2011 in photos (part 1)

Boston.com’s The Big Picture has finally started the first of their end of year round up pictures and as always, it’s great and you should check it out.

8 Anti-government protesters celebrate inside Tahrir Square after the announcement that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had resigned on February 11, 2011. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)

Topical!

So the big news is that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il is dead and that has South Korea is on full alert as his son Jong-Un takes the reigns and a whole nation weeps in mourning.

Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s a good thing he’s gone (though trepidations on the son).

And while I’m gonna miss making jokes about the world’s last gag-safe caricature asian (for now), I can’t really make fun or even criticise these people who have been subjected to decades of propaganda to behave like this.

Nope, not when there was this bollocks just a few months ago.

Fucking hipsters.

Christmas idents by Treat

Commissioned by E4 to create Christmas idents for them, these 5 shorts by British animation group Treat are short, snappy and unexpectedly awesome.