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Funny how an image of a cat in mid-air about to hit a wall or an aquarium is actually more interesting than the video of that happening. Something about delayed gratification, anticipation, imagination and uncertainty makes such moments – when something is forever about to happen, frozen in a still image – endlessly fascinating. That’s [...]

We’ve never been big on baseball, but like NASCAR, we understand the appeal of a hobby with such an obvious potential for pain and injury. In fact, the only time we really watch baseball highlights anymore is when we’ve heard about a good fight (like the recent Red Sox-Tigers throwdown) or a painful pitch gone [...]

Whenever we go to a protest we plan on bringing a sign then chicken out at the last minute. You know, they’re awkward and heavy, and sometimes the people behind you get mad because you’re blocking the view. Plus, if it’s a really big and smart protest you have to worry about how your sign [...]

Sure, we admit that in this advanced age of corporate synergy and super-sophisticated PR, getting video artists to make ads for giant corporations is a dubious enterprise to be applauding. However, to make it in such a competitive art world and design marketplace one has to, as they say, “pimp the system,” so we applaud [...]

The latest Quentin Tarantino film, the war-movie-that’s-actually-a-Western-about-war-movies Inglourious Basterds, comes out today, and though he doesn’t appear in it (he’s one of Hollywood’s most cameo-happy directors) his stamp is all over all 2.5 hours of the movie. Tarantino’s cameos and appearances in front of the camera (in his own films and others’) are generally as [...]

Mob movies are often only as good as the hits they portray – the recent Michael Mann Dillinger film Public Enemies, for instance, features some incredible mob-on-mob shootouts – as evidenced by Future of Classic’s listicle of the Top 10 Movie Mafia Hits. Even then, though, a good movie can suffer when it takes a [...]

While researching this morning’s post about butter sculptures we happened upon another great unexpected medium used by many out there on the Webs for crafting unusual and ephemeral objects: balloons. Now because of their fragile and ephemeral nature, you might think that balloons are poorly suited to the longevity-obsessed art of sculpture, but we would [...]

If it were up to us our entire diet would consist of delicious breads, bagels and crackers baked into hilarious shapes then pushed up against sculpted, complementary butter forms, creating an edible visual pun. Like, say, a wave sculpted out of butter hitting a beach of bread, or a team of butter climbers making their [...]

We used to dream of taking a summer off, buying an old Volkswagen van, giving it a totally rad paint job and cruising around the continent for a few months. As you might imagine, that particular dream never came to pass – the closest we ever got to driving a VW van was when a [...]

The 42nd President of the United States of America celebrates his 63rd birthday today, perhaps you’ve heard of him? William Jefferson Clinton managed to remain one of the most popular Presidents during his time in office despite certain unmentionable scandals, and has only become more beloved since. After leaving office he single-handedly gentrified Harlem, and [...]

Disney has made billions off anthropomorphizing animals, Transformers has done the same with vehicles, now it’s the Internet’s time. That is how we get this illustration imagining that If 7 Popular Websites Were People they would look something like the following assortment of vaguely anime-looking characters. Click image for larger version.

(via Urlesque)

Last month Lil’ Wayne protege and rare Canadian cross-over rapper Drake took a pretty serious fall during a concert, sparking a great deal of concern over his physical well-being and his bummed knee. He subsequently canceled all but his hometown (Toronto) appearance on the tour, and is resting up. Complex seized upon the highly-publicized and [...]

70 years ago (give or take a few days) that more-than-a-little hallucinatory musical journey from the Midwest into a fairytale, The Wizard of Oz, first opened on the big screen.Funny story: the film actually premiered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where most of the pre-drug trip pre-tornado scenes were filmed. Because we can never quite get enough [...]

Ahead of a review over at our sister site The L Magazine, we just saw Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and, well, there’s much Nazi-killing going on in that there WWII revenge fantasy. How does it compare to some other cinematic Nazi-murdering sprees? Well, ScreenJunkies sets out to put Inglourious Basterds in context with their listicle [...]

Suburban design has clearly reached its sad and tragic end, but finding a way to make something out of the mess it’s left behind all over North America and the world is a massive and intimidating project. It seems as though for every suburb there’s an environmentally-sensitive plan for how things could be better. Well, [...]

As American military engagements in the MIddle East plod along with little or no progress, the New York Times tried to drum up some hopefulness with their epic feature on women in the military this weekend. In movies, of course, female soldiers are nothing new. In fact, some of our best cinematic soldiers have been [...]

Yep, nothing says “We’re turning this vital urban subculture into a tool for marketing consumer goods to suburban youth” like a terrible novelty rap song. And over the last 25 years we’ve seen, heard and memorized some truly ridiculous songs that have tried (and generally failed) to make catchy rap jingles. BuzzFeed’s come up with [...]

It’s kind of a slow time of year for pro sports, especially with no World Cup or Olympic Games this summer, but what better excuse to indulge a sweeping sports history retrospective. We suggest Complex’s listicle of The 50 Most Badass Moments in Sports History, which includes some questionable entries like Zidane’s headbutting adventure, but [...]

We recently passed along some pictures of dogs who were maxing and relaxing in truly chill style. Little did we know we would be revisiting the subject so soon with Urlesque’s listicle of 6 Videos of Dogs on Swings. These are some really relaxed dogs, and watching them swing back and forth is oddly calming, [...]

We appreciate how hard it is to pick a tattoo design. After all, this is something you’ll be wearing, whether you like it or not, for the rest of your life. As such, it should probably be something that remains relevant as you grow, or at least reminds you of some important time or period [...]