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Daily Design Inspiration #24: Dragons

3 Sep
2010

A dose of eye candy to highlight artworks we find for your viewing pleasure and inspiration. This edition of Daily Inspiration we highlight legendary fire-breathing Dragons.

by Kerembeyit

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In: Daily Inspiration| Illustration
Tags: Art, daily design inspiration, dragons, fantasy, illustrations, mixed media

Movie Review: ‘The Evil Dead’ A Gruesomely Funny Horror Classic

3 Sep
2010

When five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods for a relaxing weekend, they find an old tape recorder with recordings of demonic incantations from The Book of the Dead. Unbeknownst to them, as they listen to the tape they are in fact awakening the demons from the woods and one by one they become possessed.

Evil Dead is written and directed by horror king Sam Raimi and stars Bruce Campbell (a high school friend of Raimi’s). Sam started the project when he was still a student at Michigan State University, with the idea to produce the most shocking and horrific film in history to date; that date being 1982.

I had never seen the film prior and I was intrigued at what was considered grueling horror over 20 years ago. For its time, the film was extremely controversial for its graphic violence and gore.

I found it absurdly gruesome and quite funny. My favorite comical piece of dialogue was early on in one scene, a basement door in the floor opens by itself. Everyone is standing around staring into it and Scotty, one of the two guys says, “What’s down there” to which one of the girls replies “Whatever it is, it’s still down there”. No kidding! I simply loved the campy humor throughout this movie. My biggest gripe is some scenes took way to long to culminate. The Evil Dead would be perfect for the Starz 30 Second Bunnies Movies. Friends go to cabin, girl gets possessed, gets locked up in basement, all friends get possessed, Ash tries to kill everyone even though he’s a woos, chainsaw, blood, end of film. Evil Dead II was actually made into a 30 Second Bunnies video…which you can see at the end of this review.

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In: Movie Reviews| Video
Tags: 30 second bunnies video, B horror films, blood and gore, Bruce Campbell, campy humor, Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, zombies

Cute Animated Short From Yum Yum London

2 Sep
2010

A cute animated short from Yum Yum London to brighten up your day. If you drive, can relate to it. You’ll see what I mean.

Yum Yum is a collaborative between Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer (directors and designers) who make 3D animation, motion graphics, illustrations, styleframe and storyboard creation for broadcast, digital, print, toys, mobile platforms and social media.

Here is a sample of their work…

In: Animation| Video
Tags: animated short, cute, motion graphics, parking cars, video, Yum Yum London

How To Achieve Your Goals: Derek Sivers Explains To Keep Them To Yourself

2 Sep
2010

Want to know how to achieve your goals? In this Ted Talks video, Derek Silvers explains why it is best to keep your goals to yourself if you really want it to become reality. Take a look.

Personally speaking, I feel if someone is motivated enough, they can achieve anything, even if they share their goals and ideas with the world. Take quitting smoking. The opposite of what Derek Silvers mentions occurs. Once you have spread your goal of quitting smoking among your friends, colleagues and family, in essence you are then “forced” to complete the goal, because you’ve announced it and everyone around you is rooting for you to quit. You can’t let them down or yourself. If you cry wolf enough times about your goals, no one will believe you anymore. At least that’s how my brain works.

Same goes for finishing school. If you have announced your goal to finish, no matter how much you want to quit your classes, you really don’t want to be a disappointment in the eyes of your family.

Throw the power of positive thinking into the mix and if you believe it enough, it will happen. Sure we get excited about the prospect of completing a goal and feel good about the endeavor, but I have never felt good enough after announcing it to turn around and no go through with it. I find that quite perverse.

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In: Video
Tags: achievement, Derek Silvers, goals in life, motivation, Psychology, ted talks, video

Unbelievable Lifelike Wood Carving Sculptures by Randall Rosenthall

2 Sep
2010

So you are probably wondering what is so artistic about this box of money? All of these unbelievably lifelike wood carving scultpures by Randall Rosenthall are hand carved from one block of wood and hand painted.