Amaze Your Friends with Your Very Own Dragon Skull!
Want to make your own fossilized dragon skull? New Zealand sculptress Kim Beaton shows you how.
Posted on YouTube on March 3, 2014, Kim outlined her presentation thusly:
Using Pal Tiya – http://www.paltiya.com/ – plus some rather nifty short-cuts of Kim’s, it’s entirely possible your creation will brave the elements for many hundreds of years!
0:25 – Step 1: Implements of Creation
2:38 – Step 2: Tinfoil? Fast! Cheap! …who knew?
6:38 – Step 3: Unbelievably sophisticated modeling with Tinfoil
8:36 – Step 4: Crushing your Sculpture to perfection
10:15 – Step 5: Improper use of a Kitchen Appliance!
12:30 – Step 6: Preparing for permanence. Applying Pal Tiya
15:04 – Step 7: Unprecedentedly dynamic Reptilian Scales
21:22 – Step 8: Root Canal for beginners
22:50 – Step 9: Ridges, outlandish details
24:20 – Step 10: Dragon Dentistry – Proper fang management
26:55 – Step 11: So, now he’s a ..Skull?
28:30 – Step 12: Dynamic use of a broom?
30:22 – Step 13: Proper Curing… or else!!!
More of Kim’s videos can be found here, including mixing instructions for Pal Tiya.
Sherlock Spock
Is Sherlock Holmes related to Mr. Spock?
Tally up the clues.
1. Sherlock Holmes: “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four (1890), Chapter 6, p. 111
2. Nicholas Meyer wrote the Sherlock Holmes story, The Seven Percent Solution, as a novel published in 1974, and the screenplay for the film version in 1976.
3. Captain Spock: “An ancestor of mine maintained that when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. If we did not fire those torpedoes, another ship did.” Nicholas Meyer, co-writer and director, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991.
4. Spock: “If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Star Trek, 2009. Written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and directed by J. J. Abrams.
http://youtu.be/Epa7nMWtD48
5. Benedict Cumberbatch begins playing Sherlock Holmes in a contemporary London setting for Sherlock, a TV series co-produced by BBC and PBS, in 2010. A second series commences in 2012 and a third in 2014.
6. Sherlock Holmes to John Watson: “Once you’ve ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.”
Sherlock, “The Hounds of Baskerville,” May 13, 2012. Written by Mark Gatiss.
7. Watson responds by calling Sherlock “Spock.”
Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 2, “The Hounds of Baskerville,” May 13, 2012. Written by Mark Gatiss.
8. Nicholas Meyer: “I love new Sherlock; it’s nice to know they return the favor!” Interview by Anthony Pascale, “Watch: Sherlock’s Star Trek II Homage + Nick Meyer’s Reaction,” May 24, 2012.
9. Benedict Cumberbatch plays John Harrison/Khan who battles Spock in Star Trek into Darkness, 2013. Written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof and directed by J. J. Abrams.
What do you deduce?
When a Raven Asks for Help
Would you believe a raven coming to humans for help? “iluvdodge9” posted a video which showed what happened. In her words:
“A wild raven perched himself on our fence and squawked for over an hour. I went to see what was up with him and saw that he had four porcupine quills stuck in him, three in the side of his face and one in his wing. This video shows my Mom taking out the ones in his face. Very bizarre he let us get that close and even more bizarre he let my Mom pull the quills out. He hung around for the day and was gone the next.”
Posted on Jun 23, 2013.
When a Dolphin Asks for Help
In the waters of Kona, Hawaii, Keller Laros of Jack’s Diving Locker was diving with friends filming the local manta rays, when a Bottlenose Dolphin swam up to them. Laros reports that it “needed my help to get a fishing hook and line of its left pectoral fin.” Martina Wing of Manta Rays Hawaii photographed the encounter, and Laros posted it online January 22, 2013. Watch what happens:
Jason David Frank’s Morphin’ Life
On February 19, 2014, the amazing Jason David Frank posted the first episode of his web series, My Morphin’ Life. In it, he attempts to break the Guinness Book of World Records record of breaking boards–while skydiving. The record is two; he’s going for eight.
Can he break enough boards to break the record?
Watch and see:
Here’s the trailer for the series, posted January 27:
Cobra Commander Captured!
Yes, Cobra Commander has been captured, not by a G.I. Joe, but by a Power Ranger. Jason David Frank, known for his roles as the Green Ranger, White Ranger, Red Zeo Ranger, Red Turbo Ranger and Black Dino Ranger, caught the insidious Cobra Commander lurking about the Wizard World convention in New Orleans this weekend. Authorities are currently “processing” the purported terrorist for information. It is unknown whether this involves forcing him to watch 1980s TV episodes of G.I. Joe. It is assumed that Hasbro will post bail for his release.
Photo © Jason David Frank.
We are indebted to Mr. Frank for capturing the leader of this ruthless terrorist organization.
Benedict Cumberbatch on Sesame Street
Has the star of Sherlock met his match on Sesame Street? Find out:
http://youtu.be/-7jS7X-2ggA
But there’s one mystery that has yet to be solved. Cumberbatch introduces himself and is about to say something when he is interrupted by Murray. What would Cumberbatch have said had he not been interrupted?