May 16, 2012
This piece explains how everything you were taught about Native Americans and the First Europeans in America is wrong. Unfortunately, it's in Cracked.com's highly annoying "listicle' format. But if you can get past that, you WILL learn a thing or six. [more inside]
May 12, 2012
James and Other Apes I was going to post the synopsis of this project but realised that I had already formed the same thoughts as the artist before I read his description. These are great photos. [more inside]
Monkey Feedback Survey
Some hypothetical questions on the offchance that we do a rewrite of MoFi:
* What would you like to see done differently?
* Which features work and which don't?
* What is something you have seen on other websites that could work here?
May 08, 2012
Publisher's Weekly's blog has begun making Literary Pie Charts for notable books. Only two so far (and not Weekly yet), but watch this space...
May 07, 2012
MoviesThat Come To The Rescue! A 4:30 mashup of over 200 scenes from over 100 superhero movies and TV shows.
May 05, 2012
François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world! [Via]
May 04, 2012
May The Forth Be With You. Sally, that is. Francesco Marciuliano goes back to the first week of his time writing a syndicated comic strip and reassures us he could do better.
May 03, 2012
Urban Plant Tags for proper identification and care of things that just seem to pop out of the ground...
May 02, 2012
I Shot the Serif, but I did not shoot the sans-serif. And now you can too!
May 01, 2012
"In live-action films, motion blurs are natural occurrences. In animation, you have to make them from scratch. And most of them are pieces of art by themselves." yes, it's a tumblr, but a very good one.
April 28, 2012
What Mormon's Believe. A flowchart.
April 24, 2012
The devil's own disease
spreads like a zombie outbreak. More properly known as Devil Facial Tumor Disease, it's a contagous cancer that started from the bite of one infected Tasmanian devil. Let's hope they find a cure, so the devils don't all bomb-out like the Tasmanian Tiger did a century ago...
Oh, and here's a new Aussie movie staring Willem Dafoe, called The Hunter, based on what might happen if just one Tasmanian Tiger was left for corporate pillaging. See, the movie hypothesizes that, for the sake of medical warfare, the bite of the Tiger was poisonous - even as this new devil cancer spreads like a contageious poison <:(!)
Jud Turner - Sculpture Gallery.
April 21, 2012
April 19, 2012
"I have the feeling this man is gay." The Werzog has admiration for John Waters' guts.
April 15, 2012
Portraits of astronauts from across the animal kingdom by rubbishmonkey.
Charts.
Gotta Love 'Em. Or Not.
[more inside]
April 02, 2012
F*** & Biscuits Stephen Fry recently did a five-part series about language, including, obviously, 'rude language'. So when Australia's ABC aired the series, what did they pick for its promo clip on YouTube? "Tourette Hero" (containing dozens of involuntary f-words in 4 minutes).
April 01, 2012
Mix maps, Facebook and geolocation and you get something like this. Creepy. Charlie Stross has more about it here.
March 26, 2012
4:44 Last Day on Earth
, now opening in New York and LA, Abel Ferrara's new film, explores what people would do if they knew it was the their last chance to do anything at all. Would you do the same stuff you always do? Or blow it all ahead of time?
Here's the trailer.
This is not... ...an excellent collection of parodies of Magritte's "The Treachery of Images", with pipes, Popes, Cokes, Post-Its, Traps and other artists, collected by the evil genius behind I Love Charts, maybe the Best Tumblr EVAH.
March 25, 2012
Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum... Violin?!? It's the "Six Shot Six String" by Maskull Lasserre, whose art-mashup-thingies also include "Sonata Blade", a stringed cleaver, "Second Thought", an 'axe' that really IS an axe (obvious) and "Coriolis", a piano (made of rusted steel that resembles wood) that has come in contact with a boulder (100% real rock). Somebody has issues about his childhood music lessons.
March 23, 2012
Tug of Real War: If hostilities ever break out between the U.S. and Canada, this is how they will probably play out.
March 15, 2012
The 15 Most Ridiculous White House Pets Vice-Presidents not included. [more inside]
March 09, 2012
Huge floods in NSW displace wolf spiders. Note for arachnophobes - lots of spider silk, plus one shot showing lots of spiders in a tree.
March 07, 2012
From the Department of Highly Specialized Tumblr Sites Department: It's "(1960s) Batman (and Robin) Running (in animated gifs) Away From Sh*t (that's photoshopped behind them)", like the 2008 Joker, dinos in Jurassic Park or Teletubbies. Or running just ahead of Rock Hudson in 'North By Northwest' (my favorite). Well, it's better than Pictures of People Scanning QR Codes
March 04, 2012
Chimpanzees are NOT all alike. In fact they are LESS 'all alike' than Humans. "the genetic diversity of these different chimp populations, even those who are practically right on top of each other, is significantly greater than that found in humans separated by entire continents."
