Cantina Theme Played by a Pencil

Dani Ochoa posted this video to the Star Wars subreddit. You'll need to turn your volume up to hear her write out an algebraic equation and recreate the rhythm of the Cantina Theme from the original Star Wars film.

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In case you didn't catch how accurate that is, there's also a video with the song played over it. And here's the followup, The Imperial March.

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Maybe it's my age creeping up on me; I passed on this one when I first heard it, but now it's starting to go seriously viral. More interesting was the discussion on the equation itself, which seemed to be something really special, until it was debunked by a crowd of math nerds. -via Metafilter


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The Plight Of The Non-Gamer

Gamers used to be part of an exclusive club that made references to characters and spoke a language  only gamers understood, but gaming is now such a normal part of our lives that these days everybody is doing it.

As you can see in this comic by JHALL it's really hard to be a young non-gamer, because when everyone including your mom is an avid gamer you're now part of a much sadder and lonelier club full of bored kids with weak thumbs.

-Via Dorkly


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The Creature From The Lake

The Creature from the Black Lagoon made audiences fear the strange and monstrous creatures living in lakes, swamps and lagoons where they'd once only feared the creatures that live in the sea.

And after the original Creature emerged from the Black Lagoon more scary swamp creatures followed, creating a need for a new kind of monster hunter who knows their way around these murky waters.

The guy in this animated short is supposedly one of those hunters, but he's really bad at his job...

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Creature From The Lake is a fun animated short created by students from ISART DIGITAL, and apart from the lack of dialog it's a pretty great short that's sure to make fans of the Creature gurgle with delight.


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The Boy In The Bubble

There are situations in life that make us wish we had a bubble around us, to shield us from physical and emotional pain.

And if we all had magical abilities we'd probably cast a spell of protection on ourselves from time to time, just so we know there's a shield between us and the source of our pain.

But in the end no bubble in the world is thick enough to protect us from one of the most terrifying things in life- true love!

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The Boy In The Bubble is a wonderful animated short from 2011 that features the voice talent of Alan Rickman as the Narrator, created in a style reminiscent of Tim Burton that makes it a visual delight!


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People You See At Every Video Game Tournament

Video game tournaments and the ESL are big business these days, with huge corporate sponsors and millions of dollars in prize money on the line, and yet they still don't attract a very diverse crowd.

No matter how many video game tournaments you attend you'll always see the same cast of characters hanging around, taking the whole thing way too seriously while their "ride" impatiently waits for them to finish up so they can go home.

This comical lineup created by JHALL pretty much covers all the bases, although he forgot the "backseat gamer" who doesn't compete but thinks he's better than everyone who does and sits there criticizing how they play the entire time. I hate that guy!

-Via Dorkly


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Can Vac-Man Survive A Vacuum Chamber?

Vac-Man may sound like the name of a door-to-door vacuum salesman but it's actually the name given to Stretch Armstrong's nemesis, who is pretty boring as villains go and therefore didn't sell very well.

But on paper Vac-Man's toy action sounds pretty sweet:

Unlike the Stretch dolls which contained a syrup-like liquid inside a rubber sheath, Vac-Man (and associated models like the Vac-Pac which were the heroic enemies of Vac-Man) contained a grainy solid, produced from ground-up corn cobs. By attaching the provided pump to a socket on Vac-Man's head, air could be sucked out until the body became rigid. It could then be stretched, but unlike Stretch Armstrong, it would retain its stretched shape until air was let back in. -Via Wikipedia

His name and his cool vacuum power made him highly requested by The Action Lab's viewers, and they discovered the vacuum chamber had an oddly satisfying effect on Vac-Man's corn cobby body.

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-Via Laughing Squid


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This Animated Short Shows Us Why We Should Be Careful When Consorting With Spirits

Native Americans have a close relationship with both the natural world and the spirits all around us, and where the European invaders settlers saw nothing but plants and animals to kill the Indians saw life everlasting.

When you live that closely with the natural world you become sensitive to the slightest changes in your environment, but it's really hard to miss those brightly glowing visitors from the spirit world, especially when they lure you deep into the forest...

WAKAN is a poignant animated short created by students from ISART DIGITAL, the video game and 3D animation/VFX school in Paris.


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Why Starting School Is Like Preparing For A Boss Battle

Every fall and winter college students prepare to enter the educational wars once again, battling their professors for the best grades possible while figuring out who they can trust to fight alongside them and who wants them to fail.

But if students prepared for the new school year like they prepare for a boss battle in a video game they would easily crush their coursework, avoid unnecessary battles and earn more grants and scholarships with their new heroic attitudes.

Just keep in mind that you earn student loan debt instead of XP during the quest for higher education... (Comic by Julia Lepetit)

See Why Starting School Is Like Preparing For A Boss Battle here


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Butcher Billy Reimagines Black Mirror Season 4 Episodes As Comic Book Covers

Black Mirror is one of the most thought provoking, cutting edge and depressing TV shows ever made, and even though the show is overall very popular some episodes have been too much for viewers to handle.

So, in an effort to make the show a bit friendlier for first-time viewers, here are the six episodes of season 4 reimagined by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy as cover art for a comic book called Tales Of The Black Mirrors.

The best part about Butcher Billy's Black Mirror comic book covers is they're virtually spoiler free, so if you haven't seen season 4 yet you'll have that "aha!" moment after you've watched them all!

Of course, if it's a Butcher Billy t-shirt you're looking for, say one with a New Wave superhero on the front here's a link to his NeatoShop page.

-Via Laughing Squid


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Fakemon You'll Wish Were Real

(-Via JessJackdaw)

The only difference between a Pokemon and a Fakemon is the Fakemon weren't created by Satoshi and Tajiri, but fans have created plenty of Fakemon who would make perfect additions to the roster.

There's the Super Soaker swordfish hybrid above, which could lead to a whole new story factor involving trainers armed with Poke-weapons, and this cool looking character that may actually be too cool to be a Pokemon.

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These Fakemon are as good, if not better, than non-fake Pokemon, and the artists who create them are doing a great job of breathing new life into a roster of creatures who were starting to feel a bit formulaic.

(Woolcub/Howoolf-Via Sims76)

See 15 Fakemon That You'll Wish Were Real and keep scrolling to see 23 Incredible Fake Pokemon Nintendo Should Use ASAP here


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Interview With The Urban Explorers Who Sneaked Into Michael Jackson's Abandoned Neverland Ranch

Before Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch became a controversial place it was a place of wonder, with its own zoo, amusement park rides, and two trains, not to mention Michael's magical 13,000 sq. ft. mansion.

The 3,000 acre Ranch was worth an estimated $100 million dollars before Michael abandoned the property after it was searched by police officers during the People V. Jackson trial back in 2003, and in 2006 the property went into foreclosure.

Michael left most of his stuff behind when he abandoned the property, and all that stuff plus the strange and sordid history of the place made Neverland Ranch a very enticing place for urban explorers to visit.

Four such urban explorers (nicknamed after the TMNT by VICE) broke in to the place repeatedly between December 2007 and March 2008, and the stuff they found there really adds to the MJ mystique:

Donatello: The other thing was that he collected memorabilia that had him on it, he had Pepsi bottles and books and other promotional material in boxes. He also had stacks and stacks of fan mail, and one of the ones that really grabbed me was some fan had drawn the prosecuting attorney of his molestation case with devil's horns. That was just laying on a tabletop – maybe a Pac-Man table?
Raphael: You were reading his fan mail?
Donatello: We were flipping through some of it.

Raphael: One thing that really sticks out in my memory was drinking his grape soda from that walk-in kitchen storage area and then very carefully wiping the fingerprints off the bottle and hiding it in the bushes.

Was it actual grape soda?
Raphael: Yeah! It was actual grape soda! In the kitchen there was this "Children of the World" menu. Everything in there was geared toward children. I'm not sure he had any, but...

He did.
Raphael: Having that menu there, on a permanently printed chalkboard it had peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches and macaroni and cheese or something, that sticks out in my mind. The general strange hodgepodge of s#%t that he had bought that didn't have any relation to his house. His entire house was filled with these really expensive looking one-off random, semi-artistic things.

Read Four Photographers Sneaked Into And Explored Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch at VICE (NSFW language)


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Meet The Muppet Parody Band Nine Inch Snails

If a show has the words "Muppets" or "Jim Henson" in the title you know it's going to feature some really awesome puppets, and the late 90s successor to The Muppet Show called Muppets Tonight was no exception.

Muppets Tonight introduced us to cool characters like the Nine Inch Snails, an all-gastropod grunge band who sing a morbid little song that includes the line "give me some salt and turn me to gel" and put on one shell of a show.

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-Via Laughing Squid


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People Share Pics Of Their Weirdest And Most Interesting Collections

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The blanket term "collector" appeals to most people when it's left alone than when you add a noun before it, as in toy collector, antique collector or rock memorabilia collector. See how much cooler "the collector" sounds than any of those more specific designations?

The thing is most collectors don't care if people think their collection is cool, because that's not why they do it- they collect stuff because they're passionate about the stuff they collect.

So whether they're collecting vintage Smurf toys, beer cans or tiny erasers shaped like food there's something about the objects they gather that makes their heart sing.

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As a lifelong collector of toys, comic books and vintage t-shirts I know how passion can quickly turn into obsession, but the way I see it all that cool stuff out there ain't gonna collect itself!

See more from People Are Sharing Their Weirdest Collections at Bored Panda


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Andy Warhol And Nico As Batman And Robin

Andy Warhol and Nico were cool, they were eccentric and underground and enjoyed wearing costumes on occasion, all of which made them the perfect characters to play Batman and Robin in a photo shoot for Esquire.

The shoot happened in 1966 when Batmania was in full swing thanks to the Adam West TV show, so Nico posed as Batman and Andy as Robin for photographer Frank Bez's seriously hip photo spread meant to draw in younger, hipper readers for Esquire.

Andy was a big fan of Batman, and comic books in general, so he was probably pretty jazzed about the shoot, and Warhol's 1964 film Batman Dracula is considered the first appearance of a campy version of Batman.

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Read more at Dangerous Minds


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A Sarlacc Pit for Your Home

Every home needs a Sarlacc that won't digest you over the course of a thousand years! This pillow is labeled as a "newborn/toddler pillow lounger," and I'm sure it's perfect for the child you want to raise right, but people without babies could easily find a use for it -like a pillow for your head while you are lying down watching a Star Wars movie. It's big, maybe you could curl up in it with a good science fiction book. It has four rows of teeth, and handles, so you can easily carry it and anything you want to feed it put into it. Get your Pit of Carkoon pillow from Etsy store BedHogShop.  -via Geeks Are Sexy


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