Life outside the frame is a new 5-part short film web series that focuses on the lives of fringe characters from popular entertainment franchises, who are now struggling in the “real world.” Here is the first episode featuring Jarvis, an ex-stormtrooper who is trying to reintegrate back home in what is now a contemporary London, after the destruction of the Death Star. Check it out!
The song from Wintergatan’s Marble Machine performed on The Floppotron, a hardware orchestra composed of various computer peripherals. Here’s the original video of the song:
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Here is a great occasion to upload our cover of Yoko Shimomura’s wonderfull Final Fantasy XV theme song, Somnus. Covered for piano trio and vocalist, self-made arrangement and transcription!
SpongeBob SquarePants, Pikachu, Jake the Dog, the Simpsons and countless others all have one thing in common… they’re all YELLOW! Why are so many popular cartoon characters yellow? There must be a reason for this! Channel Frederator and Tooned Up had to dig deeper into this cartoon mystery and answer the question… Why are popular cartoon characters yellow?
Back in 1963, George R.R. Martin, who only had one “R” to his name back then, sent a letter to Marvel to praise Fantasic Four issue #17, saying it was probably the best comic of all time. Here’s a video from the History channel showing the author reading his old letter to us. At the end, we also see George’s old address, which I immediately sought on Google map. Here is a picture of where the man was living back when he was 15 years old in 1963:
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