"Swipe your arm through the air and you are reconfiguring an unimaginable amount of red flyers."
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I want you all to go read this comic, because it’s amazing, and if you haven’t heard of Boulet, now is your chance to make it right. He’s the greatest, this comic is the best.
You heard the lady. Read it. It is fantastic.
CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!
GODZILLA EDITION
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy that love and / or readership should be shamelessly bought. so in honor of the 2012 and the impending doom of our civilization, i thought i’d offer a chance to bring home everyone’s favorite world-destroyer, GODZILLA! MMMRAAAHHHWWWFFFF!! (that’s how Mothra told me to spell Godzilla’s cry, but you can’t ever really trust that guy).
THE PRIZE: 1 Criterion DVD or Blu-ray (your choice) of Ishiro Honda’s GODZILLA.
TO ENTER: just “like” and / or Re-blog this post. each note will count as a separate entry, so every fellow blogger can therefore submit a maximum total of 2 entries.
giveaway will be closed at 12 P.M. EST on Friday, 2/3/2012. 1 winner will be randomly selected from the notes. so the odds should be okay if not super awesome, but someone’s gonna get something sweet for nothing.
good luck, and thanks for reading!
THE DARKNESS - Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us (by TheActualDarkness)
In other news, the BBC has learned today that, in fact, everyone everywhere is feeling very sad. Today I’m joined by Penny Derbyshire, the author of The World in Total and Absolute Crisis and a generally sad person.
Penny, do you think it’s true that all hope is gone from the world?
Yes, I’m very sad.
And now on to sports: All the teams lost today, and all the games were boring.
Kristen Bell loves sloths more than she can handle.
(Source: oh-rebecca, via cheia)
Sounds good.
Also, holy shit Wednesday is Hourly Comics day! I totally would have forgotten about it! Thanks, Erik! Last year I gave up at 1 PM… let’s see if this year I can make it to 2!
(Source: hyouryuu)
New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator Lets You Make GIFs Out Of 19th Century Stereographs:
“With the Stereogranimator, the NYPL is letting users transform 19th century stereographs into GIFs, which lets people experience these historical images the way someone in the 1800s might have. Drawing on a collection of over 40,000 stereographs, the Stereogranimator is a project of the NYPL Labs, an experimental unit at the library using digital means to develop new tools for research.
“If you look through enough of them, you start to notice that many from before 1900 come in seemingly-identical pairs. What you may not realize is that these pairs were meant to be viewed together, each side lending the other a sense of depth that a photograph alone cannot possess,” Joshua Heineman, who began a version of the Stereogranimator as a personal project on his blog, wrote on the Huffington Post. “Using stereoscopes, the entertainment-seeking public of the 19th century immersed themselves in these 3D photographs (called stereographs) in a manner akin to how we now view movies, video games or cellphone screens.”
Jamie Hewlett’s Phoo Action
I was recently talking with some people about how great one or two season long TV shows can be, but you know what else can be pretty fantastic? Shows that have only one episode.
Phoo Action, Heat Vision and Jack, The Amazing Screw-On Head… what else?
