I think that this video sums it up perfectly.

Remaking all of the scenes from NOTLD. Animate or re-enact your favorite or least favorite scene. This is all because Romero and pals forgot to copyright the original film. It is completely free to reproduce, screen for profit, etc. Totally proto-Creative Commons style. I love it!

Visit the Night of the Living Dead Reanimated web site to put in work.

We reported on this several months ago when we were involved in the shooting of this project.  Artists Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett collaborated with the Google Street View team to create “Street with a View”.  This project involved months of planning, a cast of hundreds of Pittsburghers, and the cooperation of the Mattress Factory.  Here is the Official Street With A View Web Site.

This performative easter egg is, hands down, the coolest and most elaborate easter egg that google has ever snuck in to one of their products. Check it out!

Driving Directions:

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KEEP CLICKING THE FORWARD ARROW TO CONTINUE DOWN THE ROAD.

Go ’bout half a mile dawn sampsonia

If yinz get to the park, yinz guys went too far.

Pretty cool huh?  It almost didn’t happen. [Read more]

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

More Sarah Silverman below the Mason-Dixon line
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From the series Palin’s Pillows.  Because propaganda should be comfortable.

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The gang over at Extreme Craft put these bad boys up. An amazing collection of taxidermied squirrels and other animals that can be viewed in the basement of a funeral home in Madison Wisconsin. I wish that I had this much free time. And who says that people that work with the dead aren’t just like you and me!

Exterme Craft Story

Flickr Photo Set

When I was little, I watched a lot of television commercials, or TV in general for that matter. The commercials from my youth invade my psyche to this day, appearing in my dreams and even fantasies on a regular basis. This is now compounded by my fascination with contemporary advertising. Over the years I have mentally archived many remarkable commercials. My brain, bloated and top-heavy, impregnated with peculiar media, has finally gone in to labor. Whoosh… a torrent of amniotic fluid pours from my nose and tear ducts as lil’ baby ads squeeze out of my ear. Oh wow, it is a litter of yipping, yapping creepy television commercials. Awwww look at ‘em play…

Mmmm Kinder Eggs! It’s like a Cracker Jack and a Cadbury Egg made babies… And this commercial is what happens when Humpty Dumpty and Garbage Pail Kids mate.

More Creepy Television Commercials after the break!

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Despite much trial and tribulation, one of the coolest Google easter eggs ever will be coming to a Firefox near you. I don’t want to spoil anything, but rather whet your appetites. Here are two photos from the making of this Google easter egg. I will not be releasing any more documentation until the thing goes live. Trust me, it will be even cooler than you think. Special thanks to redacted and redacted for putting Pittsburgh on the map. Hint Hint.

Stay tuned. We’ll be breaking this story when it goes live.

Note the direct eye contact… He’s good!

Instructables has an interesting post that talks about the best ways to lie to authority figures without getting caught. It is all about focus. Most people have a “tell” that let’s people key in on when they are lying. When I lie or I am uncomfortable, I have trouble making eye contact and I start scratching my head. It is automatic. I catch myself doing it all the time (more when I am uncomfortable than lying). My best advice is to just keep your hands at your sides (not in your pockets) and try to make eye contact, or make it look like you are making eye contact… but don’t bug your eyes or make any other remarkable facial expressions.

What are your tells? Please discuss!

Lie like a rug

I was just watching the directors commentary on “The Prisoner” DVD, and they referenced that one of the actors went on to be the voice of Bill and Ben, The Flower Pot Men. Well, I did a little digging, and I found out that Bill and Ben, The Flower Pot Men was a British children’s television show, or a segment of a show rather, from the 60’s. It featured two marionettes that are, well, flower pot men. They babble at each other in incoherent gibberish. The whole thing is really excellent. From concept to intro music. When is Timbaland gonna sample that theme song? Only time will tell.

The origins of The Flower Pot Men