This is from a shirt on ThinkGeek. It’s ten guns from sci-fi movies. As a hint, they also show the year the movie was released. I could name seven out of ten. (Apparently, the “1967” should actually be “1976”, but that still didn’t help me figure out what it was.) And here’s a link to the shirt.
[via ZeFrank] A friend of mine always complains about hipsters. I think he’d like this video.
[From SMBC] I have to admit, I think there’s a certain amount of truth to this:
They’re total nerds. They live in caves, and they like move pixels around, and they shun the light. They’re the nerds. They’re my people.” — Steve Burns
(From The Moth podcast)
Two interesting links:
20 Counterproductive Video Game Covers
My favorite in the list is Phalanx, a “hyper-speed shoot-out in space” with a banjo player on the front cover:
11 Great Playable Video Game Satires
My favorite spoof is the “cow clicker” Farmville spoof:
Creator Ian Bogost: “You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom ‘premium’ cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called ‘mooney’), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.”
I just thought this was pretty interesting. The photo:
I understand that my chipmunk photography can seem unbelievable at times, and I’m used to getting questions such as “How did you do that?” and “Is it all Photoshop?”
As this video will show, it’s all happening right there in front of the camera. I get no satisfaction out of a composited photo—the challenge for me is to capture the chipmunk engaged in a real and rather extraordinary situation. And keep in mind that this is a wild chipmunk, not my pet.
Star Wars / Daft Punk Mashup:
Making a Daft Punk helmet:
This is pretty great.
(Yes, this is the official video.)