Watch Darth Vader perform 42 Tai Chi movements with his lightsaber. I find this video to be quite hypnotic. What a strange, yet awesome, animation!
This was put together by animator John Leo. Very impressive! I wonder how he made this?
Thanks to Julio for the tip!
LOL, this video has to be a planned stunt, but it’s kind of funny. Good old Japan – during a sporting event, a frog mascot takes a tumble and the other mascots carry him off the field in a stretcher.
Don’t ask, “Why?” There is no point. 
Nana, a well trained Border Collie, performs tricks while wearing several different costumes. What a good looking dog!
Get ready to laugh as Nana the Border Collie performs stunts while wearing hilarious costumes! (The funniest costume is at the end of the video, in my opinion.)
All the costumes Nana is shown wearing in this video are either designed for dogs to wear, or were costumes that Nana was very comfortable wearing. All of Nana’s training is done with the use of positive reinforcement and clicker training exclusively.
Look at this cute Chinchilla, strutting his stuff in such a very fine paper hat! So cute. via LaughingSquid.
They just followed up with another Chinchilla post — a drawing by artist Josh Ellingson.
Awesome! That little guy sure has style!
The Inflatable Crowd Company specializes in dressing up inflatable dummies to appear as extras in movies. When a large crowd is needed for filming a scene, Inflatable Crowd can deliver 30,000 dolls. This can save a production company quite a bit of money, since real human extras cost anywhere between $135-$300 per day.
From a distance, this method works great and no one can tell that they are dummies, not people. These inflatable dummies have appeared in dozens of feature films, including Sea Biscuit, Million Dollar Baby, Rocky Balboa, Spider-Man 3, and Iron Man 2.
Pretty cool!
[via Inflatable Crowd and Reuters]
Look at this amazing black cow/ tauren costume! This is the latest costume made by BeastCub. She makes exquisite furry costumes, and we’ve featured her wolf costume last year.
Such amazing detail! I’m so impressed.
Are you interested in having BeastCub make you a fursuit? I looked at her ordering page, and found this bit interesting:
Fullsuits, quad suits and 3/4 suits Require a “duct-tape dummy:”
Full instructions for making a duct-tape dummy can be found HERE.
I need the the dummy to come all the way up to the neck and all the way down your wrists and ankles. Have your arms up and straight (level with your shoulders) and your legs apart. This is a 2 person job by the way and rather “awkward” to do so find some one you are comfortable with, be wary of siblings as they may tape you to the floor.
Hmm, okay, I can see how that would be a little awkward. But if you really want an awesome fursuit, I guess it’s a small price to pay.
Want more information? Head on over to www.beastcub.com.
Ladies, now you can wear a different mustache every day of the week! Clearly, Saturday is best because the Grandma is one cool mustache.
This funny gag gift sells for $5.95 on McPhee.com.
Everyone loves a mustache, but why do boys get to have all the fun? This set of seven stylish mustaches is made specifically to accentuate feminine features. Styles such as “The Grandma” and “The Frida” let you pick the fashionable facial hair to accessorize your look. Each furry lip ornament has adhesive backing and is made of synthetic hair in a girlish shade of pink. Goes great with almost any outfit!
[via McPhee]
Io9.com put together a wonderful gallery of old costumes. They call it “cosplay on acid,” lol, so true!
It seems like back then, every costume had the character printed on the shirt. I guess they did that because the costumes were so bad, it was the only way to tell what you’re supposed to be.
Hilarious!
[Io9.com]
Yikes, a commerical oil spill costume for Halloween! Oh my.
This costume is made by Fun World. Doesn’t the logo look familiar? In this case, BP stands for “Bad Planning” — so very clever (sigh).
I realize that costumes do have a place in current events. I wonder how this costume will be received?
Here’s another take on an oil spill costume. This is a well-made “Death of a Mermaid” costume on Etsy. It appears to be sold out at the time of this posting, but this is rather clever.
Want to own a cool Mandrill Baboon costume? Here’s one for sale by chikkennoodul. Looks pretty cool!
What you Get- Head
- Handpaws
- Footpaws
- Tail
- Bodysuit
- Shorts
- Conbadge – with your choice of name
- 5 Spare Claws
(Not Included: Belt, Staff)
Check out chikkennoodul’s DeviantArt page for the full scoop.
A little bit of trivia: Mandrill’s are not baboons, though they used to be classified that way. You learn something new every day!
Does anyone remember the 80’s TV show, “Here’s Boomer?”
Meet Gary Matthews, a hardcore Furry from Pennsylvania who considers himself more dog than man. He lives in a Boomer costume, he growls, barks and begs in character, and is currently trying to change his name to “Boomer the Dog.”
Matthews often walks through his neighborhood dressed in a dog costume made out of shredded newspaper. He barks at passing cars and trots along as if this were natural.
[via Terra.com]
False eyelashes made out of dead fly legs? Artist Jessica Harrison seems to think this was a good idea.
Jessica did this to get people thinking about genetic manipulation, and she makes it very clear that no flies were harmed making these eyelashes. She collected dead flies from window sills. Well, that makes me feel a whole lot better!
I would like to encourage others not to do anything like this as flies do naturally carry disease and I was lucky not to contract an eye infection.
Made as part of a series of works looking into genetic manipulation, experimentation and xenotransplantation, Flylashes was intended as a play on the format of the Chimera, highlighting the use of the fly in the investigation of genetics and its similarity to the structure of human DNA. The series of work sought to explore the balance between advanced scientific and medical developments with our cultural strive for perfection, and at the same time expose and acknowledge society’s underlying fear and mistrust of modified bodies.
Flylashes was made using legs from around 5 flies that were not killed to create the video clip. The work is not intended as a style statement, or as a call to pull apart flies to use as beauty enhancements, but a device to prompt questions about our thoughts and fears surrounding genetic manipulation and the integrity of the body.
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