Terrifyingly Creepy Vintage Halloween Costumes

These costumes will haunt your dreams

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45 of the cutest Easter Bunnies you ever see

Hahaha, joking… 45 Easter Bunnies more terrifying than a crucified man coming back from the dead.

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“My White Trash Family”

For the past ten years Philadelphia-based artist Kim Alsbrooks has been painting miniature portraits on trash. Her series “My White Trash Family” began when she became interested in historical biases in art, and specifically portraits painted during the watercolor on ivory era (17th-18th century).

Alsbrooks has produced over 600 paintings since it started. All beverage cans are pre-flattened, mostly by passing cars or trucks, and chooses a portrait to fit each specific piece of trash. She gessoes them, draws the image in graphite, paints with oils and varnishes.

Have a look at a selection of her paintings below.

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Posing with Their Younger Selves

As the stars hit the red carpet for the 2014 Oscars, it’s time to reflect on where they’ve been before… it’s fascinating to see how much these stars have changed… or remained almost identical.

Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013 (left) and 1989

Tom Hanks in 2014 (left) and in 1980

Sandra Bullock in 2014 (left) and in 1993

Meryl Streep in 1980 (left) and in 2013

Matthew McConaughey in 2014 (left) and in 1996

Julia Roberts in 2013 (right) and in 1989

Jennifer Lawrence in 2014 (right) and in 2007

Jared Leto in 2014 (right) and in 1994

Christian Bale in 2013 (left) and in 1987

Amy Adams in 2014 (left) and in 1999

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Oscars 2014 – Winners

Oscars 2014… And the Winners are:

Best Motion Picture: 12 Years a Slave

Achievement in Directing: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)

Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze (Her)

Original Score: Steven Price (Gravity)

Original Song: Let It Go (Frozen)

Best Animated Feature Film: Frozen

Best Animated Short Film: Mr. Hublot

Achievement in Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)

Achievement in Visual Effects: Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (Gravity)

Achievement in Costume Design: Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby)

Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling: Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Live-Action Short Film: Helium

Best Documentary Short Subject:  The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Best Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom

Best Foreign-Language Film: The Great Beauty (Italy)

Achievement in Sound Mixing: Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro (Gravity)

Achievement in Sound Editing: Glenn Freemantle (Gravity)

Achievement in Film Editing: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (Gravity)

Achievement in Production Design: Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn (The Great Gatsby)

Hosted by Ellen DeGeneres

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BAFTA Film Awards 2014 – Winners

Bafta 2014… And the Winners are:

Best Film: 12 Years a Slave

Outstanding British Film: Gravity

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: Kieran Evans – Kelly + Victor

Film Not in the English Language: The Great Beauty

Documentary: The Act of Killing

Animated Film: Frozen

Original Screenplay: Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell – American Hustle

Adapted Screenplay: Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena

Director: Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity

Leading Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Leading Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Original Music: Steven Price – Gravity

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity

Editing: Dan Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush

Production Design: Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn – The Great Gatsby

Costume Design: Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby

Make Up & Hair: Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell – American Hustle

Sound: Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro – Gravity

Special Visual Effects: Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny – Gravity

British Short Animation: Sleeping With the Fishes

British Short Film: Room 8

EE Rising Star Award: Will Poulter

Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema: Peter Greenaway

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iPhone Tips and Tricks: Photos

I’m going to share with you iPhone tips and tricks that will help you get the most of your iPhone.

Today’s Tips and Tricks is about:

PHOTOS

Picture That

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Happy St George’s Day!

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Facts of St George’s life have passed through the centuries growing in legend and myth. However, he must have been some character in his lifetime for his reputation to have survived for almost 1,700 years!

There are many accounts giving what are believed to be the facts outlining the life of England’s Patron Saint. Below are the widely accepted ‘facts’ of St George’s life.

• St George was born to Christian parents in A.D. 270 (3rd Century) in Cappadocia, now Eastern Turkey
• He moved to Palestine with his Mother and became a Roman soldier, rising to the high rank of Tribunus Militum
• However, he later resigned his military post and protested against his pagan leader, the Emperor Diocletian (245-313 AD), who led Rome’s persecution of Christians
• His rebellion against the Emperor resulted in his imprisonment, but even after torture he stayed true to his faith
• The enraged Diocletian had St George…

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Easter Infographics

Here are some Easter facts, enjoy!

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National Alfred Hitchcock Day

Today is the National Alfred Hitchcock Day!

To celebrate I bring to you guys Stephen Rebello’s new article, “6 Great Reasons Why Hitchcock Is Still the Master of Suspense” and his 2 videos that he speaks about Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, the director’s relationship with his wife, Alma, and the radical way that Psycho changed the way people see movies.

Enjoy!

6 Great Reasons Why Hitchcock Is Still the Master of Suspense

by Stephen Rebello

Psycho. Vertigo. North by Northwest. The Birds. If Alfred Hitchcock had directed nothing more than that astonishing quartet, he’d still be considered the maestro of creating nail-biting suspense, romantic intrigue, and unforgettable thrills. But that incredible run of movies, released in theaters from 1958 to 1963, represents only a drop in the bloody bucket of Hitchcock’s masterworks, which stretch back to the 1920s and extend into the 1970s. If you need a reminder of why Hitchcock rules as the all-time master of suspense, and why he is considered the man who pretty much wrote the book on the genre, here’s your quick cheat sheet.

1) Hitchcock Made Us Scream in the Shower

From Boston to Bangkok, Hitchcock stunned 1960 audiences by doing the unheard-of in Psycho: brutally killing-off the film’s sympathetic heroine—and biggest star—less than half way through the action. Taking his cue from the source novel by Robert Bloch, Hitchcock blasted our notions of safety and privacy by staging the landmark murder scene in, of all places, the bathroom, that tight, white space where one feels most relaxed and vulnerable. Or, at least, used to. And not only did he film Psycho in black and white to help minimize all that blood-letting, but he and editor George Tomasini also employed then-revolutionary rapid-fire editing techniques that suggested nudity and violence. To put the whole thing over the top, he cranked up a shrieking all-strings musical score by Bernard Herrmann. Voila, Hitchcock, his star Janet Leigh, and his merry band of gifted collaborators set a standard for heart-stopping terror that has yet to be topped—but is endlessly imitated.

2) Hitchcock Brought Menace Out into the Open

Dark alleys? Shifty-eyed villains with twirling moustaches? Graveyards? Rain-slicked cobblestone streets? Haunted houses, rattling chains, and bats in the belfry? Hitchcock considered these clichés ripe for parody and, beginning with his British films of the 1920s, the director shone a bright light on terror and dark deeds. With Hitchcock, thrills can even erupt during a kid’s birthday party, as happens in Young and Innocent and The Birds. The sophisticated, stylish heroes and heroine of The 39 Steps and North by Northwest get chased by planes in broad daylight and open spaces; in those same films, and such other movies as Blackmail, Saboteur, and Hitchcock’s two versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much, dramatic action unfolds against the backdrop of tourist attractions and national monuments like the United Nations, Mount Rushmore, the British Museum, the Statue of Liberty, Radio City Music Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. When violence erupts in and around shower stalls, ski runs, telephone booths, attics, and mountain roads, the lesson is simple: There is nowhere to hide. Chaos and terror will find you, personified by the charming, attractive, and seductive villains of such Hitchcock thrillers as Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Stage Fright, Strangers on a Train, Psycho, Topaz, and Family Plot. Other films, from Charade right up through the Batman and Mission: Impossible have been following Hitchcock’s lead ever since.

3) Hitchcock Made Us Walk a Mile in His Heroes’ Shoes

Hitchcock often bragged to the press about how his films grabbed audiences by “making the viewer sweat” and “really putting them through it.” One of the most groundbreaking ways he put us through it was his frequent use of traveling point-of-view shots—that is, moving the camera in a way that places the viewer in the same position as the character on-screen. It’s a technique that makes us uneasy right along with James Stewart when we walk with him down ominous London streets in The Man Who Knew Too Much or when he obsessively stalks Kim Novak up and down hilly San Francisco in Vertigo. We’re jittery when we move slowly up the hill with Vera Miles in Psycho or when we glide along with her toward old Mrs. Bates sitting in a chair under a naked light bulb in a basement. And how about when we walk down a dock with Tippi Hedren, expecting her to be pecked by the birds, or when we hover with her outside the closed door of a room in which she is about to be engulfed by our feathered fiends? Hitchcock isn’t content with merely making us spectators. We’re full-on participants.

4) Hitchcock Tells His Audience More Than His Characters Know

Hitchcock and his screenwriters created some of the most dazzling moments in movie history by emphasizing agonizing suspense rather than simple, go-for-the-throat shock. The innocent little boy in Hitchcock’s ’30s thriller Sabotage thinks he’s carrying a harmless parcel through London; we know he’s carrying a bomb that is set to detonate at a certain time. In the Psycho shower scene, the audience is shown, through the opaque shower curtain, what Janet Leigh doesn’t see until it’s too late: the approaching shadow of a killer. Grace Kelly searches the empty apartment of a suspected wife killer in Rear Window while we, along with James Stewart, break into cold sweats watching the murderer make his way back home. The heroine of The Birds waits impatiently on a bench for a classroom of kids to be let out of school, unaware that flocks of malevolent birds are amassing slowly and silently behind her.

5) Hitchcock Kept Surprises As Surprises

It’s no exaggeration to credit Hitchcock with helping change the way we go to movies. Psycho was made back when the price of a movie ticket bought you a double feature, newsreel, short subjects, and trailers, and movie ticket-buyers tended to pop in and out of theaters whenever they pleased. With Psycho, Hitchcock wanted to create an event. So, he refused to hold any pre-release critics’ screenings, let alone a premiere. He forced movie-theater owners to sign contracts demanding zero tolerance of any moviegoer expecting to enter the theater once the film started. He launched the film’s release with a massive publicity campaign that stipulated in newspaper, radio, television ads, and posters in theater lobbies: “No one . . . but no one . . . will be admitted to the theater after the start of each performance of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.” He recorded announcements to broadcast on radio and through loudspeakers at theaters warning Psycho audiences not to reveal the ending to their friends. The public ate it up. They formed lines around the block, kept the movie’s secrets to themselves, and turned Psycho into a worldwide phenomenon. Can you imagine any of this happening in our era of wall-to-wall social media, instant gratification, and gleeful spoilers? Neither can we.

6) Hitchcock Revealed More by Showing Less

Hitchcock may be known best for cinematic suspense and thrills, but he was equally superb at finding suspense and thrills in eroticism. That long, long, long nuzzle and kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the ’40s spy thriller Notorious sizzles over six decades later. When gorgeous adventuress Grace Kelly slyly offers retired jewel thief Cary Grant his choice of leg or breast during a picnic above the French Riviera in To Catch a Thief, she’s offering a bit more than cold chicken. Sexy spy lady Eva Marie Saint seduces fugitive Cary Grant aboard a posh train, purring, “It’s going to be a long night . . . and I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started. You know what I mean?” Yeah, we do. And, without a bit of nudity or tawdry grappling, doesn’t Janet Leigh’s long lunch break tryst in a cheap hotel with boyfriend John Gavin in Psycho reek of backstreet eroticism? And the chilling spin Anthony Perkins as Psycho’s own Norman Bates puts on the line, “My mother and I were more than happy . . . ” tells you more than you need to know about that relationship.

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