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Bikini vs. The Wave I have always been a fan of the bikini, but it hasn't always loved me back.
I’m terrified of you. Yes, you- Director of Photography (DP). Your framing is beautiful, but your lighting could kill me, and my career. I am the Makeup Artist, and I don’t believe we’ve met.
‘EARTH MADE OF GLASS‘ is a documentary that follows the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and genocide survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka (creator of the crystal chair) is back with a new "shape-shifting" chair, set to debut at Milan Design Fair this upcoming week.
Today's WSJ takes a tour of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko's 394-foot insanely luxe yacht, coined "A".
This one smells like a fish story. It is not. Tuesday April 13, Dave and I got up to surf westward at 7 in the morning. First rate waves. Headache cold water....sun blocked by the cliffs. Fast, clean, beach break. 3-4 foot sets, mostly lefts. About 15 dolphins swam by. Blase blase. We always see dolphins. But then some bigass whale with barnacles breaches. We are speechless. It is about 20 feet from us. We follow it for about thirty seconds and pinch ourselves. Have-you-ever? No...
Panasonic's new video camcorders, 3D and one with removable lenses and a larger sensor but it shoots to an awful codec.
Food & Flowers Freedom Act in Los Angeles
Ah, the art of applying eyeliner. Bad habit of going just a weee bit too heavy? Having a hard time keeping your line nice and steady? Is it really supposed to go INSIDE the outer edge of your eye? Jezebel received a flood of woes such as these, and therefore asked their readers to send in all of their best eyeliner tips.
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Dirty SCRABBLE. Everybody likes to play dirty, but we're not talking bluffing with fake words or closing up the board—we're talking actual "dirty" and offensive words.
So, you've made your first zine. Now what? That depends on a couple things:
The Job Board is a weekly entry of the most ridiculous Cinematography related jobs posted online. DP
London based company CrystalRoc was commissioned by Microsoft Australia to fully Swarovski crystal-ize an XBOX console for a PR campaign. The console took more than 11,520 individual Swarovski crystals and over 70 hours to produce. That sure makes one expensive console...
Curious about how to make a zine that only uses one sheet of paper? Elizabeth Genco has provided a step-by-step, picture-by-picture tutorial via Flickr for all of us wondering.
American magician and master of endurance David Blaine delivers a TED talk on the challenge of holding one's breath for as long as humanly possible. Blaine currently holds the Guinness World Record for longest breath held, at 17 minutes. His journey to achieve this feat (described below) is quite interesting, don't miss it.
For those of you unfamiliar with Cometbus, I urge you to check out one of the many issues released since 1981 by Mr. Aaron Elliott... better known to his friends (and foes) as "Aaron Cometbus".
Most of you know Thurston Moore as one-fifth of Sonic Youth, but did you know he runs his own record label Ecstatic Peace? Ecstatic Peace not only releases music in tape, vinyl and CD formats, but also releases ace poetry journals edited by Thurston Moore himself. Contributors include Ira Cohen, Byron Coley, Mike Watt (of the Minutemen!), Loren Connors, and tons more. This is a video filmed by Last Exit Magazine of Moore reading a few of his own poems at White Columns in New York City as part...
A bunch of magazine "pros" make big time Photoshop mistakes. Hongkiat posts 52 pretty terrible ones, my favorites featured below. What's their excuse?
The Job Board is a weekly entry of the most ridiculous Cinematography related jobs posted online. Note: This posting was from a year ago.
In the far away land of China, cotton candy is made with bicycles. According to Make, the sugar is heated with propane, and the cotton candy is spun using the bike pedals. I've gotta get myself one of these (or next best thing, travel to China so I can sample it myself). Previously, Chinese Dropout Builds Submarine.
Rumor has it that James Cameron is going to remake this one, in full AVATAR inner body 3D beauty.
The UK Movie Trailer for "Alice in Wonderland". This version is quite different then the US one. The US Theatrical Trailers for "Alice in Wonderland"
Here is an interesting mini-doc about the set designer Ken Adam. Here he discusses working on the Dr. Strangelove War Room set. This style would influence many films to come and would become one of the most memorable graphic elements in film history. The funniest thing about this doc is his story about Ronald Reagan who thought the War Room from Dr. Strangelove was a real place and he wanted to see it, now that is great design! Here is the very MOD movie trailer for "Dr. Strangelove"
Innocence meets malignancy. Expressiveness meets perversion. Farmville meets Disturbia. Can you top these funny and disturbing FarmVille hay bale art masterpieces? Surprisingly, few farmers have dedicated their farms to perversity—but maybe more should! I'm surprised no one has designed boobs yet. Most seem to prefer swastikas.
Through our friends at Azucar Surf we found this lovely surf house for sale. This house is for sale by owner Michael Lawson. This is what he has to say about it:
Hiroshi Ishiguro is at it again, but this time "it" has a winning smile. Japanese researchers have developed a humanoid robot that can laugh and smile, mimicking a real person's facial expressions. The android, called Geminoid F, is modeled after a woman in her twenties, with long black hair, silicone skin and lifelike teeth.
I couldn't find the promo trailer for this film, but someone managed to upload the entire thing. Below is the first of 10 parts.
Motocross world record holder Robbie Maddison recently jumped a 278 foot wide ravine, 330 feet above the water. More than a little risky, to say the least.
Une Deux Senses posts a tutorial on making candied rose petals. Very pretty on top of cupcakes or CAKE!
Here is a company that creates 3D holographic movie posters.
WTF? In China, two (dumb) adults and one three-year-old girl nearly ate it... with more than a few hungry Siberian tigers waiting below.
The International Trailer for "Kick Ass" The Domestic Trailer for "Kick-Ass" The following trailer seems to be when they introduced the splatter graphics that mimic one of the poster campaigns.
Who doesn't like dumplings? Yummmy. Here in Los Angeles (the home of WonderHowTo) resides Din Tai Fung, a world renown Chinese dumpling house with locations in Taiwan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea. Patrons have been known to wait hours for their dumplings, which are in one word, perfect. Soft, juicy, piping hot.
English Russia's top ten most popular and favorite cakes of latter day Soviet Russia (Potato Cake?!?):
Darrin Judkins - BMG Models NYC, Women's Board Booking Agent
Via CAKES! CAKES CAKES!: In the seaside town of Brighton, England, lives a tiny little chocolate shop called Choccywoccydoodah.
Get a little perspective on FarmVille hysteria, via FarmVille World, written by tenebrism: Did you know it only took five weeks to make FarmVille? That it currently has over 80,000,000 users? That FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the United States by a ration of 80 to 1?
