March, 2011

Russian animator and satirist Egor Zhgun gives an Angry Birds-themed history lesson of the revolutions in North Africa, using music and audio from the Disney classic Three Little Pigs.

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By Tim Doyle:

In the film, when the Bride ascends the staircase to Pai Mei’s mountaintop home, and we get our first look at Pai Mei- I knew we had just shifted gears into a new genre. While the ‘House of Blue Leaves’ bit from part 1 had been a Japanese/Yakuza send-up, this was clearly going to be a Chinese-style Shaw Bros. influenced training segment, and I couldn’t have been happier. I spent several Sunday afternoons in my youth watching badly dubbed Kung-Fu epics on UHF 27 in Dallas, and Pai Mei was a recurring character in a lot of those films. This was truly a brilliant choice by a very smart nerd- Tarantino does not disappoint.

Tim has done an iconic image from each of Tarantino’s films for Spoke Art‘s Quentin vs. Coens art show at Bold Hype Gallery. Slashfilm got ahold of the first four, which you can see here, and they will be revealing the rest of the prints tomorrow.

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While it’s completely believable that the Black Eyed Peas would take another piece of someone else’s work, add some shitty autotuning and repetitive lyrics, then call it their own; this happens to be another video improvement by the people from Bad Lip Reading.

BadLipReading | Previously: Rebecca Black – Gang Fight

NkMcDonalds celebrates Pixar’s 25 years, 12 feature films, and 20 short films in this tribute to the award-winning animation studio.

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Syrian Government Resigns – [JPost]

Despicable Acts By US Soldiers: The Kill Team – [Rolling Stone]

Can You Really Be Traced From An IP Address? – [/.]

Rambo Gurkha Single-Handedly Fights Off 30 Taliban Soldiers – [Mirror]

9 Things Us 90′s Kids Realize Now (Part II) – [College Humor]

The Top Dirty Words Teens Use: London Vs. The East Coast – [Andrew Sullivan]

China “To Overtake US On Science” In Two Years – [BBC]

6 TV Shows You Won’t Believe Saved People’s Lives – [Cracked]

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Twin baby brothers just talking nonsense in their underwear… just like they’re going to do when they’re 34 and drunk.

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Bleeding Cool’s Rich Johnston gives the new Thor character posters the Toy Story treatment.

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So the tale goes, in the late 1960′s, as “The Hobbit” was nearing its 30-year anniversary, the publisher invited Sendak (“Where the Wild Things Are”) to reimagine the classic tale. Still fully involved in the world he created, J.R.R. Tolkien requested a few sample drawings prior to fully approving Sendak’s involvement, to which Sendak begrudgingly obliged. At this point, it seems fate decided to intervene.  From the LA Times:

As Sendak noted passages for possible illustration and sketched in the margins of his copy of the book, the publisher prepared the art samples for Tolkien’s approval. The editor mislabeled the samples, however, identifying the wood-elves as “hobbits,” as Sendak recalled to Maguire. This blunder nettled Tolkien. His reply was that Sendak had not read the book closely and did not know what a hobbit was. Consequently, Tolkien did not approve the drawings. Sendak was furious.

In hopes that all could be smoothed over between the two, the publisher arranged for a meeting in Oxford while Sendak was in England touring for the U.K. release of “Wild Things.” The day before their meeting, Sendak suffered his first major heart attack. He was 39. Sendak spent several weeks recovering in a hospital in Birmingham. He never met with Tolkien, and the project was abandoned.

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Youtuber Skissored took Nick Pitera’s “One Man Disney Movie” and edited in the actual Disney animation, just in case you needed further convincing that Disney could have saved a lot of money if Nick was around back in its animation heyday.

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