Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Puppet Makers Explain Their Process: Cheetos, Tampons and
When director Dean Fleischer Camp and star Jenny Slate wrote and produced their viral 2010 short film “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” they created the title character (voiced by Slate) as simply as possible. The tiny creature was made from a real seashell, doll shoes, a spot of clay and a googly eye.
Becky Van Cleve, head of puppet fabrication on the feature-length adaptation of the short, in theaters June 24 via A24, made sure Marcel was always in sight as she worked to get him ready for the big screen.
Mark Zuckerberg is going to war with 'Revenge Porn'
Basically, Mark is going to war with your disgruntled ex and his demented friends. Now, let's say you were in a relationship with him. And then you broke up with him. He then takes intimate photos you shared with him, and shares it with everyone, hoping to humiliate you. This is called revenge porn. What triggered this? ADVERTISEMENT
In March, it was revealed that male veterans and marines on active duty, shared photos of thousands of women on Facebook.
Nanobb Bottle Is One of TIME's Best Inventions of 2018
For decades, baby bottles have been cylindrical—a design that, while functional, can be confusing for breastfed infants and problematic for parents who need to heat milk quickly and evenly. So longtime friends Ayal Lanternari and Asaf Kehat set out to make a better one: Nanobébé ($11, excluding accessories like warmer and drying rack). With more surface area than a traditional bottle, it allows milk to heat and cool twice as fast, which preserves critical nutrients.
New Alan Moore Series 'Crossed: +100'
September 15, 2014 8:27 PM EDT
Fans craving new material from graphic novelist and comic book icon Alan Moore have some good news: the man behind Watchmen and V for Vendetta has a six-issue project in the works.
Crossed: +100, a spin-off of Garth Ennis’ sci-fi-horror series Crossed, takes place approximately 100 years after the original outbreak of a plague that reduces humanity to its most evil thoughts, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
New satellite photos of Harvey's flooding reveal the scope of the disaster from space
Eastern Texas saw its first rays of sunshine in days on Wednesday as deadly floodwaters there dumped by Hurricane Harvey began to recede. The open skies gave residents in Houston, Texas — an area devastated by record-breaking rainfall and flooding — their first sign of hope for recovery, and also allowed satellites in space clear views of the devastation. Deimos-1 and Deimos-2, a pair of satellites run by Deimos Imaging (a subsidiary of UrtheCast), have started beaming back their first images of Harvey flooding.
Nigerian Air Force releases names of shortlisted candidates for recruitment interview
NAF announced this in a statement issued by ME Ahmed on behalf of the Chief of Air Staff (COAS), Sadique Abubakar. The statement advises candidates to report for the exercise scheduled to take place at the NAF base in Kawo, Kaduna state in batches. ADVERTISEMENT
For candidates in Batch A—Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, and Cross River states, the exercise will take place between June 9 and 15.
Nollywood actor, Prince Dammy Eke is dead
Linda Ikeji Blog reports that the late actor slumped and was rushed to the hospital where he died. Friends of the actor have been paying tribute to him on different social media platforms. Prince Eke was one of the sons of the Late Eze Gbaka, the Gbaka of Woji, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. ADVERTISEMENT
Late Prince Dammy Eke [Facebook/Prince Dammy Eke] Late Prince Dammy Eke [Facebook/Prince Dammy Eke] Pulse Nigeria Prince Eze's death is coming 26 days after the death of LinChung on April 2, 2019 and one week after the death of movie director, Ifeanyichukwu Onyeabo, who passed away on April 19, 2019.
Now You Can Have an E-Cigarette With Your Pimms at Heathrow Airport
Alessandro Curci / Getty Images If you thought e-cigarettes were just another fad, you could still be right, I guess. But now there’s a designated e-cigarette zone at Heathrow Airport, which essentially gives legitimacy to e-smokers as a distinct group.
E-cig manufacturer Gamucci set up the 323-square foot lounge last week, ABC News reports. (For the uninitiated: electronic cigarattes are little battery-powered machines that give the user a nicotine fix but produce odorless vapor instead of smoke.
Papist Symbol | TIME
Ride a cock-horse¹ to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes. For centuries the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire has been famed for its Cross, its Puritan,² its tinkers,³ its cheese paring4, and its cakes5. Last week the Associated Press brought news: ¹Banbury Cross, to which many an American youngster has ridden a cockhorse, will be sacrificed to progress.
Paula Jones - Where Are They Now: The Clinton Impeachment
Then: She's the one who started it all. No, she didn't proposition anyone or commit adultery as a political figure, but she pointed the first finger of blame at the seated President Bill Clinton. With a formal lawsuit in May of 1994, Paula Jones accused the President of making a sexual advance toward her which she rebuffed while he was governor of Arkansas and she was a clerical worker in his administration.