Canadian designer Valerie says she has forging jewelry since the tender, young age of 7.
Her VaLa Jewellery Shop has added an affordable, Star Trek-inspired ring for geeky lads to purchase to surprise their geeky ladies.
The custom-made ring boasting the Starfleet insignia is forged from 14K white gold and sterling silver and contains a white sapphire, in place of a pricey diamond.
And for just $500, fellas, there’s no excuse not to pop the question!
[Via Etsy]
A group of friends decided that they were going to watch each of the Alien films in anticipation of Prometheus and set out on a Marathon. But not to pull it off half assed, they decided to throw in the Predator films as well (since the Aliens vs Predator films tie them together.)
The gang invaded one home and in the span of two days watched all 10 films in the crossover property. After each film, they would rank them and calculate an average.
Their ratings pretty much match how I organize the films.
Like most reviews of Prometheus I have seen so far, their rankings tend to be very spread across the spectrum. This is a bunch of people who are already predisposed to appreciate this franchise, and after seeing Prometheus, they all had such strong variances in their ranking.
And while we are on the topic, the naming conventions used to title each film in the franchise has always bothered me. They started with Alien (no “s”), then Aliens, (confusing to some) but then go Aliens 3. Then they drop the number entirely and go to Alien Resurrection (again without the ‘s’) Predators seems to have followed that same lack of consistency starting with numbers then deviating to adding an ‘s’.
So did you see Prometheus this past weekend? What would you have rated it?
And please, no spoilers!
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Hong Kong company Hot Toys has finally released the Black Widow figure to its line of extremely life-like Avengers figures.
Standing at nearly 12″ tall, this Black Widow collectible also has more than 28 points of articulation, so you can move her and bend her anyway you like. (Mind out of the gutter, boys…)
For as low as $189.99, you, too, can take Scarlett Johansson home! Order yours from the official dealer here!
[Via GeekTyrant]
Yep, a lot of the things that happen in Prometheus do not seem to make a whole lot of sense, and this guy makes a pretty good compilation of them.
[Via MUO]
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences presents “The Egg”, a video short from the 2011 BIOS Explorer program’s “Water Moves” series. Watch what happens when we crack open a raw egg 60 feet (20 meters) below the surface!
Our goal is to reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner. Our method, which we call Eulerian Video Magnification, takes a standard video sequence as input, and applies spatial decomposition, followed by temporal filtering to the frames. The resulting signal is then amplified to reveal hidden information. Using our method, we are able to visualize the flow of blood as it fills the face and also to amplify and reveal small motions. Our technique can run in real time to show phenomena occurring at temporal frequencies selected by the user.