Dave Hurban, a tattoo artist from Newfield, N.J., has surgically implanted four magnets into his wrist. This is a unique way to hold his iPod Nano in place like a watch without a wristband.

This is a new level of techno-piercing.

With Dark Shadows (Tim Burton) giving a weak competition, The Avengers had no trouble at all being at the first place for its second week. It fell 50% to $103.1 million, which is by-far the best second weekend ever ahead of Avatar‘s $75.6 million. It also topped The Dark Knight for best second weekend hold for a movie that opened to more than $120 million.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• Dark Shadows [Horror Comedy , 1 hr. 53 min.] Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Eva Green, Chloe Moretz, Bella Heathcote, Christopher Lee.
• Girl in Progress: [Comedy / Drama, 1 hrs. 30 min.] Eva Mendes, Matthew Modine, Patricia Arquette.

Top 10 USA Weekend Box Office

Weekend: May 11th to 13th, 2012

1. (1) The Avengers $103,052,274 Total: $373,071,647 Weeks: 2
2. Dark Shadows $29,685,274 Total: $29,685,274 Week: 1
3. (2) Think Like a Man $5,816,108 Total: $81,432,840 Weeks: 4
4. (3) The Hunger Games $4,505,362 Total: $387,007,048 Weeks: 8
5. (5) The Lucky One $4,107,492 Total: $53,788,233 Weeks: 4
6. (6) The Five-Year Engagement $3,314,010 Total: $24,623,420 Weeks: 3
7. (4) The Pirates! Band of Misfits $3,143,442 Total: $23,047,000 Weeks: 3
8. (16) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $2,672,140 Total: $3,744,656 Weeks: 2
9. (9) Chimpanzee $1,755,507 Total: $25,717,478 Weeks: 4
10. (7) Safe $1,447,174 Total: $15,717,429 Weeks: 3

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: The Avengers

In our first meeting Kevin Feige (President of Production of Marvel Studios) said, this is what we’re gonna do and I said, Oh but you have to go out there and tell everybody that it was your idea because this is going to get me so much shit. Because they are all going to be like, Oh he did it again! It was stipulated from the beginning, and I completely agree that it was the right thing to do, and so did Clark. Who said in the early days, when I was busy apologizing for it, In a movie like this, with what’s going on if there isn’t some toll, it’s just irresponsible story telling.

The Nanny Cast in 2004:

How they look now:

Fran Drescher (Fran Fine):

Charles Shaughnessy (Maxwell Sheffield):

Daniel Davis (Niles):

Lauren Lane (C.C. Babcock):

Nicholle Tom (Maggie Sheffield):


Benjamin Salisbury (Brighton Sheffield):

Madeline Zima (Grace Sheffield):

Renée Taylor (Sylvia Fine):

Ann Morgan Guilbert (Yetta Rosenberg): She is 83 years old.

Saroo Brierley was only 5 years old when he got lost. He was traveling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India’s trains.

It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep.
- Saroo

That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life.

I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother.
- Saroo

Saroo did not meet his brother on the train. Instead, he fell asleep and had a shock when he woke up 14 hours later. Though he did not realize it at first, he had arrived in Calcutta, India’s third biggest city and notorious for its slums.

I was absolutely scared. I didn’t know where I was. I just started to look for people and ask them questions.

It was a very scary place to be. I don’t think any mother or father would like to have their five year old wandering alone in the slums and trains stations of Calcutta.
- Saroo

The little boy became a beggar, one of the many children begging on the streets of the city.

I had to be quite careful. You could not trust anyone. Once I was approached by a man who promised me food and shelter and a way back home. But he looked very suspicious. Ultimately I think he was going to do something not nice to me, so I ran away.
- Saroo

Saroo was taken in by an orphanage, which put him up for adoption. He was adopted by the Brierleys, a couple from Tasmania.

I accepted that I was lost and that I could not find my way back home, so I thought it was great that I was going to Australia.

Saroo settled down well in his new home. But as he got older the desire to find his birth family became increasingly strong. The problem was that as an illiterate five-year-old he had not known the name of the town he had come from. All he had to go on were his vivid memories. So he began using Google Earth to search for where he might have been born.

Eventually Saroo found a better way to guess where his home could be:

I multiplied the time I was on the train, about 14 hours, with the speed of Indian trains and I came up with a rough distance, about 1,200km.

He drew a circle on a map with its centre in Calcutta, with its radius about the distance he thought he had travelled. Incredibly, he soon discovered what he was looking for: Khandwa.

When I found it, I zoomed down and bang, it just came up. I navigated it all the way from the waterfall where I used to play.

This is the map that helped Saroo to find his town:

Soon he made his way to Khandwa. He found his way around the town with his childhood memories. Eventually he found his own home in the neighbourhood of Ganesh Talai. But it was not what he had hoped for.

When I got to the door I saw a lock on it. It look old and battered, as if no-one had lived there for quite a long time.

Saroo had a photograph of himself as a child when h ejust arrived to Tasmania (look the photo below these lines) and he still remembered the names of his family. A neighbor said that his family had moved.

Another person came and then a third person turned up, and that is when I struck gold. He said: Just wait here for a second and I shall be back. And when he did come back after a couple of minutes he said, Now I will be taking you to your mother.

I just felt numb and thought, Am I hearing what I think I am hearing?

Saroo was taken to meet his mother who was nearby. At first he did not recognise her.

The last time I saw her she was 34 years old and a pretty lady, I had forgotten that age would get the better of her. But the facial structure was still there and I recognized her and I said, Yes, you are my mother!!!

She grabbed my hand and took me to her house. She could not say anything to me. I think she was as numb as I was. She had a bit of trouble grasping that her son, after 25 years, had just reappeared like a ghost.

Although she had long feared he was dead, a fortune teller had told Saroo’s mother that one day she would see her son again.

I think the fortune teller gave her a bit of energy to live on and to wait for that day to come.

And what of the brother with whom Saroo had originally gone travelling?

Unfortunately, the news was not good. A month after he had disappeared his brother was found in two pieces on a railway track. His mother had never known whether foul play was involved or whether the boy had simply slipped and fallen under a train.

We were extremely close and when I walked out of India the tearing thing for me was knowing that my older brother had passed away.

For years Saroo Brierley went to sleep wishing he could see his mother again and his birth family. Now that he has, he feels incredibly grateful. He has kept in touch with his newly found family.

And there is something to make him sleep better, based on the gr4eat success of the film Slumdog Millionaire, several publishers and producers are getting interested to buy his incredible story and take it to the big screen.

Saroo Brierley: Now and then

Chronology:

• 1981: Saroo is born
• 1986: He loses his family and ends up living on the streets of Calcutta
• 1987: He is adopted by an Australian couple and grows up in Tasmania
• 2011: He finds his home town on Google Earth
• 2012: He is reunited with his mother in Khandwa

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Via BBC News

This is the fourth Pirate TV production going into development:

• NBC has ordered up a series called Republic of Pirates, which is set during the 10-year “Golden Age of Piracy” from 1715 to 1725, it follows some of the world’s most notorious pirates as they forge their own rogue nation, called New Providence, which became the first democracy in the Americas.
• Graham King and Gale Anne Hurd are producing another one called Port Royal for FX Channel.
• Ridley Scott and Tony Scott are developing a series called Pirates, which will have like 10 to 13 episodes at Fox.

Arjun is the first India animated film made by Disney. The movie tells the untold story of India’s greatest mythological warrior. It follows his epic adventure from youth to warrior.

The graphics looks a little bit 3D but with a 2D-look in the render, almost like a video game or like the Tv series: Transformers Beast Wars.

Arjun Trailer

All the trailer felt to me like a John Carter version in India, specially at 1:59 min.

Director: Arnab Chaudhuri

Adobe CS6 is available sin May 7th 2012, for OS X and Windows. Creative Cloud will be ready on May 11th, its their new distribution plataform for online software via a monthly subscription.

These are the programs and packages for all the CS6 series:

• Photoshop CS6: US$699
• Photoshop Extended CS6: US$999
• Illustrator CS6: US$599
• Acrobat X Pro CS6: US$449
• Flash Professional CS6: US$699
• Flash Builder CS6: US$699
• Dreamweaver CS6: US$399
• Fireworks CS6: US$299
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS6: US$799
• After Effects CS6: US$999

Packages: (Pay less, take more)

• Design Standard: US$1,299 [Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat X Pro, Bridge, Media Encoder]
• Design & Web Premium: US$1,899 [Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat X Pro, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Bridge, Media Encoder]
• Production Premium: US$1,899 [Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Adobe Audition, SpeedGrade, Adobe Prelude, Encore, Bridge, Media Encoder]
• Master Collection: US$2,599 [Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat X Pro, Flash Professional, Flash Builder, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Adobe Audition, SpeedGrade, Adobe Prelude, Encore, Bridge, Media Encoder]
• Creative Cloud: US$49.99/month [All the above programs plus Adobe Muse, Edge Preview, Device and PC sync, Cloud storage, Business Catalyst, Typekit, Story Plus]

If you are a web designer it is quite expensive to pay $1,899 for Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, Illustrator and Dreamweaver, it is like paying for a very expensive desktop computer. With theses economic standards, Adobe is almost forcing people to acquire their software via illegal routes. In my opinion they should learn from Apple, whicho nly charges $29.99 for its Os X Lion.

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Via adobe.com

This photo of Selena Gomez kissing in the mouth to a girl has traveling all around the world. Some people didn’t care, others claimed it is a fake picture, and there were some that said that there is no difference after kissing to Justin Bieber

There is a rare detail in the nose of the blonde girl, her nose changes its color, like if she was put there via Photoshop, perhaps the white half of that nose belong to … Justin Bieber. You be the judge:

On the other hand this REAL photo shows that Selena Gomez really likes to kiss to her girlfriends while having fun:

Wait!!! maybe this girlfriend is the same girl from the first picture

It’s been clear for a while that The Avengers would be a box office success, though few people could have foreseen this opening. The superhero team-up got off to an unprecedented $207.4 million start this weekend in the United States, which obliterates the previous all-time weekend record set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last Summer ($169.2 million).

While it fell short of setting a new opening day record (that still belongs to Potter), The Avengers was responsible for new high marks in most other major categories. It was the fastest movie ever to reach $100 million, $150 million, and $200 million, and it set new records for Saturday ($69.6 million) and Sunday ($57.1 million) grosses.

Through its first three days, The Avengers has already grossed more than Thor ($181 million), Captain America: The First Avenger ($176.6 million) and The Incredible Hulk ($134.8 million). It’s still behind Iron Man and Iron Man 2 ($318.4 million and $312.4 million, respectively), though it should pass those movies next weekend.

The incredible opening weekend gross for The Avengers is mostly the result of a lengthy, extremely effective marketing effort which began all the way back in 2008 when Nick Fury made his first appearance after the credits in the original Iron Man.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• The Avengers [Action / Adventure, 2 hr. 2 min.] Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Clark Gregg, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Gwyneth Paltrow.
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: [Comedy / Drama, 1 hrs. 58 min.] Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: May 4th to 6th, 2012

1. The Avengers $207,438,708 Total: $207,438,708 Week: 1
2. (1) Think Like a Man $8,106,166 Total: $73,135,600 Weeks: 3
3. (3) The Hunger Games $5,587,661 Total: $380,614,659 Weeks: 7
4. (2) The Pirates! Band of Misfits $5,502,482 Total: $18,665,941 Weeks: 2
5. (4) The Lucky One $5,368,115 Total: $47,775,060 Weeks: 3
6. (5) The Five-Year Engagement $5,029,110 Total: $19,133,015 Weeks: 2
7. (6) Safe $2,677,125 Total: $13,080,883 Weeks: 2
8. (7) The Raven $2,636,780 Total: $12,176,125 Weeks: 2
9. (8) Chimpanzee $2,484,456 Total: $23,101,889 Weeks: 3
10. (9) The Three Stooges $1,832,333 Total: $39,669,015 Weeks: 4

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: The Hunger Games

If you haven’t seen the original anime (Death Note) there are a lot of spoilers in this parody.

Very clever to change the Death Note with a Etch A Sketch from hell. Poor Kira (Light Yagami) it was very hard for him to write any name on that mechanical drawing toy invented by French inventor André Cassagnes.

I like how with a short video these guys were able to show the mos important scenes from the original story but with the Death A Sketch twist

Light: Do I have to write the full name?

Very funny trailer made with the sound of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and scenes from the classic adventure movie: The Goonies. (directed by Richard Donner).

Great Mash-up !!!

Actor Sylvester Stallone (65 years) presents the first official trailer of The Expendables 2.

This video is fulled with a lot of adrenaline and testosterone. Looks like Jason Statham has the better action scenes. On the other hand, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis driving the mini-car looked great!!!

Arnold: My Shoe is bigger than this car

This is a sequel to the 2010 action film The Expendables, and stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film is due to be released on August 17, 2012, by Lions Gate Entertainment.

This is Jean-Claude Van Damme’s fourth time working with both Dolph Lundgren and Scott Adkins.

“I’m Back”
Classic Arnold

Release Date: 17 August 2012
Director: Simon West
Writers: Sylvester Stallone (screenplay), Richard Wenk (screenplay)

Photo: Nan Yu, Terry Crews, Sylvester Stallone, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren

Official Poster

This screenshot from an old Marvel Comic of Thor shows something interesting, we can recognize the face of actor Nicolas Cage in the drawing. He is not a good choice to play for the asgardian god, but he did quite well as Ghost Rider.

The Samsung Galaxy S3. is a pretty impressive smartphone.

Galaxy S3 is powered by Exynos 4212, a quad-core processor running at 1.4GHz, running on Android 4.0.4 (ICS). With that comes 1GB RAM, a 4.8” Super Amoled HD display screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280 px (306ppi). It will come in 16/32/64 GB models with extensible microSD card slot. The 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.55 mm frame, which only weights a remarkable 133 grams, also comes with an 8 MP camera with a mighty bright flash and a front facing 1.9 MP one.

Galaxy S3 incorporates a host of new features on the software side. There are things like Direct Call – which makes a call automatically for current selected contact, by just placing the phone to your ears, zoom into faces of a group photo and have their slideshow and S-Voice, an artificial intelligence service similar to iPhone’s Siri.

Samsung has put in a battery of 2,100mAh (with an optional wireless charging feature) into the S3.

Ad for Samsung Galaxy S3

This is the first official ad for Galaxy S3. It touches the emotions, the family and your loved ones.

Its slogan says:

Samsung Galaxy SIII, designed for humans.

So this is the video from the long waited Post Credits Scene in The Avengers film.

Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Black Widow, Thor, Captain America and Hawkeye are sharing a friendly moment in a Shawarma Restaurant (a little but destroyed) two blocks from the last battle, as Tony previously mentioned it during the film (after Hulk screamed at him).

No dialogue, just a special moment of pure camaraderie.

Option 2 to watch the Post Credit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VsOypWXKY

We previously posted a screenshot, and now this video confirms that this is the legit after credits scene (after the Middle Credits one with Thanos)

Option 3: This happens in the previous scene where Tony invites everybody to eat Shawarma:

Warner Bros. and Hollywood wants to make a Death Note life-action movie based on the famous anime Tv series. The director for this project is Shane Black, the same who is in charge to direct Iron Man 3. The film is scheduled to be released in 2014.

2014 will be the year for the Shinigamis

Here is the official synopsis for this film:

Light, a bright student who stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous FBI criminal profiler known only by the alias L.

Written by Warner Bros. Pictures

There is a life-action movie made in Japan, but it wasn’t a success. Lets also hope that his doesn’t turn out like Dragonball Evolution (which was produced by FOX).

The following video shows the first part of Death Note’s story, a Shinigami looses his notebook, he drops it in Earth:

As shown, the Avengers are in a restaurant which is in ruins, with damaged walls, rubble and some signs are down. Bruce Banner seems to be talking loud in this conversation, Tony Stark is using his Black Sabbath t-shirt, he is listening with interest to Bruce, Hawkeye seems to be reading a magazine on his lap, Black Widow is staring at the food of Captain America who seems to be bored. Thor has lost any finesse or manners of a god and is giving a tremendous bite to his Shawarma, he is a hungry god (which we already saw in his first film).

During the movie, Tony Stark makes an offhand comment to the team that he knows of a good Shawarma (Shoarma) place nearby. The final scene closes this comment out as it shows the Avengers sitting around a table (above) eating some of the aforementioned shawarma. There is no dialog and no hints as to any new Avengers or anything cool like that.

Lets hope this is not the real After Credits Scene, I really wanted to know if Agent Coulson will survive.

Update: The video has leaked

With the video (recorded from a cinema in the U.S.) is is confirmed that the only scene After Credits is the one with the Shawarma Restaurant, without any dialogue or any look at any future villain.

You can watch it here.

Theses are the upcoming movies made by Marvel Studios in this Avengers Universe (so no X-Men, Fantastic 4 or Spider-man sagas are considered):

Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor 2 (2013)
Ant-Man (2014)

Captain America 2 (2014)
Sub-Mariner (2014) (Namor, something like Aquaman)

The Incredible Hulk (2015)
The Avengers 2 (2016)
Deathlok (????) (A Super Android)

The Hands of Shang-Chi (????) (Kung-Fu Master)

Luke Cage (????)

Nick Fury (????) (a prequel)

Doctor Strange (????) – (He uses black magic)

Runaways (????) – (Teen heroes)

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Via IMDB Earliest Marvel Entertainment Movies and IMDB Marvel Studios

In this recent interview, actor Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/The Hulk) talks about The Avengers script, some Deleted Scenes, and also reveals signed 6 picture deal with Marvel (minute 1:33).

Ruffalo talked about his reaction to reading The Avengers script for the first time, his deleted scene with actor Harry Dean Stanton, the old security guard that a naked Banner meets after falling from the Helicarrier.

In addition, Ruffalo revealed he signed a six picture deal with Marvel and he’s excited to keep making movies with them after seeing The Avengers.

The quality is not so good but we can hear somebody speaking to Thanos while he is watching planet Earth and smiling about Death (his lifetime love in the comics). The dialog speaks about humans, and if they can be ruled, he says:

Update: This is actually the Middle Credits Scene

Humans. They are not the cowering wretches we were promised. They stand. They are unruled and therefore they cannot be ruled. To challenge them is to court death.

- Mysterious Thanos’ servant

This artistic table shows a great wild life scene. It has an hippopotamus with a lot of character. He is a single standing hippo with his head tilted to one side and a wry smile on his face. The glass is like calm water.

Awesome Hippopotamus Table by Scottish sculptor and furniture designer Mark Stoddart.

Glass size 4.5′ x 3′ 12mm thick toughened glass bevelled edges conforming to British Standards BS76206 but can be made to suit.

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Source: sculptart.co.uk/bronze18.html

Very funny commercial starring Australian actor Hugh Jackman, who while jogging meets with an annoying fan that decides to ride his bike next to him.

When Jackman decides to jog he really does it for a very long time.

The ad was filmed in Budapest, Hungary for Lipton Ice Tea.

The talented actress Jessica Chastain, nominated o an academy Award for The Help is the front runner for a starring role in Iron Man 3.

While it initially appeared that scheduling conflicts would make her unavailable, it now appears that she may in fact be able to play a character described as, “a sexy scientist every bit as smart as Tony Stark.” With this short information, her character could be Maya Hansen, an old flame of Tony Stark, who plays a pivotal role in the storyline which Shane Black’s movie so far appears to be based upon.

Maya Hansen in the Extremis Iron Man comics:

This shot was taken on the 2009 Vesakh Ceremony.

Borobudur, or Barabudur, is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument consists of six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. A main dome, located at the center of the top platform, is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues seated inside a perforated stupa.

Built in the 9th century during the reign of the Sailendra Dynasty, the temple’s design in Gupta architecture reflects India’s influence on the region. [Source: Wikipedia]

Architectural style: stupa and candi
Country: Indonesia
Completed: c. AD 825

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Photo by Jessy Eykendorp

Hankering for Hunger Games? This is a new ending made by the guys of HISHE.

Take a bite of How The Hunger Games Should Have Ended, with some surprise guests in the video, like thew vampire Edward from Twilight, the robot of District 9, etc.

Katniss: We are soooooo in love

Peeta was standing on a box all the time

This video shows how a guy is jumping from the terrace (rooftop) of a building to the rooftop of another building, to finally dive in a swimming pool, which serves as a landing area.

He must be a Spider-Man fan!

The video’s author is a student at UTS (University of Technology Sydney) who filmed this epic event from the window of his apartment at the Yura Mudang (Student’s Residence).

These are some photographs taken from the live video published by Marvel Studios of The Avengers World Premiere.

These magnificient actors were present in the Red Carpet, this is an epic moment for all the fan-base: Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson), Stellan Skarsgård (Erik Selvig), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Joss Whedon (Director) y los productores.

Place: El Capitan Theatre

Photo: Joss Whedon (Director), Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), y Chris Hemsworth (Thor)

Photo: Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Stellan Skarsgård (Erik Selvig), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill) y un productor.

Chris Hemsworth (el dios Thor):

Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man):

Tom Hiddleston (Loki):

This is the official Marvel video streaming in Youtube where you can watch the red carpet for The Avengers’ Premiere.

LIVE from Hollywood! On April 11, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. PT/9:00 p.m. ET

Sponsored by Harley-Davidson, this LIVE event will get you up close and personal with “Marvel’s The Avengers” like nothing else can.

At the end all the cast joined to salute the fans: Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Clark Gregg (Agente Phil Coulson), Stellan Skarsgård (Erik Selvig), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Joss Whedon (Director) y los productores.

This video shows versions of DARPA and Boston Dynamics robots climbing stairs (wearing shoes), walking on a treadmill and doing pushups. I is interesting to see how it climbs the stairs with the help of one arm.

Boston Dynamics developed the PETMAN Robot and is now adapting it for use by the DARPA Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3).

A modified platform resembling these robots is expected to be used as government-funded equipment (GFE) for performers in Tracks B and C of the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

The GFE Platform is expected to have two arms, two legs, a torso and a head, and will be physically capable of performing all of the tasks required for the disaster response scenarios scheduled in the Challenge.

Despite the entrance of two competitive titles to the marketplace over Easter Weekend, box office phenomenon The Hunger Games had little difficulty taking the top spot for the third-straight frame. American Reunion opened in second place, though its debut doesn’t compare favorably to earlier series entries, while Titanic 3D wound up on the low-end among 3D re-releases.

American Reunion took second place with $21.5 million from 3,192 locations. That’s much lower than the opening weekend for American Pie 2 ($45.1 million) and American Wedding ($33.4 million).

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• American Reunion: [Comedy, 1 hr. 53 min.] Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kay Thomas, Alyson Hannigan, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Eugene Levy, Natasha Lyonne, Shannon Elizabeth, Jennifer Coolidge, John Cho.
• Titanic 3D: [Romance, 3 hrs. 14 min.] Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Bill Paxton.
• Housefull 2 (Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya): [Foreign, 2 hrs. 25 min.] Akshay Kumar, Asin, John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: April 6th to 8th, 2012

1. (1) The Hunger Games $33,111,557 Total: $302,450,722 Weeks: 3
2. American Reunion $21,514,080 Total: $21,514,080 Week: 1
3. Titanic 3D $17,285,453 Total: $25,645,935 Week: 1
4. (2) Wrath of the Titans $14,732,121 Total: $58,614,212 Weeks: 2
5. (3) Mirror Mirror $11,095,140 Total: $36,574,022 Weeks: 2
6. (4) 21 Jump Street $10,001,381 Total: $109,413,763 Weeks: 4
7. (5) Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax $5,030,025 Total: $198,204,375 Weeks: 6
8. (7) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen $992,428 Total: $4,656,430 Weeks: 5
9. Housefull 2 $847,132 Total: $847,132 Week: 1
10. (6) John Carter $830,305 Total: $67,983,652 Weeks: 5

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: The Lorax

Facebook has bought the photo-sharing app Instagram Monday, for roughly $1 billion in a combination of cash and stock.

It is very likely that a lot of users that used to love Instagram and hate Facebook will start to close their accounts and will migrate to another photo sharing network and app.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquisition in a post on the Facebook Newsroom:

I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.

We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.

That’s why we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.

- Mark Zuckerberg

The sale is expected to close later this quarter, and will bring the nine-person staff of Instagram to the social network.

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom echoed said:

We are psyched to be joining Facebook and are excited to build a better Instagram for everyone.

Instagram launched its iOS app in October 2010, and came to Android for the first time last week.
This is the first time Facebook has acquired a company or product with so many users.

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Via Mashable

If you are considering to apply for one of the best university of the world, for a BSc, Master or PhD, if you are a great student, know very good English, have the economic means, you should consider about applying to any of the following list:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – United States
2. Stanford University – United States
3. Harvard University – United States
4. University of California, Berkeley – United States
5. The University of Texas at Austin – United States
6. Cornell University – United States
7. University of Michigan – United States
8. University of Pennsylvania – United States
9. University of Washington – United States
10. Penn State University – United States
11. Columbia University en Nueva York – United States
12. University of Wisconsin-Madison – United States
13. University of Minnesota – United States
14. University of California, Los Angeles – United States
15. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Mexico
16. Yale University – United States
17. Purdue University – United States
18. University of Cambridge – United Kingdom
19. University of Oxford – United Kingdom
20. Carnegie Mellon University – United States
21. New York University – United States
22. University of Virginia – United States
23. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – United States
24. Indiana University – United States
25. University of Florida – United States
26. Michigan State University – United States
27. University of Arizona – United States
28. University of Southern California – United States
29. Princeton University – United States
30. University of California, San Diego – United States
31. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – United States
32. University of Maryland – United States
33. University of Chicago – United States
34. California Institute of Technology – United States
35. University of Toronto – Canada
36. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich – Switzerland
37. Duke University – United States
38. Texas A&M University – United States
39. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – United States
40. The University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom

United States has 27 universities in the top 30, and 36 in the Top 40.
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Source: 4icu.org/top200/ (Top 200)

Question says:

It is 1933. You are in Berlin, Germany. Somehow, you find yourself in a position where you can effortlessly steal Adolf Hitler’s wallet. This theft will not effect Hitler’s rise to power, the nature of World War II, or the Holocaust. There is no important identification in the wallet, but the act will cost Hitler forty Reichsmarks and completely ruin his evening. You do not need the money. The odds that you will be caught committing this crime are less than 2 percent.

Are you ethically obligated to steal Hitler’s wallet?

The Book is:

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
By Chuck Klosterman

You can read that same page in Google Books (page 283):

http://books.google.com.bo/books?id=etn787yup4QC&lpg=PA283

How Pulp Fiction Should Have Ended. Whether it’s blueberry pancakes or a Royale with cheese, this is a very funny ending. The animation shows the scene of Wallace’s wife and the needle, the tradition of the gold watch, the Bonnie situation, and the robbers Pumpkin with Honey Bunny being in the same restaurant as Superman and Batman

The first official trailer is here for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows adaptation. Johnny Depp plays the vampire Barnabas and stars opposite Michelle Pfeifer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter, and Chloe Moretz.

The trailer has tons of 70′s schtick and is more of a comedy than I expected. I am not sure what I was expecting, but this is not really it. It could be one of Burton’s oddest films to date.

Release Date: 11 May 2012
Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery
Cast: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Dan Curtis, Seth Grahame-Smith
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Synopsis

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet–or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

Sceenshots

Chloe Moretz (the Hit Girl from Kick Ass):

After months upon months of box office speculation, John Carter finally opened and as expected was a huge disappointment. The mega-budget sci-fi epic wasn’t even able to unseat The Lorax, which held first place for the second-straight weekend.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• John Carter: [Sci-Fi Action, 2 hrs. 12 min.] Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West.
• Silent House: [Horror, 1 hr. 25 min.] Elizabeth Olsen.
• A Thousand Words: [Comedy Drama] Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke, Cliff Curtis, Allison Janney.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: March 9th to 11th, 2012

1. (1) Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax $38,846,020 Total: $121,724,850 Weeks: 2
2. John Carter $30,180,188 Total: $30,180,188 Week: 1
3. (2) Project X $11,142,103 Total: $39,717,098 Weeks: 2
4. (3) Act of Valor $6,991,877 Total: $56,092,474 Weeks: 3
5. Silent House $6,661,234 Total: $6,661,234 Week: 1
6. A Thousand Words $6,176,280 Total: $6,176,280 Week: 1
7. (4) Safe House $4,801,510 Total: $115,605,325 Weeks: 5
8. (7) The Vow $3,842,485 Total: $117,456,231 Weeks: 5
9. (8) This Means War $3,756,060 Total: $46,895,410 Weeks: 4
10. (6) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island $3,611,388 Total: $90,641,999 Weeks: 5

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: The Lorax

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax opened to $70.7 million, which is by far the best opening of the year. It’s also the sixth-highest debut ever for an animated movie and second-best for a non-sequel behind The Simpsons Movie ($74.04 million).

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax: [Animation, 1 hr. 35 min.] Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Taylor Swift, Betty White.
• Project X: [Comedy, 1 hr. 28 min.] Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Miles Teller.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: March 2nd to 4th, 2012

1. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax $70,700,000 Total: $70,700,000 Week: 1
2. Project X $20,775,000 Total: $20,775,000 Week: 1
3. (1) Act of Valor $13,700,000 Total: $45,239,000 Weeks: 2
4. (4) Safe House $7,200,000 Total: $108,200,000 Weeks: 4
5. (2) Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds $7,000,000 Total: $25,745,000 Weeks: 2
6. (3) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island $6,925,000 Total: $85,611,000 Weeks: 4
7. (5) The Vow $6,100,000 Total: $111,712,000 Weeks: 4
8. (7) This Means War $5,625,000 Total: $41,464,000 Weeks: 3
9. (6) Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance $4,700,000 Total: $44,881,000 Weeks: 3
10. (13) The Artist $3,900,000 Total: $37,088,000 Weeks: 15

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: Chronicle

Two Peanuts characters, Charlie Brown and Linus provide an unlikely source of style inspiration for fashion designer Michael Bastian. For his Autumn/Winter 2012 collection, Michael Bastian, the luxury US menswear designer, drew inspiration from this two iconic cartoons.

Well done !!!!

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See the entire collection: GQ.com
Via Gaws

Windows 8 has a new logo, and Microsoft says it is inspired in a windows (not a flag), in the first logo of Windows 1.0, and finally in the new metro interface.

But it really looks like the flag of the Shetland islands.

Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain.

1. We wanted the new logo to be both modern and classic by echoing the International Typographic Style (or Swiss design) that has been a great influence on our Metro style design philosophy. Using bold flat colors and clean lines and shapes, the new logo has the characteristics of way-finding design systems seen in airports and subways.

2. It was important that the new logo carries our Metro principle of being “Authentically Digital”. By that, we mean it does not try to emulate faux-industrial design characteristics such as materiality (glass, wood, plastic, etc.). It has motion – aligning with the fast and fluid style you’ll find throughout Windows 8.

3. Our final goal was for the new logo to be humble, yet confident. Welcoming you in with a slight tilt in perspective and when you change your color, the logo changes to reflect you. It is a “Personal” Computer after all.

We hope you enjoy our new logo.

- Sam Moreau
Principal Director of User Experience for Windows

Via: windowsteamblog.com/windows/

The previous logo, for Windows 7 was:

A new animation from the HISHE guys !!!

Has Holmes truly met his match? Will Moriarty outsmart him once and for all? It’s elementary, my dear Watson!

Iron Man: Taaaaaank Missile

The ending was hilarious!

Blendtec will destroy a common Valentine’s present, roses, chocolates, and heart shaped candies, converting it to dust a strange juice.
Tom is not a big fan of the roses he has to give on Valentine’s Day.

And there is anew blender, the TWISTER JAR.

Jean Dujardin sleeping on people

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Justin Bieber:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Leela from Futurama:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Scarlett Johansson from Lost in Translation:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Robocop:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Lindsay Lohan:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Leonardo DiCaprio:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Atreyu:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Tony Montana from Scarface:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on young Jean Dujardin in 99 francs:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on The Joker (Jack Nicholson):

Jean Dujardin sleeping on The Godfather (Marlon Brando):

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Bane from The Dark Knight Rises:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Arnold Schwarzenegger:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on the Tro-lo-lo Guy:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Neo in Matrix:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Sean Connery as James Bond:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Forrest Gump:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on E.T.:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on himself in The Artist:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Wayne in Wayne’s World:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Jar Jar Binks:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Gandalf:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Daft Punk:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Ryan Gosling in Drive:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Homer Simpson:

Jean Dujardin sleeping on Barack Obama:

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Via Jean sleeping on people

A young Bradley Cooper is among the audience for the Inside The Actors Studio Q&A with Sean Penn. He asks the legendary actor about his work on the film Hurly Burly and the difference between acting on stage and in film.

Bradley Cooper: Hey Mr.Penn… ahh … my name is Bradley Cooper. I’m a 2nd year actor.

The guys from How It Should Have Ended, bring this new animation with Batman and Superman reviewing the fine points of social media while hanging out in their favorite café.

Superman is addicted to post his victories online every time from his iPhone. Batman considers than this behavior is very arrogant.

I’M BATMAN

Poor Green Lantern, he doesn’t have a good movie yet

Leaving all the stupid plans aside, this is how Return of the Jedi Should Have Ended, specially with more forms of Anakin ghosts (old, young and child) and the other Jedis should also be able to appear as glowing ghosts.

Rebel Trooper: Sounds like a trap to me.
Admiral Ackbar: IT’S NOT A TRAP! Why does everyone thinks it’s a trap?

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Darth Vader: I have a daughter too !?!?!

LOL, Darth Vader freak out because he had twin kids

And lets not forget the joke about Leia’s metal bikini:

This is the official video for Tomorrow, a pop rock song by Irish group The Cranberries. It is the first single from their sixth studio album, Roses, to be released on February 14, 2012.

Dolores O’Riordan, the lead singer, told Billboard that

The song Tomorrow is about the way we sometimes hyper over-escalate things in our minds, overthink about things…when sometimes spontaneity and just jumping in is better. Tomorrow you might not have that moment back again. So it’s really about moving on and also about kid of looking at the younger generation and how they worry about all kinds of silly things. They don’t think they’re silly, but when you’re older you know better.

Video of Tomorrow – The Cranberries

Maybe this new song, Tomorrow, is not a mega-hit like Dreams, Zombie, Linger, but it is definitely nice to hear the smooth vocals of Dolores O’Riordan once again!

Even with most people distracted by the Giants or Patriots or whatever elaborate gameday dish they’ve been working on, this weekend still marked the first time in history that two movies opened above $20 million against the Super Bowl.

Based on studio estimates, Chronicle held off The Woman in Black to take the top spot this weekend, though Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Potter outing was impressive in its own right.

Chronicle debuted to an estimated $22 million, which is the fourth-highest Super Bowl debut ever and second-best among movies targeting at men behind Taken ($24.7 million). It did earn less than major found footage flicks like Cloverfield ($40.06 million) and last month’s The Devil Inside ($33.7 million), not to mention the last two Paranormal Activity movies, though that shouldn’t detract too much from this movie’s success.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• Chronicle: [Sci-Fi Action, 1 hr. 23 min.] Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell.
• The Woman in Black: [Horror Thriller, 1 hr. 35 min.] Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTier.
• Big Miracle: [Drama, 2 hr. 03 min.] John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Danson.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: February 3rd to 5th, 2012

1. Chronicle (2012) $22,000,000 Total: $22,000,000 Week: 1
2. The Woman in Black $21,000,000 Total: $21,000,000 Week: 1
3. (1) The Grey $9,500,000 Total: $34,756,000 Weeks: 2
4. Big Miracle $8,500,000 Total: $8,500,000 Week: 1
5. (2) Underworld Awakening $5,600,000 Total: $54,353,000 Weeks: 3
6. (3) One For the Money $5,250,000 Total: $19,668,000 Weeks: 2
7. (4) Red Tails $5,000,000 Total: $41,323,000 Weeks: 3
8. (8) The Descendants $4,600,000 Total: $65,523,000 Weeks: 12
9. (5) Man on a Ledge $4,500,000 Total: $14,700,000 Weeks: 2
10. (6) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close $3,925,000 Total: Weeks: 7

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: Underworld Awakening

Jack saves the Little Sisters, but he gets more than he bargained for… 5 little brats. Maybe it was all of those plasmids he injected, but this is how Bioshock should have ended.

- Daddy, teach us how to kill someone with your wrench!
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- You’re going to a pony farm! By yourselves, Cause I’m not your Daddy!

5 Girls that call you daddy, and you’re not related to them…

A new teaser video for the short Tangled Ever After, where Rapunzel and Flynn are celebrating their wedding. Both mascots, the horse and the chameleon are chasing the wedding rings, so the event is in pause until their return.

This video is the second part of Tangled Ever After – The Rings

Release Date: 13 January 2012
Genre: Animation | Short
Cast: Zachary Levi, Mandy Moore, Mark Allan Stewart
Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Plot: The kingdom is abuzz over the royal wedding of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider.

Jay-Z & The Doc from Back to the future start to rap the song: Jumping Gigawatts.

Great Scott!!! Jay-Z will help the Doc to get back to the future.

Christopher Lloyd (the actor who played Doc in the movie) does his own voice over, Affion Crocket does Jay-Z’s voice over, and Tisha Cambell is singing the chorus.
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You can download the song from iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/jumping-gigawatts-single ($0.99)

Doc Brown meets with terrorists to acquire plutonium

Lets also see some jokes from Robot Chicken about how the Doc Emmet Brown dealt with the Libyans about the plutonium. Once again, it is Christopher Lloyd’s voice.

The Exterior Area:

A giant “like” sign is outside:

Cafeteria:

Hallways:

IT Area:

Couchs:

A sketch of Mark Zuckerberg on a random wall:

Employees can choose to either sit or stand:

The international user operations area:

Giant chalkboard:

A Superman costume hanging on a telephone booth for private cell phone discussions:

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Photos by Reuters / ROBERT GALBRAITH

4K and 8K are an emerging standard for resolution in digital film and computer graphics. The name is derived from the horizontal resolution, which is approximately 4,000 and 8,000 pixels. This designation is different to the standard resolution designations which are represented by the vertical pixel count; for example 720p and 1080p. 4K represents the horizontal resolution because there are numerous aspect ratios used in film — so while the horizontal resolution stays constant, the vertical resolution depends on the video source.

4K = Ultra Definition Television

There are several different resolutions that qualify as 4K.

QFHD (3840×2160): Quad Full High Definition (QFHD), at 3840 x 2160 pixels, doubles the 1080p high-definition television standard in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions. So it is like having 4 Tvs with 1080p.

Digital film standards
Full Aperture 4K: 4096×3112, Pixels: 12,746,752
Academy 4K: 3656×266, Pixels: 9,739,584
Digital cinema 4K: 4096×1714, Pixels: 7,020,544

YouTube format
Youtube 4K: 4096×2304 pixels (16:9) and 4096×3072 (4:3) (Registered users)

4K monitors
Toshiba Regza 55X3: 3840×2160 (QFHD), 55 inch ($11,730 USD)
Panasonic TH-152UX1: 4096×2160, 152 inches ($500,000 USD)
Sharp EYE-LCD6400-4K: 4096×2160, 64 inches ($53,000 USD)

4K Projector:
Sony VPL-VW1000ES: 4096×2160 ($25,000 USD)

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Via Wikipedia

8K Resolution: UHDTV, SHV

Ultra High Definition Television (or UHDTV, 4320p, and 8K) is a digital video format currently proposed by NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories. It has roughly the same resolution as IMAX, which is about 16 times the number of pixels of existing HDTV (high-definition video). NHK advocates this video format as Super Hi-Vision (SHV).

SHARP demonstrated a direct-view 85″ LCD display capable of 7680×4320 pixels at 10 bpp.
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Via Wikipedia

Angry Birds Seasons has released this teaser showing its next holiday update: Year of the Dragon

Funny cartoon. This update will be released on January 20th, 2012.

Fireworks popping, lanterns glowing, red envelopes bursting with money, it’s Chinese New Year! But what are the pigs up to?

Synopsis
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.

First Trailer

HD 1080p: trailers.apple.com

The first trailer for Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” is out… and, no surprise, it’s consummately quirky. The trailer for the Focus Features film has an ax-wielding Bill Murray, a boy with a patch on his eye and another kid who gets struck by lightning. Also read: Bruce Willis & Ed Norton to Enter Wes Anderson’s Kingdom. It also features appearances by Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton in scenes filled with Anderson’s signature pastels.

Director: Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Release Date: 16 May 2012 (France), 25 May 2012 USA (limited)

Cast

Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Harvey Keitel, Bob Balaban, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman.

This is the debut for the protagonist boy Jared Gilman as Sam:

And the girl Kara Hayward as Susy:

Produced for less than $1 million and distributed by Paramount’s Insurge label, The Devil Inside scared up $33.7 million from 2,285 locations. That’s the third-highest January opening ever behind Cloverfield ($40.1 million) and the Star Wars (Special Edition) re-release ($35.9 million). It was also the fifth-best debut ever for a supernatural horror movie behind the last two Paranormal Activity movies, The Grudge and The Ring Two.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• The Devil Inside: [Horror, 1 hr. 27 min.] Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Ionut Grama, Suzan Crowley, Bonnie Morgan.
• Norwegian Wood: [Foreign, 2 hr. 13 min.] Rinko Kikuchi, Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara. [Japan]

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: January 6th to 8th, 2012

1. The Devil Inside $33,732,515 Total: $33,732,515 Week: 1
2. (1) Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $19,868,059 Total: $169,568,971 Weeks: 4
3. (2) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $13,689,321 Total: $157,049,382 Weeks: 4
4. (4) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) $11,364,714 Total: $76,900,628 Weeks: 3
5. (3) Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked $9,496,913 Total: $111,585,367 Weeks: 4
6. (5) War Horse $8,679,470 Total: $56,904,682 Weeks: 3
7. (6) We Bought a Zoo $8,305,797 Total: $56,399,906 Weeks: 3
8. (7) The Adventures of Tintin $6,727,740 Total: $62,008,015 Weeks: 3
9. (17) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy $5,478,521 Total: $10,129,670 Weeks:5
10. (9) The Darkest Hour $3,124,316 Total: $18,690,605 Weeks: 3

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

After the huge success for Disney about its first princess/fairy tale movie in the format of 3D animation, they will release a short about Tangled, directly to be seen in Disney Channel. It will be shorter than 6 minutes, and it is titled: Tangled Ever After

Plot: The kingdom is a buzz over the royal wedding of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider.

Release Date: 13 January 2012
Genre: Animation | Short
Cast: Zachary Levi, Mandy Moore, Mark Allan Stewart
Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Singer Justin Bieber has a new tattoo, he was spotted in Los Angeles yesterday showing off his latest ink: a drawing of Jesus on his left leg.

This is his second Jesus tattoo, and probably his third tattoo in total.

He first did a Seagull on the front part of his waist:

Then the Hebrew word for Jesus, which translates to Yeshua on his ribcage:

[Spoilers] If you haven’t still seen Lost ending, avoid the video and this post

Following the demise of Jacob, the island’s protector, we already know that Hurley becomes the successor to Jacob as caretaker of the island. This alternative ending looks like the 12-minute epilogue titled “The New Man in Charge”, and shows how is the island going to change with Hurley modern and geek way to be.

You’re in Hurley’s world now! This alternate short was made after the series finale. If Hurley gets the island, what did he and Ben do after everyone left to keep things interesting? Probably a song/photo montage…

The new candidates for its position are: Batman, a Ghostbuster, Neo from Matrix, Gandalf, and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction.

Lets remember that we already posted the original HISHE alternate ending… Lost: How It Should Have Ended

Song written and performed by Bryan English

The fourth Mission: Impossible movie added $38.2 million for the four-day weekend, which brought its total to $141.2 million through Monday. That exceeds Mission: Impossible III’s $134 million total, and the movie now seems poised to at least come close to passing the original Mission: Impossible’s $181 million.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• The Iron Lady: [Drama, 1 hr. 45 min.] Jim Broadbent, Meryl Streep.
• A Separation: [Foreign, 2 hr. 03 min.] Leila Hatami, Peyman Maadi. (Made in Iran)

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: December 30th 2011 to January 1st, 2012

1. (1) Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $29,421,879 Total: $132,406,086 Weeks: 3
2. (2) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $20,881,420 Total: $130,903,746 Weeks: 3
3. (4) Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked $16,369,799 Total: $92,729,134 Weeks: 3
4. (3) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) $14,824,577 Total: $55,584,881 Weeks: 2
5. (7) War Horse $14,422,729 Total: $40,451,772 Weeks: 2
6. (6) We Bought a Zoo $13,238,241 Total: $40,725,558 Weeks: 2
7. (5) The Adventures of Tintin $11,436,160 Total: $47,475,147 Weeks: 2
8. (8) New Year’s Eve $6,334,300 Total: $45,999,350 Weeks: 4
9. (9) The Darkest Hour $4,163,241 Total: $13,137,963 Weeks: 2
10. (12) The Descendants $3,396,129 Total: $39,420,775 Weeks: 7

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: Top 10 Box Office: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Another weekend, another win for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. The latest Twilight movie claimed the top spot at the box office for the third-straight weekend thanks to an average hold and a comparatively poor second-weekend performance from its biggest competitor, The Muppets.

Breaking Dawn dropped 60 percent to $16.5 million. That tally is the best third-weekend gross out of all of the Twilight movies including New Moon.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• Sleeping Beauty (2011): [Drama, 1 hr. 42 min.] Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll, Chris Haywood, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Bridgette Barrett.
• Shame: [Drama, 1 hr. 39 min.] Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: December 2nd to 4th, 2011

1. (1) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $16,535,465 Total: $246,926,409 Weeks: 3
2. (2) The Muppets $11,082,755 Total: $56,357,170 Weeks: 2
3. (5) Hugo $7,557,709 Total: $25,121,185 Weeks: 2
4. (4) Arthur Christmas $7,401,736 Total: $25,343,487 Weeks: 2
5. (3) Happy Feet Two $5,919,390 Total: $51,704,566 Weeks: 3
6. (6) Jack and Jill $5,356,973 Total: $64,165,454 Weeks: 4
7. (9) The Descendants $4,789,741 Total: $17,677,071 Weeks: 3
8. (7) Immortals $4,464,889 Total: $75,659,174 Weeks: 4
9. (10) Tower Heist $3,953,925 Total: $70,598,755 Weeks: 5
10. (8) Puss in Boots $3,042,241 Total: $139,514,442 Weeks: 6

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: Top 10 Box Office: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

How X-Men: First Class Should Have Ended. Who would’ve believed that Charles and Erik used to be on the same side? In this installment of HISHE, you’ve find out why it didn’t last, and of course how they will chat with Batman and Superman in a coffee shop, as usual.

Nurse: Oh Lord, the devil is dropping off people in the ER!!!

A great animation representing the normal living of a cat and an active kitten. Very cute, specially for cat lovers

It is incredible how so much entertainment can be achieved with no speech and colors, just sketches.

Robin Williams on the Ellen Show was talking about “the new future” and then he started to do a French Siri impression, gets a laugh and that is when this man starts rolling.. there is no off switch when he does that … LOOK LOOK AND THEN PAINT. Why are you looking at a phone? LIVE YOUR LIFE …

Jon Defreest created an awesome series of custom Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers based on the TV shows The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Dexter that are now available through the Tauntr Store.

Price: $85 USD.
Store: tauntr.myshopify.com

Finally there is a Barbie designed to fight against zombies in an inevitable apocalypse. This is not a modern doll, this toy was designed by Mattel in 1962. Wow, the box says: Zombie Ken is also available. [Zoom]

This Barbie comes with grenades, a pink bazooka, a rifle, a katana, a cricket bat, etc.

Now “Zombie Attack Barbie” is a collectors item .

Well, jokes beside, this is just a mock-up, a design by Sarah Anne Langton: secretarcticbase.com

Wookiee The Chew belonged to Chrisolo Robin and Chrisolo Robin belonged to him… In a world where AT-AT’s lose their tails and bobaberries are ripe for the picking, join the adventures of the biped of very little brain.

Wookiee The Chew’, in the style of the original Pooh books. 24 pages of affectionately crafted adventure, brand new b&w illustrations and sneaky Star Wars references- a tribute to the combined genius of George Lucas, A.A.Milne and E.H.Sheppard. Suitable for jedi apprentices of all ages!

The first Wookiee The Chew book in the trilogy, The House at Chew Corner, is available here: jameshance.com/books

Adventurer Mark Moffett was on Little Barrier Island in New Zealand when he found this guy. The giant, cricket-like insect was recently declared the world’s biggest and is so large that it eats full-sized carrots. He came across the cricket-like creature, which has a wing span of seven inches, after two days of searching on a tiny island. The creepy crawly is only found on Little Barrier Island, in New Zealand. The species was wiped off the mainland by rats accidentally introduced by Europeans.

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Via telegraph.co.uk

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 easily repeated in first place at the box office over Thanksgiving weekend, while The Muppets revived the long-dormant franchise with a strong second place debut. Arthur Christmas and Hugo weren’t quite as fortunate, though the true measure of their success will be determined over the next month.

Breaking Dawn added an estimated $62.3 million for the five-day weekend, which is a bit off from New Moon‘s $66.3 million over the same time period in 2009.

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• The Muppets: [Family Comedy, 2 hr. 00 min.] Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, Alan Arkin, Jack Black, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Jim Parsons.
• Arthur Christmas: [Animation, 1 hr. 37 min.] James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton.
• Hugo: [Family Adventure, 2 hr. 07 min.] Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard Griffiths, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Christopher Lee, Chloe Moretz.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: November 25th to 27th, 2011

1. (1) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $42,000,000 Total: $221,300,000 Weeks: 2
2. The Muppets $29,500,000 Total: $42,000,000 Week: 1
3. (2) Happy Feet Two $13,400,000 Total: $43,773,000 Weeks: 2
4. Arthur Christmas $12,700,000 Total: $17,000,000 Week: 1
5. Hugo $11,350,000 Total: $15,380,000 Week: 1
6. (4) Jack and Jill $10,300,000 Total: $57,417,000 Weeks: 3
7. (3) Immortals $8,800,000 Total: $68,632,000 Weeks: 3
8. (5) Puss in Boots $7,450,000 Total: $135,361,000 Weeks: 5
9. (6) Tower Heist $7,323,000 Total: $65,380,000 Weeks: 4
10. (10) The Descendants $7,200,000 Total: $10,741,000 Weeks: 2

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: Top 10 Box Office: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

While it wasn’t quite able to reach the series high mark, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1′s outstanding $138.1 million opening indicated that the emo teen vampires are as popular as ever. What does appear to have lost some of its appeal, however, is dancing penguins: Happy Feet Two struggled to even open to half as much as its popular 2006 predecessor.

Breaking Dawn Part 1 is second-best among Twilight movies behind 2009′s New Moon ($142.7 million).

New Movies in Theaters

Just premiered:

• The Twilight Saga:Breaking Dawn Part 1: [Romance, 1 hr. 48 min.] Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke.
• Happy Feet Two: [Animation, 1 hr. 45 min.] Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Common, Hugo Weaving.
• The Descendants: [Comedy / Drama, 1 hr. 55 min.] George Clooney, Judy Greer, Beau Bridges, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster.

Top 10 U.S.A. Weekend Box Office

Weekend: November 18th to 20th, 2011

1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $138,122,261 Total: $138,122,261 Week: 1
2. Happy Feet Two $21,237,068 Total: $20,237,068 Week: 1
3. (1) Immortals $12,351,959 Total: $53,079,889 Weeks: 2
4. (2) Jack and Jill $11,738,573 Total: $40,766,479 Weeks: 2
5. (3) Puss in Boots $10,804,311 Total: $122,391,873 Weeks: 4
6. (4) Tower Heist $7,105,045 Total: $53,538,820 Weeks: 3
7. (5) J. Edgar $5,928,120 Total: $20,722,814 Weeks: 2
8. (6) A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas $2,902,434 Total: $28,335,280 Weeks: 3
9. (7) In Time $1,710,692 Total: $33,454,533 Weeks: 4
10. The Descendants $1,190,096 Total: $1,290,096 Week: 1

(#) = Previous week rank, = New Film

Previous: Top 10 Box Office: Puss in Boots

Super awesome accessory for any Mario Bros fan! This Piranha Plant earring set made of polymer clay will sure put a bite in your day. Piranha Plant earrings have the appearance of having quite the grip on the ear. That’s a scary thought but don’t worry these adorable earrings will cause you no pain, maybe tears of joy though!!

These items are handmade so every item will vary slightly and signs of fingerprints are visible.

Price: $3.8 USD
Store: etsy.com/listing/78730593/youch-piranha-plant-earrings

Mariah Yeater‘s paternity claim against Justin Bieber is losing steam after an alleged text messages from Mariah sent to a friend. One of these texts reportedly from Mariah reads:

Pleeease ERASE ALL MESSAGES from my mom where she says Tristyn is Robbie’s son. I’ll kick u when we get paid. I’m trusting you pleeease. (Mariah Laci).

Laci is Mariah’s middle name. On Wednesday morning, it was announced that the paternity suit was dropped but later in the day reports began to surface that the suit was still on.

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Via celebuzz.com

Michael J. Fox, who traveled through time and alternate versions of the past and future as McFly in the beloved “Back to the Future” trilogy, hosted his annual charity benefit on Saturday night. Called A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s, the event in New York City featured plenty of big names and performances, but none of them could touch what Fox pulled off on stage.

Donning a red guitar identical to the one he “played” in the school dance scene in the first film, he actually simulated playing the music, while real musicians did the actual performing for that movie, Fox rocked the Chuck Berry classic for the crowd. Fox learned to play the song sometime after the first film and continues playing it today, impressing the world with his skill and determination.

Here is the original scene from 1985:

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Via huffingtonpost.com

1. Do what you love. Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” Asked about the advice he would offer would-be entrepreneurs, he said, “I’d get a job as a busboy or something until I figured out what I was really passionate about.” That’s how much it meant to him. Passion is everything.
2. Put a dent in the universe. Jobs believed in the power of vision. He once asked then-Pepsi President, John Sculley, “Do you want to spend your life selling sugar water or do you want to change the world?” Don’t lose sight of the big vision.
3. Make connections. Jobs once said creativity is connecting things. He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss. He took calligraphy classes that didn’t have any practical use in his life — until he built the Macintosh. Jobs traveled to India and Asia. He studied design and hospitality. Don’t live in a bubble. Connect ideas from different fields.
4. Say no to 1,000 things. Jobs was as proud of what Apple chose not to do as he was of what Apple did. When he returned in Apple in 1997, he took a company with 350 products and reduced them to 10 products in a two-year period. Why? So he could put the “A-Team” on each product. What are you saying “no” to?
5. Create insanely different experiences. Jobs also sought innovation in the customer-service experience. When he first came up with the concept for the Apple Stores, he said they would be different because instead of just moving boxes, the stores would enrich lives. Everything about the experience you have when you walk into an Apple store is intended to enrich your life and to create an emotional connection between you and the Apple brand. What are you doing to enrich the lives of your customers?
6. Master the message. You can have the greatest idea in the world, but if you can’t communicate your ideas, it doesn’t matter. Jobs was the world’s greatest corporate storyteller. Instead of simply delivering a presentation like most people do, he informed, he educated, he inspired and he entertained, all in one presentation.
7. Sell dreams, not products. Jobs captured our imagination because he really understood his customer. He knew that tablets would not capture our imaginations if they were too complicated. The result? One button on the front of an iPad. It’s so simple, a 2-year-old can use it. Your customers don’t care about your product. They care about themselves, their hopes, their ambitions. Jobs taught us that if you help your customers reach their dreams, you’ll win them over.

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Via: Entrepreneur

Great job !!! this totally a geek Hymn.

Some of the memes from the video are:

1. Nyan Cat. 2. Xhibit (Yo dawg) 3. Levan Polka – Leek Spin 4. Scum Bag Steve Hat. 5. Keyboard Cat. 6. Troll Face. 7. Y U NO? 8. Rage Face (FFUUUU) 9. Me Gusta 10. Antoine Dodson 11. LOL Face. 12. Poker Face. 13. Troll Face. 14. Trololo. 15. Chacoron (Batman ualuealue) 16. Shoop Da Whoop. (I’m Firing ma lazer) 17. Numa Numa. 18. Awesome smiley. 19. O Rly? 20. Bunchie 21. Peanut butter jelly. 22. Dad-Comic. 23. Badger Badger Badger. 24. Hampster Dance 25. Pedobear. 26. Nope it’s Just Chuck testa. 27. Not bad 28. Troll Dad. 29. StareDad 30. Friday by Rebecca Black. 31. Fuck Yea. 32. Rickroll 33. Chocolate Rain. 34. Waffle Cat, the Evil Nyan Cat. 35. All your base are belong to us. 36. Dramatic Chipmunk 37. True Story.

Band:

Drums: Gilad Chehover
Bass: Guy Bernfeld
Guitar: Or Paz
Recording, mixing, pianoing and feminine singing by Eyal Amir

They can be found in Facebook: facebook.com/TheGAGQuartet

Billy Crystal has hosted the Academy Awards eight times, 1990–1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2004. Crystal is taking over the hosting duties (for the ninth time) of the 84th Academy Awards after Eddie Murphy resigned. His eight times (soon to be 9) as the M.C. is second only to Bob Hope’s 18 in most ceremonies hosted. At the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony in 2011, he appeared as a presenter for a digitally inserted Bob Hope and before doing so was given a standing ovation.

Billy Crystal tweeted about being the host of the 2012 Oscars:

@BillyCrystal: Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show.

Incredible macro photography of a flying bee carrying over its back a perfect drop of water like a spheric crystal ball.

Even the reflection on the water look very cool

[Zoom]

In Your Arms, a cool viral video with more than 2 million views, made with stop-motion animation using jellybeans.

Album: Stairwells
Written by Kina Grannis
Directed by Greg Jardin
Produced by Daphne Raves
Concept Art by Lauren Gregg
Wardrobe by Gillian Zwick
Sound Design by Suzanne Goldish
Production Company: @radical.media

The Making Of “In Your Arms”

• 22 months
• 1,357 hours
• 30 people
• 2 ladders
• 1 glass table
• 1 still camera
• 1 projector
• 1 computer
• 288,000 jellybeans
• A lot of patience

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Download “In Your Arms” on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/stairwells-deluxe-version/id424654678
Amazon: amazon.com/Stairwells-Amazon-MP3-Exclusive-Version/dp/B004QNOMG0/
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: kinagrannis.com

A woman floating on a surfboard near Santa Cruz, California almost ended up on the lunch menu for a humpback whale over the weekend. Barb Roettger had her camera rolling as two hefty whales popped out of the calm waters not far from the unsuspecting surfer and a pair of kayakers.

A pod of humpback whales has been hanging out off the Santa Cruz coast, noshing on anchovies that flock to the area to feed on plankton. The woman found herself in the middle of a feeding frenzy called lunge feeding, which occurs when whales herd anchovies and shoot straight up out of the water with their mouth wide open to catch the fish.

The whales have had quite a few dangerous close encounters with humans and boats in recent months. Whale watchers are warned to stay at least 100 yards away from the feeding area which can be a quarter mile square. Roettger says she has now gained a greater respect for whales, their feeding patterns and will now only spectate from the decidedly safer dry land.

In this first video, it seems that they get along.