116 Hollywood Stars in One Group Picture
Here are 116 Hollywood stars in one large group shot. I love that Meryl Streep is at the very center. I bet those who weren’t invited are calling their agents about now.
Archive for June, 2012
Jun 23
“Hollywood-Celebration-of-the-American-Silent-Film” on YouTube
Open Culture has the first episode of the epic documentary “Hollywood – Celebration Of the American Silent Film“, narrated by James Mason and released in 1980. After making it through the 13-part documentary, be sure to watch Unknown Chaplin, also narrated by James Mason and probably the best documentary about Chaplin that ever was.
Hollywood, Epic Documentary Chronicles the Early History of Cinema | Open Culture.
Mijn palet van Kampen (My palette of Kampen)
A very nice video of paintings mixing in with the Dutch landscape.
Clients From Hell Video
Freelancers the world over, whether you are a web designer or not, this video is all too familiar.
Lines On A Solo Cup Explained
I can’t say I have given this this a lot of thought before, but it’s interesting to know what those lines are on Solo cups. They are THE cups of parties the world over, including at my office. While they explain lines for beer, wine and liquor, they don’t quite explain the upper three lines.
“The Incredible Hulk” – The Greatest Movie Review Ever Written
I saw “The Avengers” last night, which was okay. First half was rather slow and tedious, but the battle scene in the last third of the movie was not so bad. But anything nowadays that includes the Hulk reminds me of the greatest movie review ever written. I never saw the Hulk movies, but I can’t imagine them being nearly half as entertaining as this review that appeared in The Guardian:
Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hulk also go rarrr! Then smash again. Smash important, obviously. Smash Hulk’s USP. What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment. Hulk in boring film.
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Tim Roth come on. As evil soldier. Fighting Hulk personal for him. Roth typical evil Brit. Roth supposedly working for US army. Yet Roth Brit. Critic annoyed by stereotyping. Roth get injected with serum. Become Hulky supervillain. Smash cars. Tanks. Only with no trousers. Roth groin area ambiguous. Groin area look lumpy. Bumpy. Perhaps odd penis. Perhaps odd trousers. Critic … not sure.
I can’t think of a review more to the point than this one.
More views of the Tiananmen Tank Man
Kottke.org has this picture and an accompanying video of the man who stood down the tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Really unbelievable footage.
NASA Capture’s Venus Transit Across The Sun
Here’s a really cool video of yesterday’s Venus transit across the sun. I managed to get a cool picture myself of the transit on my iPhone in a telescope view finder, which was total luck. But nothing compares to what NASA is capable of capturing from their fleet of satellites observing the sun and that they can have a video like this ready in less than 24 hours.
