http://coolthing.net Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:14:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Axe Cop is a web comic drawn by a 29 year old Los Angeles native Ethan Nicolle, and written by his 5 year old brother, Malachai. It's hard to sum up what is so great about Axe Cop. The stories began whilst the two were playing with toys during a week's ... http://coolthing.net/axe-cop Miroslav Tichý is an Outsider photographer, born in 1926, and unknown to the art world until relatively recently. Tichý lived in the small town of Kyjov, Checkoslovakia, and after a period in Communist prison camps, lived a life on the margins of society, taking photos of women illicitly through his ... http://coolthing.net/miroslav-tichy Hypnotism. Did you know some subjects under hypnosis can fluently speak foreign languages they have never previously learnt (xenoglossy)? Or that it was used to increase survival during surgery before the invention of anesthesia (Dr. James Esdale)? There is nothing quite like a great hypnotist in action. One of the best to ... http://coolthing.net/hypnosis-videos TVTopes.org is a great wikipedia-like that seeks to catalog all the tricks and conventions of TV and film. These are not cliches (that are, by definition, uninteresting), but rather - common archetypes that TV viewers subconsciously expect to see, and that a skilled scriptwriter can manipulate to make engaging stories. ... http://coolthing.net/tv-tropes-standard-news-report-visual-language Zombo.com is for when: • You have had a long day at work, and then your boss asks you to stay later. • You are unsure about your true direction in life, and are maybe thinking of making a substantial change. • You know what and how you want to do something, but ... http://coolthing.net/zombo-com Magic has always been great, but add YouTube and it's suddenly just a little bit more democratic. Everyone should have a collection of little tricks, and fortunately the old rules of never revealing your secrets seem to no longer apply in the internet age. My favorites is a good old spoon ... http://coolthing.net/magic Martin Arnold is an experimental filmmaker from Austria, who studied both art history and psychology. Both are equally important to his films, which appear a little like midday movies on acid. I have heard two stories as to how Arnold makes his films. One is that he is incredibly old-school, material ... http://coolthing.net/martin-arnold-extreme-film-editing For those you have seen Brick, the directorial debut for Rian Johnson, this may remind you to see it again. For those of you who haven't seen it, you're in for a particular treat. A true cinema classic, Brick overlays teen high school movie locations with the language and plot ... http://coolthing.net/brick-the-movie Browse to your heart's content the history of great album covers at LP Cover Lover. It would be hard to pick the best - genres span Opera to Calypso to Psychedelia - but these ones raised a grin The stories behind some of the most iconic album covers' creation are often ... http://coolthing.net/album-cover-art We all know Etsy - the online store for a million home crafty-types, of varying skills and inclinations. If you want to explore the mad genius fringe of Etsy, try Regretsy - a collection of the weirdest findings on Etsy. Explore the site by the 'art' tag to find gems like ... http://coolthing.net/regretsy