A metal fork drags its four prongs back and forth across the yolk of an over-easy egg. The lightly peppered fried whites that skin across the runny yolk give a little, straining under the weight of the prongs. The yolk bulges and puckers, and finally the fork flips to its sharp points, bears down on the yolk and rips it open, revealing the thick, bright cadmium-yellow liquid underneath. The fork dips into the yolk and rubs the viscous ovum all over the crispy white edges, smearing it around slowly, coating the prongs. An R&B track plays. [...]

Everything is sexually suggestive now because on most platforms, for years, being sexually overt meant risking a ban. Not-coincidentally, being horny about everything is also one of the few ways to get engagement on those same platforms. At the same time, legislators are trying to make everything "pornographic" illegal or impossible to make or consume.

Cakefarts walked so that your eggs could be runny.

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After a necropsy, it was determined that Hugh died from a 14.5 centimeter rip in his colon and other traumatic injuries caused by a sexual encounter with another, larger, male manatee at the facility, his brother Buffett. [...]

Hugh was born at the Miami Seaquarium and went to Mote Marine in 1996 from ZooTampa. He was 38 years old.

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• They are life-sized replicas of old electronics.

• They aren't funny, except in the sense that it is funny to decorate your home with obsolete electronics, while also underscoring their impermanence by setting them on fire.

• They are unscented, even though it would have been funny if we had made them smell like melting plastic.

From the people who brought you the NFT-scented candle.

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Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.]]> https://cdn.jwz.org/blog/2021/10/deep-nightmares/feed/ 2 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/09/animatronics-that-didnt-make-it-into-the-thing-remake/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/09/animatronics-that-didnt-make-it-into-the-thing-remake/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:37:11 +0000 https://jwz.org/b/yjrY Many people were frustrated with the special effects being largely CG on the final cut. What a lot of people don't know is that practical versions for almost all the effects were made and many even shot first! However, many were replaced entirely by CG for the release.

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The unique thing about this is that it uses HD video, and not one, but two monitors, plus a sheet of beam splitter glass to create a reflection that gets folded back in to the image.

It's a delicate art to operate the device, an interplay between the camera and monitors, the position of the monitors, and the monitor control dials (hue, saturation, brightness and contrast). Doing controlled feedback like this requires these control dials, but most HD TVs and monitors don't have analog knobs like old CRT TVs did, making it difficult to create controlled feedback in HD. [...]

All the images in this video are created by video feedback only - no computers are involved. The upper and lower monitors both display the same thing - the image from the camera, which is looking at the upper monitor. This creates a video feedback loop (much like a microphone next to a speaker creates an audio feedback loop).

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This is glorious. I once had a jar of ferrofluid in Lavaite form-factor, but it was difficult to get it to do anything interesting, and completely static without hands-on.

"We were running away when we heard a second tremendous explosion in front of us. A piece of blubber the size of a coffee table hit the top of an Oldsmobile and completely flattened the roof." [...]

KATU donated the original 16mm footage to the Oregon Historical Society in the late 1980s. The footage has been transferred over the years to various video formats, but this is the first time it has been scanned at 4K resolution. It is now available to view online on OHS Digital Collections.

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textfiles: "Well, someone has done the videogame equivalent of the scene in Alien 4 where Ripley stumbles on the lab where a screaming version of herself is being kept painfully alive"

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