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MIT Plays Tetris on a Building

This is just pure awesome. We need more people hacking buildings for fun and interesting things. Way to go MIT!

From Bostonino:

We all know the students at MIT love a good hack, but what’s better than playing a game while doing it? Last night, a team took over the side of MIT’s Green Building and turned it into a giant, playable, multi-color Tetris game.

Home of the Institute’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, the Green Building lends itself as an ideal grid for the game. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery, “MIT hackers have long considered ‘Tetris on the Green Building’ to be the Holy Grail of hacks.”

The game started off by scrolling the word “Tetris,” and as the players moved on, the levels became progressively harder. The second level kicked off with more pale colors, while the third involved the colors shifting on-screen. Once someone lost the game, all of the blocks would fall to the bottom of the building. Just check out the cleverness for yourself.

The band Wilco have created a new Popeye cartoon as a video for their new song Dawned On Me. Their first video in 12 years.

(via justjon)

GET READY… SKINS IS COMING BACK! 

hellandheartaches:

justjon:

Skins season 6 is coming…

I am ready. 

New trailer for The Hunger Games!

I’m really excited about this movie and the rest of the trilogy. I’m in the middle of reading the second book right now. So far from what I see in the trailer, the director and cinematographer seem to have stayed true to the feeling of the books. I’m not going to give anything away if you haven’t read the books but I AM interested to see how they animate certain things that are crucial to the storyline. If you’ve read them then you know exactly what I’m talking about. 

I never was a Harry Potter fanatic but now I know how that feels. This book has done everything for me concerning post-apocalyptic dystopias that previous books like 1984 previously has done. Jennifer Lawrence is perfectly cast in the role of Katniss Everdeen considering her performance in Winter’s Bone. BONUS: If you haven’t seen Like Crazy, go see it. She makes a nice appearance in a supporting role that you would’ve otherwise not pictured her in.

Justin Bieber’s ‘Otis’ freestyle is really good!

I’m looking forward to him growing more as an artist and becoming this generation’s Justin Timberlake. I’m also pretty sure that when he did the remix with Kanye, Mr. West gave him some pointers about rapping. JB’s flow is tight.

Grand Theft Auto V trailer

The action this time takes place in Los Santos aka “Los Angeles”. From the scenes in the trailer it looks like there may many different types of play areas instead of just city and beach (mountains?) It also seems like there will be new and interesting types of missions (check out the bug van guys). This could be wishful thinking but hopefully the trailer points to actual things that will happen instead of just setting the theme. One plot point that most likely will happen will revolve around the main character’s family and possibly them being kidnapped. He talks a lot about kids and family in the trailer and this is GTA so the assumption is that someone’s kidnapping someone. Looking forward to Rockstar dropping this!

Once Upon A Time screened the first episode of the new ABC series at NY Comic Con, and I had the privilege to screen it there. I’ve included it above so you can watch what I saw. The creators of Once Upon A Time (also the creators of Lost) followed it up with a panel that gave insight into the series and the rest of season 1. Keep your eyes open through the whole series as there’s little hidden gems similar to Lost, like how the clock was frozen at 8:15. 

Here’s what the creators of Once Upon A Time had to say

On upcoming episodes:

“The series is a back and forth between both worlds. The episodes are much more contained then we thought. Episode 2 is the Evil Queen’s side on how she enacted the curse. Episode 3 is how Snow White met Prince Charming. Episode 5 is how Jiminy Cricket became a cricket. The large big picture conflict is that whole series is about breaking the curse.” 

On how the series came to be:

“We are not really interested in reliving the fairy tales. We had the idea for the series 8 years ago when we were working on Felicity and trying to figure out what we would want to do. We pitched it all around when we were really young. All the time we spent on Lost we were figuring out how to tell the story.”

On the actors chosen:

“We wrote the parts [Mr. Gold, Emma Swan] for Robert [Carlyle] and Jennifer [Morrison]. You’ll also see Emma Caulfield from Buffy as Hansel’s bad witch later on. They really wanted Lady Gaga to be the blue fairy and asked someone at ABC Music to reach out to her. We also asked Disney about the characters that we could use.”

On the competition (Grimm et al):

“Snow white came out at height of depression and for us and it’s no coincidence that all these fairy tales are coming out now with the situation that we’re in. It gives people hope. It’s all specific to who’s making the show. We have our own point of view. Whatever we make will be us for better or worse. We haven’t seen those movies or scripts.”

On Once Upon A Time’s future:

“We have very big ideas about where we want everyone to end up but we have 13 right now so we’re planning for that. 6 years of LOST is amazing but we have to earn it.”

2001: A Floyd Odyssey

Echoes by Pink Floyd synced up with the last scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite. Truly breathtaking. If you haven’t ever seen it take 25 minutes out of your day to enjoy this. I suggest you watch it on a large screen as I am doing now, as the quality is superb.

Star Wars smoking PSA! So cool. 

“These are NOT the droids you are looking for.”

R2D2 is a rebel.

Witty and possibly snarky commentary.

Literal Drug Commercial (via laughingsquid)

Nyan Cat Man. iDie.

*Note: watch it until the end. There’s a RIDICULOUS surprise.

o_O

hellandheartaches:

mattchew03:

Here’s a video of a cat barking like a dog, until it’s caught, at which point it starts meowing.

Precisely why you can’t trust cats. I swear they can read and we just haven’t caught them.