If you have to lie to scientists to get them to be in your faux-documentaries, you’re doing documentary filmmaking wrong.
Besides that, it might be easier—and not significantly more expensive—just to hire actors to pretend to be scientists. Plus, you’ll avoid any potentially pesky fraud or defamation claims.
In honor of Shark Week 2012, the good folks at Mashable have compiled a collection of GIFs highlighting the second-most-terrifying animal on earth (at least to me, and I’m damned if I’m telling you what the first one is.) Here’s my, uh, favorite:
At the opposite end of the mood spectrum, we have this GIF of a goblin shark attack. However terrifying most sharks may be, they don’t generally unhinge their entire faces and eject a jaw full of barbed teeth straight into their targets. Goblin sharks, as you can see, are a little different. Their elongated snouts contain highly sensitive electromagnetic sensors, which help them find prey in the blackness of the deepest ocean bottoms, where they dwell.
This video of a goblin shark in the wild comes from the Japanese broadcast of NHK Tokushuu on Aug. 31, 2008. Uploaded to GIFBin, it’s had 198 Facebook shares and more than 14,000 stumbles, from which we can draw certain demographic conclusions about the kind of people on Facebook vs the kind on Stumbleupon
Yes, that is indeed terrifying. What do you think, Jones the cat?
