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Oceansize is a really impressive short monster movie created by four French animation students. Here’s a direct link with more information, and here’s a version with English subtitles (although you don’t really need it). [via io9]

8mm footage shot by my grandparents. I think it’s pretty neat to see how the San Francisco skyline has changed since then. The music was added by the company that digitized the footage.

A little while back, my girlfriend’s 9-year-old made a really neat lego Dalek. Since then, he’s created a second, alternate one plus the TARDIS and the Doctor himself. Take a look after the jump.

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A wonderful homage to my favorite movie, John Carpenter’s The Thing. Via MeFi

My girlfriend Brooke’s 9-year-old recently got into Doctor Who, and he built this wonderful likeness of a Dalek out of Legos. Pretty neat!

UPDATE: Since this post, Rowan has done more Doctor Who/Lego stuff. Check it out here.

By way of explanation. Via the always fascinating VRTPALEO mailing list.

A blog that is either called “Lego Blog, “Lego Is Fun” or “Lego Mania” (some branding issues here) has some pretty nifty photos of “microscale” versions of Transformers done in Lego. They actually transform, with some help.

Also, check out Lego Stephen Hawking.

Forrest J. Ackerman, November 24, 1916 - December 4, 2008

Tijuana Bibles were pornographic tracts popular in America before the advent of mass-market full-color glossy wank-fodder such as Playboy. A typical bible consisted of eight stapled comic-strip frames portraying characters and celebrities (eg. John Dillinger, Popeye, Disney characters) in wildly sodomistic situations. Many could be considered grossly racist, sexist, and otherwise wholly “politically incorrect.” Browser discretion is advised.

My name is Quinn, and I’ve scanned in a few dozen of these literary gems.

Read (and view) on.

sweetgifs.com Via NOTCOT.org