Year: 2009

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Arty Awesomeness Eating and Drinking

Super Epic Rainbow Cake!

As some of you might know, I’ve recently taken to baking. I was pleased with my first effort, but now am always on the lookout for new and exciting recipes. And in a Liz Lemon “I want to go to there” moment, Lucy Furr sent me a link that made my whipped cream extremely stiff, if you know what I mean ;-)

From Kaitlin at Whisk Kid, comes the Super Epic Rainbow Cake. Made for a dear friend, Kaitin baked six individual layers (to match the 6 kinds of crazy of said friend possesses) with lemon flavored icing in between them, and then brought the monster cake together with white buttercream frosting. I would be remiss in my duties if I failed to provide you with the appropriate cake pron.

The recipe is available at Whisk Kid (scroll down to the bottom of the post).

[via Neatorama]

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Movies Video Clips

Sam Rockwell in “Moon”

We may have gotten a little trailer-crazy over here at Onelargeprawn, and like me and smoking, it shows no signs of stopping ;-)

While the rest of the world may have seen and loved it, South Africa has yet to see release of Moon. In the feature debut by director Duncan Jones, Moon tells the story of astronaut and Lunar Industries employee Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) who has been stationed on the moon for the last three years. In that time, Sam has been isolated, his only interaction has been with a computer named GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). Thankfully Sam’s contract has come to an end and soon he’ll be back on earth with his wife and infant daughter.

With two weeks left to serve, Sam starts to hallucinate and gets injured in an accident. After recovering in the station’s infirmary, Sam makes an unauthorized visit to the scene of the accident, whereupon he makes an unexpected discovery…

It reminds me of another movie, you know the one with the thing and the guy, and the monolith? In any case, Moon was released in June and is rated 90% at Rotten Tomatoes. It is expected to hit South African shores in late October this year.

[via Brendan Jack]

BONUS: Did you know that Duncan Jones was born Zowie Bowie, son of the legendary David Bowie?

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Cautionary Tales Risqué Weirdness

Whythefuckdoyouhaveakid

It’s lunch time and I’m running on fumes (pity it’s not paint fumes). As such, I’m likely to make dubious posting decisions. This, I think, is not one of them.

Whythefuckdoyouhaveakid is Tumblelog questioning why some people thought it was a good idea to procreate. The picture captions are certainly bang on. Check out a few after the jump.

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Flash Games

Play This: Ninjufo

There’s nothing like a meeting to completely destroy one’s will to live work. It’s an hour I’ll never get back, but thankfully there is plenty of the day left to idly waste ;-)

In Ninjufo, you need to pilot your space craft around a guarded enemy warehouse and with as much stealth as possible, collect 50 crates that contain classified information. Use your shurikens to destroy inattentive enemy ships, but take care not to take too much damage, as some money will be deducted from your haul whenever your ship is destroyed.

Play Ninjufo at Armor Games.

[via Jay is Games]

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Arty Featured

Perfect prints: Team OLP and friends go screen printing

So a bunch of us decided to do a screen printing workshop with Toby (who is super cool) at Fittees in Obs. It’s something Prawn and I have always been interested in trying. We’ve taken books on the subject out of the library and looked at stuff on the interweb, but never got round to actually doing it. Anyway all I can say is, if you ever get the opportunity to learn about screen printing, you should definitely do it. Toby’s workshop is very good. He guides you through the whole process explaining every element most thoroughly and, you get good coffee and yummy snacks!

On the Friday before the workshop, we sent our chosen designs to Toby who created positives by printing the designs out on acetate. On Saturday, screens were primed with a chemical that becomes impermeable to ink when exposed to light, our designs were placed on the screens, and the screens where then exposed to bright light. The area of the screen covered by the positive image, stayed permeable and thus our designs were transferred onto the screens. We then chose our ink colours and got busy printing onto t-shirts, calico and paper with some really wicked results.

Hit the jump to see more photos of the workshop, and our finished prints.

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Cautionary Tales Movies Video Clips

‘The Wolfman’ Trailer Bares Its Fangs

Hell’s horses! I think I pee’d a little. Directed by visual effects dude Joe Johnston, The Wolfman is a remake of the 1941 film of the same name, and that tells the story of one Lawrence Talbot who hunts for his brother’s murderer and falls prey to the werewolf’s bite.

Universal Pictures couldn’t have picked a worse time to announce the trailer, airing it at the same time people were having mini-orgasms from one of the most anticipated trailers ever, James Cameron’s Avatar. In any case, see The Wolfman trailer below.

Set in the 1880s, The Wolfman stars Benicio Del Toro in the lead role, supported by Anthony Hopkins (the father), Emily Blunt (the love interest), and Hugo Weaving (the detective). The movie has been dogged by delays since its announcement in 2006, but will finally see the big screen on February 12th, 2010.

[via Cinematical]

UPDATE (October 22nd, 2009): Conveniently timed for Halloween, the second trailer has just been released. See it below.

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Arty Inspirational Designs

The Impressive Artwork of Nik Ainley

Shake what ya momma gave ya. In the case of Nik Ainley, it would be mad photoshop skillz. Hailed a one of the “Top 10 up-and-coming creative talents of 2006” by Computer Arts magazine, this UK based illustrator has been creating stunning art work for magazines, books, and clothing. Here’s a small gallery of this illustrations. The images may take a while to load.

See more at Nik’s online portfolio, Shinybinary, or hit up his work at deviantART.

[via The Inspiration Design]

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Awesomeness Featured Gaming News Music Video Clips

The 8-Bit Trip

In what could possibly be one of the greatest Lego music videos yet seen, 8-Bit Trip is a stop-motion tribute to classic video games that took 1500 pain-staking hours to create. The results are nothing less than awesome. Check it out below or see it in HD at YouTube.

The video was created by animator Tomas Redigh and musician Daniel Larsson, the duo that make up Swedish band Rymdreglage.

[via Buzzfeed]

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Music Video Clips

The Charleston Style / Daft Punk Medley

If you’re like me and suffer the Sunday blues, then this mashup might bring a little smile to your face. Two dancers, Al Minns and Leon James, demonstrate a popular 1920s dance, the Charleston, to the tune of Daft Punk’s hit “Around the world”. Check it out.

See the original clip after the jump.

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Cautionary Tales Science & Technology

Personas: How Does The Internet See You?

The Metropath(ologies) exhibit at the MIT Museum is an art installation about living in a world that happens to be over-supplied with information. Personas is a component of that exhibit, using some high tech jiggery pokery and the Internet to track your Web persona.

The process couldn’t be simpler – go to the Personas site, type in your name (first and last name, please) and after some number-crunching, it will spit out a data portrait, letting you see you the way the Internet sees you.

Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name.

Here’s the data portrait for onelargeprawn. Click to embiggen.

I’m glad there’s no reference to occasional drug abuse (I didn’t inhale), but I’m slightly concerned about where all that aggression is coming from…I bet it’s my doppleganger, I call him Klaus. Say hello Klaus. Hello.

Get your own data portraits at Personas. And let us know how if you find anything interesting.

Data portraits of Jacob Zuma, DJ Fresh, and Megan Fox are after the jump.

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