Star Wars Themed Ice Cube Trays That Can Create Ice or Candy

Star Wars Millennium Falcon Ice Cube Tray
The Star Wars Ice Cube Trays at ThinkGeek are a great collection of food and dishwasher safe custom formed silicone trays that you can use to make ice cubes or candies shaped like Star Wars characters and spacecrafts. Each ice cube tray is available to purchase at ThinkGeek.

Star Wars Character Head Ice Cube Tray (Darth Vader)

Star Wars R2-D2 Ice Cube Tray

Star Wars X-Wing Ice Cube Tray

Star Wars Han Solo in Carbonite Ice Cube Tray

Star Wars R2-D2 / Han Solo in Carbonite Ice Cube & Candy Trays

Star Wars Millennium Falcon / Darth Vader Ice Cube & Candy Trays

Star Wars X-Wing / R2-D2 Ice Cube & Candy Trays
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My Gimpy Life, A Web Comedy Series About a Disabled Actress

My Gimpy Life is a fantastic original web comedy series that follows Teal Sherer, a disabled actress “trying to navigate Hollywood in her wheelchair.” Sherer created the hilarious series which is written by Gabe Uhr, directed by Sean Becker and guest stars Gary Anthony Williams, Felicia Day, Patricia Tallman, and Brent Bradshaw.
The series’ first season is available to view online and also take a listen to the My Gimpy Life behind-the-scenes podcast.





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Human-Powered Freerunning Rube Goldberg Machine

Frankfurt, Germany freerunner and parkour enthusiast Jason Paul, his Team Farang parkour pals, and many others friends, teamed up in Hamburg at an abandoned factory to control and freerun through an amazingly complex human-powered Rube Goldberg machine sponsored by Red Bull. The machine is filled with insane obstacles, chain reactions, stunts and excitement. Getting from point A to point B never looked so difficult / awesome.

Abraham Lincoln and Booze, A History on TV’s How Booze Built America

“…he called it the ‘Great Devastator’…”
In this clip titled Lincoln and Booze, Discovery Channel’s How Booze Built America host Mike Rowe briefly describes Abraham Lincoln’s (sometimes conflicting) history with alcohol.

sweet..........

Handless Magician Mahdi Gilbert Performing Card Tricks

By Rusty Blazenhoff on October 3, 2012

Watch in this clip as Canada-based magician Mahdi Gilbert performs card tricks

Breaking Ned, A Walter White & Ned Flanders Mashup Series

“I am the one who Knock-diddly-ocks!”
In this humorous 3-part illustrated series titled Breaking Ned, New Zealand artist AKADoom combines Breaking Bad‘s Walter White with The Simpsons‘ Ned Flanders.


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Solar-powered dowel-sawing machine is a perfect desktop distraction

Alex's Almost Useless Machine is a solar-powered desktop amusement that slowly saws through dowels whenever the light is bright enough to power its motor. It's mesmerizing.

Quadcopters playing catch

The ETH Zurich quadcopter folks have added to their already impressive collection of videos of cooperative, autonomous quadcopters doing exciting things (previously) with this video of the adorable little gizmos throwing and catching balls together

Every On-Screen Drink in Mad Men in Less Than 5 Minutes

Bryan Menegus of Slacktory created Every On-Screen Drink in Mad Men (in Less Than Five Minutes), a supercut video that highlights all the drinking shown on the TV series, Mad Men (not surprisingly, there’s a lot).

Breaking Bad’s Walter White as Custom Figurines

By Rusty Blazenhoff on October 1, 2012

In this series of custom 12-inch figurines, artist Trevor Grove of Sideshow Collectibles sculpted the likeness of Walter White, the character played by actor Bryan Cranston on TV’s Breaking Bad. According to Huffington Post, Grove gifted the figures to Vince Gilligan, the creator of the show.



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LEGO Dr. Strangelove (video)

Using LEGO and pure genius, YouTuber XXxOPRIMExXX created this amazing stop-motion homage to the great Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

3D printer company seizes its leased unit from the home of a man planning to print out a pistol

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Defense Distributed is a collective that raised $20,000 in BitCoins to lease a 3D printer and develop and prototype a 3D printed pistol. Stratasys, the manufacturer of the printer, seized it from the home of Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson, after a heated email exchange in which the Stratasys counsel said that "It is the policy of Stratasys not to knowingly allow its printers to be used for illegal purposes. Therefore, please be advised that your lease of the Stratasys uPrint SE is cancelled at this time and Stratasys is making arrangements to pick up the printer." Robert Beckhusen writes more in Wired:

fractal cutlery.

On the FractalForums message boards, a user called LhoghoNurbs has posted this wonderful contest-entry for a notional set of fractal cutlery. In a subsequent post, LhoghoNurbs explains that all the image manipulation was done in the GIMP, without any 3D modelling software. LhoghoNurbs wants a set of these, and so do

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.

 

BY Colin Nissan

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I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.
I may even throw some multi-colored leaves into the mix, all haphazard like a crisp October breeze just blew through and fucked that shit up. Then I’m going to get to work on making a beautiful fucking gourd necklace for myself. People are going to be like, “Aren’t those gourds straining your neck?” And I’m just going to thread another gourd onto my necklace without breaking their gaze and quietly reply, “It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.”
Carving orange pumpkins sounds like a pretty fitting way to ring in the season. You know what else does? Performing an all-gourd reenactment of an episode of Diff’rent Strokes—specifically the one when Arnold and Dudley experience a disturbing brush with sexual molestation. Well, this shit just got real, didn’t it? Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real. Sorry if that’s upsetting, but I’m not doing you any favors by shielding you from this anymore.
The next thing I’m going to do is carve one of the longer gourds into a perfect replica of the Mayflower as a shout-out to our Pilgrim forefathers. Then I’m going to do lines of blow off its hull with a hooker. Why? Because it’s not summer, it’s not winter, and it’s not spring. Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it’s fall, fuckers.
Have you ever been in an Italian deli with salamis hanging from their ceiling? Well then you’re going to fucking love my house. Just look where you’re walking or you’ll get KO’d by the gauntlet of misshapen, zucchini-descendant bastards swinging from above. And when you do, you’re going to hear a very loud, very stereotypical Italian laugh coming from me. Consider yourself warned.
For now, all I plan to do is to throw on a flannel shirt, some tattered overalls, and a floppy fucking hat and stand in the middle of a cornfield for a few days. The first crow that tries to land on me is going to get his avian ass bitch-slapped all the way back to summer.
Welcome to autumn, fuckheads

Steampunk Nintendo casemod

Redditor Andrew5785 refurbed an elderly Nintendo system for a covetous steampunk nephew, turning it into a sweet little contrafactual brass retrofuture contraption.

Flat Time, A Poster of a Clock that is Actually a Clock

Flat Time, A Poster of a Clock that is Actually a Clock

By EDW Lynch on September 27, 2012

Flat Time by designer Finn Magee is a poster of a digital alarm clock that is actually a functioning clock. Scroll down to see his other functional posters: Flat Sound (a speaker) and Flat Light (an LED light). Flat Time is available for pre-order

MMMMMMMMMM..DOUGHNUTS

Bagelheads’ are Injecting Saline Into Their Foreheads to Create Trendy Bagel-Like Shapes

By Rusty Blazenhoff on September 26, 2012

In National Geographic’s new series Taboo, we learn that the latest Japanese trend in body modification is “injecting saline solution into the forehead to create a temporary bagel-like shape.” Recipients are called “Bagelheads” and in this clip from the episode titled Extreme Bodies, you can see how it’s done.

For some people, improving one’s appearance can lead to extreme body modification…artist Keroppy is leading the way in the trendy body modification industry. His newest exhibition features “bagelheads,” people with what looks like a small bagel protruding from their foreheads.

A ‘Bagelhead’ getting a medical saline

Fett Noir, Classic Noir Movie Posters Given a Star Wars Remix

By Justin Page on September 26, 2012

Fett Noir #4: Nightmare Alley by Dean Reeves

Calgary, Canada freelance art director Dean Reeves has created a series of painted movie posters titled Fett Noir that give a collection of classic noir movie posters (Nightmare Alley, This Gun for Hire, Night and the City and The Big Sleep) a great Star Wars remix. A limited edition of 250 numbered 12″ x 18″ prints of each of the four poster designs are available to purchase on Etsy.

Fett Noir #1: This Gun For Hire by Dean Reeves

Fett Noir #2: Night and the City by Dean Reeves

Fett Noir #3: The Big Sleep by Dean Reeves

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The Armory Club, Kink.com Opens a Swank Upscale Cocktail Lounge

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The Armory Club is Kink.com’s recently opened upscale cocktail lounge located in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. It is described as “the best a bar should offer: thoughtful drinks, attentive service and comfortable design with the right amount of kink to make a night of it!” The Armory Club is open Monday through Sunday (doors open at 5 PM each day) at 1799 Mission Street in San Francisco, California, which is across the street from the Kink.com SF Armory headquarters (we recently posted about the adult film set tour I took there). Photographer Michael Mason of Grub Street San Francisco paid a visit the night before its opening and shot the club’s swank interior (gallery).

Delicious Drinks, Attentive Service, Beautiful Barroom, and just enough kink to make it a night!

photo by Michael Mason via Grub Street San Francisco

photo by Michael Mason via Grub Street San Francisco

photo by Michael Mason via Grub Street San Francisco

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Humorous Dog Costumes That Look Like Things are Riding on Its Back

By Justin Page on September 25, 2012

Dog Riders Headless Horseman Costume

The innovative group of creators at Paper Magic have put together a great series of Dog Riders Pet Costumes that will surely make any canine stand out during their trick-or-treat walk on Halloween night. Each adjustable harness costume is made to fit most dogs (each humorously designed to look like things are riding on its back), and is available to purchase on Amazon.

Dog Riders Monkey Costume

Dog Riders Cowboy Costume

Dog Riders Mailman Costume

Dog Riders Goblin Orc Costume

Dog Riders Bike Rider Costume

Dog Riders Jockey Costume

Dog Riders Cat Costume

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BevBuckle, A Retractable Belt Buckle That Holds a Beer

BevBuckle holding a bottle. Also hold cans, snack packs, chips, hot dogs, etc

Arrowhead: Signal, A Low Budget Independent Sci-Fi Film Short

Arrowhead: Signal is a low budget 10 minute sci-fi film short inspired by the upcoming Australian independent feature film, Arrowhead, which is about an escaped convict / mercenary named Kye who is alone and stranded on a desert planet, waiting to be rescued. Signal really has me wanting more. To help this feature film come to fruition, the crew of Arrowhead has set up a crowdfunding platform on Pozible, which has a similar fundraising model to Kickstarter. They have a great selection of backer rewards, such as being an extra in the film or even having your last name be the actual last name of Nye, the main character. You can learn more about the film and fundraising in their promo video.

Arrowhead synopsis:

Arrowhead is a movie about redemption and loneliness, set against the backdrop of a sun-baked desert planet. After an intense prison break, Kye’s heroism gains him the attention of a ragtag group of rebels, led by an ex-military general. With the promise of guaranteed freedom, the general lures Kye into a dangerous hostage mission which leads him stranded alone on a planet for several years.
While alone, our hero has to decide whether he wants to continue on his violent path, or undo the damage he has done. But inner peace is hindered when Kye becomes infected with a symbiotic alien creature, which periodically causes hideous transformations.
It’s Jekyll and Hyde meets Robinson Crusoe. The Incredible Hulk in the distant stars. A bullets-and-sand adventure that will introduce pulp science fiction to the cerebral, character-based intimacy of independent cinema.

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Fantastically detailed miniature replica of Katz's deli

Miniatures sculptor Alan Wolfson was commissioned to make a teeny weeny, fiendishly detailed diorama of the legendary Katz's Deli. Wolfson doesn't do miniature people, so he needed a plausible reason to make an empty Katz's (it's normally mobbed). He opted for a "closing time" Katz's, complete with tiny dirty dishes. There's tiny neon outside, too!

Katz’s Delicatessen is one of those legendary New York locations. It’s been in business on the lower east side of Manhattan since 1888, and is New York’s oldest deli. Telling someone to “meet me at Katz’s..,” is almost the same as telling them to meet you under the clock in Grand Central - everyone knows where it is. The collector who commissioned the piece no longer lives in the city and wanted something that reminded him of the many times, when he was a boy, that he and his family had eaten at Katz’s.

Fruit salad trees with six different fruit-bearing branches grafted on them

The Fruit Salad Tree Company of Emmaville, NSW, Australia sells trees that have up to six different fruit-bearing branches grafted on them.

Interview with Ray Harryhausen

Here's a 1974 interview with SFX pioneer and "Dynamation" inventor Ray Harryhausen, whose stop motion magic brought to life such classic films as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and One Million Years BC

David Byrne and St Vincent performing each others' songs together

Pitchfork's got a couple YouTube clips from the ongoing David Byrne/St Vincent tour, which is in support of their new album and Byrne's new book, both of which are amazing. I saw the tour stop in Toronto and actually wept at one point. I've been listening to the new album, Love This Giant nonstop since, and it's become the soundtrack of my days. I can't remember the last time a new album took over my life so completely.