Category Entertainment

Mar 22 2012

The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, Early TV Pilot Aimed at Adults

In 1975, a half-hour variety show titled The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence piloted on ABC television but it was going after an older audience. According to Muppet Wiki, it was a “parody the proliferation of sex and violence on television”. There’s a lot of interesting things going on in the pilot (I believe I see a Jim Henson-looking Muppet playing the banjo in the end credits) and definitely worth checking out. It is not truly an early version of the The Muppet Show but it definitely shares elements and might be considered more of a first draft. The Onion’s AV Club goes into more details about this pilot and the other similar pilot, The Muppets Valentine Show.

 

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Mar 11 2012

Mascots by Michael A. Dyer

It’s not every day you get to witness your best friend’s head being ripped off at the shoulders, but then again, you don’t always have a two-thousand year old bloodthirsty goddess of war stalking you around the back yard either. As we frantically scattered in terror from the ten armed beast charging at us in primal fury, I took refuge in the only available sanctuary which might provide a barrier between us and the rampaging teeth and claws of our would be killer.

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Mar 10 2012

The ‘augmented reality’ helmet that turns walk in the park into an encounter with alien creatures under a psychedelic sky

Most ‘virtual reality’ helmets plunge users into an unreal video-game world – but a new version mixes the unreal into the real world in a ‘living dream’.

The helmet only works in St Johann’s Park in Basel, Switzerland – but wearers explore a mixture of the ‘real’ park, seen via cameras, and 3D illusions created by computers, including ghostly, glowing grass, surreal insects and strange visions in the sky.

Lifeclipper is an entirely new kind of entertainment, plunging users into parallel worlds using a high-powered computer backpack.

Feb 18 2012

If Classic Movies Used Viral Marketing

Working in marketing is harder than in the past. These days, you have to trick people into thinking they’re not looking at an advertisement while making them look at an advertisement. We asked you to show us what the ads for classic movies might have looked like if it was always this complicated. The winner is below, but first the runners up …