Luna's (Not So) Lunes Linkies - Round 50 (ZOMG)
Holy crap. I've been doing this for fifty weeks, without fail. I told myself I wouldn't cry. I told myself... I wouldn't post linkies today. I lied. However, be sure to also check out LE GRAND LINKIES LIST OF LINKY DOOM (viewable here), which, as promised, is a list of everything that has gone up in the Linkies. I know, on my computer at least, you have to hit the page down button 15 times before you reach the end, which also translates to a full 13 pages in Microsoft Word (single spaced), or if none of that means anything to you: to date, not including what was posted here today, there are at least 562 different links posted (not everything was listed on the list... for instance, "pictures that cannot be explained" day for the most part is not) and I also have another 531 in my favorites folder that I haven't posted yet.
Happy new year, by the way. Let's get rolling with some new links:
Major news to those of you who upkeep LJs: The Grim Purge that happened last week means that half of LJ's San Francisco staff has been laid off (more information viewable here). Some people are predicting this might be the beginning of the end of LJ. In any case, after strikethrough '07 (more info here again), I have been keeping up a cloned version of this journal over at InsaneJournal. Not quite everything is over there though I shall be keeping an eye on developments, which may encourage me to transfer more of my entries over there as well (not to say I have any plans of purging this journal at all, but I'd rather have the backup).
In infinitely more interesting news...
I have one more movie that I need to add to my list of movies I must see in '09, and that is possibly the most bizarre movie on the planet... ever. And hay, go figure. It's from Japan. It goes by the name of Funky Forest and... wow. From this site, which has probably the most... cohesive? description I've been able to find of this thing: "Funky Forest positively defies a critic’s abilities to analyze, categorize, or pigeonhole, leaving nothing to do but describe. It is such a grab-bag, and the humor is so random and arcane, that there are just naturally going to be a certain percentage of people on the correct wavelength who love every minute of it, and a certain percentage of people that should never ever watch it in a million years... completely bizarre mélange of sketch comedy, non-sequitur humor, and freak-out special effects. And dancing, lots and lots of dancing. Needless to say, strange dancing. The sketches are spread pretty wide, and often connect only tenuously, but certain characters and themes recur (watching Funky Forest is a little like flipping between 5-6 channels at 3 in the morning)." And... yeah. I can't give you a much better description than the rest of what's written there, so I leave you with a few clips (most of them are completely unsubtitled, adding even further to the WTF factor). WARNING: OH HELL, THIS MOVIE IS SO NSFW. Not to say all the clips I'm putting up are but... yeah. Here's a small sampling of some of the scenes I found: most of them bizarre, "this is what going mad feel like"-esque sorts of clips... and the last one I find incredibly striking and beautiful, particularly jumping right into it without knowing quite what's going on. There are, as follows:
Funky Forest, Youth Classroom. Part of this is NSFW. It's one of those, "once you've started watching it, you're committed to finishing it" kinds of clips (it seems to be composed of random clips of the movie but I assure you it's all one scene). This is also the first clip I found of this movie. One of the best comments I saw on the video: "I've now officially seen everything life has to offer thanks to the Japanese."
Home Room - Yoshiko's Turn is one of the few subtitled clips I was able to find. Definitely safer (and just plain goofier) to watch than the last and it makes me lawl.
Pikuniku dance is one of those moments of weird spontaneous dancing the linked article mentions.
Back to the NSFW, Go For A Drink? is about... you know what? I have no idea. Someone who speaks Japanese left a comment that sums up what... kinda happened but it doesn't prepare you for the clip at all: "After the bizarre, confusing ordeal which never makes much sense at all, the guys reveal themselves to be some sort of underground performance art troupe, but it all turns out to have been the girls dream, which she somehow uses as an excuse to reject the guy on the bridge."
If I had to show you only one clip from Funky Forest, it would probably be this one: Alien Piko-Riko seems to be a perfect example of the randomness this movie has (and is filled with Japan's version of classic slapstick).
And to end the clips: THE VOLUME captured my attention and enchanted me like nothing else (not to mention: techno!). It doesn't even seem like it's part of the same movie.
...And to think: I didn't even put up the weirdest clips of the movie that I found.
Star Wars - an a cappella tribute to John Williams is crazy impressive to watch and awesomely well done to boot.
So I've been baking a lot. Pies. Cookies. Cake. Cake is delicious, right? Then why the fuck is this named Yellowcake? D: I mean, I get it. But still: try not to be naming yer uranium compounds after deliciousness.
Hot Moth Action is, hopefully, not what you might think it is. Rather, zoologix did an article showcasing Igor Siwanowicz's macro photographic of... well, moths. They're pretty fun to check out and see the fuzzy beasts. (I want to make plush toys based off of some of them *_*.)
Also from zoologix: who the hell cares about snakes when you can have runaway cheetahs on a plane.
Ooooold story, however, I do want to post it: "For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse," is about one art major, Aliza Shvarts, and her senior art project which was, "a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process." (This was, unsurprisingly, later called out on being a hoax.
Anyone down for 11 of the world's weirdest dresses? Anyone? Does it make me weird that I already knew about the condom dress?
Wow. Wow. My ways in which they fail tag will be put to good use: School's SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving) funds used to stage drunken party.
Omnomnomnom... again with the late news but someone mentioned the Advent Children bluray disk in a conversation with me not too long ago and I remembered I had this. Final Fantasy XIII demo to be 2 hours long. I remember, back in the day, when demos were... well... not games within themselves (though I seem to also remember being introduced to the Playstation and playing the Spyro the Dragon demo for an entire night, so maybe this isn't too shocking).
And to end; a guy who has got to be one of the biggest badasses on the planet. "In February, a flying 1.2-metre saw blade severed [Shawn Clement's] left arm about 16 centimetres below the elbow." What happened after is a tale of the miracles of medicine but his reaction has to be the best: "I got my arm, I can't complain." ...I will never work in a factory.
Sorry for the delay! I started this entry at about 11 this morning, and I'm not finishing it until now due to the fact that my computer did this again.
Happy new year, by the way. Let's get rolling with some new links:
I have one more movie that I need to add to my list of movies I must see in '09, and that is possibly the most bizarre movie on the planet... ever. And hay, go figure. It's from Japan. It goes by the name of Funky Forest and... wow. From this site, which has probably the most... cohesive? description I've been able to find of this thing: "Funky Forest positively defies a critic’s abilities to analyze, categorize, or pigeonhole, leaving nothing to do but describe. It is such a grab-bag, and the humor is so random and arcane, that there are just naturally going to be a certain percentage of people on the correct wavelength who love every minute of it, and a certain percentage of people that should never ever watch it in a million years... completely bizarre mélange of sketch comedy, non-sequitur humor, and freak-out special effects. And dancing, lots and lots of dancing. Needless to say, strange dancing. The sketches are spread pretty wide, and often connect only tenuously, but certain characters and themes recur (watching Funky Forest is a little like flipping between 5-6 channels at 3 in the morning)." And... yeah. I can't give you a much better description than the rest of what's written there, so I leave you with a few clips (most of them are completely unsubtitled, adding even further to the WTF factor). WARNING: OH HELL, THIS MOVIE IS SO NSFW. Not to say all the clips I'm putting up are but... yeah. Here's a small sampling of some of the scenes I found: most of them bizarre, "this is what going mad feel like"-esque sorts of clips... and the last one I find incredibly striking and beautiful, particularly jumping right into it without knowing quite what's going on. There are, as follows:
Click to viewFunky Forest, Youth Classroom. Part of this is NSFW. It's one of those, "once you've started watching it, you're committed to finishing it" kinds of clips (it seems to be composed of random clips of the movie but I assure you it's all one scene). This is also the first clip I found of this movie. One of the best comments I saw on the video: "I've now officially seen everything life has to offer thanks to the Japanese."
Home Room - Yoshiko's Turn is one of the few subtitled clips I was able to find. Definitely safer (and just plain goofier) to watch than the last and it makes me lawl.
Pikuniku dance is one of those moments of weird spontaneous dancing the linked article mentions.
Back to the NSFW, Go For A Drink? is about... you know what? I have no idea. Someone who speaks Japanese left a comment that sums up what... kinda happened but it doesn't prepare you for the clip at all: "After the bizarre, confusing ordeal which never makes much sense at all, the guys reveal themselves to be some sort of underground performance art troupe, but it all turns out to have been the girls dream, which she somehow uses as an excuse to reject the guy on the bridge."
If I had to show you only one clip from Funky Forest, it would probably be this one: Alien Piko-Riko seems to be a perfect example of the randomness this movie has (and is filled with Japan's version of classic slapstick).
And to end the clips: THE VOLUME captured my attention and enchanted me like nothing else (not to mention: techno!). It doesn't even seem like it's part of the same movie.
...And to think: I didn't even put up the weirdest clips of the movie that I found.
Sorry for the delay! I started this entry at about 11 this morning, and I'm not finishing it until now due to the fact that my computer did this again.