Category Archives: cool things!
Just a little Photoshop experiment on an Otakon 2011 picture…
Thought I’d try out my Photoshop “skills” (as if I had any!) to see if I could take a photo from my set of Otakon pics and try to simulate the “tilt-shift” effect. Â True tilt-shift involves a fancy $1000 lens, but since I’m not going to have one of those… Continue reading
99 year old grandma, video game pro!
So cool! Umeji Narisawa of Sendai, Japan, 99 years young, plays her favorite videogame, “Bomberman”, like she has every day for 26 years! In Japanese, videogames are called “famicon” (ファミコン), which is Japanese shorthand for “family computer”, because it’s the computer that the rest of the family plays with, as… Continue reading
Wheel Ballet
It’s true, “Everything’s better with Muppets”…
90 year old WWII vet tells a touching story from the war…
WWII veteran Jack Leroy Tueller tells a story of one night in France after D-Day. He was an Army Air Corps pilot who was spending his first night there, while a German sniper kept shooting at him and the others at the makeshift airstrip. He was a trumpet player who… Continue reading
If this doesn’t warm your heart, you have none…
High school sweethearts Jack and Betty re-unite after 62 years… This is really sweet and just a bit salty, and you really are pulling for these two!
This is amazingly impressive, a truly modern illusionist…
I’ve never seen anyone do this before, this guy plays with light like earlier illusionists played with rope. You have to see it to believe it!