Know Your Punk…
Story and visual subgenres (mostly punk types) and their most important aspects, ordered by the decades they based. These years are approximate years, not exact years. And these years are not when the stories were made. [Via Imgur]
Category Archives: Culture
The Myth of Pandora’s Box Retold Through Animation
Pandora was the first mortal woman, breathed into being by Hephaestus, god of fire. The gods gave her gifts of language, craftsmanship and emotion. From Zeus she received two gifts: the trait of curiosity and a heavy box screwed tightly shut — never to be opened. But what treasure could never be seen by human […]
Five of the Best Nuclear Apocalypse Movies
By John Lister Contributing Writer, [GAS] There are very few generalizations which I hold true in life, but one of them is that if you aren’t slightly obsessed with the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, we probably won’t be friends. Whether it’s the result of inborn geekiness or the era in which I grew up, […]
Toto’s “Africa” Will Play For All Eternity in The Middle of the Namib Desert
Artist Max Siedentopf installed what he calls “Toto Forever” in the middle of the Namib Desert, an installation that, thanks to solar power, could play Toto’s Africa for all eternity. From Max Siedentopf and BBC News: “[I] wanted to pay the song the ultimate homage and physically exhibit ‘Africa’ in Africa,” explains the 27-year-old artist. […]
Must Read Post-Apocalyptic Thriller (And Now a Netflix Movie) – Bird Box: A Novel
Imagine a world where when people go outside, they’re somehow driven to deadly violence (to themselves or others) as soon as they get a glimpse of something that no one has ever seen and lived to tell about it. This is the premise of Bird Box. Now a Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, […]
Bullying, Violence and Harassment: Is this the best a man can get?
A fantastic new ad campaign from Gillette taking a look at the culture of toxic masculinity. As a geek, I’ve been bullied a lot when I was younger. It was a time when being a geek was not such a good thing, and I’m glad to see companies such as Gilette taking a stand against […]
10 Creepiest Abandoned Amusement Parks
In this video from the folks over at AllTime10s, we take a look at 10 of the scariest abandoned amusement parks in the world. There’s nothing scarier than an abandoned theme park, and these 10 are set to give you nightmares. From a deserted theme park on the edge of a notorious suicide forest, to […]
Squad Leader TD-73028 Soliloquy: When Star Wars Meet Shakespeare [Short Film]
If you know Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, you’ll know the outcome of this short fan film by director Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer right away. This fan film is an interesting one; it takes a very different (and very grim) approach to what we usually see in Star Wars fan films. To be or not to be: Star Wars […]
How Thor Got His Hammer
Loki the mischief-maker, writhes in Thor’s iron grip. The previous night, he’d snuck up on Thor’s wife and shorn off her beautiful hair. To fix what he’d done, Loki rushes to the dwarves and tricks them into making gifts for the gods. Wanting to best their smith rivals, the dwarves make a set of golden […]
The History of the World According to Cats
In ancient times, wildcats were fierce carnivorous hunters. And unlike dogs, who have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats. How did these solitary, fierce predators become our sofa sidekicks? Eva-Maria Geigl traces the domestication of the modern house cat. [TED-Ed]