Giant Crocheted ‘Dumb Phones’ by Nicole Nikolich (via Colossal)
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A 45-second robot brawl from 1897 (!) just walked back into frame, now stabilized and ready to steal your break. Georges Melies!
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My Top 5 Favorite Kaiju Films
Rodan (1956)
War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
Godzilla 2000 (1999)
Colossal (2016)
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from Anne Hathaway’s Instagram:
In 2015 while pregnant with our first baby, Adam and I went with our pups to Vancouver to make @nacho_vigalondo’s wonderfully insane kaiju movie Colossal co-starring a brilliant and pre-Ted Lasso Jason Sudekis. We all had a blast- the awesome @nina was even there for Halloween- and it is both one of my favorite movies I have ever been in and one of the best times I have ever had on set.
When it arrived in theatres in 2017, it shattered box office records and became the shining hope of all low-budget indies that if you stick to your guns, you can make it big and transcend it all.
Jk, no one saw it 😂
BUT it just landed on Netflix!! So if you have the inclination, maybe 2026 is finally Colossal’s year. It’s funny and strange and silly/smart and great (just my opinion… and 82% of critics on RT so…)
Hope you give it a go! Stay weird! 😈 🫶
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*Claps hands together so hard it manifests a monster on the other side of the world.*
Colossal was a really cool Kaiju movie concept.
So basically, this woman named Gloria and her friend Oscar have been friends since they were kids and one day they were walking home from school with models of cities, assumably for a school project, but Gloria’s model of Seoul gets blown away by the wind. Both kids go after it and Oscar finds it first so he destroys it because he’s an asshole. Gloria, filled with rage at the sight of her friend destroying what she had made, gets struck on the head by a small lightning bolt which manifests the monster action figure in her backpack as a Kaiju in the real city of Seoul. For some reason it happens to Oscar as well but with his robot action figure. Skip ahead to them now being adults, Gloria moves back to the town she grew up in because her boyfriend kicked her out of their New York apartment since she can’t get a job. She reunites with Oscar and they find out that to this day if they go back to that same location from their childhood at a specific time, the monsters will be summoned again and copy their movements. It also works vice versa if they go to Seoul. Did that plot summary make sense? Because I feel like I sound insane. Anyways, I found this movie to be really enjoyable. Watching everything unfold and seeing the wildly different ways Gloria and Oscar use their powers was quite interesting. I also really liked the designs of both the creatures and the CGI for them was quite good. The film is marked as a comedy and while there were a few scenes I found funny, most of it didn’t come off as intentionally comical.
In conclusion: Colossal was a movie I liked… That’s it I don’t have more to say.
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Le Poulpe Colossal – The Myth of the Colossal Octopus in Art History
👕 Le Poulpe Colossal (“The Colossal Octopus”) is an early 19th-century engraving by Pierre Denys de Montfort, illustrated by E. Voysard, depicting a legendary giant octopus 🐙 attacking a ship ⛵. Inspired by sailors’ tales and maritime folklore, it blends scientific curiosity with myth, embodying the era’s fascination with mysterious sea creatures 🌊. Today, it stands as an iconic example of marine-themed art history.
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Science side of tumblr
Could colossal or similar groups theoretically make a hybrid of one of the whales legged ancestors
Please and thank you
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Le Poulpe Colossal – The Myth of the Colossal Octopus in Art History
👕 Le Poulpe Colossal (“The Colossal Octopus”) is an early 19th-century engraving by Pierre Denys de Montfort, illustrated by E. Voysard, depicting a legendary giant octopus 🐙 attacking a ship ⛵. Inspired by sailors’ tales and maritime folklore, it blends scientific curiosity with myth, embodying the era’s fascination with mysterious sea creatures 🌊. Today, it stands as an iconic example of marine-themed art history.
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Dreamy Ink Paintings of Ghostly Felines and Chickens by Endre Penovac
by Christopher Jobson - Colossal, July 7, 2016
Artist Endre Penovác (previously here and here) depicts mysterious cats and ethereal roosters with a carefully perfected watercolor technique using diluted inks. Instead of trying to control his brushstrokes, Penovac seems to let the medium run amok across the canvas as it bleeds in every direction, and yet even these happy accidents result in precisely rendered paintings. Seen here is a collection of paintings from the last year or so, but you can see more originals and prints on Saatchi Art.
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Discover the Growing Colossal Art Glossary
Learn more about the Bauhaus, Brutalism, Land Art, the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, and much more.
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