All Pixar movies are connected
There have been loads of weird theories about Pixar movies. (Well loads of movies actually, people are bored.) One is that all their movies exist in the same universe and are linked somehow.
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Alan Partridge: Nomad
Nomad is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I guess it helps if you know Alan Partridge as his voice read the book in my head and was all the funnier for it. This is now literally the case as I have also downloaded the audiobook (read by Coogan/ Partridge).
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Happy New Year 2017
Happy New Year fantastic Word of Ward readers!
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Happy Winter Festival or Christmas
Whatever your culture or religion (and feel free to keep that to yourself), it is likely that you will be celebrating something today. So from all of us here at the shining Word of Ward publishing towers, Happy Winter Festival and/or Christmas and/or Sunday!
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Japanese Rock, Paper, Scissors competition
You know how exciting it is to watch professional-level rock, paper, scissors in an arena? Me either. But in Japan they do and they somehow make it seem really exciting.
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Bohemian Rhapsody acted out is a noir-ish thriller
Someone was clearly stoned and/or drunk and was listening to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and thought “Dude, that could totally be made into a short film.” So they did.
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A Tour of Britain in Accents
A guy dialect coach called Andrew Jack shows what the various accents are like around the UK.
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Ok Go – The One Moment video
This is incredible. The band ‘OK Go’ always does pretty cool videos but this one took so much planning and is so well done that I found it hard to believe at first. What they did was set up a load of events, timed everything with computers and digital triggers, then filmed ‘The One Moment’, real time, in 4.2 seconds. The music video is then that 4.2 seconds stretched out.
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Massive waves in Taiwan typhoon
These are waves in Taiwan and they are massive. The lighthouse is apparently around 75 foot tall and is presumably empty or sheltering people in brown pants.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a great read and it doesn’t really matter if this is your first Poirot or Christie novel.
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Cumberbatch presents the Apple toilet
Benedict Cumberbatch was on Saturday Night Live the other day (probably on Saturday) because he seems to be contractually obliged to be absolutely everywhere at the moment. To be fair, that is quite subjective – we just saw Dr Strange (which I loved), that prompted my wife to re-watch Sherlock, all while I have been…
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Tech support for non-computer people
As someone who has a professed love for tech, I am often asked by non-computer people to help fix stuff or get stuff to do other stuff.
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Steve Cutts does a Moby music video
I had seen some Cutts illustrations before, such as the rats on the underground (see below) but hadn’t realised it was the same guy until I wrote this post and did some research. Great art and generally making a decent point.
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Borrowed Time (Pixar animators)
Borrowed Time is an animation by two of Pixar’s animators: Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats. Don’t think light-hearted cheerful Pixar though, think of one of the darkest and saddest moments of a Pixar film
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Planet Earth 2 by Attenborough
A trailer has just come out for Planet Earth II, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The original Planet Earth came out ten years ago and was the most expensive documentary ever commissioned by the BBC and the first to be filmed in high definition. Planet Earth II took 4 years to make, and was filmed in 64 countries and in Ultra-High Definition.
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Musk to Mars, and Beyond!
Recently, Elon Musk talked about going to Mars. He wants humanity to be a multi-planetary species, so that we should survive a disaster. (Hopefully some other animals too – I want a genetically adapted giant space dog I can write around.) The rationale is that at some point, something awful may/will happen and it would be a…
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Earth temperature timeline by xkcd
I saw this on the always awesome xkcd (www.xkcd.com) site. It is a timeline showing the average temperature of the Earth from 20,000BC to now. It is brilliantly done and is essentially a superb counter argument to people who argue that the Earth has always warmed up and cooled down. It has, but global temperatures…
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Mac King rope trick
I normally post about science. Or books. Or films. Damn it, I don’t really have a theme. So I might as well bring you magic as well. This is legendary Las Vegas magician Mac King doing his legendary rope trick. Apparently Mac King did this trick on the Penn and Teller show where they try…
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The reason Thor and Hulk weren’t in Civil War
The clip explains what Thor, and to a lesser extend Dr Banner (aka Hulk), have been up to and why they weren’t in Captain America Civil War. He has basically been chilling out in Australia trying to be normal.
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Every extraterrestrial body robots have landed on
I came across these pictures and they are amazing. Each one is a photo taken from an extraterrestrial body – i.e. not Earth – by robots. Lucky robots.