My Mum’s Birthday Linky

Happy birthday mum. At least you will always read my blog.

d3vo reminded me about Chris Walken getting jiggy in this Fatboy Slim vid that I have not seen in an age. Dee-lite.

Gotye Star Wars

Step-by-step guide to actually being a reverse racist

You’ve heard about the online Lego creation playground set up via Google, right?

You Got Retweeted! Yet another satirical trailer for a nonexistent movie, but well worth a watch – you just know this exact movie is in development at one of the big studios.

Kids book versions of grown-up movies – they’re all the same joke, but it’s a good joke

11 authors who hated the movie versions of their books. Related: (via Marie) childhood homes of 20 famous authors

Drawing over sections of photographs. Interesting and fun, obviously required dozens of digital steps to get to an apparently spontaneous conclusion

Floating photos – again, loads of digital effort to get a finished product that feels effortless. Lovely stuff.

Via Gem Wilder – 10 bets you will never lose

Captain Picard puts on a special performance on the bridge of the Enterprise (via Craig Oxbrow)

If this is a genuine fad and not just a few thrillseekers, then Russian teenagers are actually a whole new level of crazy

Why elites fail (The Nation)

Glorious Australian sky timelapse photos (via Ian Hicks)

Harry Potter, race and racism – a shortish article (PDF) (via Amanda Lyons)

The curious history of Graham Crackers and corn flakes (non-Americans who’ve never heard of graham crackers, they’re a crucial ingredient in USA’s ultimate campfire treat S’mores, and if you’ve never heard of S’mores you are missing out on one of the human race’s great achievements).

And finally… the Pointer Pointer

5 thoughts on “My Mum’s Birthday Linky”

  1. A couple more authors who disliked the movie versions of their books:
    ~ Alice Walker with Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple.
    ~ Elizabeth Knox with Niki Caro’s The Vintner’s Luck.
    Both were disappointed the director’s left out or brushed over gay story lines which were crucial to the books’ plots.

  2. Tom Clancy also had some fun “is he being sarcastic or not?” things to say in the DVD commentary for “Sum of All Fears” too. Hard to tell with him.

    Also just so I can sort of say I saw it first, the Skywalking/ Roofwalking thing might be new to Petapixel, but it has been around for a wee while. I watched the video they linked about a year ago after it was linked from a copy of this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNGZVmhkTo

    But yes, those Russian teens have their crazy level set to epic. Must be an intersesting place to grow up given the drastic era changes the place has been through in the last generation or so.

  3. You did it. You maniac, you linked to the Gotye thing.

    Somewhere, I swear, Ian Levine is feeling quite moderate about his part in the 80s Who hiatus right now.

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