’t have to be that way.



    The Art of Manliness provides tips on how to create the perfect man room.

    Homemade tar and feather gun

    A demonstration of a prototype "tar and feather gun" built at the Instructables Lab. This toy gun fires any sort of gunk, slime or foam that you want. What's more, it's easy and cheap to make.
    More at DVICE
    Thanks Bruce!

    Portraits Génétiques

    Ulric Collette's split photographs of genetic similarities between members of the same family.
    Mother and Daughter

    Sister and Brother

    Brothers

    More at  Fubiz

    David Lynch's "Eraserhead" in 60 seconds — in clay

    "Time has certainly been kinder to 'Eraserhead.' Over the years, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and John Waters have counted themselves as major fans of the film. Charles Bukowski claimed that his love affair with cable television started when he first tuned in and started watching 'Eraserhead.' Rock bands have named themselves after the film. And now the latest honor: Lee Hardcastle has remade the film in claymation, and the plot unfolds in pretty much 60 seconds flat."
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    Félicette and Félix, French Astrocats



    French feline Félicette became the first of only two cats to have been sent into space, while Félix had undergone training to be sent. Félix, a Paris street cat, was chosen to be the first cat in space but he escaped and he was replaced by  Félicette at the last minute.
    She did not go into orbit, but in a flight lasting altogether less than 15 minutes travelled some 100 miles into space, where the capsule separated from the rocket and descended by parachute. Throughout the flight electrodes implanted in her brain transmitted neurological impulses back to Earth, and the French Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches de Médecine Aéronautique (CERMA), which directed these flights, stated afterwards that the cat had made a valuable contribution to research. The capsule and Félicette were safely recovered, but what happened to her after her adventure I do not know.
    Félicette is the black-and-white cat shown above. The inscription on the photo, together with her pawprint, reads in French 'Merci pour votre participation à mon succès du 18 octobre 1963.'  


    Link - Via Frogsmoke

    Tuesday, August 16, 2011

    Breakfast Train

    I am a big fan of the boiled egg (seriously). I'd love to have this playful Breakfast Train deliver my unfertilized chicken ova and grilled bread to me in the morning. It's handmade in England by Reiko Kaneko who makes lots of other nifty stuff as well.

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    Blik Animation

    Polder Animation's sweet video about a little boy who falls in love with the older girl next door.
    Via Fubiz™

    Monday, August 15, 2011

    TARDIS Corset

    Fans of the Doctor will be delighted.


    The TARDIS corset, in rough-out of the placement for the first panels. When finished, it'll have lights, sounds, and a key. The phone door will be white, and will open. And yes, you ARE bigger on the inside. (Petrichor Perfume not included.)
    Link - Via Geeks Are Sexy

    $1.1 Billion Streets of Monaco Yacht

    Currently in the concept stage, the Streets of Monaco yacht is set to become the world's most expensive at a cost of over $1.1 billion to build.

    Yacht Island Design modeled the super ship after a section of Monte Carlo, and it will feature smaller versions of the state’s famous landmarks such as the Hotel de Paris and Monte Carlo Casino and racetrack. Swimming pools, tennis courts, a cinema, and go kart track will also provide an endless amount of entertainment.
    You're not likely to own one of these but you can read more about it at My Modern Metropolis

    Kittywood Studios

    If you don't want to do your job and put Maru in a box, I'll find someone who can! A look behind the scenes at Kittywood Studios.


    Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life

    Mashup of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis and Frank Capra’s 1946 classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life
    Short film starring Richard E. Grant. Won BAFTA in 1994 for best short film and the Oscar for best short film in 1995.

    Saturday, August 13, 2011

    DragonNet

    "What do you do for a living?"
    "I'm a knave."
    "Didn't I pick you up on a 903 last year for stealing tarts?"
    Grit in the Gears