Lauren Davis

An animated world where people have adjusted to an extremely windy life

Robert Löbel’s whimsical animation WIND exists in a world that is, well, extraordinarily windy. But the denizens of this windy world have found ways to deal with—and even enjoy—the weather. [via Vimeo Staff Picks]

Haven asks: Can you solve one curse with a complementary curse?

As we get closer to discovering Audrey’s proto-personality, Haven is hit by a Trouble that can’t be solved with one of Audrey’s classic pep talks. In fact, the only way to resolve the Trouble may be to give a Trouble to someone else. If there was any question of William’s utter indifference to humanity, this…

The Swedish Chef faces Gordon Ramsay in the ultimate Muppet cook-off

In advance of The Muppets’ Most Wanted, Muppets Studio has released the bite-sized webisode “Food Fight,” in which the Swedish Chef pits his culinary skills against Gordon Ramsay in a reality show-inspired food truck competition. And naturally, our favorite Muppet critics are serving up their judgment with a side of snark. Update: And thanks to…

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Missionary Seeks an Alien Convert

Dressed in robes, a human ministers to an alien being. Is he peddling a certain faith, and is the alien buying? This piece was created by Eric Wilkerson for the online magazine Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show to illustrate the short story “Sojourn for Ephah” by Marina J. Lostetter, via r/ImaginaryMonsters. Take a few…

Light-up wizard hoodie transforms its wearer into a Technomancer

On April Fool’s Day 2012, ThinkGeek featured the Technomancer Digital Wizard Hoodie among their fake products. Now they’ve introduced the real thing, a hooded jacket that lights up and makes spell sounds based on the movement of the wearer’s arms. Currently, the hoodie is out of stock, but you can see it with its multicolored…

In this Most Dangerous Game, players must stay in close proximity

Ryan Connolly’s short film PROXiMITY takes the familiar concept of “The Most Dangerous Game” and adds an additional rule: players wear ankle monitors that require them to stick close together or suffer the violent consequences. PROXiMITY uses a fairly simple concept to make an exciting, if brief, thriller that forces its protagonist to fully understand…

A Disney artist imagines Wicked as an animated film

Minkyu Lee is an animator and visual development artist who has worked on The Princess and the Frog and Frozen. As part of his visual development portfolio, he imagined how Elphaba might look in her very own animated adventure, based on Wicked. Lee created these images while he was studying at CalArts and interning at…

Winter is Coming: Make Game of Thrones paper snowflakes to celebrate

Krystal Higgins has come up with a series of paper snowflake designs inspired by the great houses of Game of Thrones. Just print out the designs on Higgins’ site, cut along the lines, and paste a flurry of your favorite house sigils to your windows. Free “Game of Thrones”-inspired snowflake patterns [Krystal Higgins via Laughing…

Marvel has confirmed that Drew Goddard will run the show on Netflix’s Daredevil series. The Cabin in the Woods director will write and direct the first episode as well as serve as showrunner and executive producer for the 13-episode series. Hurrah! [via GeekTyrant]

Disaster interrupts an alien mission to rescue the human race

The Fiah’s Exodus mission is a noble one, to remove sentient races from their doomed planet and relocate them to a safer preserve. But Ethma and Endi’s assignment on Earth is troubled from the start, though their crew of accidental human stowaways is the least of their problems when the entire Exodus mission takes a…

Famous Museums Incredibly Recreated in Gingerbread and Candy

Sweet gingerbread cottages have nothing on these sugary architectural marvels. Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves recreate iconic museums and art galleries in gingerbread, licorice, cotton candy, and chocolate. The pair created these morsel models for a Dylan’s Candy Bar display at Art Basel Miami. In addition to the Guggenheim Museum above and the Karuizawa Gallery…

Bang your head to this Star Wars/Bohemian Rhapsody music video mashup

What happens when you mix Star Wars cosplayers with Queen’s classic opus and add in a brand new set of lyrics? Anyway the Force flows… The Students and Faculty of the Digital Video Program at University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona, produced this video with the help of their cosplayer performers. Stephen Panagiotis, Jamall…

Proposed Mobile City would relocate to spots with greater resources

Manuel Dominguez’s “Very Large Structure” concept dreams of nomadic cities that aren’t abandoned when local resources are depleted or due to economic shifts. Instead, the cities would pick up and find a new home, allowing for the reforestation of the places they leave behind. The notion of a mobile city is, in itself, nothing new;…

We finally get a look at Smaug’s whole body—on the side of an airplane

This is a bit of an odd debut for Smaug’s full body, but the whole dragon enchilada finally makes an appearance in the form of a wrap on an Air New Zealand plane. It’s not an ideal way to see the fearsome dragon’s complete body for the first time (we’ve seen plenty of glimpses in…

The wanderer finds a city in the toxic desert

At first, Jade feared that the balloons bobbing over the sandstorm were nothing more than a mirage, a trick of the light and wishful thinking. But when the buildings came into view, she nearly fell to her knees with relief. If this city afford the luxury of helium, surely they had oxygen on hand as…

Tender and Playful X-Ray Portraits of Couples

Saiko Kanda and Hayashi Mayuka have taken a series of X-ray images that aren’t aimed at scientific investigation or presenting its figures in a macabre light, but instead add a touch of heart to skeletal images by capturing couples together. Kanda and Mayuka made this series as their thesis project Musashino Art University and it…

Crowdfund original novels by fanfiction writers and a Frank Cho artbook

Want to help writers of fanfiction get their original writing careers off the ground? A new press is publishing a novel by fan writers. Also, cartoonist Frank Cho is sharing his techniques for drawing women in a new book and a webcomic character gets a graphic novel series set in his childhood. Big Bang Press:…

Frozen has smashed the record for the highest-grossing opening for a Disney movie, earning $66.7 million over three days and $93M over the entire five-day holiday. It’s also the biggest Thanksgiving debut, though Catching Fire now holds the overall Thanksgiving record, earning $74.5M for three days and $100.2M for the full five days.

Golden Ratio on Film: The math in There Will Be Blood‘s cinematography

Ali Shirazi explores the geometry of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, finding the golden spirals, examples of the Rule of Thirds, and tracking shot mathematics describing the film’s cinematography. This is the first in what will be a series of films exploring Anderson’s directing style. It’s a fascinating watch, and it would be…

The Weinsteins looking to make TV shows based on Sin City and The Mist

Producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein are looking to scripted television to increase their media offerings, and they have several scripted shows in the works. Among the TV series we could be seeing from the Weinstein Company in the near future: a Sin City series and a Frank Darabont-led miniseries based on The Mist. The Weinsteins…