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joke time

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All 3 Childish Gambino Albums Re-Enter Billboard 200 After “This Is America” and ‘SNL’ Both Donald Glover and Childish Gambino have been unstoppable over the past week. After hosting Saturday Night Live on May 5 and releasing the “This Is America”video, Gambino’s album sales have increased by a massive 419 percent in the U.S. in the week ending May 10, per Billboard. Visit ForeverChildish.com to read more (link in bio)

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Wakanda’s marketplace requested by @forgetfulmarron

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Listen to Crabs in a Barrel - Atlanta S2 E11: The Atlanta FX Podcast by The Atlanta FX Podcast #np on #SoundCloud

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[New episode] The #AtlantaFX Podcast, S2 E10 “FUBU”, hosted by @AhmadChildress @UralG & @THATJacqueline

Also available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-atlanta-fx-podcast/id1357441754?mt=2 … 

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Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy | S3:E1 The Swamp

It’s here!  Watch the first episode in the final chapter now.

Megatronus hunts for the Requiem Blaster as we learn about its mysterious past. Elsewhere, Megatron and his team are also searching for the weapon, hoping to get to it first, when they encounter Grimlock and his fellow Dinobots.

New Episodes on Tumblr every Tuesday!

Watch on Tumblr.

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Clever KFC Ads Perfectly Replaced Fire With Spicy Fried Chicken

The best print ads often make you look twice. A perfect example? This campaign for KFC Hot and Spicy out of Hong Kong.

In a clever and well executed set of ads, Ogilvy Hong Kong replaces fire in photography—shots of the Space Shuttle, a rocket-powered race car and a group of Power Ranger stand-ins—with blown-up (in more ways than one) images of spicy fried chicken.

There’s not much to the concept, spotlighted by Campaign Brief Asia, but in this case that’s a good thing. Once you get the concept, you get the concept and can just sit back and appreciate the craft.

CREDITS:

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Hong Kong Client: KFC Hong Kong Chief Creative Officer: Reed Collins Creative Director / Business Partner: John Koay Creative Director: Matt Nisbet Associate Creative Director: Kai Fung Chan Art Director: John Koay Account Manager: Stella Fung Project Manager: Jennifer To Photographer: Illusion, Bangkok Illustrator: Illusion, Bangkok Retoucher: Illusion, Bangkok

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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)

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The Atlanta FX Podcast

You can find The Atlanta FX Podcast on the following platforms:

Soundcloud: https://t.co/ic1QtCij1g

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Google Play Music: https://t.co/Qbh2mh5n8n

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A new episode of The Atlanta FX Podcast.

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So I have a podcast now. Check it out.

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Artwork for a 3-color silkscreen poster of Death Jaguar. I’ve been working on this character for the past month. Inspired by Kaiju cinema and one of the best robots around.

Launching a vinyl toy for him soon. Hope people like it.

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A Brief History of Moving Obelisks

One of the many questions about ancient obelisks is a logistical one: how did the Egyptians, and then the Romans, manage to transport and erect such massive monuments without the aid of modern technology? 

While the specifics of obelisk transportation in ancient Egypt—as well as the movement of other large stone sculptures and blocks—remain somewhat of a mystery, the archaeological record presents us with some clues.

In Ancient Egypt, raising the obelisk upright and situating it in place probably involved the use of ramps and ropes, but we do not know the exact techniques employed.

In 1585, the “Vatican obelisk” was to be moved 275 feet to the square in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica. Architect Domenico Fontana designed a wooden tower that would be constructed around the obelisk, connected to a system of ropes and pulleys.

In 2017, the Museo del Sannio obelisk traveled from Italy to the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, California. Custom crates were built to safely pack the obelisk and base, which together weigh 5,400 pounds. The obelisk arrived in a horizontal position and needed to be erected on site.

Getty Villa experts used a gantry to lift the horizontal obelisk out of the crate. Then they used straps and chains to gently hoist the 3,800-pound stone upright. Once it was raised, it was lifted vertically so the base could be positioned correctly beneath it using a pallet jack.

Full post on the Getty Iris blog that takes look at the manpower and engineering needed to move obelisks in ancient Egypt, Rome, and today.

Image credits:

Pliny the Elder’s description of the ships that transported obelisks to Rome, From Athanasius Kircher, Obeliscus Pamphilius… (Rome: Grigniani, 1650). The Getty Research Institute, PJ1093 .K57

Plate related to the erection of St. Peter’s obelisk in the Piazza san Pietro in Rome, 1586, Natale Bonifacio. Etching and engraving, 49 x 121.2 cm. The Getty Research Institute, 2012.PR.35

Obelisk, Roman, AD 88/89. Granite, 351.5 cm high. Collection: Benevento, Museo del Sannio, inv. 1916

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KEN JEONG ON CRAZY RICH ASIANS, COD AND AMUSEMENT PARK

Actor, comedian and licensed physician, Ken Jeong seems to be tackling as many forms of media as possible, film, TV, animation and now video games. We recently talked to the Community and Hangover star about his work on Justice League Action, the upcoming animated film Amusement Park, his recent work on Call of Duty, and why the film adaptation of the novel, Crazy Rich Asians is kind of like The Avengers.

IGN: What can you tell us about your new animated film, Amusement Park? Have you wrapped yet?

Ken Jeong: We’re close. I’ve been working on that for the last two years. It’s amazing. It’s been so much fun because it’s a very personal project project for him (director, and former Pixar animator, Dylan Brown), and what I love about that movie is that it lends itself to more drama. The part I’m involved in is the escapism that the protagonist goes through. Even though I’m comic relief in that one, I just love the script and the story.

IGN: Another project that’s on our radar is the adaptation of the best selling novel, Crazy Rich Asians. Can you tell us anything about the project?

Ken Jeong: [Laughing loudly] Uh, no. [More laughing] I can’t. I can tell you this much, I literally just got back last night from Malaysia and it’s like an 18 hour flight total and I’m hella exhausted. Needless to say it’s great. My wife and I are big fans of the books, by Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend. It’s a trilogy, I think the new book (Rich People Problems) is coming out later this fall or summer. It’s everything I wanted it to be. It’s a studio movie with an all Asian cast. It feels like this Ocean's 11 of Asian actors, not only in America, but around the globe. You have Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show, who is Asian-Australian. You have Jimmy O. Yang, who plays Jian-Yang on Silicon Valley. It’s so star studded, it's insane. And you have Michelle Yeoh from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Gemma Chan from [Transformers: The Last Knight]. You don’t see things like this often.

IGN: It’s like you have your own Avengers thing going on, the best of the best.

Ken Jeong: There you go, I like that, Asian Avengers.

IGN: What was it like working on Justice League Action as the Toyman?

Ken Jeong: First of all, thanks for knowing about that. Those guys are so much fun to work with. There’s something very special about Justice League Action, where it’s like a bit of Super Friends with a sense of humor. My wife and my kids love how I look as Toyman. To have a sense of humor about itself in the DC Universe is not often talked about, compared to the Marvel Universe, but it’s there in the form of Justice League Action.

IGN: What can you tell us about working on the voiceover pack for Call of Duty?

Ken Jeong: I found myself really getting into the spirit of it so quickly. What I really loved about doing the sessions here is that, Call of Duty knows exactly who they are, and they’re allowing me as a guest in their home to demonstrate my own sense of humor. I had no sense of vanity about it, I just wanted to serve the spirit of the game. Seriously, it was a lot of fun.

Ken’s next film, Amusement Park heads to theaters on August 10, 2018, and Crazy Rich Asians is currently being filmed in Singapore and Malaysia.

While you wait for those two films, you can find Ken’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare voiceover pack, where he calls out killstreaks and enemy activity. The Ken Jeong VO Pack is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.