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britishbeardicism:

iamsineater:

jingle-brrrrt:

melthemagpie:

lies:

Favorite practical effects: The war rig vs. the berm

for redshoesnblueskies

#SERIOUSLY#WORLD BUILDING#YOU ARE SO USED#TO your vehicle being ON FIRE that you have built something into it#to use the excessive sand of your environment#to make it NO LONGer on fire#oh my god  (via whisperingkuiperbelt)

World building is a bitch, but totally worth it

But impractical. TWo supercharged engines and the intake were both in the path of the sand blast. I am under the impression that the blowers are roots type and cannot be turned off, so this would have dumped large quantities of sand into the engine.

The intakes have covers that close. If I’m not mistaken, you see them close at the beginning of this scene.

I don’t remember them showing them close, but they show them open at the end of the sequence. I gif’d the re-opening, but then decided not to include it in the original set:

I don’t know anything about engines and whether or not this would actually be workable in real life, but it worked for me as fun movie-magic.

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I’ll see you later, Dev.

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I’m a schoolteacher. I teach English composition in this little town called Adley, Pennsylvania. The last 11 years I’ve been at Thomas Alva Edison High School. I was a coach of the baseball team in the springtime. Back home, I tell people what I do for a living and they think well, now that figures. But over here… it’s a big mystery.

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Today YouTubers Grace Helbig and Alexis G. Zall posted interviews of each other. Grace’s interview of Alexis was posted to Grace’s channel, while Alexis’s interview of Grace was posted to Alexis’s channel. Each interview was recorded in Alexis’s car, with the person being interviewed doing the driving.

You should totally watch both videos; they’re really funny. But there’s another reason why I think you should watch them.

According to the Centers for Disease Control:

In 2013, 2,163 teens in the United States ages 16–19 were killed and 243,243 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes. That means that six teens ages 16–19 died every day from motor vehicle injuries.

The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16-19-year-olds than among any other age group. In fact, per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are nearly three times more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash.

If you look at the gifs above you can totally see why.

Alexis is 17 and drives like it. She continually takes her eyes off the road to look at Grace. When a driving task requires her attention she gives it the minimum amount she deems necessary, then goes back to her conversation.

Grace drives like a 30-year-old. She’s makes jokes and uses her hands just like Alexis did, but watch her eyes: She occasionally glances over at Alexis, but the glances are short and much fewer in number. For the most part eyes stay focused on the task of driving.

Look at the first gif of Alexis above. She appears to be in a residential alley going about 25 miles per hour. In the 10 seconds shown in the gif she looks over at Grace four separate times. That’s the way someone drives who’s never had a pet or a kid on a skateboard suddenly appear a car-length in front of them.

Look at the fourth row of gifs, in which each of them is making a turn. Alexis looks at Grace, briefly glances out the window in the direction of the turn, then goes back to looking at Grace. During her own turn, Grace leans forward to check her blind spot, then swivels her head to check her mirrors. She’s talking to Alexis, yes, but watch her eyes: She’s constantly working to maintain awareness of her surroundings.

The bottom row of gifs shows each of them backing up. Alexis glances briefly at the rear-view mirror, then stares fixedly at the back-up camera’s display. Grace doesn’t look at the back-up display (either because she isn’t used to them or is unfamiliar with Alexis’s car), but she does a quick check of the left side-view mirror, the right side-view mirror, and then turns her head to look through the rear window. Alexis would be surprised by a car suddenly appearing from the side. Grace would see it coming.

Teens drive optimistically and inattentively because they don’t know any better. Thirty-year-olds have learned to drive defensively through painful experience.

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In the rain (1 of 2) (variation)

for @camillavirgil

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In the rain (2 of 2)

for @camillavirgil

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In the rain (1 of 2)

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tfw you’re on top of a haystack in a storm with the friend you didn’t just marry.

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“You thought I was dead, didn’t you? Acting.”

Ryan Bailey, Angie & Zahra

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Favorite Tom Hanks characters: Captain John Miller

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redshoesnblueskies:

v8roadworrier:

oh no

SHE’S NOT ALLOWED TO DIMPLE WHILE IN FURIOSA MAKE UP. NO.

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On Recording the Audiobook for The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet!

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Don’t you see that what you need
is standing in front of you?

for ibmiller, 3/3

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for ibmiller, 1/3 

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quinacridonecrow:

lies:

quinacridonecrow:

flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy:

lies:

m o r s o v + e l v i s

Yah! :D

love that car.  did elvis survive that btw?

Informed fan speculation is that yeah, he totally survived it. Because Elvis is actually Morsov. He:

• starts the run as the Elvis car’s lancer,
• flips off as seen here,
• is picked up (off-camera) by that warboy on the motorcycle,
• lances the Buzzard vehicle,
• is plucked off and saved by the warboy swinging on the crane thingy,
• takes over the fuel pod turret,
• harpoons the pursuing Buzzard vehicle,
• gets crossbowed in the face and torso, 
• chromes himself, and
• dies in a blaze of witnessed glory by leaping onto the buzzard vehicle with a thunderstick in each hand.

So, on balance, a fairly eventful day.

ETA: Oh, but if you meant, did the car survive, not sure. Someone could check to see if it’s on the car carrier in later scenes. It wouldn’t surprise me if it is, though I guess it’s also possible that the Citadel war party didn’t pass that point, having instead cut off the war rig by coming in from the side, as you see in the aerial shots when they’re closing in. But someone someone surely picked it up eventually. You’re not going to leave a sweet vehicle like that just lying around the Wasteland.

no i meant, isn’t Elvis the driver of the car?  i think i missed something along the way.

Oh, sorry. I’d seen some people refer to the lancer as Elvis in the past, so I assumed that’s who you meant. But yeah, it makes sense that “Elvis” would more properly speaking be the driver.

The clearest shot of him, I think, is when Furiosa walks past just after the title screen. Here’s that shot, cropped and over-exposed to try to get a better look at him:

It would be interesting to go carefully through the later scenes to see if anyone who looks like him is present.

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quinacridonecrow:

flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy:

lies:

m o r s o v + e l v i s

Yah! :D

love that car.  did elvis survive that btw?

Informed fan speculation is that yeah, he totally survived it. Because Elvis is actually Morsov. He:

• starts the run as the Elvis car’s lancer,
• flips off as seen here,
• is picked up (off-camera) by that warboy on the motorcycle,
• lances the Buzzard vehicle,
• is plucked off and saved by the warboy swinging on the crane thingy,
• takes over the fuel pod turret,
• harpoons the pursuing Buzzard vehicle,
• gets crossbowed in the face and torso, 
• chromes himself, and
• dies in a blaze of witnessed glory by leaping onto the buzzard vehicle with a thunderstick in each hand.

So, on balance, a fairly eventful day.

ETA: Oh, but if you meant, did the car survive, not sure. Someone could check to see if it’s on the car carrier in later scenes. It wouldn’t surprise me if it is, though I guess it’s also possible that the Citadel war party didn’t pass that point, having instead cut off the war rig by coming in from the side, as you see in the aerial shots when they’re closing in. But someone surely picked it up eventually. You don’t leave a sweet vehicle like that just lying around the Wasteland.

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singoallala:

Sand, real and imagined.

(War Rig gif by lies, sand horse gif by queensansastark.)

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golden hour

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