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Melancholia: Nothing Spoils a Wedding Quite Like the End of the World

Spring is in the air. The weather is warm, almost troublingly so. Flowers are blooming. Babies are everywhere. It’s all a little much, isn’t it? It’s all so very pleasant. Lars von Trier’s latest film, Melancholia, is just what you need to snap out of this sunshiney state of mind. Released at the end of…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Apr 23 '12

Best Profile Pics, Worst Stunts, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Tightrope Walking Over a Canyon in China with no Backup Is the Dumbest Thing Dean Potter walked…

Social Media Brian Barrett Apr 23 '12

Bullet Time Light Painting Makes Beautiful 3D Graffiti

Light painting is a cool effect and all, but we’re seen enough of it that it’s getting close to oh-god-not-another-lens-flare territory. But light painting mixed with bullet time, to create 3D light graffiti? Totally fresh and gorgeous. Making a bullet time light painting isn’t as easy as the regular versions—you’ll need many cameras set up…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 23 '12

The Feds Will Shut off Your Internet If You Don’t Clean Your Computer by July 9

When the FBI and Estonian authorities finally crushed the DNSChanger Trojan network in January, they set up a temporary DNS exchange to maintain connectivity for the millions of infected users until they could wipe the bug from their systems. https://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-might-cut-off-the-internet-for-millions-of-peop-5885716 Those temporary systems are going offline by the middle of the year, so if you…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 23 '12

Couple Pays $1200 for Objectively Worst Wedding Photos of All Time

We don’t say of all time with a light heart, but truly, these are the worst wedding photos of all time. Did a child take them? An elephant? A ghost? Every single one is godawful in its own godawful way. An unlucky UK couple will have to rely on these hilariously terrible snaps to conjure…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 23 '12

What if the Emperor was more monstrous? Check out some insane Return of the Jedi storyboards!

The final confrontation between Luke, Darth Vader and the Emperor could have looked even more intense, going by these storyboards from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. In particular, the Emperor looks sort of like Darth Maul crossed with the Joker, in some of these storyboards by artist David Russell. These images come from an…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 23 '12

Wrath of the Titans concept art is mythic nightmare fuel

If Wrath of a Titans was a horror movie instead of a gods-and-monsters B-movie, then it might have had a fighting chance at living up to this insane concept art by the Aaron Sims Company. Sims also brought us those disturbingly real-looking Green Lantern aliens, and now there are some horrific cyclopses and minotaurs to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 23 '12

Watch Saturn and Its Moons Dance in This Video Made Entirely of Stills

Video artist Sander van cen Berg created this winsome video entirely out of still images from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. Because the video is constructed like a flipbook, it also has a retro feel that’s hard to beat. More art-house film than NASA footage, and that’s a great aesthetic for a look at our…

Tech News Kif Leswing Apr 23 '12

Ruby Sparks = Weird Science For Hipsters

A struggling novelist imagines his perfect woman so hard, she comes into being as a flesh-and-blood person, in Ruby Sparks. It seems awfully reminiscent of Weird Science, but Ruby Sparks does star Paul Dano, and is made by the people behind Little Miss Sunshine. So that’s two great things going for it. In the newly…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Apr 23 '12

Building Block Storage Bins Finally Put Your Lego Skills To Good Use

And to think your parents were actually disappointed when you kept playing with Lego bricks all the way through college. Little did they know that you were refining important skills that would one day let you build one hell of a shelving system with Quirky’s new modular Crate system. Admittedly, drawers and home theaters aren’t…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 23 '12

The Skeletal Hensen Chair Proves Minimal Design Can Also Be Fun

Fresh out of the 2012 Milan Furniture Show comes this gorgeous chair from upstart Dutch designers Kranen/Gille. The lovely sky blue seat is made out of steel and was designed for New Duivendrect, which appeared in the annual exhibition for the first time. The stunning, minimalist piece of furniture was a part of New Duivendrect’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 23 '12

The Physics that Explain Why You Should Wear Black This Summer

We’re all encouraged to wear white in summer, since white clothing is supposed to keep us cool — but it doesn’t. In fact, black clothing is the best way to keep cool in the heat. It’s basic physics. And biology. Find out why cool people will wear black this summer. Generally in summer, we’re treated…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 23 '12

Ron Swanson wants to be Fantastic Four’s Thing. Make it happen, Hollywood!

A few shows back on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally popped by to talk about Parks & Recreation, the theater and Hollywood and superhero movies. And during this hour long interview, Offerman mentioned he’d wanted to play Ben Grimm from Fantastic Four. And how his dreams were cruelly crushed…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 23 '12

Microsoft Is Losing Mobile Subscribers Faster Than It Can Gain Them

When you run the numbers on Microsoft’s mobile platform, it doesn’t look good. Despite the debut of Windows Phone 7 about a year and a half ago, the company is losing mobile users faster than it can add them. For a three month period ending in February, Microsoft nabbed a paltry 3.9 percent of the…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 23 '12

VFX: Add Movie-Style Special Effects to Your iPhone Pics

“And here I am on an African safari, defending my camp from a pack of lions with my trident in the middle of a lightning storm.” None of that really happened, but you can make believe it did with VFX, an app that lets you add tons of special effects to your photos. What does…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 23 '12

Bottle Opener + Sunglasses = Beer Goggles?

We’re convinced they started life as nothing more than a hi-larious drunken joke at a bar one night. But believe it or not, these Brewsees are now an actual product, ready to protect your eyes from the sun while facilitating the destruction of your liver through booze. Unless you’re into the whole Oakley look, the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 23 '12

Who Cares About Slingshots When This Crossbow Fires Spinning Saw Blades?

We’ve got nothing but undying love for slingshot master Joerg Sprave. But if we had to select a weapon of choice, it would probably be Patrick Priebe’s saw blade-launching laser-sighted Blade Driver crossbow. https://gizmodo.com/the-slingshot-master-shows-us-how-to-turn-office-suppli-5903958 And it doesn’t matter that the blades it fires are only 2-inches in diameter. Anything larger and you wouldn’t be able…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 23 '12

33 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies that Could Rock Your Summer

This year’s summer movies just won’t let up. There’s Joss Whedon’s Avengers, Chris Nolan’s third Batman film, and Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to space horror. Plus maybe a dozen other movies that look like they could be totally fantastic. Here’s our complete list of 32 movies coming out between now and September — including superheroes,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 23 '12

Full Surface Induction Cooktop Gives You the Freedom To Place Your Pots Anywhere

They might be the future of cooking, but for some reason induction cooktops limit where you can place your pots, like the burners on a traditional stove. But Siemens is breaking free of those constraints with a new design that boasts an all-encompassing cooking surface. It’s not unlike Thermador’s Freedom stove unveiled at CES, which…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 23 '12

A gorgeous horror movie about a pen trying to murder the letter “D”

This is D, a truly bizarre vignette from the Venezuelan studio Chiguire Animation and Closed Eye Visuals. In this wonderful little animation, a pen with sinister inclinations wants to connect a dot labeled with the letter “D.” The letter has no desire to be stabbed by ink, so it attempts to escape off the page.…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Apr 23 '12

Melancholia: Nothing Spoils a Wedding Quite Like the End of the World

Best Profile Pics, Worst Stunts, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Bullet Time Light Painting Makes Beautiful 3D Graffiti

The Feds Will Shut off Your Internet If You Don’t Clean Your Computer by July 9

Couple Pays $1200 for Objectively Worst Wedding Photos of All Time

What if the Emperor was more monstrous? Check out some insane Return of the Jedi storyboards!

Wrath of the Titans concept art is mythic nightmare fuel

Watch Saturn and Its Moons Dance in This Video Made Entirely of Stills

Ruby Sparks = Weird Science For Hipsters

Building Block Storage Bins Finally Put Your Lego Skills To Good Use

The Skeletal Hensen Chair Proves Minimal Design Can Also Be Fun

The Physics that Explain Why You Should Wear Black This Summer

Ron Swanson wants to be Fantastic Four’s Thing. Make it happen, Hollywood!

Microsoft Is Losing Mobile Subscribers Faster Than It Can Gain Them

VFX: Add Movie-Style Special Effects to Your iPhone Pics

Bottle Opener + Sunglasses = Beer Goggles?

Who Cares About Slingshots When This Crossbow Fires Spinning Saw Blades?

33 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies that Could Rock Your Summer

Full Surface Induction Cooktop Gives You the Freedom To Place Your Pots Anywhere

A gorgeous horror movie about a pen trying to murder the letter “D”

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