Wow! Just wow! Youtuber “Nineteenth century videos. Back to life.” used an AI to bring Fritz Lang’s classic sci-fi movie Metropolis (1927) into 2022, and the result is mind blowing! It’s hard to believe that the VFXs in this movie are almost a century old! Also, “Mars, the Bringer of War” by Holst is a […]
Talokan is inspired by Mesoamerica, a vast area that encompasses Central America and parts of Mexico. Source: Marvel Studios. Julian C. Chambliss, Michigan State University As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” I’m particularly excited about the introduction of Namor and the hidden […]
Words don’t pop up fully formed… they evolve over thousands of years. What can we learn about our relationship to monsters by tracking the word down into the distant past? [Storied]
I just love British people, and one of my dreams is to fly over the Atlantic pond and travel through all of Britain for a few months. If I ever decide to make the move, meaning when my kids are old enough so I can safely leave home for a while, I’ll make sure to […]
Many ages ago, Liam Butler‘s father wrote a letter to Christopher Tolkien, asking him if it would be possible to release a new edition of The Hobbit entirely written in Erebor Dwarven runes. Unsurprisingly, he never got a reply. I’m sure Christopher Tolkien had better things to do than to translate a full book into […]
Nosferatu, the silent expressionist horror film that was directed by F. W. Murnau back 1922, turned 100 this year, and for the occasion, here is a colorized 4K version of the movie. [Nineteenth century videos. Back to life]
From Vice: Nearly everyone has been RickRoll’d. But few know the real story of the artist behind the 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” nor do they know about the mysterious origins of the viral RickRoll video meme that exploded in the mid-2000s. VICE meets Rick Astley and the creators of the song to […]
Check out this amazing remastered and colorized (via AI) footage of London in the 1930s by Youtuber NASS. If you look closely, a lot of the advertisements in the video are for companies or brands that still exist today: Bovril, Schweppes, Gordon’s Gin, Guiness Beer, Craven A, and more! Also, check out the Craven A […]
It shouldn’t matter what a food is called as long as it tastes good, right? Well, maybe not. Here is some interesting stories behind food names. [Storied]
You urgently need to sound British. You don’t have time to study phonetics and practise for years so hear it is. In just 12 minutes you’ll learn six sounds that’ll mark you out as British. The accent here is SSBE (Standard Southern British English) sometimes referred to as RP. [LetThemTalkTV]