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Supercut of Movie Scenes That Break the Fourth Wall

Leigh Singer gathered more than 50 clips from movies that break the fourth wall (where the characters acknowledge they’re in a movie).

Sadly my favorite broken fourth wall moment didn’t make the list: Billy Ray Valentine in Trading Places getting a commodities lesson from the Dukes. (via zupped)

Update: Ah, and all is right with the universe again as Trading Places makes it into Singer’s second compilation of fourth wall breaks.

[This is a vintage post originally from Apr 2013.]

Tags: Leigh Singer · movies · timeless posts · video

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Rick Steves, Always on the Go

I really enjoyed this interview with traveller and writer Rick Steves by Lulu Garcia-Navarro, which is also available as a YouTube video and podcast episode (Apple, Spotify). Here are some particularly appealing excerpts: I love to be on a bus that’s so crowded that there...

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The Evolution of Bugs Bunny Over 80 Years

In his ongoing series Cartoon Evolution, Dave Lee looks at how the character of Bugs Bunny has changed and evolved since his debut in 1938 as an unnamed rabbit in Porky’s Hare Hunt. It didn’t take long for the character to find its stride. From Wikipedia: While Porky’s Ha...

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Two “Secret” Mini-Seasons of The X-Files

In 2017, Audible released a pair of immersive audio dramas of The X-Files, with David Duchovny as Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Scully, that fit “somewhere between season 10 and 11” of the TV series. Then at some point, Audible removed them from their site/service, making them completely unavailable. So, a fan put them up on YouTube for X-Files fans to enjoy.

The Cold Cases audio drama is 6 episodes and about 4 hours long; here’s the first episode:

The Stolen Lives audio drama is 7 episodes and about 3h 45m long; here’s the first episode:

(via ironic sans)

Tags: audio · The X-Files · TV · video

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Building a Medieval Castle From Scratch

Since 1997, using only Middle Ages tools & technology, a group has been building a medieval castle in a French forest. In the heart of Guédelon forest, in an abandoned quarry, a team of master-builders is building a 13th-century castle from scratch. Quarrymen, stonemaso...

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Kind of Obsessed With Shōgun

I finished the last half of Shōgun, James Clavell’s 1200-page 1975 historical novel, on my recent vacation, riveted the entire time. I loved reading it and possibly enjoyed it more than Hulu’s TV series (which is saying something). The TV version hews pretty closely to the t...

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Where Do You Put the Camera?

For the final video in their current series, Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting tackle one of the fundamental questions in filmmaking: where do you put the camera? I was especially struck by Greta Gerwig’s comments about camera movement in two of her fi...

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Explore an Incredibly Detailed Topographical Map of the Moon

a colorful map of the topography of the moon

Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to this factsheet, the visualization includes nearly six billion measurements.

LOLA data was captured by a polar orbiting laser altimeter. Think of it like the range finder you would use to measure how far away the hole is from your current position at a golf course, except you press the button six billion times, save the position from where you are measuring, save every distance measurement on a hard drive, and then phone that data back to earth.

Tags: infoviz · maps · Moon · NASA · science · space

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Nintendo Announces the Switch 2

Nintendo has finally released some details and a sneak peek trailer for their upcoming console, a sequel to the mega-popular Switch. From The Verge: The console looks a lot like the original, but it’s bigger. In the video, the Joy-Con controllers are black with colored ac...