no alligator shoes

i watch shows from the '80s, '90s, and '00s, and then comment about them. classics like murder she wrote, miami vice, xena, and anything from whedonverse are fair play.

[crossconnectmag]

Be Safe Around Water With Swim Reaper

The Swim Reaper is an interactive public service announcement launched by the government of New Zealand to promote water safety.

Water can turn deadly when people make bad calls in the water – The Swim Reaper is a reminder of this – danger lurks everywhere. He’s a character you definitely don’t want to meet and this campaign aims to make young people stop and think before they make bad decisions with potentially deadly consequences. On Instagram.

Don’t forget to tag #crossconnect in your tweets! 

posted by tu recepcja via

[no-alligator-shoes]

Ha!

[crossconnectmag]

Breathtaking Aerial Photos of New York City at Night Captured From 7,500 Feet

Renowned French American photographer Vincent Laforet embarked on the photo mission of a lifetime when he soared 7,500 feet in a helicopter above New York City to capture breathtaking aerial photos of the glittering cityscape at night. Held in only by a full-body harness, leaning out of the chopper over a dizzying expanse of darkness and tiny pinpoints of light, the photographer says his experience was “both exhilarating and terrifying” and “the scariest… and the most beautiful” flight of his career.

Titled Gotham 7.5K, the photos were shot on assignment for Men’s Health Magazine for an article about psychology. Laforet proposed shooting from an unusually high altitude to capture the lines formed by the streets of NYC at night, which remind him of “brain synapses.” After finding a helicopter pilot willing to fly at such a crazy altitude, the photographer had to work with him to plan flight paths and obtain special clearances to fly above airline traffic landing at airports.

Luckily, the trip was pulled off without a hitch, resulting in a truly stunning collection of photos showcasing the city’s iconic skyline from above. To see more, be sure to check out Laforet’s post on his experience and this behind-the-scenes video by David Geffin. Thanks MyModernMet

Like us on Facebook      Posted by Andrew

[crossconnectmag]

Illustrations by Anita Khrustaleva (Nurtdinova)

Anita Khrustaleva is a 26 years old graphic artist from Ufa, Russian Federation. She is currently a student majoring in architecture at the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University. You can see much more of Anita’s drawings and paintings on her Instagram, where he constantly post new work. 

Let’s make #CrossConnect the most popular hashtag on Twitter!

posted by Margaret

[bisign]

El barbero bicicletero y otras bicis insólitas

(vía El barbero bicicletero y otras bicis insólitas - Yorokobu)

[no-alligator-shoes]

Nice!

[joshreads]

at last, political campaigning has achieved its purist form: meme fights

the founding father are all high-fiving each other right now, in hell

[busket]

presidential candidates are getting engaged in internet fights

this is somehow the weirdest but most obvious turn of history

[charlesoberonn]

I want these back and forth tweets to be featured in textbooks

[no-alligator-shoes]

Judging from most of the debates, you'd think candidates would prefer memes to actually outlining a position. At least it's entertaining. But I think we're all gonna die.

[crossconnectmag]

Drawings by Katy Ann Gilmore

Katy Ann Gilmore is a visual artist living and working in Los Angeles. Katy received a BA in Mathematics, Art, and Spanish from Greenville College in Greenville, IL and an MFA in Visual Art from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. Working in sculpture, installation, and drawing/painting. Artist activities on Instagram and Twitter. 

Be sure to check out her Tumblr: @katyanngilmore

via 

Let’s make #CrossConnect the most popular hashtag on Twitter !

posted by Margaret

[crossconnectmag]

[cycleluv-deactivated20190630]

[no-alligator-shoes]

Underworld Evolution

So you wake up the last remaining elder, he’s a bit cranky, and your bff - a new vampire-lycan hydrid - is as reliable about his changing as a teenage boy’s first sexual encounter. He’s got a ways to go. And you go out the house wearing those shoes? Seriously? Can you be any less sensible than high, thick heels when you’re running around the hills of Eastern Europe? It’s good that he figured out how to get her out of that leather. I spent a movie and a half trying to figure out how she got into it. And what did she do if she had to pee? I guess vampires don’t have that need? It’s good that they found a range rover just lying around. (Or is that a land cruiser?) I’d hate for them to have to ride around with a half crapped out truck with a Markus stain down the side. Did he lose half a wing in that wreck out or what? Vampires have the ability to regenerate. Did his wing grow back? What about other things? These are important plot holes. Oh wait, he’s getting much better at changing when he needs to. I guess I might watch the rest of the movie, but it doesn’t have the same umpf as the first movie.

[no-alligator-shoes]

Battle of the Damned

Nothing says badass zombie movie like Dolph Lungren taking out his bifocals to look at a map. Yup, you know you're in good hands. These zombies are fast but they can't climb onto the hood of a car? And I just turned this on, he just reached the inner city, but it feels like the movie is over? Oh, no, those were just weird credits at the beginning of the movie. Is that Kate Beckinsale? Zooey Deschanel? I have no idea who that is. Wanna bet she's the "target"? What's with the eye makeup, buttercup? Oh they can't climb onto the hood of a car but they can climb a fire escape? What the deuce? Where the hell did Dolph come from? Is racoon girl the "target"? Where did he get that motorcycle? Why does she seem to be the only human being left? I guess you need to watch the movie.

[no-alligator-shoes]

Paranormal activity...

Or that damned demon is flirting with you, gurl! When the girl you’re sleeping with fails to let you know that she’s been stalked by a demon her entire life. I’d be like, “dammit, girl, get out!” Or I’d tie her ass down and get a priest. What’s this dude do? He buys a video camera in the hopes of catching the demon’s hijinks on video. When she got up and started flirting back, I’d be out. You on your own!

[no-alligator-shoes]

Blade three - why is dracula running?

Seriously, this dude is badass. And he’s leading Blade on a chase. Why? What’s the point? I don’t understand. I get that he’s toying with Blade, but why doesn’t he just kill the scooby gang when he has the chance?

[no-alligator-shoes]

Maybe we should stop using the transporter

That time jim wound up in other places - places other than the ones he was meant to be. There’s a lot of times this happened. I think I would just like to use a shuttle. Thanks.

[no-alligator-shoes]

James kirk tames the shrew

That time jim goes all taming of the shrew because the dohlman turns out to be an absolute spoiled twit. The dohlman stabs the ambassador who should be training her, and jim decides to go hardcore. After a smacking contest between jim and dohlman, he leaves. He goes back the next day, and faces armed resistance. He then threatens the dohlman with a spanking. At this point the klingons are running parallel to the enterprise and my internet just pooped out. This will have to be a two-parter.

[no-alligator-shoes]

Thorians - punctual and generally unhelpful

That moment when you’ve lost captain kirk because the ship he’s exploring disappeared and the thorians don’t believe you because the ship isn’t showing on their instruments. The ship’s crew is slowly going insane because of the region of space, mccoy’s pissed because he can’t find an antedote, and spock is fascinated by everyone’s behavior. We know this because he raises his eyebrow throughout the entire episode. Meanwhile, the thorians - after firing upon the enterprise and being fired upon - knit a weave in space to destroy the floating enterprise with graphics more worthy than space invaders. A faded Captain kirk starts appearing all over the ship. Mccoy finds an antedote to the interspace illness. When kirk reappears, the enterprise locks him into the tractor beam and uses the enterprise’s power to throw itself free of the thorian web. Kirk was saved and all were happy. The sideburns in this episode are kicking.

[no-alligator-shoes]

Stop breaking spirits, jim

That time when jim broke the spirit of the electric cloud by letting it know it’s not human. And the cloud steals a body to “continue” joining with a man it kidnapped 150 years prior. And then she decides she can’t go with the dude, and the dude decides to stay. Spock calls this human and irrational, and frankly, i agree.

[no-alligator-shoes]

Angry, angry artie

That time al bundy showed up on miami vice as an undercover fbi agent trying to bust a pornography ring. He has more hair and swagger than all the years of married, with children. He gets in too deep, and sonny and rico try to pull him out. It's too late, and he has a disastrous end. Before he does, Sonny and rico still manage to bust the ring with his help. Due to the discovery of a wiretap taped to his chest, rico runs around the last 10 minutes of the episode with his shirt unbuttoned. Furry. If you like that sort of thing.