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how the FUCK did they make that penguin from wallace and gromit look so evil like it’s literally just a plasticine penguin but it somehow radiates Pure Malice look at it

truly character design at its finest

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Part of the reason that Wallace and Gromit is so successful is that every single character is just so expressive. The people’s lips move like half a foot every frame. Gromit has basically only his eyebrows, and he has more personality than two average real people. The Moon Machine was up there with the rest of them, and it didn’t even have a face.

The penguin, on the other hand, never expressed anything at all. It’s designed almost explicitly with purpose of not expressing anything. It’s practically featureless, with only the bare minimum of detail necessary to tell you it’s a penguin. It has a face, but it never uses it. It has no sclera, meaning it stares straight ahead at all times. It actively repels most attempts to ascribe any emotion to it – at best, you can feel that it is coldly satisfied, perhaps detachedly frustrated. I’d say it’s like a robot wearing the skin of an animal, but that’s literally the villain of A Close Shave, and he was pretty expressive.

It’s like Aardman found a tiny crack in the likability curve, far away from the uncanny valley but a hell of a lot deeper, and decided to build a penguin there.

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Looking up, Valerio Zanicotti

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Every year in early spring, Belgium welcomes the lovers of cabins of all kinds. The festival “Passion Robinson” brings together creators, architects, landscapers and all sorts of of alternative home enthusiasts. There are more than 40 exhibitors and various cabins.

This “floating boat” is affixed by cables to the accommodate shifts and movement of the trees.

Submitted by Chris Cameron / @christophe_cameron

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SUBMISSION: Adam Hillman, Color Balance, 2018

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Redwoods A-Frame, Mendocino, California

Submitted by Colby Larson / @colbyglarson

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Life After People, Joe Nafis

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beethoven’s waldstein sonata manuscript , 1804

A Beethoven biographer from the beginning of this century [c.1900] tells us that the Waldstein sonata “had at some time acquired the nickname ‘Horror,’ presumably because of the thrusting, agitated figuration and the surprising modulations of its opening which are apt to make one shudder.”

The author’s shudderings are based on a misunderstanding: the Waldstein Sonata is known in France as “L’aurore.”

alfred brendel, musical thoughts and afterthoughts

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Nintendo Handheld illustration by Rob Cham

via twitter

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Arts & Architecture, Leo Garcia Mendez and Raya Sader Bujaner

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A Millennial’s Guide to Cocktails, Chaz Hutton

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me: *sitting on my couch w no pants eating a cold poptart watching chopped* also me: *screaming* you can’t possibly make a decent panna cotta in 30 minutes you buffoon wyd!!!!!!