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One Last Dive

The rather specific time of 3:07 am is considered by some to be the most haunted time of the day, the devil’s hour. A dive session is about to wrap but there’s just enough time to go down for one last look-see. The diver uses his flash light to make his way through the murky water and makes a chilling discovery. Can you guess what happens next? Check out One Last Dive below.

Well that got the heart beating! This creepy one-minute-long horror film was created by film maker Jason Eisener for VICE Magazine’s 3:07 AM Project. See the other three horror films inspired by the haunting hour after the jump.

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Jumping Spiders Wearing Water Droplets as Hats

This may be the cutest thing you’ll see today. A new trend seems to be taking off in the jumping spider community on Batam Island, Indonesia.

Local photographer Uda Dennie spotted the spiders in his garden wearing water droplets almost as big as their little heads, on their heads. Needless to say, the fashion-forward spiders captured his attention, and Dennie trained his macro lens on them. Have a look at this cute and colourful photos after the hop.

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Handymartian’s Alien Planets

Gainfully employed rats, philosophical robots, and harmonizing aliens. These are some of the inhabitants on the strange planets created by animator and illustrator, Andy Martin.

Martin started the project Handymartian’s Illustrated Aliens where he’d illustrate a new alien every day. After a month, Martin would create an animation of the planet on which his weird and wacky menagerie call home.

The first planet was created at the beginning of the year and five more colourful and kooky ones have sprung to life since then. Have a look at Martin’s animated Alien Planets after the jump.

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Awesomeness TV

Breaking Bad Countdown: All Bad Things Must Come to an End

Hall H, bitch! Yesterday, Breaking Bad’s creator and cast gathered at Comic-Con 2013 to bid farewell to the show and its fans.

With the words “Remember my name” stamped across Walt’s face in this ominous poster, you know things aren’t going to end well. The final eight episodes of Breaking Bad’s fifth season will be aired from August 11th. To whet the appetite, this 3-minute trailer captures some of the highs (and many of the lows) of Walter White’s journey from high school chemistry teacher to drug kingpin.

Note that the video is currently blocked outside the U.S. so be sure to use your company’s handy VPN services to watch it ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9H-3p5HWM

[via Uproxx]

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Diggers in Paris: Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Illustrated

We don’t know all that much about Jay-Z’s problems, just that there are 99 of them of which a bitch isn’t one. Illustrator Ali Graham imagines what tribulations the 50-million-album-selling, seventeen-Grammy-Award-owning rap mogul could face in his life. Broken umbrellas (ella ella eh eh eh), diggers in Paris, and dirt on his shoulder are some of Jay-Z’s 99 Problems. Check out more of them after the jump.

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Exploding Actresses

Imagine if Meg Ryan’s diner scene in When Harry Met Sally was so orgasmic that it blew her head off, or if Baby burst with excitement in the iconic lift scene from Dirty Dancing. Thanks to YouTube user Simone Rovellini, we don’t have to. Using visual effects software, After Effects, Rovellini takes scenes from popular movies and shows the actresses literally losing their heads. Check out Exploding Actresses below.

For more hilarity and exploding heads, check out http://explodingactresses.tumblr.com.

[via Dangerous Minds]

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Beatbox Brilliance by Tom Thum

From Brisbane, Australia, beatbox extraordinaire Tom Thum usually plies his trade in clubs and seedy bars but made an appearance at a TEDx talk in Sydney recently. From the sounds of the didgeridoo to the tabla and thumping techno music, Thum takes the audience on a journey across the continents and throughout sound itself. It’s a wonderfully vocal trip. Check it out below.

[via Colossal]

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Adrift

San Francisco’s fog is almost as iconic as the city’s Golden Gate Bridge. The foggy weather—a blanket of coastal low-lying clouds—drifts in mainly during the summer months, and has captured the attention of photographer Simon Christen. Over the course of two years, Christen spent many an early morning hiking up to the Marin Headlands, a hilly area with expansive views of the Bay Area.

A collection of his favourite shots, the short film Adrift is Christen’ love letter to the fog of San Francisco. It’s quite magical, check it out below.

[via Mashable]

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These Giraffes are Magnificent Divers

With their rather unusual shape and gait, giraffes aren’t seen as the most graceful of creatures. In 5m80, Nicolas Devaux from animation studio Cube Creative shows a lesser known fact about giraffes: their love for platform diving. Watch these even-toed ungulates in flight, performing magnificent dives with a great degree of difficulty and pike.

[via Luc Bergeron]

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Featured Game Reviews

We Review: The Last of Us

Naughty Dog hardly needs no introduction to the PS3 gamer. The much-loved creators of the Uncharted franchise has been thrilling audiences with the derring-do antics of Nathan Drake since 2007. To date, the Uncharted franchise has sold over 13 million copies and Naughty Dog has garnered a number of accolades, including over 200 “Game of the Year” awards for 2009’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.

Four years later, and Naughty Dog is back in the spotlight, but this time Nathan Drake isn’t laying waste to the population of a small country. The Last of Us is a new IP that takes us in a different direction, to a much darker time and place. With Naughty Dog’s track record, there is little risk of getting a clunker, so the pertinent question should be, “Just how *good* is The Last of Us?” Find out after the jump.

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