In the 1991 movie Captain America, the Captain is played by Matt Salinger. Matt Salinger happens to be the son of author J.D. Salinger. If anyone reading this has seen the movie, I’m sure they remember Matt more for wearing plastic ears attatched to mask of the costume than for anything he did with his […]
The phrase “elephants never forget” in its original language literally translates to “dead yaks never forget.” However, as with many translations, some meaning got lost in the conversion. The linguist in charge could not understand how one might prove that a dead yak knows anything at all. Granted, he reasoned that it’s […]
Not only does the Coriolis cause water to spin the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere, it is also the leading cause of dizziness among free-roaming birds of prey.
The tallest person in the world is 16.5 feet tall. However, he only weighs 127 lbs.
Alright… now this is just incredibly awesome. The good folks at the World Artist Network pointed me to a video of some work by a Dutch artist named Theo Jansen. This guy has apparently been doing some incredibly things with wind-powered kinematic sculptures. Being an engineering-minded art guy (one that’s all about […]
The Dandelion crater on the moon is named after Ray Bradbury’s collection of short stories called “Dandelion Wine”
Recently, scientists in collaboration with the burgeoning film industries in India and South America discovered a means of travel faster than the speed of light. They’ve dubbed it “montage speed”. In order to accelerate to montage speed, you need to have appropriate background music and a suitable goal in the relatively distant future. You will […]
I got to check this movie out. It was pretty phenomenal. The animation was fantastic and the story was really different. The imagery is intense. I can’t imaging attempting this story in any other medium. It’s unfortunate that animation is still not accepted as a main stream feature length film medium, at least for adult […]
So yesterday I went to see Paprika, an animated film by Satoshi Kon. If you ever saw the series Paranoia Agent (it ran on Adult Swim a while back), then you’re familiar with this guy’s work. He likes to play with his audience’s brain. This movie is no different: intelligent, well-written, and […]
Bela Lugosi died only four days into the filming of “Plan Nine From Outer Space.”
Incidentally in the film, it is never declared what the other eight plans were that failed the alien would be conquerors of Earth.
