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Video Games - The Young Professionals

Nice dancey cover of the Lana Del Rey track. (via)

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Game Of Thrones Season 2: “Shadow” Tease

Can’t wait for the new season.

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Beware giant car-pooping pigeon. (Taken with instagram)

Anti. (Taken with instagram)

“But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google. Refresh was clicked, again and again, but still did Internet Explorer 6 not load The Google. Perhaps The Google was broken, the people thought, but then The Yahoo too did not load. Nor did Hotmail. Nor USAToday.com. The land was thrown into panic. Internet Explorer 6 was minimized then maximized. The Compaq Presario was unplugged then plugged back in. The old mouse was brought out and plugged in beside the new mouse. Still, The Google did not load.”

Great letter from Popjustice that is, of course, partially about Lana Del Rey, but mostly about alternative music writers.

An old photo, but I can’t wait to be heading off there again in a fortnight. (Taken with instagram)

Islands by The xx

Great song, great video.

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Aldwych. (Taken with instagram)

Shut Up And Play The Hits Trailer

A documentary about LCD Soundsystem’s last gig last year might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but is so my cup of tea that it’s even got right amount of milk in it and is in my favourite mug just cooling to the perfect temperature.

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8-Bit games based on Greek myths. How many times will you try to get Sisyphus’s rock to the top of the hill?

Boardwalk Empire Special Effects

And, while we’re at it, here are some similar videos from Boardwalk Empire. Again, I had no idea quite how many effects shots were in this show.

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Breakdown of the some of the special effects shots in Game of Thrones

Clearly I was aware of the fact that there were special effects shots in the show, but I wasn’t quite aware of how many.

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Great hit rate on the Awesome People Hanging Out Together blog:

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

David Bowie, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono, John Lennon & Roberta Flack by Bob Gruen, NYC, 1975

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London sunrise (Taken with instagram)