June 5, 2012
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Short Films: Lucky Day Forever, a Polish cartoon about our dystopian American Idol future(via @io9)
For the 16-minute animated film Lucky Day Forever, director/writer Alek Wasilewski depicts a future where the present-day glorification of the celebrity moron has been taken to society-destroying extremes.
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Good.
May 31, 2012
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Daily 10: 10 Creepy Details Glossed Over By Modern Versions Of Fairy Tales(via @io9)
In the upcoming film Snow White and the Huntsman, that classic fairy tale receives a modern rejiggering complete with a guest appearance by Thor and (hopefully) a golem made out of poison apples. This flick represents just one retelling in a long history of folklore being retold and remolded for a…
May 25, 2012
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Please God No: Vintage ventriloquism portraits were incredibly unnerving(via @io9)
Thanks to The Twilight Zone, it’s not easy to succeed as a ventriloquist in this day and age. No matter how hard you and your dummy try to bring joy to the world, your audience is left silently wondering who will be next.
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Daily 10: 10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots(via @io9)
Nowadays everyone hems and haws about the uncanny valley, but we don’t realize how good we have it in the 21st century. Decades ago, anthropomorphic machines and animal-like automata straddled the line between goofy and “I did not sign up for this.” Here’s some irrefutable proof that machines have…
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Please God No: The mouth of a child is a terrifying thing to behold(via @io9)
Inside the mouth of every child is a terrifying double row of teeth. Not that you’d ever know it — muscle, skin and bone prevent most of us from ever catching a glimpse of this extra dentition.
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Amazing.
May 19, 2012
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Ridley Scott's New Blade Runner Is Officially A Sequel & Will Star A Woman In The Lead Role!
Back in 1982, Ridley Scott directed a film based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? called Blade Runner. It went on to become one of the most highly regarded sci-fi films ever. The story took place in 2019 which obviously meant it was time for Hollywood to revisit the idea. Scott has finally announced that his new Blade Runner film will not be a remake, but a sequel, the original screenwriter is involved, and he’ll be putting a woman in Deckard’s shoes this time around. Hit the jump for details!
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I just died.
May 18, 2012
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First Look at CBS' Elementary With Lucy Liu as Joan Watson
Look, at this point I just feel sorry for Elementary. This Youtube preview has been up for about a day and has already garnered a 70% dislike rating, much of it, I suspect, from the weird parts of the BBC Sherlock fandom that have a sort of perceived need to defend… the world? their show? from another show that… almost certainly will have zero effect on it? Well, that said, it could also be from people who feel just on general principles that the show doesn’t measure up to Conan Doyle’s original “vision,” or even those who feel that a female Watson desecrates the characters of both Watson and Holmes, but if the Youtube comments comparing it to the original show and saying that Lucy Liu is a terrible Watson and that they’re just going to make her bang Holmes and then the show will be terrible (as if much of the Sherlock Holmes fandom wasn’t already about imagining a romance between the central characters) are any indication, Elementary’s biggest problem so far is not that its first sneak peek (a tenuous basis to judge the full worth of a show to begin with) is middling, but that’s it’s being compared to one of the most tightly written shows on television right now.
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IF you’re pushing the envelope and have a modern setting, in AMERICA, please make SHERLOCK female! Not just Watson.
I understand the people who love Conan Doyle’s work so much they cannot stand any tampering with the original idea. However, I personally rarely can stand American versions of anything British (The Office was an exception).
May 12, 2012
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We Knew It! Reading A Book More Than Once Has Mental Health Benefits
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that The Mary Sue readers have read at least one book twice. If not three, four, ten times. So it’s nice to know it’s not just for fun, it actually benefits your health!
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Momtagonists: 7 Moms Who Get to Be The Hero
It’s Mother’s Day this weekend, and while we’ve covered horrible moms and great moms, we thought we’d spend this week talking about moms who get to be the heroes. This list focuses on mothers who are also leading protagonists, not just supporting characters to others with bigger roles. Geekdom is full of secondary parental figures, usually there to advise, get killed for dramatic effect, or to rebel against. These moms, however, are front and center and waving their mom flags high, and even if they might not be the only protagonist in their story, their character development is just as much a part of the whole as the other characters.
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Happy Mother's Day From Brave's Baby Merida [VIDEO]
We’ve see a lot of fantastic clips, featurettes, and trailers from the upcoming Pixar movie Brave, but I think I can go on record officially saying this takes the cake. Read on to watch a brand-new spot from the creators of the film, wishing mom’s everywhere a Happy Mother’s Day with something we’ve not yet seen - a baby version of Merida. Brace yourself.
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15 Women Who Could Direct Catching Fire Instead of the Actual Candidates
Are you still smarting from director Patty Jenkins’ ousting from Thor 2? Well, don’t hold your breath, because unless Lionsgate is hiding some female directors under their hat as their trump card for the rest of the Hunger Games franchise, that sinking feeling of despair that women never get to direct major franchise films isn’t going away any time soon! But we here at the Mary Sue can at least help dull the pain by reminding you that if you’re looking for talented female filmmakers, the odds actually are in your favor.
May 8, 2012
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By Ucchiey on Pixiv. Direct links to the before and after versions. As with the others, a lot more detail on the full-size version at Pixiv - Tumblr’s high-res is still smaller than the full size.
And WOW, I was not expecting this particular art harvest to be such a big hit. Hello, new followers!
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Everybody knows about the TVTropes-trap. Pixiv’s “people who bookmarked this also bookmarked” has a similar drown-you-in-tabs effect, and somehow I found myself drowning in tabs of gorgeous original fantasy-setting artwork.
Which is a great problem to have, really. These are both by 六七質. And have some direct links to spring and fall.
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Gheorghe Zamfir - Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului (Picnic at Hanging Rock: Music from the Motion Picture)
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