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China gets a bum rap (and with good reason) for all kinds of humanitarian and environmental shortcomings and offenses, but there’s some good amidst all this bad. After all, a rapidly modernizing nation with inexhaustible financial and human resources can get just about anything it wants done (like, for instance, the 3 Gorges Dam project). [...]

There’s something incredibly uplifting and optimistic, we think, in the imagery of art made from huge groups of people arranged into patterns and shapes. It’s a fascinating testament to an innate collaborative impulse, a shared desire to come together and contribute to something greater than the sum of our parts.
Whenever we’re feeling down on humanity [...]

As you’ve noticed if you read us regularly, Listicles is mildly obsessed with animated music videos. And since they seem to be something of a popular thing these days, there’s been more than enough fodder to stoke our animated video passions. To share that passion, here are our favorite 4 New Animated Music Videos.
“Printer Jam” [...]

Will our kids look back on our favorite digital and electronic pastimes like The Sims and Second Life and think we were crazy? Or, more likely, will they only know us by our immortal pixelized avatars? Either way, we’re fairly confident that none will compare to the wacky games featured in Neatorama’s listicle of The [...]

Often times, the saddest casualties in mob flicks are the kids and spouses of the crooks, the loved ones targeted by enemies to get to our brooding anti-heroes. And, invariably, uppercase “F” Family takes precedence over lowercase “f” family, so children, wives and sometimes even pets generally get knocked off before the big bad finally [...]

Admittedly it’s a little cruel to laugh at someone when they’re down. But dude, you’re on national TV, you knew what you were getting yourself into. With that moral disclaimer out of the way, let’s indulge our base thirst for humiliation with Unreality’s listicle featuring 8 of the Dumbest Game Show Losers. We’re especially impressed [...]

The premise behind the henchman character is fascinating: rather than create a complete cast of bad guys, films, TV shows, comic books and the like use one instantly recognizable costume to create entire armies. This lets protags branch out, and instead of direct duels they can perform acrobatic feats, taking out entire platoons with one [...]

A few days ago we pointed you towards a post about greenwashing, in which several companies made claims of environmental awareness in commercials that seemed incompatible with their business practices. Continuing in that vein, for this edition of our weekly showcase of moving image art, Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we’re looking at corporate advertising that [...]

It’s true, we’re somewhat fond of The Rock even though we found out a while back that he’s a raging Republican. On the whole, though, wrestlers are an annoying bunch, and rarely appear on our radar unless they trasition from the fake ring to the big screen. Complex chronicles such successful career leaps in their [...]

You likely spent several hours (years, decades perhaps) slaving over a strange goemetric and typographic composition known to millions as the periodic table. It has something to do with science and chemisty (we don’t know, we skipped those hours, years and decades), but it’s also an instantly-recognizable organizational format.
With its wacky shape and structure, it [...]

In that fantastic way that movies do, characters’ entire personalities and physiques can often be gleaned by looking at their car. This is just another way that art imitates life, of course, and much has been made of how our cars reveal certain things we may or may not want to be broadcasting to fellow [...]

Ever get the impression that environmental friendliness and lavish luxury are antithetical? Yeah, we do to, but apparently not! So says TreeHugger, whose listicle of 6 Luxurious Eco-Resorts suggests some great, relatively guilt free destinations for your next (post-recession?) fancy vacation. How fancy? Well, at least a few hundred dollars per night, on top of [...]

Yes, a good office prank can make a dreary day slaving away in a cubicle slightly less oppressive. If you’re looking for some inspiration for April 1st, check out Best Article Every Day’s listicle of 5 Great Office Pranks. Some of them are way too elaborate to be reproduced, but some are feasible, like this [...]

Dave Chappelle once made a similar observation about the power of slow motion to make everything look cool, but here Unreality seems concerned with a much deeper meta-narrative truth, whereby things rendered onscreen invariably look more appealing than they do in everyday experience. A helpful illustration of this concept from their listicle of 5 Movie [...]