Swans on Tea

Where they died*, hard.
Just in case you need the information.
*Theo didn’t actually die, but who cares.

Movie Quotes, in infographic form
I don’t think the Godfather one is right. It should be a Venn diagram:

And, on that line of thought, there’s another quote:

How to make the deranged Easter bunny costume from A Christmas Story

Name That Movie
I started a series of drawings in my sketchbook, it’s a kind of visual quiz of great movies. Each series is a sequence of six drawings of shots from classic films (in the order they appear on screen.) No portraits of movie stars, just iconic images from the film. When I finish [...]

Fishing Boat Sunk by Giant Jellyfish
If they make this into a movie, they won’t be able to use the line “Smile, you SOB”

Someday.
But not because of this.
Movie Theaters Will Fry Us All with Infrared to Stop Pirates
Fry us all? Oh, please.
Sharp, at the request of Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, has developed a method to ruin the camcorder footage shot by pirates in movie theaters. By placing mega IR lights behind the screen (which [...]

The mysterious equilibrium of zombies
In any decade there are really only a handful of movies about math (“Proof” comes to mind, as well as “A Beautiful Mind”), but a surprising number of movies that end up embodying math, even if it’s accidental. “Six Degrees of Separation” is based on the math of social networks. Thrillers [...]

Physics Buzz: Six degrees of Paul Erdős
Some famous names have low Erdős numbers— Bill Gates has an Erdős number of 4, Steven Chu’s is 7, and Albert Einstein is 2.
If Chu’s is 7, mine is no greater than 10; I can trivially trace a path through my thesis advisor to his, to Chu. [...]

Cracked: If Hollywood Taught Science Class

Movie Trivia: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Daniel Radcliffe’s voice changed while they were filming, but the movie was shot in sequence so it just gradually gets deeper throughout the film instead of being at different octaves here and there.

Sorry Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made
On the other hand, what human beings do need is “Things to say”. They need a huge supply of them. Amusing, essentially inconsequential things, which will make as many people in the room as possible feel relaxed and cordial. In this respect, Ghostbusters reveals [...]

Movie Trivia: Raiders of the Lost Ark
The movie was filmed in Tunisia because it was a lot cheaper to shoot there than Egypt, and since the script never called for shots of the Sphinx or the pyramids, so they were able to get away with it. In fact, one of the scenes was shot in [...]