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Cartoonist Depicts 30 Years of His Life Over 30 Seconds in a Dreary Self-Deprecating Animation
Cartoonist Lenivko Kvadratjic of Lazy Square, who interpreted the classic Simpsons Couch Gag as a Russian art film, previously created a rather self-deprecating, equally dreary…
Amusing Images of Animals Cleverly Merged With Food
Talented image manipulator Ronald Ong has created a wonderful series of animals that have been cleverly merged with matching foods. Ong has replaced a zebra’s…
An Animated Jeff Tweedy of Wilco Talks About the Benefit Revisiting Music That He Once Shunned
During an April 2019 interview with journalist Jancee Dunn in Washington D.C., Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy talked about the music that he hated while growing…
Captain Jean Luc Picard Finds Terrestrial Life Trying as He Looks Upward to Put Right What Once Went Wrong
In the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek series Picard on CBS All Access, a troubled Captain Jean Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) finds that…
Tom Hanks Plays Fred Rogers in ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’, A Film Based on a 1998 Esquire Article
In September 2018 we wrote about a wonderful photo that Sony Pictures had posted of actor Tom Hanks dressed in a red sweater and blue…
A Cheeky Bald Eagle Steals a Fisherman’s GoPro
After a day of angling, a generous fisherman on a Haida Gwaii beach on the northern Pacific coast of Canada, decided to share a bit…
A Sneak Peek Into Jim Henson’s ‘Dark Crystal’ Prequel Netflix Series ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’
In 2017, we wrote about how Netflix partnered with The Henson Company to create the prequel to the late Jim Henson‘s visionary 1982 film The…
A Restaurant in Bangkok Has Been Simmering Their Renowned Beef Noodle Soup for 45 Years
Producer Austin Brown of Great Big Story visited the Wattana Panich restaurant in Bangkok to learn about and sample their renowned neua tuna (beef noodle)…
Compassionate Man Builds a Floating ‘Wheelchair’ Device to Help Keep His Disabled Goldfish Afloat
South Korean fashion designer Henry Kim very cleverly built a unique floating “wheelchair” device that helps a disabled fancy goldfish remain afloat within one of…
A Mutated Monster Hunter Finds That Humans Are More Evil Than the Creatures He Hunts in ‘The Witcher’
During the San Diego International Comic-Con 2019, Netflix released the trailer for their new series The Witcher. The series is based off a popoular fantasy…