1999 movie by Jamine Babbit, who made the even odder Itty Titty Bitty Committee
in 2007, which I might post later, for comparsion.
This might be the most pink film ever produced. It’s actually only possible to watch this one, if you reduce saturation to 20%, and it’ll still hurt slightly.

By the way, the movie’s title doesn’t have the slightest relevance, the main character simply is a cheerleader, in the first two minutes, until she’s sent to the pink place.
It’s a classic. By some guy apparently named Stanley Kubric.
I just found this in our movie library, and didn’t find the time to watch it in 2D with sound. But the overview looks promising:

Banlieue 13, Luc Besson was involved in some way (which made at least some people watch it), it has no plot worth mentioning (which is no problem for the intended audience since there is a considerable amount of violence and a girl), but there are people jumping off buildings (which is cool), like the popular parcours
-videos.

Oh and they’re planning a sequel. Probably since they couldn’t do a remake for some reason…
Amazing movie, excellent camerawork and really long shots:

These skips in brightness are not in the movie, but due to my n00bness with ImageMagick, I wanted to brighten the images up, but it seemingly did some image-specific histogram-fiddling. Might correct that later.
Oh, look, it’s all black and white…

Just saw these film mosaics
on information aesthetics and thought I’d share my own version.
For more see the moviehist-tag on this blog.
I give you: Tank Girl: In 2033, justice rides a tank and wears lip gloss.
There is no particular reason to this choice, just found it on my disk.

Each column corresponds to four frames of the original video, the color of each pixel is the average color of the corresponding rows of these frames. Apart from looking funky, this view allows you to see vertical movement (for example the rolling credits at the end) and cuts easier.
Each row shows 5120 frames (in case you wonder, the averaging program generates slices of 1024 frames), which should be 3.4 minutes.
I’ll release the toolset used (it’s not processing
, btw), it makes use of OpenCV, Image Magick and some shell script. That is, run it on your favorite Unix derivate. Soon.
And if I can spare some disk space, there will be more average images of more movies. Watch out for the moviehist tag!
It took them a timespan long enough to make me hopeful that not all geeks are possessed by evil mad scientist-daemons:
Circumvent the security mechanism of that cool toy in your bedroom and print some Laser Tattoos on your skin!
Despite some quite horrible pictures be sure to read the last page, and let’s wonder all together, how somebody can be so highly concentrated at keeping their lower arm still, that they won’t even notice their upper arm being cut, accidentally, by a laser…
I wonder if it’ll be permanent.
And what will the people in charge of the industrial robot with the kilowatt-scale laser at the local college be doing in the next weeks… They really must be getting tired of cutting hundreds of geckos out of wood, steel and the floor, although the smell of burnt wooden gecko might be more pleasing to the audience than that of human flesh, depending on the audience.
via hackaday
Die Grüne Jugend demonstriert in ihrer aktuellen Pressemitteilung Noten und Mehrgliedrigkeit abschaffen!
den Fehlschlag des aktuellen Schulsystems mit einem begrüßenswerten Maß an Selbstironie:
Individuelle Leistung, kann nicht in ein System von 1 bis 6 gepresst werden.
Klar ist es kleinkariert Kommafehler zu kritisieren, aber es macht irgendwie schon Spaß. Und ansonsten haben sie ja auch Recht…
Außerdem sei die Schadenfreude hier erlaubt, immerhin schaffen sie es in anderen Fällen auch, siehe folgende Zitate aus der liste-ff-schwulesben, die kein Webarchiv hat:
Vorstandsmitglied an Originalautor: Habe mir die Freiheit genommen deinen PM- Vorschlag leicht zu überarbeiten.
Womit allerdings keine Rechtschreibkorrektur gemeint war, sondern bedeutete, diesen bemerkenswert undifferenzierten Satz einzubauen:
Heutzutage wird in homosexuellen Milieus versträkt [sic!] Fremdenhass, Islamophobie und Antisemitismus zur Schau gestellt.
Aber mittlerweile ist er wieder verschwunden, und das Thema sowieso nicht mehr aktuell.
Was mich an diesen Beispielen nur wundert, ist, welch geringem Maß an Kontrolle die Aktionen des Vorstandes einer doch so basisdemokratischen Veranstaltung wie der Grünen Jugend unterworfen sind…
Married to the Sea (MTTS
) seems like a nice web comic (well, cross-clicking through the archives I found some episodes featuring the weird humor I appreciate in comics), until you read the FAQ:
We do not offer online syndication of TFD/ND/MTTS. You may not run a daily syndication or create/provide a public “feed” of TFD/ND/MTTS, RSS or otherwise.
[...] Online “syndication” deprives us of this income, as well as the ability to show new projects, bonus comics, and other additional content to our readers.
[...] You may not operate a daily “feed” of TFD/MTTS/ND.
Although I don’t think they actually may refrain anybody from checking the website for new submissions at intervals and automatically create a simple feed that only includes a link to the newest episode (so there’s nothing copyrighted in the feed).
But I really don’t like that attitude. Every popular web comic offers a feed, just as every remotely popular web comic offers a shop equipped with more-or-less witty and/or good-looking t-shirts and accessories. There is no reason, why the creators couldn’t advertise their shop or any specials in their feed… And the creators don’t seem like a .com-era
company, coming from a time where the number of page impressions
counted above everything…
As much as I dislike most aspects of the all-shiny Web 2.0
, the idea of feeds is quite brilliant — and, on second thought, the comic isn’t quite good enough to force me to visit the website manually every day…
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