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Destino by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Started in 1945 between the legendary painter and animator, Destino follows the ill-fated love between Chronos and a mortal woman. The six minute film took 58 years to complete after being rediscovered in 2000 and first ran at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. https://gizmodo.com/chuck-jones-teaches-you-how-to-draw-bugs-bunny-and-daff-5893520…
It’s late. It’s Tuesday. You’re sitting at your computers. Here is the movie that will make your night more…fun. In The Girlfriend Experience, porn star Sasha Grey plays Chelsea, a high-class escort working in 2008 recession-era Manhattan. She charges $2,000 a night to let men pretend she’s their girlfriend—dinner dates, griping about work, cozy bathrobe…
The Groom’s cake may be a bit of a consolation prize for otherwise being ignored on the big day but that doesn’t men you shouldn’t milk it for all its pastry goodness. Like this guy, who got himself the Ark of the Covenant in cake. The Ark was created by Charm City Cakes, a specialty…
You know all the words to Nikki Minaj’s latest hit? That’s so adorable but let’s try something with a melody and that will be remembered two years from now for more than just Pub Quiz fodder. Herbie Hancock is an American pianist and Jazz icon, playing with the likes of Miles Davis’ “second great quintet”…
In the press kits they distributed last week at Milan’s Salone design show, Ikea included a very Ikea product: a digital camera made of cardboard. The camera, which runs on two AA batteries and can hold up to 40 images on a built-in memory stick, can be synced with a computer via the USB that…
For those Mac users who still haven’t taken the hint and updated their systems’ security (all, what, 140,000 of you?), here’s yet another version of the Flashback Trojan for you to enjoy. https://gizmodo.com/mac-flashback-trojan-find-out-if-youre-one-of-the-140-5902976 The new version, dubbed Flashback.S, isn’t really all that new in terms of technical prowess. It infects unprotected Macs in the same…
A company by the name of Fred and Friends has come out with possibly the most pointless product of our time. Food Fingers—the “FingerPickin Cocktail Picks”—are multicolored plastic caps that fit over your finger and end in a tiny three-pronged food spear. They seem almost like a good idea, for party platters and such, until…
Apple’s iCloud is powered on the back of some seriously dirty electricity. That truly sucks. You know what else sucks? Cleaning dozens of balloons out of a cavernous Apple store after Greenpeace protesters attack. https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-one-of-the-heaviest-coal-users-in-the-industry-5902712 The stunt, further confirming that Apple has very little left of its hippie rebel bandana spirit left, is now in…
Moloko’s Vortex Salt and Pepper Shakers are beautifully minimalist—so minimalist, they have no plug and only one opening. To fill them, salt or pepper is poured into the top funnel, where it flows down into the inner chamber. Later, when you want to dispense some seasoning onto your food, turning the shaker upside down will…
It will take a few years before the technology trickles down to home theaters, but at CinemaCon this year Dolby introduced a new surround sound system called Atmos that promises to create the illusion that sounds are coming from everywhere inside the theater. Using improved sound rendering algorithms and additional speakers located in the middle…
“Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.” Whoa. So deeeeeeeeeep. That line, from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is the most highlighted passage of all time on the Kindle. What’s crazy is that the fauxdeep line is nearly two times as popular as the second most highlighted passage,…
During Apple’s call today to discuss its monster earnings last quarter, CEO Tim Cook was asked his opinion on Windows 8. He said all of the expected things about how the iPad has unlimited potential, but also weighed in on tablet-PC hybrid devices with this little bon mot: https://gizmodo.com/apple-hauls-insane-39-billion-revenue-despite-selling-5904803 You can converge a toaster and…
You’ve seen slow-mo footage of crash tests before. For some weird reason, auto makers love to show its cars being demolished. This awesome short shows all of the preparation that goes into recreating the chaos and carnage at moment of impact. Filmed and edited by Jay Gillespie, “Point B” shows you everything about a crash…
If you’re traveling in Brazil and you’d like to ask your cab driver which bar in Rio serves the best caipirinha, you’re going to need to know Portuguese. Thumbing frantically through a phrasebook is difficult, and you might not string the sentence together properly. And would you even understand your cabbie’s answer? SayHi Translate solves…
Sriracha is the most complete condiment. You can put it on almost anything—eggs, pizza, noodles, sandwiches. Don’t get me started. But some Sriracha fanatics out there had the ingenious idea to put the delicious, delicious Thai hot sauce into a lollipop. It’s a wonderful twist on Atomic Fireballs. A bag of four is $10, but…
Hey, Perfect timing on the contest! I shoot film so the processing and scanning never seem to match up for a entry. Shot this one while doing some bike riding around Denver. I stumbled upon a cool looking plastic chair. I moved it out into the nice spring sun to get a cool shadow snapped…
Camera: Sony SLT-a35 Lens: 18-55mm with +10 enlargement filter and 16 point star filter ISO 500 (used flash for reflection) f/4.5 Being fans of photography, my wife and I like to experiment with various aspects of the art. I was having fun taking shots with a new 16 point star filter I got and on…
This picture was shot on a Canon T3i using the kit 18-55mm IS Lens. The focal length was 29mm and I shot this in Aperature mode with an F-Stop of 4.5. I did the Black and White conversion in Adobe Camera Raw. I adjusted the exposure and tone scale before converting it to grayscale and…
“Urban Escape” Summer temperatures have reached SoCal, it hit 100 degrees the other day in Studio City. The shade from this tree quickly gave me a quick escape of the radiating heat of the concrete jungle in Los Angeles. I shot this with my Canon 60D, Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO 100, 1/20 f/13.0.…
The USDA has confirmed that a new case of mad cow disease has been discovered in dairy cow in central California. There is no reason to panic, though. The meat did not enter the food system and the carcass will be destroyed. This is the fourth known case of mad cow disease in the U.S.…
