As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the rich symbolism and character development within the sublime AMC series Breaking Bad, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism offer a really insightful list of characters, rates them in terms of their overall wickedness and presents them in ascending order. Walt Jr. starts the list as…
The Forgotten Luxury of Taking a Reflective Moment During the Closing Credits of a Film or Television Show
In a rather thoughtful episode of Everything Is a Remix, host Kirby Ferguson shares why he finds closing credits of a film or television show to be a time of reflective meditation or of quietude in order to catch one’s breath before going back out into a very busy, overwhelming world. He also states that…
Freddie Mercury’s Final Days Documented in an Amazing Series of Interviews, Performances and Clips
Superfan QueenAllTheWay edited together a rather heartbreaking but beautiful tribute to the late, great Freddie Mercury. Using a montage of interviews, performances and clips, the video rounds out the artist’s final days, showing him to be a wonderfully dedicated and generous soul who loved his cats, his boyfriend and most of all his bandmates, who…
A Vintage Style Art Print That Imagines the Map of the Entire United States Made Up Over 1,000 Song Titles
In 2012, we wrote about the “Song Map”, a whimsical road map by British design group Dorothy, that reimagined all roads and locations with names taken from song titles (e. g. “Highway to Hell” and “Heartbreak Hotel”). In 2017, we wrote about their World Song Map and at the beginning of 2018, we wrote about…
Science Series Host Ponders How Best to Rob the Earth of Its Energy Through Various Sources of Light
In the fourth episode of the humorous Funny or Die faux Carl Sagan style documentary series Our Fascinating Planet, host Ted Rimmarniet (Demetri Martin) looks for ways to rob the Earth of energy through light. He provides some very funny origins of light, some wobbly science behind how light is made, a particularly odd history…
A Brilliant Comparison of Queen’s 1985 ‘Live Aid’ Show With the Staged Remake in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Is this the real life or is this fantasy? Hong Kong video editor This Game Is Easy brilliantly juxtaposed the video footage of Queen‘s 1985 Live Aid performance against the staged version for the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody in a side by side comparison. While the scripted version does vary greatly from the real show due…
Filmmakers Detail the Immense Care They Took Capturing Free Solo Climb Up El Capitan in Yosemite
In 2017, champion free climber Alex Honnold scaled El Capitan at Yosemite National Park, a 3,000 foot cliff from base to summit, without the benefits of ropes or safety gear. The attempt alone was dangerous enough, but Hohnhold allowed filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and husband Jimmy Chin to document this incredible feat as well. In…
A Giant Mechanical Minotaur and Enormous Spider Invade the Streets of Toulouse, France for Three Days
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Toulouse Tourisme officiel (@visiteztoulouse) on Nov 3, 2018 at 6:32am PDT La Machine, the incredible machine art group based in Nantes, France, have built a giant kinetic Minotaur named “Le Gardien du Temple” (The Guardian of the Temple). This new sculpture along with “La Princesse”, the…