Quantcast
Channel: someecards.com
Viewing all 38991 articles
Browse latest View live

A hidden painting has been discovered under a Picasso masterpiece.

0
0

Dada likey.(via)

Today is a two-fer Tuesday in the art world after news that a hidden painting has been discovered underneath Pablo Picasso's early masterpiece, The Blue Room. Art historians had suspected for a long time that there was another image buried in the painting that has been part of the Phillips Collection in Washington since 1927. Only they never had the technology to confirm those suspicions, until now.

Using infrared imagery, scientists and art experts, who have been studying the painting since 2008, were able to develop a clear image of a goatee'd, bow tie wearing, expressionist-period hipster with his head resting on his hands. 

Too cool for art school.(via)

The Blue Room was created in Paris in 1901 during Picasso's "blue period" where he was focused on melancholy subjects. The identity of the man in the buried painting is unknown, and historians have ruled out a self-portrait. One thing that's clear is that the guy in the image looks so disinterested it's not surprising he got the boot when a nude model came knocking at Picasso's door.

(by Jonathan Corbett)


OK Go's new music video "The Writing On the Wall" is reality warping.

0
0


OK, I'll watch this. (via OK Go)

Sometimes when you look back on a relationship after it ends, it is obvious why things didn't work out. You are a loving and trusting person, and he is a lying demon intent on ruining your life. 

But when you're still in it, your mind puts the pieces together so that it looks like the two of you fit. It's like an optical illusion, what you thought was there never really was. You wanted to believe that he loved you, but really, he was just a bored narcissist who needed attention and once he drained you of it he was done. That's the idea OK Go is going for with the music video for their new track "The Writing on the Wall."

The song is about a pre-breakup couple who see things differently and can't seem to communicate. To illustrate the idea, the video channels Felice Varini's and Salvado Dali's art. According to Rolling Stone, the video took "nearly three weeks to assemble and 50 takes to get it right."

Watch the video and then try not to look at life as though everything you ever said to me was a lie, Jonathan!

Ahh, that was great. Sometimes you have to try something 50 times before it works. Don't give up on us, Jonathan. I still love you. 

(by Myka Fox)

Game on.

This dog could not be more excited about watching the World Cup on TV.

0
0

I hope that TV is mounted securely.

Despite the fact that Georges has no idea which teams are playing, he's still more excited about watching World Cup soccer than most Americans. The way he jumps up and down while following the ball, you'd think he had money riding on Sunday's game between Argentina and Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

His owner says Georges will spend hours in front of the TV watching sports, and "doesn't care who wins or loses, as long as he can watch them play."

If he does watch a lot of televised sports, it's possible Georges has seen this softball game, or this field hockey game, and was hoping one of his favorite canine athletes would make an appearance.

(by Jonathan Corbett)

The best part about being in a bar that's showing The World Cup is getting to hear about the awesome semester everyone spent studying abroad

0
0
Jordan_MorrisTue, 17 Jun 2014 16:55:19 EDT

The best part about being in a bar that's showing The World Cup is getting to hear about the awesome semester everyone spent studying abroad

This dumbass slapped a porcupine because he's a dumbass.

0
0


What's gloves got to do with it? (via arbroath)

Antonio Rodrigues Mororó, 50, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was having a party at his house when his son told him that his pregnant wife refused to come in because an animal was sitting by the entrance. Mororó, believing the animal to be an opossum, asked himself WWITD (What Would Ike Turner Do) and slapped the poor critter with his open palm. 


Any dumbass could have made this mistake. (via Dangerous Minds)

It Ike Turners out that the animal was a porcupine, and Mororó was left with over 400 needles in his hand and a record set for instant karma.


Hole-y hell. (via arbroath

According to Extra Globo, doctors gave him antibiotics and a tetanus shot, but, of course his hand is still full of holes. Mororó should stay away from slapping animals from now on, and probably also this toy.


(via PolicyMic)

The porcupine is doing well, and was last seen still hanging in the neighborhood. 

(by Myka Fox)

Top shape.

You've had a long day. Sit back, relax, and watch this chilled-out cat sit in a chair.

0
0

'Sup?

You gave it your all today, and whether your all was good enough or not, you'll just have to wait and see. For now, it's time to take a break and let all the stress of the day fall away until you're as calm and contented as this cat kicking back in a chair. 

Ahhhhh. That's so much better than giving a crap, isn't it?

(by Bob Powers)


Some guy made a spot-on perfect mash-up of 'South Park' and 'The Book of Mormon.'

0
0

If anything, the animation's too good.

Upon reading that some guy took the song "Hello" from Trey Parker and Matt Stone's hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and laid it over South Park-style animation, you might think that it was just a bunch of clips from the show edited together in such a way that kind of looks like the lyrics are coming out of characters' mouths. You know, like this.

But that is not what this is. This is something much, much better. This is something pretty fantastic. But take a look for yourself:

I have to admit that when I first saw this, I just assumed that Matt & Trey were behind it. I had no idea why they would spend the time making it, but it just looked too good to not come from South Park Studios. But apparently it's not.

Its creator, Simon Chong, makes clear that it is "in absolutely no way affiliated with either South Park or The Book of Mormon," which is kind of amazing. He says it was "made out of a genuine love for both the TV show and the stage musical." That much is pretty clear.

(by Dennis DiClaudio)

Blissfully ignorant.

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was arrested following a fight at his New Jersey tanning salon.

0
0

A sad day for the world of tanning.(via)

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was arrested today after getting into a fight at his New Jersey tanning salon.

That's the bad news. But it's also the good news, because when you're a reality TV star, and your bread and butter is keeping your name in the news, the only thing worse than being arrested for fighting over a Mangroomer is being forgotten by the likes of TMZ, Perez Hilton and other trashy gossip sites

Cops responded to a call about a "fist fight" situation involving The Situation at Boca Tanning Salon in Middletown, NJ. Mike was arrested at the scene and booked for simple assault. He was later released on $500 bond.

On his way out of jail, Mike told a "reporter" that he and his brother Frank came to blows over how to run the business. Mike may have wanted to bounce checks, whereas Frank might have thought it was best to bounce his fists off of Mike's face.

Never one to miss an opportunity for free publicity, Mike retweeted several posts about the #SITUATION at his #TANNING salon, along with a links to a bunch of stories about his #ARREST.

So, even though the short-term result is a black eye and a few awkward family meals, in the long term it's still a huge net-gain. #CONGRATS!

(by Jonathan Corbett)

The talk.

Delta made a big mistake when they tweeted congratulations to the USMNT last night.

0
0


Now now, I'm sure there's at least 1 secret giraffe in Ghana. (via Mediaite)

Delta Airlines made an adorably ignorant mistake last night when they tweeted the above congratulations to the USMNT in their defeat over Ghana. Unfortunately, while the United States is indeed home to the Statue of Liberty, Ghana—unlike some other African countries that aren't Ghana—doesn't have any giraffes.

Here's a helpful map from Deadspin illustrating where giraffes live in Africa, and where Ghana is:


(via Deadspin)

The tweeting error was a helpful reminder that Africa is real big, and it ain't all dramatic sunsets over savannas. That said, Delta's tweet was nowhere near as embarrassing as that extremely NSFW one from US Airways back in April. 

Still, it was probably the right thing to do for Delta to delete the tweet and apologize.

(by Shira Rachel Danan)

A maintenance man finds adorable baby birds nested at a 115,000 volt substation and laughs in their hungry faces.

0
0


Coo coo ca choo. (via YouTube)

Somewhere amidst the buzzing of a 115,000 volt substation, a nest of four babies is waiting for their mom to make some better decisions. When maintenance man wirenut57 finds them they jump up desperate for food. Unfortunately for them, wirenut57 decided not to regurgitate his breakfast into their waiting mouths, and instead just laughed in their adorable faces. 

Not to say that wirenutt57 doesn't have feelings. He cares deeply about things, like whether or not Simon and Garfunkel are properly credited on YouTube. 

(by Myka Fox)

A collection of the biggest hypocrites to ever post on Facebook.

0
0


That's how people die you hypocritical animals!(Via)

Don't hate the Facebook hypocrites, cherish them. They are the digital manifestation of the frailty of human resolve. Also, they're really entertaining. if people were able to stick to a cohesive belief system from status to status, Facebook would be so predictable and dull. Here are just a handful of Facebook hypocrites who go out of their way to keep us guessing.


But when girls bitch about other girls bitching about other girls bitching... That's fine! (Via)


Maybe they're being sincere? "I'm glad everyone behaves just like me. It's good to belong."(Via)


"We only went in there to get directions away from there!" -The Simpsons(Via)



She said young girls. That pic on the right was posted after two long days of aging.(Via)


Updated 5/20/14:


Come on. You gotta have one last party for the road. (Via)


Fun fact, 95% of all status updates are posted near some form of toilet.(Via)


You first. (Via)


Can't I just attack others without being attacked for attacking others?(Via)


Feeling whatever the opposite of self-aware is. (Via)




You know, you can do the missionary position without actually converting people to Christ, duh! (Via)

 

Posted 4/28/14: 


Also, his mind, soul, and morals are useless. Those abs are all he's got! (Via)



What a difference a day can make. 
(via)

 


Via mobile!

 


Um...That's a lovely light switch panel behind you? (Via)

 


Physician, heal thyself (of fucktardation)!

 


These two will get to the bottom of this eventually.(Via)

 


It's different when you do it to monitor your tanning progress. (Via)

 


You forgot to tag some people. (Via)

 


Willis who? Willis engaged in an internal battle for control of his moral center. (Via)

 

You might also enjoy...

 


Perhaps you would have meant more if you hadn't cheated?(Via)

 


Good to see you've cheered up...and lost all empathy.(Via)

 


No, the purpose was for Zuckerberg to get back at a girl. Didn't you see The Social Network? (Via)

 


You're going to hold him to something he said 25 whole minutes ago? Sheesh!(Via)

 


Well, when two people love each other very much, they do what you did.(Via)

 


But how else will Facebook know their review of the first 20 minutes of the movie? (Via)

 


Baby steps.

 


And they were bros forever and ever amen.
(Via)

(by Bob Powers)

Something else you might enjoy...


It's becoming clear that Bill Murray's not doing too well.

0
0

by Dan Abromowitz

Tom Auerbach, 29, New York City

"We were throwing a house party for my girlfriend Tina graduating dental school. It was a small thing, but it got loud, and we've gotten noise complaints before, so when someone knocked on the door after midnight, everyone froze up. Finally I go to open the door, and standing there with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth is Bill freaking Murray. I guess he'd heard our party from the street? In any case, people just about lost their minds. Everyone wants a photo chugging a beer with Peter Venkman. Only once everyone had a few pictures with him, he kept going around the room asking if anyone else wanted a picture. Like, over and over. And when the party was clearing out, he's still crouched by the iPod dock, managing this endless Billy Joel playlist he had going. Finally it's just me, Tina, and Bill Murray, and she manages to really sweetly tell him that we're going to bed. You know what he said?  'Oh.'  That's it.  Just, 'Oh.'  And on his way out we can both tell he's got a beer stuffed into every pocket on him. Honestly, it was weird."

Nina Patil, 35, Worcester, MA

"Bill Murray showed up at our honeymoon suite with a half-drunk jug of Carlo Rossi sangria. Don't ask me how he ended up on the eighth floor of the Worcester Marriott, because I just don't know. It's late, like 2:00 in the morning, and all we want to do is sleep, but we weren't about to not invite him in. I think we thought this had been arranged, somehow? Right away, Todd launched into this heartfelt spiel about how Groundhog Day got him through his depression; Bill's nodding, but the whole time he's staring over his shoulder at the couch. Finally Todd paused, and Bill jumped right in: 'Hey, does that fold out?' Turns out, it did. In the morning he was gone, leaving only a quarter-jug of sangria, a mound of mostly-sealed airline nut packages, and his phone number, 'TO TALK ABOUT WHATEVER.' And that's how we spent our honeymoon with Bill Murray."

Chelsea Klezmer, 33, Suffolk, VA

"On Sundays I like to get breakfast by myself at this outdoor café on Beckwith that makes a knockout lox crepe. I'll sip a cappuccino and read a novel, it's nice. Last week, I'm deep into The Corrections when I hear someone clear his throat across from me. I would never in a million years have expected to lower my book and see Bill Murray sitting across from me, but there he was, looking kind of haggard. I'm speechless. Meanwhile, he's reached over and started tucking into my crepe with some plastic silverware out of his pocket. I'm not about to tell Bill Murray he can't eat my breakfast, but, you know, I'd rather he didn't. In about a minute and a half he's scarfed down the whole thing, talking the entire time with his mouth full of smoked salmon about some car he was gonna fix up. Finally he lets out a big belch, leans in and says, 'No one will ever believe you.' And without thinking, I hear myself say, 'I don't know, man, at this point I kind of think everyone will.' But he's already started jogging down the sidewalk, so I don't know if he heard me."

Abbott Cressman, 40, Palo Alto, CA

I was getting some work done from home when a Skype call popped up from an account I didn't recognize. Curious, I answered. Staring back at me was a shirtless Bill Murray. It was hard to tell with the video quality, but from his eyes it looked like he'd been crying. 'Hey,' he said, 'What's up.' I started stammering. I didn't know what to say! 'Please,' he said, but when I couldn't get a word out, he hung up. Not a minute later, my brother Bailey yelled from the next room. Guess who'd called him, begging to hear a human voice? It wasn't until our father, Chip, texted us that none other than a tearful Bill Murray had Skyped him out of the blue that we realized he was going alphabetically."

Monica Asch, 22, Minneapolis, MN

"Nobody riding a city bus is happy to be there, so nobody tries to strike up conversation. You just keep your head down and get where you're going. So everyone on that rush hour 51 was pretty thrown when someone in the front up and yells, 'Hey, is that Bill Murray?' Not only because someone had broken the grim transit silence, but also because it was clearly Bill Murray who had yelled it. He kept going: 'Wow, yeah! That is Bill Murray! I'd love to talk to him!' – and then he changed voices – 'Me too! What a guy! Lucky us! Let's lend him body warmth!' Then he's slogging his way up the aisle, grabbing people's hands out of their lap to shake them and posing for his own selfies in front of very tired Guatemalan women. When he gets to me, I'm doing everything I can not to look him in the eye, but he just reaches down and yanks out my earbuds. 'It's me!' he shouts, 'Bill Murray! Everybody likes Bill Murray! That's why he has so many meaningful relationships!' I scrambled off at the next stop, three miles from my apartment, and got mugged on the walk home. Fucking Bill Murray."

Frank Bunt, 25, Short Hills, NJ

"I spent 18 hours handcuffed to Bill Murray after he jumped me on a jogging path. He tackled me to the ground, snapped the cuff around my wrist, and just stared me down with these dead eyes as he said, 'Now we're buddies.' He dragged me through the woods, following some trail only he could see, to this dilapidated old toolshed. The whole time, all I could think is, 'Would he respond if I called him Steve Zissou?' Inside were piles of cans, a beat-up naphtha stove, and the dirtiest sleeping bag I've ever seen. We played this arcane game of pretend with the cans (his 'other buddies') that he narrated non-stop; it took me an hour of him calling me 'Sofia' to realize we were recreating the shoot of Lost In Translation. He finally tired himself out long after sundown, at which point I managed to grab a pair of rusty pliers and work myself free. Honestly, though, he was pretty chill."

(Follow Dan Abromowitz on Twitter)

A stray cat crawled into a lynx's cage at the zoo, and now they're best friends.

0
0


They were so different. And yet, basically the same. (via imgur)

A hungry calico cat made her way into a lynx's enclosure at the St. Petersburg Zoo recently. Instead of kicking her calico ass out, the lynx shared her food, and the two became inseparable. Eventually, the zoo adopted the cat, and the two continue to live together at the zoo. 

One was wild and slightly bigger. The other was domesticated and slightly smaller. Their ability to overcome their differences and bond over their common catmanity is an inspiration.


(via imgur)

Here's the pair loving on each other to some seriously cheesy background music:

(by Shira Rachel Danan)

Real emojis.

Quality time.

Fair trade.

Viewing all 38991 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images