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Pixar animator Angus MacLane, who’s worked on Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille and basically every project the studio has done since the 1997 Oscar-winning short Geri’s Game, apparently has tons of free time in between creating lush and textured digital environments. So much time, in fact, that he’s uploaded images of 97 Lego CubeDudes to his Flickr [...]

We recently saw that new stitchpunk apocalypse movie 9, which was very pretty but a little thin on plot, but we did really enjoy the cool and crafty-looking cast of characters with number names. And, if you think about it, characters with such simple names as numbers tend to be disproportionately interesting and rich, as [...]

It’s funny, we’re always disappointed to learn that a character we’ve come to love isn’t actually as original and unique as we thought. Like our uncle Ted, who we thought was just the sweetest guy, but turned out to be a documentary filmmaker making a life-long project about the decline of the modern family. That’s [...]

We almost let March slip by, dear readers, without having a very serious talk with you. This month is National Talk With Your Teen About Sex Month (seriously), so we feel it’s our obligation to explain a few things. You see, life comes from, well, it’s hard to explain, but this thing happens where, when [...]