Chance The Rapper sang Drake’s praises before his SNL episode — and he also shouted out Donald Glover, who totally helped him write one of his sketches for the show.
Jamie Foxx hosting Saturday Night Live over the weekend wasn’t full of rave reviews. Some viewers thought the sketches were extremely racist and stereotypical…. Continue
Sure, we’ve already gotten a sneak peak of what Bradley Cooper could look like as the devil in Paradise Lost , but that doesn’t mean Legendary Pictures is done casting their adaptation of the John Milton novel. Just today, Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou joined the Alex Proyas-directed production as Abdiel, the angel of death. If Paradise Lost still needs an archangel of divine street fights, may we suggest Ryan Gosling ? [ Variety ]
The musical partnership between director Nicolas Winding Refn and electronic musician Johnny Jewel dates back to Refn’s Bronson , which used a track from Jewel’s group Glass Candy to strike its stylized period feel. For Refn’s latest film, the L.A. -set crime thriller Drive , he turned once more to Jewel to help create an ’80s-tinged pop synth sound — and the inspiration seemed to go both ways, as evidenced by drawings and a full collection of Drive -inspired tracks created by Jewel and his musical collaborators.
Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation’s emissions from deforestation actually occur outside of places officially designated as forests, the UN REDD program may actual reduce emissions in country far less than intended. The report finds that up to 600 million tons of emissions ar… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo via TED We’ve featured the work of cartoonist Jim Toomey before. He has a knack for educating readers on the issues surrounding marine litter and ocean pollution without the lecture-y tinge that too often turns people away. But how does he do it, and why? Toomey was on the Mission … Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Federal Communications Commission said Friday it is investigating whether Google has violated telecommunications laws with its Internet phone service that has been refusing to connect some calls to rural areas. added by: knews121 3 responses
Although Ben Sweeney’s research runs the gamut on da Vinci — including art, science and math — his study on da Vinci’s anomalous left hand has been the subject of most interest. Through analysis of different da Vinci sketches, Sweeney developed the idea that the third and fourth fingers of da Vinci’s left hand were connected