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Endless Summer
Rick Hilgert’s 1995 “wave generating apparatus” is essentially a giant horizontal centrifuge, a 25-foot tubular tank that’s spun until the water hugs the wall.
This creates “a continuous simulated ocean-type wave that will allow one to participate in body-surfing, boogie-boarding and/or surfboarding.”
What could go wrong?
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HBO to Adapt Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
EXCLUSIVE: As HBO prepares to unveil its epic-sized series adaptation of George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones this Sunday, the payweb has begun talks to acquire the Neil Gaiman novel American Gods to be developed into another fantasy series. The project was brought to HBO by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and it was brought to them by Robert Richardson. The plan is for Richardson and Gaiman to write the pilot together.
Tales of the Blue Clown
New, ongoing story to be posted weekly, or whenever the hell I feel like it really. When all is said and done, it should run about 20 parts… Hope you’ll check it out…
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PART 1:
My initial instinct was to let the whirlpool take me away into cocoon like nether regions of the slumbering void, deeper and deeper down the drain until nothing was left of me but perhaps a faint ghost or shadow of my flickering memory. Like Alice I would go down the rabbit hole only to reemerge who knows where. When the realization of absolute nothingness set in, I began to struggle for my life, a fish caught in a net with no chance of escape, a firefly trapped in a mason jar. Despite all the mystical powers and tricks at my disposal, it wasn’t every day that you were caught in the dominant grasp and raging tide of a spiraling Black Hole at the center of the universe.
John Nolan’s Animatronics
Last we saw from animatronic wiz John Nolan, he made a mouse pump iron. Check out more of his mind-blowing and creepy mechanical creations in his latest showreel.
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CONSPIRAPORN! 