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Damn Cool Pics

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:23 AM PDT

Allen Fuqua likes to travel just as much as he likes movies. Two hobbies combined resulted in the series of amazing pictures where he recreates the shots from famous movies taken at various locations around the globe.

Movie: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Actor: Robert Romanus
Location: Van Nuys High School, Van Nuys, CA

Movie: Love Actually
Actor: Liam Neeson
Location: South Bank, London, United Kingdom

Movie: You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Actor: Adam Sandler
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Cabo San Lucas, México)

Movie: Drive
Actor: Ryan Gosling
Location: MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, CA

Movie: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Actor: Richard Ridings
Location: Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA

Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Actor: Josh Hartnett
Location: Crepes on Cole, San Francisco, CA

Movie: Late Spring
Actor: Chishu Ryu
Location: Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, Kanagawa, Japan

Movie: Train Man
Actor: Takayuki Yamada
Location: Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan

Movie: Whisper of the Heart
Actor: Esimi Nakajima
Location: Temple Konpira, Tokyo

Movie: Tokyo Sonata
Actor: Teruyuki Kagawa
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Movie: 28 Days Later
Actor: Cillian Murphy
Location: Westminster Bridge, London

Movie: Before the Dawn
Actor: Ethan Hawke
Location: Paris

Movie: The Beginning
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
Location: Yes Stutstsi, Paris

Movie: The Beginning
Actor Joseph Gordon-Lyuitt
Location: Paris

Movie: Midnight in Paris
Actor Owen Wilson
Location: Versailles, France

Movie: Casanova
Actor: Heath Ledger
Location: Venice

Movie: The Talented Mr. Ripple
Actor: Matt Damon
Location: St. Mark's Square, Venice

Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Actor Ben Whishaw
Location: Barcelona

Movie: Fanatic
Actor John Cusack
Location: Chicago, IL

Movie: Source Code
Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal
Location: Millennium Park, Chicago

Movie: Spider-Man
Actor Tobey Maguire
Location: Columbia University, New York

Movie: The Hangover
Actor: Ed Helms
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Movie: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Actress: Rebecca Hall
Location: National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Espanya)

Movie: As It Is in Heaven
Actor: Michael Nyqvist
Location: Cathedral of St. Jakob, Innsbruck, Austria (Dom zu St. Jakob, Innsbruck, Österreich)

Movie: Midnight in Paris
Actor: Owen Wilson
Location: Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, France)

Via: Moviemimic

Just How Big Is Apple [Infographic]

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:40 AM PDT

It is the first company to successfully pivot from computer maker to device maker. And its devices are now ubiquitous, its annual new product releases are among the most anticipated in the world and it recently announced it would begin issuing a dividend to its stock owners expected to generate $10 billion in the first year alone. There is also speculation that Apple will enter into the payments market in the near future (allowing its handheld products to serve in the same fashion as a credit card). This alone would turn them into a trillion dollar company.

But how do Apple's eye-popping statistics translate to the real world?

Apple's total sales in 2011 were $128 billion which is more than the gross domestic product of about 160 nations around the world including New Zealand, Iraq and Syria.

Apple's current market capitalization is $508 billion making it the largest company in the world.

Apple's release of its latest iPad was massive: the company sold 3 million devices in the first 72 hours of release.

695 iPads are sold every minute. 11 iPads are sold every second.

But how do Apple's eye-popping statistics translate to the real world?

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