Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

The Scalpel Blade Frisbee Turns a Perfectly Safe Object into a Weapon

Joerg Sprave is a guy who likes to take everyday objects and make them into weapons—his latest invention is to take the kid-friendly frisbee and attach some scalpels to it, turning it into a dangerous weapon that you certainly wouldn’t want your kids playing with.

Monday, August 17th, 2015

Boy George & Jack Black Sing “Hello I Love You” on Conan

Calling all fans of The Doors, you’re going to be impressed by this rendition of their classic 60s hit “Hello I Love You” from Jack Black and Boy George. The pair were on Conan and were talking about their passion for The Doors’ music so Conan told them to put their money where their mouth [...]

Friday, August 14th, 2015

Doc Explores The Wild Ideas of Inventor Dominic Wilcox

Dominic Wilcox is a inventor and all round purveyor of wild and strange ideas—and he’s also the subject of this creative new short doc by filmmaker Liam Saint-Pierre. Some of his off-the-wall imaginings are a Stained Glass Driverless Sleeper Car of the Future, and Binaudios, binoculars for the ears, and this gives some insight into [...]

Friday, August 14th, 2015

Vin Diesel Plays Last Remaining Witch Hunter in This Intriguing Trailer

Vin Diesel plays a witch hunter, Ygritte from Game of Thrones plays a dream walker, and it also stars Elijah Wood and Michael Caine. And, by the looks of this trailer, this movie looks like pure guilty pleasure thrills as humanity’s very survival is threatened by an all-powerful evil Queen Witch and it’s down to [...]

Thursday, August 13th, 2015

Watch IFC’s VICE Parody Documentary ‘DRONEZ’

Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Fred Armisen have a new IFC show called Documentary Now! and the first episode takes on VICE in a parody called “Dronez.” It features Jack Black as Dronez founder, and Shane Smith lookalike, Jamison Friend and follows Armisen and Hader as reporters on a trip to Mexico in search of [...]

Thursday, August 13th, 2015

Fanmade Homage ‘Mad Max: Roadkill BBQ’ is Awesome—And Gross

YouTube VFX whizzes Corridor Digital have created a fantastically stylish fan-made short film and ode to the latest Mad Max movie Fury Road. The four-minute short, Mad Max: Roadkill BBQ, basically amounts to what the title suggests. Set in the world of bearded guys, steampunk cars, and dusty roads, it has lots of gore, plus [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2015

Blade Runner Esper Machine Scene With Added Siri

In the film it’s a famous scene where Deckard inserts a photograph into a voice-activated branded machine called an Esper, which analyses the photo and turns the still image into a 3D one so Deckard can zoom in and explore the depicted scene and look around corners. But, as forward-thinking as this piece of design [...]

Tuesday, August 11th, 2015

Mousse T.’s ‘Horny’ Gets Perfectly Mashed Up With Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’

From the titles of the tracks alone, they’re the perfect two tracks to be mashed together—on the one hand you have Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ with people waiting up all night to get some and on the other you have someone who’s horny, horny, horny—together they go together like a horse and carriage.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2015

Uber Meets Tinder in this Hilarious Sketch from Barely Productions

Why has no one thought of this before? Not only do you get to be chauffeured around, but you get to make out with someone too. Taxi app Uber meets dating app Tinder in this very funny sketch to create UnDer “the ultimate auto-erotic experience” and imagines a world where commuting and finding a partner, [...]

Monday, August 10th, 2015

What if Werner Herzog Directed ‘Ant-Man’?

Marvel have taken a few risks when it comes to handing unusual directors the reigns for their films, but perhaps using German director and all-round esoteric Bavarian Captain of the Weird Werner Herzog would be a step too far. But that hasn’t stopped someone from imagining what it might be like if Herzog had directed [...]

Monday, August 10th, 2015

Hilarious ‘Musicless’ Version of Star Trek’s Kirk Vs. Corn

The Kirk versus Gorn fight is a favorite of fans of Star Trek: The Original Series, which featured in the episode called “Arean” and showed Kirk taking on a Gorn warrior (well, a man in a green rubber suit). It was already a pretty weird fight scene, especially strange compared to today’s hyped fights, but [...]