You’ll never hear dubstep the same way, ever again…

Believe me, I had no idea before watching this that a dubstep mashup like this was even possible. (Note: if you don’t know what dubstep is, or who Skrillex is, here’s a nice video of otters playing with cups: awwww)

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Slinky on a treadmill…

  No, it’s not a metaphor for the ultimate uselessness of effort, it’s just this: a slinky toy “walking” down a treadmill, endlessly, endlessly…
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Zen Pencils: “Shaolin Monk Experience”

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Zen Pencils” is a webcomic by a young man in Australia named Gavin Aung Than, who works as a freelance illustrator. He mixes philosophy and art in a very charming style, drawing illustrations based on quotes from famous people. Continue reading “Zen Pencils: “Shaolin Monk Experience””

Cosplay kids: Kaylee and Mal from “Firefly”

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Well, now this is pretty darn adorable, Peter Verrant took pictures of these two cute kids, dressed as Kaylee Frye and Malcom Reynolds, from the series “Firefly” and the Firefly movie “Serenity“.  According to his Flickr account, he took the pictures at CONvergence 2011.  Whoever did their costumes even got the teddy bear on Kaylee’s coveralls right!   Awwww!

Otakon 2012 Day 3 Pictures

Day 3 of Otakon 2012, and you can tell that the con is winding down. You can almost feel the exhaustion of the con-goers, by Sunday afternoon more people were sitting than standing! There were occasional bursts of energy, though. At any rate, here are the photos from Day 3 of Otakon 2012. Enjoy!
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Otakon 2012 Day 2 Pictures update!

Well, I could have written a few things about what I did at Otakon on Day 2 (my birthday!), but nah, I think most people just want to see the pictures, so here they are, a whole mess of them from Day 2!
UPDATE: I found about 20 more pictures I took Saturday, that I thought I had lost! I added them to the gallery below, they were taken in the plaza and fountain at the Inner Harbor!
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Otakon 2012 Day1, Pictures

I would have added to the original post, but I thought, “what the heck, show the pictures already!”  So, here they are, the best of the ones I took on Friday, Day 1 of Otakon 2012.
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