rahulvictor

My latest short film. It’s a little artsy, forewarning, but feedback appreciated.

austinkleon:

Great piece on the fanboy cult of Jurassic Park. (I wrote about seeing Jurassic Park when I was 10 in Steal Like An Artist).

The plot of Jurassic Park was recycled. Crichton was an expert recycler. His Congo (1980) is King Solomon’s Mines (1885) with an ape-voice synthesizer and the racism dialed down. Sphere (1987) is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). And Jurassic Park is a reboot of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) — a title Crichton stole for his sequel. It was Conan Doyle who dreamed dinosaurs were hiding somewhere in Latin America; Conan Doyle who sent an egomaniacal academic to find them. (Then, Professor Challenger; later, our Dr. Malcolm.) What Crichton did, in literary terms, was like taking a classic automobile and installing a newer, more powerful engine.

Crichton did something else smart at the moment of conception. He realized previous dino nuts — from Ray Bradbury to the creators of Land of the Lost — had fallen head over heels for the T. rex. The big guy. But man versus tyrannosaur is just a replay of David versus Goliath. Man versus velociraptor — that’s different. That’s smaller.

Thanks, @calebhannan!

crazy photo of 3 million plastic balls in a LA reservoir to keep a carcinogen from forming.

(via Ivanhoe Reservoir Picture – Los Angeles Photo - National Geographic Photo of the Day)

The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.

The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.

They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it. 

That is terrifying. 

austinkleon:

From Playboy, September 1976:

Cameron Crowe: Since you put yourself first, do you consider yourself an original thinker?

Bowie: Not by any means. More like a tasteful thief. The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. I do think that my plagiarism is effective. Why does an artist create, anyway? The way I see it, if you’re an inventor, you invent something that you hope people can use. I want art to be just as practical. Art can be a political reference, a sexual force, any force that you want, but it should be usable. What the hell do artists want? Museum pieces? The more I get ripped off, the more flattered I get. But I’ve caused a lot of discontent, because I’ve expressed my admiration for other artists by saying, ‘Yes, I’ll use that,’ or, ‘Yes, I took this from him and this from her.’ Mick Jagger, for example, is scared to walk into the same room as me even thinking any new idea. He knows I’ll snatch it.

See also: How To Look At Art (Like An Artist)

via adamnorwood :: pandablair :: oldhollywood :: via

ruinawish:

‘Coppola plots out the intensity of the scene in his notebook.’

Shaq want smush smush.

LA’s beauty + Cinematic Orchestra. (by Colin Rich)

Absolutely amazing…and making me want to travel so bad

ken jeong photobombing with kate upton

is that how it works? (vintage cigarette poster)

shot on a cellphone. (via This Amazing Love Story Was Shot Entirely on a Cell Phone)

i think fall into geek-dom myself.

pocketfulofgeek:

Nobody cares, Wally. Nobody cares.

(Source: mermaidpants)