January 2010
51 posts
Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3-D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It’s profoundly silly because engineering a happy...
“2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. The Welsh Assembly Government is celebrating the occasion by launching a project to exterminate the badger.”
“The most basic task for stopping global warming is having a moral, ethical and spiritual revolution based on the belief that excessive crap is bad.”
Jan. 25, 1979: Robot Kills Human →
fuckyeahrobots:
It’s the first recorded human death by robot.
gotagirlcrush:
Got a girl crush on: Rachel Antonoff and Alia Shawkat
It’s here, it’s here! The moment we’ve all (okay, maybe just me?) been waiting for…Check out Rachel Antonoff’s homage to the “Top That” scene in Teen Witch. So much awesome going on in this clip.
(via Teen Vogue)