Dyng Hard Speaks Louder Than Words by Mark Marianelli
It’s always fun and games until somebody dies hard! Faced with eternal Die Hard film title derivatives, Mark decided to float a few groanworthy idioms of his own and prove that a picture is worth a thousand Die Hards. Because making bad word-plays always comes down to a simple choice: you either get busy living or you get busy dying hard.
Excellent.
Meanwhile in London of the Day: Bluth’s Banana Stand is Going On Tour
To promote the upcoming season premiere of Arrested Development on May 26th, Netflix has launched a pop-up shop tour of Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand, which will serve up real frozen bananas and photo ops with cast members in various locations across Great Britain and the United States, starting with London (as seen in the picture) this week and a few more pit stops in New York and Los Angeles in the following week. Is there any money in it? Perhaps you should find out!
The late Ray Harryhausen, the Hollywood special effects legend who died Tuesday at age 92, talked to Terry Gross in 2003 about his favorite monsters to animate:
My favorite monsters are the more complicated ones. Like the hydra had seven heads, which you had to animate, and the seven skeletons took a lot of time and, of course, Medusa in Clash of the Titans. She was a fascinating image to animate. I had to keep 12 snakes in her hair, all animated to be moving in harmony with the rest of the body, besides giving her a bow and arrow and a rattlesnake’s tail. So these more complicated images I find much more interesting to animate than the simple, normal figure, I suppose you’d call it.”
Image via Inside Movies
IT Crowd Creator Graham Linehan Bringing the Geeky British Sitcom Back For One Last Episode
“Hello IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
During a Q&A session at the German re:publica digital conference, IT Crowd creator and writer Graham Linehan announced that he is bringing the award-winning geeky British sitcom and cast members (Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry) back to Channel 4 for one last special forty-minute episode. According to Bleeding Cool, this final episode will be filmed in three weeks.
You can read more via my post on Laughing Squid.
GOD YES!!!!!
LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao
Exquisitely detailed enough to be crafted in the forest realm of Lothlórien, this beauteous guitar was not forged by elf nor man, but by 16 year Vivian Xiao with sharpie markers! Depicting Nazgul, Minas Tirith, and even the all-seeing Eye of Sauron, this divinely-engraved instrument could surely inspire even more Led Zeppelin songs. Check put Vivian’s website for details on purchasing and commissions.
Artist: Deviantart / Tumblr / Facebook (via: Obvious Winner)
Nice.
Photo idea: Shoot your nighttime long exposures in black and white.
Here are a couple gorgeous ones of Seoul and Hong Kong by Martin Stavars.
A Little Bit On The Dynamic Dunny Display Side: This shelf by architectural office and furniture designer Atelier 010 will beat up your IKEA shelves and eat them for breakfast. The only thing that would make this even more awesome is if the lights had a flashing multicolored “disco” setting.
(Via Jeremyraid, Designboom)
This DIY camera was made from a stack of books on photography. Heh.
It’s part of Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs’ photo book titled As Long As It Photographs It Must Be a Camera. More at American Photo at the link!
DIY Camera Made from Photography Books
Thanks Dan for the heads up!


