vicemag:

In 1974, the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky set about turning the classic sci-fi novelDune into a major motion picture. He recruited Orson Welles, Pink Floyd, H. R. Giger, David Carradine, Salvador Dali, and Mick Jagger to the project, completed 3,000 pieces of story art, and spent millions of dollars preparing for production. Investors balked when he asked for more—and when they realized the script would account for a meandering 14-hour film—and it was ultimately shelved. 

Read about it here

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fckyeahhplovecraft:

Call of Snoophulhu by Queenmob

The Store with the Unicorn by JMichaelSullivan on Flickr.

fer1972:

Read Poe and Try to Keep Calm

vimeo:

Bitcoin Explained by Duncan Elms

A well-crafted and very timely explanation of the digital currency Bitcoin; directed, designed and animated by Sydney’s Duncan Elms.

Source : patakk

fer1972:

Scientists Minimalist Posters by Kapil Bhagat

kateoplis:

World’s Most Intense Natural Color comes from a wild African fruit, Pollia condensata, which cannot be consumed, raw or cooked. But it has been used “for decorative purposes because of an unusual property: They stay a vibrant blue color for years or even decades after they’ve been picked. A specimen at the Kew Botanical Gardens in London that was gathered in Ghana in 1974 still retains its iridescent hue.”

vellum:

I heart rotoscoping

Amanda Palmer “No Surprises” Music Video (by amandapalmer)

lolsofunny:

One of the most astounding mysteries of the world is this ancient tile pattern in Greece, dated to about 1,500 B.C.

It was little more than a curiosity until 2008 when its resemblance to a QR Code was recognized.  First photographed in 1871 by the British Antiquities Society, they were known as the “Chinese Box Tiles” owing to the closest thing anyone had seen to the strange pattern.  Little was known about the titles except that they were installed along with other beachfront roads on the isle of Igrigoria in ancient times.

In was in 2008 that QR codes became popular enough that a traveler recognized the tiles as bearing an unmistakable resemblance to the computer code which had only been developed 3,500 years after the tiles were first laid.  It was another two years before anyone with a QR capable phone traveled to the island to attempt a capture.

The mystery only deepened when the phone was able to recognize the code, which lead to the original Nyan Cat video on youtube.

Fucking Greeks.

(via sirchamallow)