There’s really no reason why anyone should ever willingly approach a tornado unless they are 1) storm chasers 2) out of options or 3) living in a rural farm house with a dog named Toto. But the thrill of Mother Nature going absolutely bananas must be appealing to some, which is why 4DX theaters are a perfect substitute for actual storm hunting. The only negative part is that a 4D experience does not include Glen Powell himself.
Twistersdominated the box office last week, and while most people attended a regular screening (boring!), the 4DX screenings have started going viral for their impressive accuracy. Thankfully, they did not use any cows for this one.
Paul Hyo Kim, senior VP of content and production for CJ 4DPlex, the 4D effect company who worked on the film, said that the element is just another aspect of storytelling. “In Twisters, the air is a representation of a ‘character’: the tornado in its full glory,” Kim told The New York Times. That character should have been nominated for an award!
if Twisters in 4DX had played at Cannes it would’ve won the Palme d’Or
The 4DX experience consists of jolting seats, rain splashes and some intense winds. Fans and aspiring storm chasers have shared their experiences in Twisters 4DX on social media, with some loving it while others…seemingly had the wind knocked out of them.
NFL teams are reporting for training camp, which is the first sign that football is right around the corner. One frequent source of content when teams report to camp are scuffles that sometime boil over into being full-blown fights, as tensions can run high when you get out there and play football for the first time in a few months.
Travis Kelce is no stranger to these, as he’s one of those guys who isn’t afraid to get into it with a teammate if they cross a line — we saw him do this last year, for example. The Kansas City Chiefs are currently in camp getting ready to defend the Lombardi Trophy, and Kelce is once again making sure things are done the right way, as he nearly got into it with third-year defensive end George Karlaftis for a hit on Kadarius Toney.
Gittin’ CHIPPY
George Karlaftis lays out Kadarius Toney after a play and Travis Kelce has some words for him pic.twitter.com/CZLk04YSPk
— KC Sports Network (@KCSportsNetwork) July 24, 2024
In fairness to Kelce, while no one wants to come close to fighting a teammate, Karlaftis did get a little carried away with this one, although we’re willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he wasn’t trying to purposely flatten Toney. Still, if Karlaftis can do this when the games start, we’re confident that Kelce will be pretty happy with him.
The actor, who plays Henry Creel / Vecna on Stranger Things, seems pretty stoked about the just-released teaser trailer for A Complete Unknown, a biopic about Dylan starring Timothée Chalamet. “As a man who has Bob Dylan tattooed on his butt cheeks I can safely say I am VERY excited about Chalamet as Dylan after seeing that trailer,” Campbell Bower wrote on X.
As a man who has Bob Dylan tattooed on his butt cheeks I can safely say I am VERY excited about Chalamet as Dylan after seeing that trailer.
When asked by a follower to prove it, he proved it alright with a NSFW pic.
Is that actually Campbell Bower’s butt, though? Probably! Back in 2011, he was asked by MTV News about the tattoo. “That is 120 percent correct,” he said. “It was my first tattoo.” He then explained what leads a person to getting the name of the guy who wrote “Wiggle Wiggle” (and a few other songs) permanently inked on their backside. “I was in North London with a friend of mine and we decided that maybe we should get tattoos,” Campbell Bower explained. “He’s a big classical music fan and I’m a big Dylan fan, so I said, ‘You should get Beethoven and I’ll get Bob Dylan,’ and he said, ‘You should go first.’ And, uh, I did, and needless to say, he didn’t get Beethoven.”
Campbell Bower’s friend should have been a man of his word, and gotten a Beethoven tattoo. Beethoven the dog, that is. Dylan would like that.
Hope can be hard to find in tough times, and even when we catch a glimmer of hope, it can be hard to hold onto. And yet, the ability to remain hopeful in the face of hardship and adversity is an example of the human spirit we’ve seen displayed time and time again.
But what exactly is hope? How does hope differ from optimism, and how can we cultivate more of it in our lives?
Cynics may see hope as naive at best and as blind idealism at worst, but according to Thema Bryant, PhD, former president of the American Psychological Association, hope is really about staying open to the possibilities.
“Hope isn’t a denial of what is, but a belief that the current situation is not all that can be,” Bryant said, according to the APA. You can recognize something’s wrong, but also that it’s not the end of the story.”
People often think of hope and optimism as the same thing, but there are some key differences between them in the social psychology world. Optimism is a state of mind that sees the future through a positive lens and expects that it will be better than the present. Hope, on the other hand, is action-oriented. It involves having a goal for that positive future and making a concrete plan to move toward it.
“We often use the word ‘hope’ in place of wishing, like you hope it rains today or you hope someone’s well,” said Chan Hellman, PhD, a professor of psychology and founding director of University of Oklahoma’s Hope Research Center. “But wishing is passive toward a goal, and hope is about taking action toward it.”
“Simply put, the optimistic person believes that somehow—either through luck, the actions of others, or one’s own actions—that his or her future will be successful and fulfilling. The hopeful person, on the other hand, believes specifically in his or her own capability for securing a successful and fulfilling future.”
Both hope and optimism require a belief in a better future, but hope puts some of the power to make it happen into our own hands. And while hope and optimism are closely linked, they don’t necessarily have to go together. As Arthur Brooks has pointed out, a person can be a hopeless optimist, believing in a better future but feeling helpless to do anything to create it, and a person can also be a hopeful pessimist who takes actions to improve things but still sees the future negatively.
Ideally, one would strive toward being an hopeful optimist. Why? Well, for one, both hope and optimism are good for our health, according to studies done on them. And secondly, hope is what motivates us to act. Without hope, we have a whole lot of people wishing for change but not actually doing anything about it.
But how do you become more hopeful if it doesn’t come naturally? How do you hone hope?
– Changing the story you tell yourself about adversity, remembering that hard times are temporary
– Focusing on the things you have control over, like your routines, habits and the way you treat other people
– Reframing obstacles as challenges to overcome rather than immovable limitations
– Looking to your past successes instead of your past failures
– Asking yourself what you hope for and then continuing to answer until you find an attainable goal
– Envisioning that goal and mapping out a plan to move towards it
Being hopeful about your own future may feel like a different beast than having hope in humanity’s future, but we all have a role to play in creating a better world and hope is the driver strives to make it happen. As Augustine of Hippo allegedly said, “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” If we find ourselves angry at the way things are, we need to find the courage to act. The question of what actions to take may remain, but we need the belief and conviction to act that hope provides in order to figure it out.
Most importantly to remember is that hope is a choice. It may not come naturally or easily to everyone, but hope is something we can choose to nurture in ourselves as well as encourage in others.
Astrophysicist and master science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson is blowing people’s minds by describing how tides actually work, as opposed to how we see them as mere humans.
He recently described the “misunderstood” phenomenon in an episode of “Star Talk” with co-host Chuck Nice.
“Tides are widely misunderstood. The next thing I say may be mind-blowing to you. The tide doesn’t actually come in and out. What happens is there is a bulge of water, two of them, on opposite sides of the Earth,” Tyson began his discussion.
“They are caused by the Sun and the Moon and Earth turns inside that bulge. So when we say [the tides] rise and fall, tidally what is happening is we are rotating into the bulge and then out of the bulge,” he continued.
The quick explanation exposes an even greater scientific idea, that humans are limited in understanding because of our perspective and language. “So we’re stuck with language, from our own perspective, rather than the language of what’s actually happening,” Tyson explains. “It’s simpler to say the water goes in and out. It’s simpler to say the sun set rather than, Earth rotated such that our angle of view on this stationary sun fell below our local horizon.”
For a more in-depth description of how tides work from “Star Talk,” check out the video below. The famed scientist also wrote a blog post on the tidal forces back in 1995, which describes the phenomenon on an even deeper level.
Elle does a video series called “Phoning It In,” where they get their celebrity guest to prank call some of their famous contacts. Billie Eilish is the latest participant, and her call to Tyler The Creator is pure gold.
The show gives Eilish some prank prompts to go with, but she got to do her own prank idea for Tyler. So, she decided to tell him she was calling him from the bathroom on a date because she pooped her pants.
Tyler was on one right away, as he answered the call, “‘Sup, gay man?” After Eilish fed him the poop lie, he quickly responded, “Fire. Honestly? Fire. You deserve it.”
Eilish, through laughter, told Tyler she didn’t know what to do and asked if she could go to his house. He eventually said yes before wanting to go over the poop story again. Eilish told him she thought it was a fart, and he replied, “Bro, you don’t… you don’t stop once you feel it?”
She then gave up the gag and told him he was being pranked. After some silence, Tyler responded, “That’s amazing. That’s the content that they’re doing for journalism now? Nice.” He added, “Look, I sharted like two months ago.”
The overall theme of that and Eilish’s other prank calls is the prank victims were all very kind. Margot Robbie was super supportive in trying to help Eilish find a new place to shoot a music video, her label head Justin Libliner looked out for Eilish’s well being when she told him she wanted to quit music, and Dakota Johnson did her best to help when Eilish wanted advice about being cast to play a baby in a movie.
The whole video’s pretty fun, so check it out above.
What better way to celebrate your 10th studio album by making it a double LP? Alternatively, what better time is there to make a double LP than for your 10th studio album? Such is the case for Pond, the Australian psych-rockers who check off both of those boxes with Stung!.
Despite being recorded in founding member Jay Watson’s (AKA Gum) backyard studio with members coming and going to lay down parts, Stung! overflows with a band-in-a-room feel. From start to finish, it feels like the ultimate Pond album: flanger-soaked guitars, propulsive drumming, and enveloping sonic details culminate in a stirring accomplishment of a record.
Following the record’s release in June, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist “Shiny Joe” Ryan sat down with Uproxx to talk about Shania Twain, cheese, and buying too many guitars in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Eat more cheese now.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Well I suppose I’d like our music to be remembered as an example of a kind of egoless, joyful, creative freedom between friends? But even saying that makes me feel weird because as I think about it, all I want is that when you listen to our music your mind can drift off. Like when you’re washing dishes whilst listening to music. When you wash dishes or vacuum or knit or do something with your hands your mind can wonder and it’s a special time. So take that and apply it to 2050. If we even have dishes to wash or vacuuming to be done in 2050. Maybe we’re all in hyperspace on our way to the mars and the dishes have been sent ahead for us as a form of meditation to help us deal with a new planet??
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
Favourite city to perform in is Barcelona!!!! But I’m desperate to perform in Ireland, so all ye Irish promoters, hit us up please!
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
I’m playing with them now tbh. My band mates/best friends have always inspired me. But I get inspiration from new artists all the time and not just musical artists. Nice to be inspired by a whole different medium and what you’ve drawn from that you can apply to your music
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
There have been a few unreal meals and they all hold a special place in my mind. It’s hard to pick one, so I won’t think about it too much. I’ll see which one floats to the top…. I’m going with eating NZ Green lipped mussels that we picked from the underside of Jamie’s dad’s jetty and ate immediately with a white wine sauce and some fresh fish that we caught that day out in the straight between the north and south islands of Aotearoa (Māori name for New Zealand)
Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended
Hard to say…. so, what jumps out at me now is Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds at Primavera Porto in Portugal. It was my first time seeing them, I had just started to get into Nick and it was unreal!! I was floored and hugely moved by that performance. Still feeling the effects today from that gig.
What song never fails to make you emotional?
There’s a song called “An Buachaill Caol Dubh” and it’s a lament played on the uilleann pipes by Liam O’Flynn. Uilleann pipes are the Irish bagpipe played basically by sitting down and strapping woodfire bellows to your arm while the drones lay over your lap and the chanter is on your knee. Liam is one of Ireland’s greatest uilleann pipers in my opinion and watching him play this song on DVD is how I learned to play the pipes myself. “An Buachaill Caol Dubh” translates to “The Dark Slender Boy” from Gaelic, so, when you type “The Dark Slender Boy by Liam O’Flynn” into YouTube, get ready for an emotional rollercoaster.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?
@Blindboyboatclub on Instagram! Also check out his podcast!!!
What’s the last thing you Googled?
Fuel Watch. It shows where the cheap fuel is so I can fill up my car. It’s a 97 Ford Explorer.
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
I once crashed in a lovely wooden, very open, lovely lit house in Wellington, NZ wayback when Pond were playing a festival there called “Camp A Low Hum”. Crashed there when it was dark and when the sun came up we were surrounded by arcade machines in various states of repair and a lovely cup of tea.
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
I was pretty young, just out of high school, and I had a big row with my parents. I went over to my friend’s house. They played in a doom band called ‘Cease’ and they were good friends with this other band and friends of ours called ‘Sex Panther’. They used to give people panther paw tattoos (only to the most deserving, of course). Their drummer, Jess, offered me a tattoo of one of these panther paws and I said yes and as I was getting it, still quite emotional from the fight I had just had with my folks, all my friends gathered around me and started chanting “one of us one of us” and I’ll never forget it. That was so beautiful and my first tattoo.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
You don’t need all those guitars. Oh, and buy as many Rhodes and Wirlitzers as possible and flog ’em now for a stupid amount of money haha.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
I can draw pretty well, but I don’t do it so often, which is something I’m trying to change at the moment.
If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?
When I was younger, I would’ve said I’d give it all to their kidney foundation, because I only have one kidney. Worst pain of my life – kidney failure – apart from heartbreak, but now I’m getting older and my last one doesn’t show any signs of quitting, so I guess I’d honestly have to talk to some local community figures and see where the money is needed. It could do a lot of good around here in Perth and there’s heaps of causes, heaps of people in need, so I’d have to research and see where it’s actually needed before I can answer that.
What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?
Bring it on haha. I’m not worried.
What is your pre-show ritual?
Usually, start listening to a bit of AC/DC or Midnight Oil on the speaker in the green room. But, on the last tour I rediscovered that ‘I see you baby’ song by Groove Armada/ Gramma Funk and that was pretty fun. Basically just trying to get a bit of movement in, stretch out the legs, move the arms, sort of fire up without getting too fired up.
You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?
The best part about game shows is getting to see other people lose a lot of money on TV in order to feel better about your own self. Hey, things might not be great, but at least you didn’t lose $5K and a new Honda on syndicated television. So when celebrities are the ones losing money, it only adds more to the drama and suspense.
Celebrity Family Feud, and more importantly, Steve Harvey, have been an important part of game show culture since it first began, and we are well into season 10. So far, this season has been packed with stars, including Megan Thee Stallion, USA Olympians, Meghan Trainor, Bachelor Nation and the folks of The Golden Bachelor. And it’s only the beginning!
Season 10 episode 4 features singer Robin Thicke vs comedian and actor Anthony Anderson, and country singer Walker Hayes vs actress Rachel Bilson. The episode aired Tuesday, July 23rd but luckily for you, there are tons of ways to catch up on Celebrity Family Feud.
You can watch past episodes of Celebrity Family Feud on ABC.com, Hulu or Disney+, in addition to weekly on ABC. Clips and highlights are also uploaded on YouTube.
The rest of the season teases appearances by Daughtry, Papa Roach, Katharine McPhee, Clay Aiken, Flavor Flav and more. Check out how The Golden Bachelor crew did earlier this season…. before their divorce.
That performance led to an awful lot of takes about Team USA, including some unfortunate, xenophobic comments from Gilbert Arenas on his podcast in which he made a number of remarks about the South Sudan team and went as far as to say Joel Embiid (who is Cameroonian) was “throwing games for his cousins.” Embiid was asked about Arenas’ comments, and while he said he hasn’t seen them, he noted that if they were as negative as they seemed, they were “disappointing” and “really unfortunate,” citing how negative the world often is right now.
“I’m African first and foremost. I might be playing for Team USA, but I’m Cameroonian first and foremost,” Embiid said. “If it was that negative, it’s just disappointing. Because you see what African basketball has done for us to be in this position to be able to make some sort of impact. Even the position that I’m in, still have a lot of impact where I’m from and the whole continent of Africa and that’s never going to stop. It’s really unfortunate, especially in the world we live in right now so much negativity.”
Arenas’ comments crossed a line, and Embiid made it a point to highlight the positivity of the moment, particularly with the rise in African talent in the world of basketball.
In 2019, Karen O and Danger Mouse linked up for a collaborative album, Lux Prima. Now, as the project turns five years old, the two are celebrating by announcing a reissued edition of the album. Alongside that is a new song, “Super Breath.”
The Lux Prima reissue comes with the new song, along with a cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” the pair recorded previously. It’ll also include a 16-page booklet about “Encounter With Lux Prima,” which a press release describes as “a four-day immersive event that served as a communal listening experience.”
This follows a period of renewed activity from Karen O’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who released the album Cool It Down in 2022 and then spent some time performing live. Uproxx’s Josh Kurp wrote of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Austin City Limits set in 2023, “There are two kinds of Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans: those who think ‘Maps’ is their defining song, and those who believe it’s ‘Heads Will Roll.’ As someone who remembers when the group’s self-titled EP came out in the early 2000s, I belong to the former camp. But for my 20-year-old half-brother, who was in attendance at ACL this year, it’s the latter. Both camps were content when Yeah Yeah Yeahs played both songs back to back to close their satisfying set.
Listen to “Super Breath” above and pre-order the Lux Prima reissue here.
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