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| Psycho Shower Murder Scene Fun Facts Posted: 02 Jan 2009 01:42 AM PST Motion picture decency standards in the 1960 didn't allow for things like nude women being stabbed to death in showers. Consequently, Hitchcock was forced to create the impression of nudity and violence without actually showing a breast, a buttock, or a knife puncturing skin. The result is a terrifying masterpiece of a montage. And even though it's probably the most analyzed (and parodied) 45 seconds in film history, we're willing to bet the following tidbits slipped past you. Forget the bloody corpse in the bathtub: what really got "Psycho" censors worked up was the toilet. Just before stepping into that fateful shower, Marion tears up an incriminating note and flushes it. Hitchcock's close-up of the swirling commode water was the first ever allowed in an American film. What looks like blood funneling down the drain is actually Bosco chocolate syrup. Hitchcock thought it looked more real in black-and-white than the fake stuff. Tastier, too. The scene is composed of more than 90 shots seen in 70 different camera angles. It took Hitchcock and his crew an entire week to film it. To put that into perspective: The entire film took only six weeks. The woman who played Janet Leigh's body double in about half of the shower-scene shots was named Myra Jones. In a sad case of life imitating art, Jones was stabbed to death in 1988. Her killer? A mentally disturbed handyman who targeted older women. He'd murdered at least one other before her - that police know about. After the release of "Psycho," Hitchcock received an irate letter from a man whose daughter had refused to take baths after seeing the French thriller "Les Diaboliques" (in which a man is drowned in a tub). After seeing "Psycho," she refused to take showers as well. Hitchcock's reply? "Send her to the dry cleaners." Although popular with most audiences, "Psycho" was reviled by ophthalmologists. Eye doctors everywhere pointed out that a corpse's pupil dilate, yet - in a stark close-up of her face after her supposedly deadly shower - Janet Leigh's eyes remain contracted. Ever the obsessed technician, Hitchcock listened, using dilating eyedrops for stiffs in all future films. The article above was written by Ransom Riggs, as part of a longer article Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in the Nov-Dec 2006 issue of mental_floss, published here with permission. Visit mental_floss for more fun stuff everyday!  | ||||||||||
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 01:39 AM PST (Links open in a new browser window/tab)
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| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 12:42 AM PST
The "Lauda Shikito Salvatorem" byline in the backside (where else?) of the cute lil’ turd means "All Praise Shikito the Savior!" Link | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 08:22 PM PST Moonlights are wonderful glowing orbs (or half-orbs) that give off a gentle glow of light, just like its namesake. They are made from polyethylene spheres 13 to 30 inches (33 to about 75 cm) in diameter and can be used indoors and outdoors (or even floating in a pool). Moonlights aren’t cheap, though - an orb can set you back anywhere from $325 to $1000 - but unlike the Moon, they are guaranteed to illuminate even if the sky is cloudy: Link - via Fortune Small Business | More pics at DVICE - via musecrack | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 08:21 PM PST It’s hard to describe Candice Tripp’s art - it’s a little dark and macabre but with a touch of gentle humor. This one is titled "The Escape" - and yes, that’s a splotch of ink on the girl’s head: Link - via Misadventures in Crazytown | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 08:20 PM PST
Being trendy will cost you though, the stone door knocker goes for $98, which means you have to be stone cold rich to have one for your house: Link | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 08:19 PM PST There’s no confusion as to when your battery is done chargin’ if you use this Toasty Charger by Hyun-A Ko. The concept design even has a handy dandy color coded LED light to let you know that your battery is being toasted, … er charged: Link by Design Milk | ||||||||||
| Tuttuki Bako Virtual Reality Box Posted: 01 Jan 2009 08:18 PM PST
Made by Bandai Japan (who else but the Japanese would make such a wonderfully silly thing?), the box is a clock … until you insert your index finger into the hole on its side. Then, it’s game on: you’ll see a digital replica of your finger and you can explore a virtual world like tickling a Panda, or playing with a squishy slime ball. Link - via sleepinginmyhead | Here’s the video clip of the Tuttuki Bako in action | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 07:36 PM PST This room is amazing. It’s all handpainted by DogGrrl from Craftster. I’m extremely impressed with her perspective - it took me a few tries, but if you look closely, you can see where the actual wall ends and where her painting skills begin.   And this is genius - shortly after she posted the pictures of her completed room, she had someone gut an old, not-working Coke machine and put shelves inside. The result? Computer cabinet. Love it.   Link for more pictures, which I highly recommend checking out. It’s even more detailed than what you see here! | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 01:50 PM PST
There is finally an alternative. The British engineering firm, Novacem, has created a new cement that uses magnesium silicates, which emit no carbon dioxide when they are heated. As the cement hardens, it absorbs CO2. In all, it removes about .6 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of cement used. | ||||||||||
| Mad Scientists Are Actually Just Mad Engineers Posted: 01 Jan 2009 12:11 PM PST Sanjay Kulkarni of Cowbirds in Love comic nailed it: "Mad scientists" are actually just mad engineers! Check out Sanjay’s website for more webcomic goodness: Link | ||||||||||
| DIY Lightbox for Seasonal Affective Disorder Posted: 01 Jan 2009 12:11 PM PST
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| Ghostbuster Proton Packs for Halloween Posted: 01 Jan 2009 12:10 PM PST
For Halloween, Sterling Ely built himself and friends a set of Ghostbuster proton packs out of foam. Silly strings substitute for real proton discharge, and I’m sure that Sterling remembered not to cross the stream to avoid total protonic reversal. Link: Ghostbuster Proton Packs [Flickr photoset] | The proton packs in action | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 12:09 PM PST
From Kelvington (who has a whole bunch of other mash up parodies), behold the Doctor Who Meets Star Trek for Christmas: Link [embedded YouTube] | ||||||||||
| Posted: 01 Jan 2009 12:08 PM PST
These are but two of some really interesting ceramic sculptures, in shapes inspired by nature, made by former fashion stylist and art director Pamela Sunday. I think granuloid and black granuloid shown above are inspired by the shapes in nature specifically called … cheerios. |
It doesn’t get much stranger than this, folks: Here’s SHIKITO in Brown, which from what I can gather is a cute little turd-shaped vinyl mascot figure by 
This Stone Door Knocker at 
Tuttuki Bako (or Tuttuki Box) is a toy unlike any other. 
To help his sister who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder, Boris Legradic of Letters from Lausanne blog made her a DIY lightbox:
Remember the epic 
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