Linkfest

[slowfox]

glittertine found this fantastic Star Trek Parody (in 47 seconds) which is quite mind-blowingly awesome. I'm rather liking the parodies at the moment, so I thought I'd also share The Abridged Script™ for Twiglet, sorry, Twilight. The same site also has an eminently readable Quantum of Solace, and lots more (the quality of spoofing can go down as well as up, past amusement is no guarantee of future mirth).

Moving from spoofs to mash-ups, here's Han Solo, PI. I only dimly recall Magnum, so this side-by-side comparison twixt Magnum and Han Solo, PIs, respectively, proved helpful in illuminating the artistry involved.

Wired has a (very) short interview with Guillermo del Toro, in which the best part, for me, was the photo on p2 granting us mortals a glimpse of his lair: that is quite some entrance hall.

Another Wired article that caught my eye was this sequence of time-lapse videos of 'massive change' on Earth. The deforestation one was particularly alarming, to my eyes at least :-/

A little more frivolous is Scary Girl, a game with some neat artwork. Speaking of games, although perhaps one with slightly less artistic flair, The Guardian celebrates 25 years(!) of Tetris here. 25 Years! I still have my original GameBoy with the Tetris cartridge. Feels very old skool, these days, though (but nonetheless a brilliant game).

Gizmodo has an article on how a NASA intern stole moon rocks. Note that the subject of the interview has written a book on the heist which, in his words was based on truth, but it's embellished. So, as the article advises, take the tale for what it's worth.

anotherpenguin pointed me at this page of optical illusions. I'm really impressed by the 2D lines in a 3D environment installations - the work that must've gone into those... *boggles*

That's one brave mouse, stealing food from underneath a leopard's nose. From The Daily Telegraph's same set of Pictures of the day, this is a pretty enterprising (or lazy) crow. I rather like their Dragonfly Crop Circle, too - which reminds me to link to this article about how crop circles are making a comeback, at least, they are according to the Grauniad.

There's a Torygraph story about the discovery of a 12ft fossilized plesiosaur skeleton near Lyme Regis (Devon). What I find weird about the story is that they go on to say The marine reptile resembled the Loch Ness monster with its long thin neck and tail, four large flippers and razor-sharp teeth, which I find to be a remarkably weird statement, given that we have even less data on a supposed Loch Ness monster than we do on this plesiosaur...

And finally, I leave you with Extreme LED Sheep Art. Even though it's a viral for Samsung (who don't appear 'til the very end), cool is insufficient a word (more info here)...

Comments

[linaelyn]

I don't even know where to begin to describe how wonderful these links are!!! Cool is absolutely an insufficient word for that Extreme LED Sheep Art.

LOL for the plesiosaur "resembling the Loch Ness Monster" quote.

Not that it rivals the sheep for amazingness, but I must say I laughed until tears ran down my face over the Han Solo, PI bit. We've been working our way through the Magnum series here (I was a big fan, back in its original run - wore an aloha shirt to school every Thursday, even. Larval cosplay, I suppose?) I'm thinking that the same could be done for Mal Reynolds, PI? Simon's gotta be Higgins/Obi Wan, Jayne as TC/Chewbacca, and Wash is a good Rick/Luke.

I'll be over imagining more trailer crossovers. This is fun!

[linaelyn]

p.s. I never really know that she could dance like this. She make wanna speak Spanish...

mwahahaha.

[slowfox]

There's a Star Trek (TOS)/A-Team Crossover here.

And there's a Dallas/Star Wars mashup here.

YouTube = monumental time suck :D

And you're right, Firefly/Magnum would be awesome!

[uninvitedcat]

I mis-read your "a glimpse of his lair" as "a glimpse of his hair" which then made your next comment utterly surreal....

[slowfox]

Surreal indeed. See? This is what happens when you read too fast! :-P

[aome]

I didn't have time to check all the links, but the ones I did see were awesome. I love the lines painted on walls to look like an actual figure when viewed the right way. I haven't seen Twilight, but I did read the first book, and had a good laugh over the abridged script. And the side-by-side Magnum/Han Solo PI was fantastic, too. The things people do in their spare time....

I first encountered Tetris when I went to college in 1989. I had no idea it had been around so long beforehand.

[slowfox]

I haven't seen Twilight, either, but I've read the first three books (and am in equal parts appalled and sorta fascinated by them), and thought that the script was amusing on that basis :-)

The Han Solo, PI vid is awesome indeed - there are some truly talented people out there.

[hamsterwoman]

I'd seen the brave mouse, but not the enterprising crow or the dragonfly circle -- both of those were really cool!

[slowfox]

That enterprising crow shot is just bizarre!