Create A Word Collage At Wordle

Check out Wordle, a website where you can generate a “word cloud” by providing a group of text. For example, I just entered the text of this post on The Fire Wire– and this is what emerged.

 

Tooth Tattoos

The Heward Dental Lab in Salt Lake City specializes in “dental tattoos,” which are actually custom hand-painted crowns. Owner and main artist Steve Heward is a traditional oil painter too. The artwork on a crown costs between $75 and $500.   

Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Simon Cowell, David Beckham, Amy Winehouse, Abraham Lincoln, Elvis, David Letterman, Tiger Woods, George Washington

Helium Pants, Super Chill Monkey & Backflipping Guys – 3 Levi’s Viral Ads

This is a series of 3 viral videos created by Unbuttoned Films to promote Levi’s jeans. 

 

Remember…jeans are no longer just for wearing.  Denim pants will now help men soar to the heavens, cushion their acrobatic descent and aid in finally civilizing the orangutan.  

 

Enjoy the short films, I am off to the nearest helium filling station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Beatles Reportedly Heading to Guitar Hero or Rock Band

Following the success of two weeks of the Beatles’ music on American Idol, the Fab Four’s catalog may be branching out again: Reps for the band are reportedly talking to both Activision and MTV Games about possibly releasing a Guitar Hero or Rock Band based around Beatles’ tunes. According to a source close to the negotiations, the final deal could be worth millions, but first must get the approval of both Apple Corps. and EMI. Apple Corps’ tight grip on the Beatles catalog has loosened since Jeff Jones became the company’s chief executive, as evidenced by the band’s music appearing in American Idol, Cirque du Soleil Love show and the film Across the Universe. “To my view, it’s only a matter of time before we see Beatles songs that are the original recordings in motion pictures, in television work, and yes, maybe even one day in a commercial,” said Sony/ATV chief executive Martin Bandier, who holds more than 200 Beatles copyrights. Whichever video game company wins the battle to release a Beatles-themed game, a source says a deal “could be reached in a matter of weeks.” (Rolling Stone)

The Mini-Mizer: Picture Yourself In Plastic

Have you ever wondered what you would look like in plastic and miniaturized? This site allows you to build up a picture of yourself as you would appear if you were three inches tall and made to look like a LEGO Minifig.

 

Click here to begin.

 

Here Come Marvel’s Avengers, And Stan Lee, Joe Simon Weigh In

“What if I told you we were putting together a team?”  That’s what Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) teases in the closing minutes of The Incredible Hulk. But Stark’s plans come as no surprise to comic-book fans. They have been salivating ever since Marvel Studios announced plans to develop a team of superheroes to appear first in solo films, then unite as an on-screen team. Iron Man director Jon Favreau, who is developing a sequel to be released in April 2010, says Marvel’s plan is “to team up the heroes for The Avengers, which is made up of all of the Marvel heroes they have the rights to.” Favreau says the team’s lineup has changed throughout the years, “but the ones Marvel is talking about now are Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Iron Man. I would love to see that.” A scene following the closing credits of Iron Man introduced Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, who will be instrumental in bringing the heroes together. Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios’ president of production, confirms that he’s working toward the day when “heroes can cross into each other’s adventures and occasionally team up if there’s a foe too great for any one of them to handle.” He and screenwriter Zak Penn (X2: X-Men United, Elektra, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Incredible Hulk) are uniting to get Avengers in theaters by summer 2011.

 

Here’s what Stan Lee, 85, who created the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man and Nick Fury characters, and Joe Simon, 94, creator of Captain America, had to say about the origins of the next wave of comic-book characters headed for the big screen.

 

Thor 

 

Release date: Solo film to be released June 4, 2010 Screenwriter: Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend) Origin: Disabled medical student Donald Blake discovers a mighty hammer that transforms him into his alter ego, the Norse warrior Thor. Lee recalls meeting years ago with Fabio, the romance-novel cover boy, about playing the part. “Someone brought him up to my office to see if he could play Thor,” Lee says. “Visually, he would have been good, but in those days we weren’t even in a position to do a movie.” Lee says Thor “will have to be someone big and strong and kind of blondish. And there should be a nobility.”

 

Ant-Man 

 

Release date: Solo film, but timing not yet available Director: Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) Screenwriters: Wright and Joe Cornish Origin: Biochemist Hank Pym can alter his size as well as communicate with and control insects. Ant-Man creator Stan Lee recently had lunch with Wright to discuss the direction of the film. “There’s never been a hero like this in the movies,” Lee says. “I did one comic book called The Man in the Ant Hill about a guy who shrunk down and there were ants or bees chasing him. That sold so well that I thought making him into a superhero might be fun.”

 

The First Avenger: Captain America 

 

Release date: Solo film to be released May 6, 2011 Origin: Captain America made his debut in 1941 as lowly U.S. Army Pvt. Steve Rogers. “We had him peeling spuds,” creator Joe Simon recalls. “The government shot him up with a super-serum, which made him the first of what was to be an army of superheroes.” Simon and comic-book artist Jack Kirby, who died in 1994, created the character during World War II as an all-American adversary to Adolf Hitler. “We were a war-consumed nation, just like today,” he says. “Hitler was a comic foil for our character, and every comic sold out that first year.” Simon now suggests that Osama bin Laden might be an appropriate foe for Captain America to pursue. But Captain America more likely will take on his most famous adversary, the Red Skull — a Nazi (later turned Communist) introduced by Simon in Captain America Comics #1.

 

Nick Fury 

 

Release date: Not intended as a solo film, but character will appear in The Avengers universe in summer 2011 Origin: Lee introduced the character in 1963 in the war magazine Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. “It did very well,” Lee says. “But after a couple of years, I got bored with it and wanted to kill it. Years later, I got a lot of fan mail asking, ‘What happened to Sgt. Fury?’ In those days, there was a popular show called The Man From U.N.C.L.E., so I brought Nick back as a colonel for S.H.I.E.L.D.: Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division.” 

Meet The Robots of WALL-E

Here are some of the robots from Pixar’s WALL•E, the eagerly anticipated June 27 release. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), the animated adventure features the voices of Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin and Ben Burtt.