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Oct 31, 2013
Dad Makes a Low-Cost 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand For His Son
By on October 30, 2013
Leon McCarthy was born without fingers on one of his hands due to restricted blood flow in the womb, CBS reports. Two years ago, his father Paul McCarthy saw a video of Liam and his 3D-printed Robohand and searched online for a 3D-printed prosthetic pattern for his son. Since, Leon has learned to use the inexpensive 3D-printed prosthetic and he and his father work to modify the original design to make more useful hands whenever he outgrows one. Previously we posted about the Open Hand Project, an attempt to create an open-source 3D-printed prosthetic hand for people just like Leon.
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Little Girl Dresses Up as All Eleven Doctors From ‘Doctor Who’ For Halloween
By on October 30, 2013
Todd Kent’s two-year-old daughter Katie dressed up as all eleven Doctors for Halloween this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. To see the rest of her outfits, head over to Kent’s blog. In previous years, Katie dressed up as every member of The Avengers and every Lantern color.
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Oct 25, 2013
Here Are 6 Seconds From 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'
In the future, maybe all movies will be Vines. Until then, studios will use Vine to tease the trailers that tease the movies. Cool. With the first trailer for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" due out on Oct. 29, 20th Century Fox release six seconds of the trailer teaser to Vine on Thursday. It looks good, if brief. Watch below.
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The Assassin's Gun: Internet Liberty Gone Way Too Far
It’s not just bomb-making instructions and Daniel Pearl murder videos that you can find online. Joining them now is the world’s first downloadable gun.
Meet Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas, who posted downloadable blueprints for a plastic handgun onto a server in New Zealand. The handgun’s components can then be “printed” and assembled by anyone, anywhere with access to 3D-printing technology. Three-dimensional printers create shapes out of sheets of plastic. At present, those printers are very expensive, but undoubtedly not for long.
Within 48 hours, Wilson’s gun blueprints were copied 100,000 times. They were uploaded onto other file-sharing systems all over the planet. On Thursday, Wilson received a letter from the U.S. government demanding that he take down his blueprints. Wilson has said he will comply, but of course it’s now far too late. His gun is available to anyone willing to undertake a few minutes of Internet research.
Wilson now insists he was just trying to start a conversation about appropriate government restrictions on Internet speech. “This is the conversation I want,” he said to Forbes magazine. “Is this a workable regulatory regime? Can there be defense trade control in the era of the Internet and 3D printing?”
To paraphrase an old joke, however, you get a very different conversation with a question and a gun, than with a question alone.
Wilson, a libertarian activist, calls his gun “the Liberator” — implying that it will empower the beleaguered individual against the forces of state tyranny.
But you won’t be wanting to take “the Liberator” with you into the field against Bashar Assad’s goons. Wilson’s gun fires a single bullet at short range with limited accuracy. It’s main utility is its ability to pass a metal detector. It is, in other words, an assassin’s weapon.
Cody Williams has declared his purpose on his website, Defense Distributed: “to defend the civil liberty of popular access to arms as guaranteed by the United States Constitution and affirmed by the Supreme Court, through facilitating global access to, and the collaborative production of, information and knowledge related to the 3D printing of arms; and to publish and distribute … such information and knowledge in promotion of the public interest.” Wilson told an interviewer that he hoped “to literally materialize freedom.”
Anti-social behavior will always be with us. It’s the accompanying sermons that stick in the craw
Rom Coms that didn't make it....
It's time for some real talk: Your favorite rom-com couple most likely wouldn't last in the real world. Below, we've assembled 10 movie pairs whose love probably didn't make it past the closing credits.
Think we left out any ill-fated rom-com couples? Tell us in the comments!
Think we left out any ill-fated rom-com couples? Tell us in the comments!
- Sandy And Danny From 'Grease'
tumblr.comThis couple's inevitable breakup has nothing to do with them being so different and everything to do with Sandy getting fed up with Danny using all her hair gel if they ever moved in together. Get your own, Danny Zuko. Get your own. - Alison And Ben From 'Knocked Up'
whodudo.netYeah, because relationships built on the solid foundation of a drunken one-night-stand always work out. (Oh, we kid, we kid.) - Blane And Andie From 'Pretty In Pink'
insideoutnight.tumblr.com Why do Andy and Blane break up? Because any scenario where Andy doesn't eventually end up with Ducky (pictured above) is a travesty. - Ben And Elaine From 'The Graduate'
mattsko.wordpress.comWe think Ben and Elaine got married -- then promptly got divorced. The only thing worse than a meddling mother-in-law? A meddling mother-in-law you had an affair with. Yikes. - Dionne And Murray From 'Clueless'
fuckyeahstaceydash.tumblr.comSorry, guys, Dionne and Murray's love is just too tumultuous to make it past the twelfth grade. Unless Cher plays mediator for them for the rest of their lives, there's no way Dionne and Murray are going to stay together. Sad, but true. - Annie And Sam From 'Sleepless In Seattle'
gifsoup.com/What spelled disaster for these two? That moment at the end of movie where Sam's 8-year-old son tells a taxi driver, "I'm going to meet my new mom!" Slow it down, guys. - Tracy And Dexter From 'The Philadelphia Story'
http://yotb0ka.tumblr.com/Yep, we're going old school with this one. Tracy had the option of choosing a safe nice guy (played by Jimmy Stewart) or Dexter, the charismatic bad boy (played by Cary Grant) she'd already divorced once before. She chose the latter. Good luck with that, girl. - Zack And Laney From 'She's All That'
butlercat.tumblr.com Laney is too cool to stick with someone who'd place a mean makeover bet on her with his pals. We're guessing she hightailed it to art school on the east coast, sans Zack. - Jerry And Dorothy From 'Jerry Maguire'
favimages.com"You complete me." "You had me at hello." These two are going to run out of sweet nothings to say to each other eventually -- and it's not going to be pretty. - Edward And Vivian From 'Pretty Woman'
mrhankey.tumblr.com Is it just us, or did Edward spend the majority of "Pretty Woman" trying to change poor Vivian? "Buy new clothes," "stop fidgeting!" "put a coat on." Rude. In our ending, Viv says buh bye to Edward, gets her GED and eventually becomes a kick-ass businesswoman in her own right
Interview with MAD's Jack Davis about his Tales From the Crypt comic book days
Mark Frauenfelder at 4:26 pm Thu, Oct 24, 2013 • 2
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Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "We just published an exclusive interview with MAD magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, who spoke to us about his Tales From the Crypt years in the early 1950s. Our article, which features a new drawing by Davis of MAD publisher William Gaines posing alongside the Crypt-Keeper, coincides with Mondo's Tales From the Crypt exhibition opening on October 25, 2013, in Austin, Texas.
• Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "We just published an exclusive interview with MAD magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, who spoke to us about his Tales From the Crypt years in the early 1950s. Our article, which features a new drawing by Davis of MAD publisher William Gaines posing alongside the Crypt-Keeper, coincides with Mondo's Tales From the Crypt exhibition opening on October 25, 2013, in Austin, Texas.It was Bill Gaines who gave Davis—recently honored in a 2011 Fantagraphics retrospective book called Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture — his first break. The young artist, who’d been drawing since kindergarten, had published comic strips in middle school and high school, in the Navy, and at the University of Georgia. When he graduated in 1950, he hoped to land his dream job working on the newspaper funny pages so he could afford to marry his college sweetheart, Dena Roquemore.
“I wanted to be a cartoonist and get syndicated,” says Davis, who worked as an assistant to Ed Dodd, creator of the syndicated “Mark Trail” comic strip, while he was in college. “I figured I had to go to New York City because that was where everything in publishing was, including the comics syndicates. I took a year at the Art Students League in New York, and I’d look for work. I’d go up and down Madison Avenue, where I was rejected at the syndicates and at a lot of the publishers.”
But not all of them. “I saw a comic book one day and went down to the offices of Entertaining Comics, where I met the publisher, Bill Gaines. My work was bad, and they liked it,” he says, laughing. “They gave me some stuff to work on right away, and I was very excited about that.”
Soon, Davis, who was sick of being a starving artist, developed a reputation for speed, as an artist who could sketch and ink sometimes three pages in a day. “I’d have to be fast, because when you turned them in, that’s when you’d get your money,” Davis says. “The faster you drew, the faster the money came in
Artist Anthony Howe Talks About His Stunning Wind Sculptures
By on October 24, 2013
Artist Anthony Howe talks about his stunning wind-powered kinetic sculptures in this video feature by The Creators Project. For more on Howe’s hypnotic sculpture work, see our recent post.
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Workwankers, Illustrations of Unlikable Characters in the Design & Ad Industries
By on October 24, 2013
Workwankers is an illustration series of the many unlikable characters who lurk in the design and advertising worlds. The series is by Joe Sayaman, Peter Cortez, and Sam Mylarczyk of Mizaplas.
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Oct 24, 2013
Icelandic necropants
Rob Beschizza at 4:49 am Thu, Oct 24, 2013 • 2 •
"If you want to make your own necropants (literally; nábrók) you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death. After he has been buried you must dig up his body and flay the skin of the corpse in one piece from the waist down. As soon as you step into the pants they will stick to your own skin
• "If you want to make your own necropants (literally; nábrók) you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death. After he has been buried you must dig up his body and flay the skin of the corpse in one piece from the waist down. As soon as you step into the pants they will stick to your own skinAs seen on Miami Vice
David Pescovitz at 12:46 pm Wed, Oct 23, 2013 • 10 •
What do Ben Stiller, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Julia Roberts, Benicio del Toro, Viggo Mortensen, and Michael Richards have in common? As young, mostly-unknown actors they all appeared on Miami Vice, my favorite TV cop show (except for Barney Miller). Yes, that's Ben Stiller in the above clip
• Thru Tokyo, Music Video Remix of the Sights & Sounds of Tokyo by Kutiman
By on October 23, 2013
“Thru Tokyo” is a fantastic music video remix of the sights and sounds of Tokyo by musician and video artist Kutiman. The video features a cadre of Japanese musicians, including Nobumichi Tosa of art group Maywa Denki playing the Otamatone. The video is the first in a series of original shorts produced by PBS Digital Studios. We’ve posted a number of Kutiman’s wonderful remixes over the years
Oct 23, 2013
The Clever Halloween Costumes of Amputee Josh Sundquist
By on October 22, 2013
As a boy, Josh Sundquist was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and after a year of chemotherapy treatments, his left leg was amputated. By the age of 13, he was cured of the cancer and later in 2006, became a member of the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team. Off and on for the past few years, Josh has made clever Halloween costumes for himself highlighting the “lemons” he was handed. In 2010, he was a partially eaten Gingerbread man with a “broken off” leg and in 2012, he dressed like the Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story. This year he has really outdone himself by donning a pink Lycra bodysuit and hoisting himself up on arm crutches to become a flamingo. Inspiring!
Here he is talking about his popular costumes, including the flamingo:
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Fixing Breaking Bad: funny parody series
Mark Frauenfelder at 12:32 pm Tue, Oct 22, 2013 • 4 •
In "Fixing Breaking Bad," a disgruntled visual effects artist on the series shows how he could have improved Breaking Bad, if only that meddlesome Vince Gilligan had stayed out of his way
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Next Floor, A Short Film About a Grotesque and Gluttonous Feast
By on October 11, 2013
Denis Villeneuve has created Next Floor, a short film about a grotesque and gluttonous feast that falls from floor to floor as its participants shovel food into their mouths
Archer Animated Remake of the ‘Danger Zone’ Music Video From ‘Top Gun’
By on October 10, 2013
FX’s animated comedy series Archer has released an amazing animated remake of the “Danger Zone” music video from Top Gun starring Archer characters.
Here’s the original music video for “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins:
video 1 via Archer, video 2 via James A. Sablan Sr.
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Paint Bouncing on an Audio Speaker in Super Slow Motion
By on October 10, 2013
In the latest video by The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan put paint on an audio speaker and record at 2,500 frames per second as the paint “dances” to the music
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