I really do love the College Humor videos of all the Batman parody videos…

Treat me right baby, I’ve been burned in the past… well, the selection in this video essay by flavourwire is a great range and certainly makes me all the more antsy to get back into some film stuff after all this play who-ha is over. I’m also starting to wonder how much more mileage can be sapped out of Clint Mansell’s score for Moon; a bit more I’d say, only because that score is that awesome.

Anyhow, see how many you can pick out (and extra points for naming the cinematographers). Full list can be found here.

3D reproduction of Brazil’s shantytowns via iheartmyart

• Batman fans acting like dickheads on Rotten Tomatoes, site suspends comments
• Black Mirror gets second series
• Hungary Arrests Alleged Nazi, 97
• The livetweeting of a couples’ breakup on a train
• 9 of the World’s Most Ridiculously Secure Safes and Vaults
• Four Technologies That Could Revolutionize The Way We Live
• The Singularity: Will Transcending Human Intelligence Also Transcend Human Empathy?
• Major Universities Begin Offering Free Online Education
• Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?
• Infographic: Recipe for a Summer Blockbuster

And then there’s this awesome footage of a Whale Shark that’s learned to feed from a commercial fishing net.

Classic Movies in Miniature Style

• Internet Justice: 4chan Busts Lettuce-Stomping Burger King Employee
• What Google Is
• Shell’s social media campaign goes haywire
• Frisked By California Airport TSA: Man With World’s Largest Penis
• How Emma Sky went from anti-war academic to governor of Kirkuk, one of Iraq’s most volatile regions
• Where are you on the global fat scale?
• The Guinea Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication
• Fears over plan to release GM mosquitoes in Key West
• Free access to British scientific research within two years
• A Vision of Crimes in the Future
• Profiling: Mayor Stubbs, the cat
• Alexander the not so Great: History through Persian eyes
• The Scientific Method: The righteous left-brained storytelling of Breaking Bad
• The Wu-Tang Marketing Plan
• Fifty Shades of Babe: Duke Nukem Reads E. L. James
• What Happened to Bob Ross’ Paintings?
• 28 Sexy Pictures Of Older Actors When They Were Young
• Tumblr site: Am I Beyonce Yet?

Also, this video made using the Source Filmmaker takes one a completely different tone to the usual Team Fortress 2 videos, skipping the humor and instead opting for a more emotional approach that works really well.

This 25 minute film lays out and explores just what we’ve learned about the Saturn and its various moons; probably the most fascinating planetary system in our solar system. Most of the data is from the Cassini spacecraft’s 7 year findings, with a little from Voyager and Galileo.

For fans of The Punisher that starred Thomas Jane: he’s gone and made a true to the word ‘fan film’ and it’s fucking awesome. Recommended.

Souced from one of the original movie gif tumblrs if we don’t, remember me, comes a collection of 30 Stanley Kubrick gifs that do a wonderful job of showcasing how arresting the legendary filmmaker’s visual style was.

Also, apparently these kind of gifs are now called cinemagraphs. All these new words the internet is inventing, and I’ve only just started properly considering tumblr sites as blog sites (of sorts).

Damn kids and lawns and stuff.

More at filmmakeriq.com

Boy watching solar eclipse… taken from 1.5 miles away

• If you “Like” something on Facebook, you just gave it permission to post in your Timeline
• Having Access to the Internet is Good for Your Love Life (But Only if you are Under 30)
• White LEDs Lighting Directly On Paper
• Q: Why Do We Wear Pants? A: Horses
• UK government slammed for ignoring key security issues
• Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans
• The trouble with wind turbines
• No Matter the Drilling Method, Natural Gas Is a Much-Needed Tool to Battle Global Warming
• Mysterious radiation hit the earth just over 1200 years ago
• What divorced readers did with their wedding rings
• How Neuroscience Is Challenging Our Conception of Justice
• The Ghost in the Machine: Unraveling the Mystery of Consciousness
• Scientists Predict Synthetic Life Within a Year
• Crime Waves Will Follow the Heat Waves of Climate Change
• Letters of Note: A government complaint about a ‘debris’ dam and the landowner’s response on behalf of its builders
• Want: I’ve Never Meta-Pizza I Didn’t Like
• Build a bonkers hi-fi system
• Super-Resolution From a Single Image
• A rare interview: with Christopher Tolkien
• If the Wizard of Oz were set in China, it might look something like this

This is my man Marxy. He’s a funny fucker; and funnier when fucking up. Bless.

You fucking doctor.