NPR recently did a feature on how the “Moonlight Kingdom” director develops his amazing, moody soundtracks. The “Wes Anderson sound” is impossible to nail down to one era or genre alone, although a healthy dose of forgotten or under-appreciated 60s-70s rockers is a requirement… Mostly, though, all of his soundtracks share a certain, specific je ne sais quoi that I wanted to try to recreate for my fantasy soundtrack:
Better just cancel all your plans.
Watch this short film about the Honor Flight charity that helps veterans to see their memorials, often for the first time. The filmmakers are hoping to generate 50,000 views this Memorial Day weekend to help raise the visibility of Honor Flight.
It's a swimming pool! San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile, is home to the world's largest swimming pool. The 3,324 feet long pool that is set on 19.8 acres can fit up to 6,000 normal sized pools within it.
The creative folks behind this film spent six months gathering and sequencing this surprisingly moving stop-motion video made completely from stock photos. “From love to bingo.” (via thisiscolossal.com)
It's Satan and he's hoofing. And it's … frickin' nuts! From the Lawrence Welk Show, 1965.
An epic mashup between The Great Gatsby and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Burton Olivier wrote to the “Sandman” author with his plans for a Gaiman inspired tattoo. Gaiman wrote a poem called “I Will Write With Words of Fire” specially for the tattoo and asked comic book artist David Mack to design the image. Here are the results:
In London, yesterday, via reddit.
This salt sold by London's Hoxton Street Monster Supplies is allegedly collected from tears produced by a range of emotions. Each has a distinctly different flavor — salt made from tears of sorrow has a delicate lavender flavor, perfect for seasoning limbs or organs…
I will be using this in the future.
After perfect Twitter chat on Thursday, Obama declares himself a “Twitter Master.”
Dennis Medri's awesome sketches pay tribute to Batman by setting him, his enemies, and his cohorts in the jump jivin' rockabilly scene of the 1950s.
It's for an online event company.
Geocaching is a game where GPS is used to play a grown-up version of hide and seek. The challenge with finding a cache is that it could be the the size of a shoebox size or the size of a tic-tac. Here are some of the creative ways players have found to hide their “treasure”:
According to KHOU in Houston's story, seventeen-year old Diane Tran's parents split town leaving her to help provide for her siblings. Since, she's been working two jobs while taking advanced and college level courses. But Judge Lanny Moriarity wanted to make an example of her, so when she missed class after a warning, she was arrested and put in jail overnight. (via twitter.com)
If you've never watched an obstacle laden, urban downhill bike race before, just think of it like a roller-coaster with none of those pesky safety precautions.
Check out this amazing and awesome proposal video… I hope my girlfriend doesn't see this.
Here's his interview with Stacey Pritchard — a staunch defender of her Pastor Charles Worley, even after he recently suggested on the pulpit that gays and lesbians should be put into an electrified pen to “kill them off.” I don't know how he doesn't completely lose it when she fails to understand the most basic reasoning or simple questions.
Hold on to your arteries! This is a 28-pound sandwich with 35 different styles of meat created by British chef Tristan Welch. (via geekologie.com)
Bill Maher's already come under attack from the Romney campaign for comments he made about Ann Romney, but now he's really asking for it. Says Maher, “Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?”
This video is the work of mad geniuses. Geniuses, I say.
Artist Chris Gerringer — aka paperbeatsscissors — specializes in the adorable side of nerd culture (you might remember his awesome “I know that feel” series). His latest is an ode to all the life lessons that our old NES and Genesis games taught us… (via geek-art.net)
Beast told Mark he would've been a great CFO, and now look what happened.
Anti-PDA Cat is doing everyone a favor and making sure you get a goddamn room already.
This is definitely the summer jam of 2012. See if you can spot James Franco, Katy Perry, and Justin Bieber! There are other celebs as well, and my personal favorite Carly Rae Jespen fans, the Harvard baseball team.
Tomorrow is a big birthday for the most beautiful bridge in the world. Celebrate with these six graphic designs commissioned by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservatory.
Shaq announced that he wouldn't take the general manager job that the Orlando Magic would never give him. I disagree with all of this. Here's why Shaq would be the best GM ever.
“Play a game, app or chat / And comment when I please / Stay in the loop or in a group / and “Like” what I see — hey yeah” [ed. note: I think they're serious.]
His alter ego is as an adopted stray named Wingshing. But at night he fights crime, obviously. (via lovemeow.com)
