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This is Beautiful: My Father’s Garden

By prawn1 Friday March 12, 2010

We had a garden once. And then came the two terrors, Big Min and Lil’ Pun, who decided to re-decorate it for us by digging up the soil and gleefully eating the succulents. I would have severely disciplined them if not for the fact that they’re so very cute. Yes I know, I have a soft touch. But you didn’t visit to hear about my appendages.

Mirko Faienza, a cameraman from Italy, decided to document his father’s front garden and the insects that call it home. It’s an amazing little world made that much better by Mirko’s spectacular videography. The music is great too, it’s a truly beautiful piece. See My Father’s Garden below or watch it in HD on Vimeo.

He created the short film with his Panasonic 500 camcorder and an HD lens. See more of Mirko’s work on his website.

[via Laughing Squid]

The New “Robin Hood” Trailer Hits The Mark

By prawn1 Friday March 12, 2010

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The New “Robin Hood” Trailer Hits The Mark

From the melodramatic tagline to Kevin Costner’s under-acting I don’t have any fond memories of watching Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. At school we despised Bryan Adams for the part he played in music class – our teacher forced us to sing the movie’s ending theme “Everything I do, I do it for you” when she knew very well that we’d rather be watching the hotties horse about in River Dance. In any case, a new Robin Hood movie is on the horizon and from the looks of the trailer, is set to be a more grittier take on the story of the legendary archer and swordsman. Check it out below.

Directed by Ridley Scott (Kingdom of Heaven, Gladiator), the film sees Russell Crowe ditching the traditional tights in favour of a more menacing look – he’s armoured, very medieval, and quite angry about the injustices going on around these fair lands. Cate Blanchett stars as Lady Marian, and Mark Strong will play the King’s dastardly henchman, Sir Godfrey. Robin Hood is set to release worldwide on May 14th, 2010.

[via Cinematical]

To the MAX: Texo Launches New Service

By prawn1 Friday March 12, 2010

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Credit where credit is due. My mom once told me that, right after she walloped me for throwing a rock at my older brother. It’s not like he did anything wrong, I just felt like throwing something at someone and he was close. I was like that but I’m better now in case you’re wondering

But it is not of bad things that I write to you today, quite the opposite. In late 2008, I decided to start my own blog and needed to find a hosting company that the blog would call home. I happened upon local Cape Town company, Texo. I guess I am lucky that I didn’t have gone through a series of hosting companies to eventually find one suitable to my needs. In that respect, I can’t really compare them to others, but I can tell you that the service I received (and still continue to get) from Texo has been absolutely fantastic. I have a talent for breaking things on the blog and throughout the variety of “Arrrgh! I nerfed it. Haaaaaalp!” e-mails that I have exchanged with Texo’s tech magician Steve, he has been nothing but patient, friendly, and helpful. They really do stick to their motto, “Your website means everything to us!”

I owe Steve a big bag of thanks for all his efforts and I think a small way of showing that appreciation is by telling you about the new service that Texo has just launched – Wordpress MAX. The Onelargeprawn blog is on it right now and MAX provides the benefits of super-fast, optimized hosting for your Wordpress blog at an affordable price. The goodies that come part of MAX include unmetered bandwidth, use of the Akamai Content Distribution Network, and access to Texo’s Premium Theme Library. I am particularly happy to see the addition of the theme library – finding a theme to suit one’s blog is not necessarily the easiest thing, and every MAX customer will be able to use any of the professionally-made themes from WooThemes, free of charge.

I have only covered the bare necessities but if you are thinking of starting up a blog and need a host, I thoroughly recommend Texo and their Wordpress MAX offering. If you’d like to read more about it, visit Texo for further details.

Incidentally Onelargeprawn is a Texo affiliate so if you would like to purchase hosting from them, please do use our affiliate link. In time we’ll have enough money to buy quality beers and breath mints. Thanks ever so much.

Going Medieval: The Bayeux Tapestry Meme

By prawn1 Thursday March 11, 2010

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Going Medieval: The Bayeux Tapestry Meme

If you liked the Joseph Ducreux/Archaic Rap meme, you might enjoy the Bayeux Tapestry meme. Created sometime in the late 11th century, the Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth panel some 70 metres long and tells the story about the Norman conquest of England that happened in the year 1066.

That was then. This is now and as is commonplace with the Internet, the tapestry has been bastardized with modern pop culture references and other popular Internet memes. For your enjoyment, we pick 10 of our favourites from this medieval meme. Find them after ye olde jump.

Zoom and Enhance: Incredibly Close-up Insect Images

By prawn1 Tuesday March 9, 2010

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Zoom and Enhance: Incredibly Close-up Insect Images

Word around the scientific cooler is that the Scanning Electron Microscope (or SEM) can magnify images 250 times better than a light microscope. The expensive bit of kit valued up to 500,000 pounds blasts materials with a high-energy beam of electrons and the messages sent back build up a super-detailed image.

Retired scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner gets to play with this high-tech toy and has produced some amazing close-up images of insects. Check out some of his shots after the jump.

Official “Tron Legacy” Trailer is so Very Sexy

By prawn1 Tuesday March 9, 2010

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Official “Tron Legacy” Trailer is so Very Sexy

Our man Macross is on holiday somewhere in the United States and is a big fan of Disney’s 1982 attempt at the sci-fi computer animation. I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but I’m think he would have jizzed in his pants upon seeing the official teaser trailer for Tron Legacy. It looks awesome to say the very least – check it out below.

You can watch the high definition trailer at program-glitch-esc.net.

Tron Legacy is a sequel to the 1982 film Tron, with Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprising their roles. Here’s the synopsis:

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidante (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

It’ll be the first feature film from director Joseph Kosinski and electro-pop duo Daft Punk will do the score. Tron Legacy will be shown in 3D starting on December 17th, 2010 in U.S. theatres. Word has it that it’ll reach South African shores on December 31st.

[via GeekTyrant]

Hellofreaks

By prawn1 Friday March 5, 2010

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Hello! this is my past self saying hello to you on this glorious Friday morning. I’m in Yzerfontein and in all likelihood boiling my butt off but thanks to the awesomeness of Wordpress’ scheduled posting thingamajig, I am able to bring you another mindless post. It’s OK, there’s no need to thank me. Today we take an in-depth look at the works from French graphic design studio Hellofreaks, and by in-depth, I mean nothing but images

Have a look at some of the funky illustrations after the jump.

Trololololololololo!

By prawn1 Thursday March 4, 2010

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I’m on leave for the next couple of days and that makes me really happy. This little clip is just the icing on the cake.

Sing with me – trololo tro ro trololo! Trololo tro ro trololo!

[via Danneville]

The State of the Internet

By prawn1 Wednesday March 3, 2010

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We love infographics as moving images, and in “The State of the Internet”, a creative agency by the name of JESS3 has lovingly made a visualization about you, me, and people around the world contribute to the present state of the Intertubes. The figures are staggering. Have a look at the video below.

[via Laughing Squid]

BONUS: If you liked this, you may also like Did You Know 4.0.

The Darksiders Competition Winners

By prawn1 Tuesday March 2, 2010

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Our Darksiders competition has finally come to an end. In case you missed the action, we started off the competition asking people to toss a turtle as far as they could. Many productive work hours were lost in the process, and in the short space of two days, some of the entrants had klapped the game so hard that they surpassed the theoretical maximum score! So an update to the competition was required, and we went into a sudden death round, where a score over 10 million guaranteed the entrant a place in the next round.

Six persistent entrants made it into the sudden death round and we asked them to play one of my favourite indie games from last year, Adam Atomic’s Canabalt. They had 24 hours to submit their scores. That time has expired and we have now arrived at the official winners announcement. Find it after the jump.