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Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku Japan
Visit the Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku!
A short walk from Shinjuku Station, the venue is in the heart of the well-known Kabukicho entertainment district. This area is infamous for catering to seedier pursuits, so be warned that you may be approached on the way with offers your mother would rather you declined. Robot Restaurant is worth navigating this gauntlet of questionable opportunities, however, as the vibe inside is more silly than sexy, and the many women in the audience we talked to all said they enjoyed the show.How to Make an Easy Lava Lamp - Homemade Lava Lamp Experiment
How to make a homemade lava lamp ?
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A lava lamp works because of two different scientific principles, density and polarity.
Even though they have different densities, oil and water would eventually mix together if it weren't for
Real lava lamps use a polar and non-polar liquid just like our homemade one did. In a real one, however, the densities of the liquids are much closer together than vegetable oil and water. The denser liquid sinks to the bottom, but the lava lamp light heats it up until it expands and becomes less dense, causing it to rise upward. As it gets farther from the light, it cools down, becoming more dense again until it sinks; then the cycle starts all over.
Instead of using a light, in our homemade lava lamp we used alka-seltzer to power the lamp. The alka-seltzer reacts with the water to produce carbon dioxide gas bubbles. These stick to the water droplets. The water/gas combo is less dense than the oil, so they rise to the top of the flask. At the top, the gas bubbles pop and escape into the air, allowing the dense water to sink back to the bottom again.
Lava lamps powered by heat are trickier to make and can use more hazardous materials. You can experiment fairly safely with things like rubbing alcohol and mineral oil or lamp oil. See if you can make a lamp powered by heat!
Amazon Targets YouTube With New Online Video Platform
Amazon unveiled its own plans to compete in the user-generated video market with the launch of a new service called Amazon Video Direct in a surprise announcement this morning. This service, explains the company, allows creators to upload their own videos to Amazon’s Prime Video and generate royalties based on the hours streamed.Creators have several options to monetize their videos, including making them available to rent or own, or they can make them free and ad-supported. The videos can also be packaged together and offered as an add-on subscription to Amazon Prime Video. Add-on subscriptions are available through the Streaming Partners Program, and are intended for larger-scale video providers.
The new program will likely appeal to creators given Amazon’s scale. This self-serve platform reaches the company’s “tens of millions” of Prime members, Amazon notes. Many of these customers are already engaged with Amazon Prime Video, as they use this Netflix-like service to watch Amazon’s free TV shows and movies, including both popular network TV and Hollywood films, as well as Amazon’s own original content.
In addition, Amazon says that creators will have control over where their videos can be streamed. For now, that means they can be streamed in countries where Amazon Video is available – the U.S., Germany, Austria, United Kingdom and Japan.
These videos can be played back anywhere Amazon Video works, as well, which includes mobile phones and tablets (Fire, iOS and Android), desktop, game consoles, connected TV platforms, and Fire TV.
Like other video sites, creators will also have access to metrics to see how their videos are performing. This system, at launch, includes the ability to track number of minutes a title was streamed, projected revenue, payment history, and number of subscribers. This allows the creators to make changes based on their metrics, says Amazon.
“It’s an amazing time to be a content creator,” said Jim Freeman, Vice President of Amazon Video, in a statement about the launch. “There are more options for distribution than ever before and with Amazon Video Direct, for the first time, there’s a self-service option for video providers to get their content into a premium streaming subscription service. We’re excited to make it even easier for content creators to find an audience, and for that audience to find great content.”
According to Variety, Amazon will pay partners 50 percent of the retail price for digital purchases, rentals and subscription fees. If creators distribute on Prime Video, they will earn royalties of 15 cents per hour streamed in the U.S. and 6 cents in other territories, their report indicates. (This is capped at $75,000 per year).
Along with the debut of AVD, as the new service is called for short, Amazon is also launching AVD Stars. A unique promotion designed to kick-start this new video platform, the AVD Stars program gives creators a share of $1 million per month based on customer engagement with their title.
Amazon says it will distribute a monthly bonus to creators from the $1 million monthly fund, based on the Top 100 AVD titles in Prime Video. This is on top of any other revenue earned. All creators and providers who use AVD will automatically be enrolled.
The program launches today and the $1 million monthly fund will make its first bonus distributions based on streaming activity from June 1st to June 30th.
Amazon’s announcement noted some of the early names it has signed up to participate in the new program, including Conde Nast Entertainment, HowStuffWorks, Samuel Goldwyn Films, The Guardian, Mashable, Mattel, StyleHaul, Kin Community, Jash, Business Insider, Machinima, TYT Network, Baby Einstein, CJ Entertainment America, Xive TV, Synergetic Distribution, Kino Nation, Journeyman Pictures, and Pro Guitar Lessons.
As you can tell by the selection, Amazon is targeting larger video creators and MCNs (multi-channel networks), as opposed to the everyday, mainstream users who use YouTube to upload personal videos. That makes the service competitive with something like Vimeo, as well, especially given the options to rent or sell videos.
The launch follows Amazon’s recent debut of standalone subscriptions,which target non-Prime members at a cost of $8.99 per month.
The Hoverboard Fantasy Comes True, Just As "Back to the Future" Predicted
The Hoverboard
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, a guy in
blue jeans and a T-shirt drifted back and forth across a gently sloping
half-pipe in an office park southwest of San Jose. Instead of skating,
though, he was hovering: a real-world Marty McFly, the time-traveling
teen who glided on air around Hill Valley in Back to the Future Part II.
The Hendo hoverboard, invented by Greg
Henderson and launched with the help of his wife, Jill, nearly broke the
Internet when it appeared in a Kickstarter video last year featuring
company engineer and resident stuntman Garrett Foshay.
With little technical experience but a
knack for Internet research, Greg built a prototype. The current model
features four “hover engines” with magnets coordinating to generate a
concentrated field, which then generates an opposing field in a
conductive material below, in the floor. When the two fields repel—lift.
(Of course, it’s not simple; tech whizzes at Google X reportedly
abandoned their hover research.)
“We made the hoverboard because it’s the perfect way to illustrate our ‘magnetic field architecture’ technology,” Jill said when I met her at the offices of Arx Pax, the company founded to advance their technology. In theory, a building alerted to a coming quake could automatically activate the system; support structures would fall away and the building would float above the trembling ground.
“Give us 30 years, and we’ll hover a skyscraper,” Greg promised. “Or imagine converting HOV lanes into hover lanes. The potential is limitless.”
Now you can win a hoveboard $1500 value, click the pict below
“We made the hoverboard because it’s the perfect way to illustrate our ‘magnetic field architecture’ technology,” Jill said when I met her at the offices of Arx Pax, the company founded to advance their technology. In theory, a building alerted to a coming quake could automatically activate the system; support structures would fall away and the building would float above the trembling ground.
“Give us 30 years, and we’ll hover a skyscraper,” Greg promised. “Or imagine converting HOV lanes into hover lanes. The potential is limitless.”
Now you can win a hoveboard $1500 value, click the pict below
Vikings Season 4 New Trailer has arrived | Ragnar is talking to his son, Ivar
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"Vikings" and "Game of Thrones" are two of the biggest, most successful TV franchises in recent times. These two particular shows are often pitted against each other for having similar settings, elements and stories, but in terms of popularity, "Game of Thrones" overpowers "Vikings" by a long stretch.
6 Quick Bathroom Cleaning Tips
#1 Shine your mirror
Your bathroom mirror can get pretty grimy. Thankfully, it’s easy to restore it to its former glory. Here’s how:
- Place rubbing alcohol on a cotton pad and rub away any stuck-on gunk.
- Spray the entire mirror with a glass cleaner and use a microfiber cloth to wipe away any debris.
Your bathroom floors receive a lot of traffic. Use your vacuum to remove hair, dirt and other debris. Use your favorite cleaning solution to clean the nooks and crannies of your bathroom. Sponges are perfect for scrubbing dirty or stained shower tiles.
#3 Scrub tile grout.
Over time, grout can change from white to an off-putting grey or brown. Vinegar and baking soda are the perfect stain-fighting combination to clean grout. The baking soda will bubble up and eat away at the accumulated soap scum. Rinse away your solution and enjoy your clean grout.
#4 Whiten your toilet.
Cleaning the toilet does not have to be a tough job. In fact, it can be one of the easiest parts of cleaning your bathroom. Pour a cup of white vinegar into the toilet bowl and allow it to sit for at least 10 minutes. The acid in the vinegar will help neutralize mineral deposits. When the vinegar has done its job, flush it away and use a toilet brush to remove any remaining hard water stains.
#5 Remove tub debris.
Daily use of your tub probably means you’re washing down dirt and debris from your body. Depending on the type of tub you have, debris will start to show up on the floor. To clean out your tub:
- Spray the entire surface with an antibacterial cleaner. The cleaner will need time to work, so take a break or do something else while it sets in.
- After 10 to 15 minutes, simply use the showerhead to rinse the walls and tub surface. Then, use a clean microfiber cloth to dry everything thoroughly.
#6 Rinse the sink.
Renew your sink by soaking paper towels in bleach and letting them sit for 30 minutes. Rinse the sink with running water to flush away any bleach and enjoy your sparkling new sink.
Note: Avoid bleach on colored porcelain sinks. Bleaching could cause colors to fade. If you have a colored porcelain sink, use a mild liquid detergent or vinegar-based solution instead.
Bathroom cleaning can be quick, simple and take under an hour if you have the right tools and methods. Instead of spending money on a professional cleaner, use these tips to get your bathroom in shape.
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10 Air Quality Control Tips for Home and Health
Air quality has a direct impact on our health, both in and outside of our homes. While much is being done to improve the air outdoors, maintaining a healthy level of air quality inside is evenly important.
A range of triggers can lower indoor air quality, including carpets, chemical cleaners, heat sources and humidity. Build-up of these pollutants may result in “Sick House Syndrome,” which poses health risks to residents if not addressed. Airborne lead particles and radon are especially harmful.
Opening windows can significantly improve the quality of the air in the home, but in many households, doing so is just one of several necessary steps. A checklist:
- Clean your home frequently, preferably with natural or non-toxic cleaners, a HEPA-filter vacuum and a mop. Regular cleaning eliminates dust, which could be contaminated with lead if the home was built prior to 1978.
- Aim for less than 50 percent humidity inside the home; a higher percentage can lead to mold. A hygrometer can help determine the humidity level. Use an exhaust fan while bathing, cooking or using the dishwasher. Invest in a dehumidifier, if necessary.
- Take care not to disturb lead-painted surfaces, especially if remodeling the home. If the paint is peeling, consult a lead removal specialist as soon as possible.
- Test for radon. Most hardware stores carry do-it-yourself testing kits, and some utility companies offer the service free of charge. A qualified professional can conduct a longer-term test to determine radon levels at varying times throughout the year. He or she may recommend installing a radon mitigation system.
- Dispose of paint, gasoline or any other chemicals at a certified hazardous waste disposal center. Visit search.earth911.com to locate a local facility. For future paint projects, purchase products labeled “low VOC.”
- Replace the furnace filter every three months to reduce the amount of airborne dust circulating through the home.
- Remove wall-to-wall carpeting, if possible—it traps particles that can exacerbate allergy and asthma symptoms, and may even contain formaldehyde, depending on the manufacturer. (Pressed wood materials, such as cabinets and furniture, may also release formaldehyde.)
- Place plants where possible. House plants filter out airborne toxins, including ammonia and benzene, that can be detrimental to health. To reap the most benefits, use these NASA-approved species.
- Remove shoes when entering the home, and place a floor mat at each entrance to deter any pollutants tracked in by guests. Dirt and pesticides brought in from outside can become airborne inside the home.
- Insist the home remain smoke-free, if possible. Secondhand cigarette smoke, which lingers long after the smoker leaves, can have devastating effects on members of the household, including children and pets.
Top 6 Game of Thrones locations
With series six upon us, the days when Brandon could walk and
Ned Stark still had a head on his shoulders are a distant memory. Much
of season one was flmed in Malta, so if you're after a Game of Thrones
nostalgia tour, here are the top six locations to sniff out.
The winding, cobbled backstreets of the island's capital were used in several King's Landing scenes, but the most striking location here is the 17th-century Fort Ricasoli, which doubled as the Red Keep. It's visible across the Grand Harbour from the gorgeous Upper Barrakka Gardens.
A popular filming location, the fort was also used in Gladiator, Troy and more recently the Assassin's Creed movie. If the site is in use you might not be allowed close-up access to the King's Landing gate, with its impressive plaited pillars (pictured above), but you can still get reasonably near by boat. We recommend hiring a "dghajsa"; a refurbished 200-year-old gondola/water taxi. There's no better way to travel on the island.
5. Manikata
Just south of the ferry port that links Malta to Gozo (on the Maltese side) is the hamlet of Manikata (above). On its periphery you'll find some ruins that doubled as the village of Lhazareen, where Khal Drogo gets poisoned by a witch in episode eight of series one. The location is easily recognisable to those familiar with the scene, but it's probably only worth the trek as a stop-off en route to...
4. Gozo
Malta's sister island has only one GoT site, but it's an iconic one. The Azure Window (above) is a 30-metre-high rock formation surrounded by an unusual, alien-like honeycomb of stone, punctured with small pools of turquoise water. If you're adventurous you can scramble to the top or pick your way around its base to a lagoon that's popular with divers. Pack shades and water-resistant footwear though: the rock reflects the light and is jagged in places.
The location was used for Daenerys and Drogo's wedding scene, where we're also introduced to Jorah. The foreground looks different in real life because the show's crew covered the ground in a mesh and smothered it in sand to achieve a desert effect. This didn't go down well with the Maltese authorities and may have contributed to the show's eventual relocation.
3. Saint Dominic's Priory
The small town of Rabat is worth exploring for many reasons, most popular of which are Saint Paul's Catacombs — but our Game of Thrones location is a lesser-known saintly site. Towards the town's periphery you'll find Saint Dominic's Priory (pictured above). This doubled as the Red Keep courtyard where, in episode seven, Ned seals his fate by telling Cersei he knows her and Jaime's secret. "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die," comes her prophetic response.
Malta's sister island has only one GoT site, but it's an iconic one. The Azure Window (above) is a 30-metre-high rock formation surrounded by an unusual, alien-like honeycomb of stone, punctured with small pools of turquoise water. If you're adventurous you can scramble to the top or pick your way around its base to a lagoon that's popular with divers. Pack shades and water-resistant footwear though: the rock reflects the light and is jagged in places.
The location was used for Daenerys and Drogo's wedding scene, where we're also introduced to Jorah. The foreground looks different in real life because the show's crew covered the ground in a mesh and smothered it in sand to achieve a desert effect. This didn't go down well with the Maltese authorities and may have contributed to the show's eventual relocation.
3. Saint Dominic's Priory
The small town of Rabat is worth exploring for many reasons, most popular of which are Saint Paul's Catacombs — but our Game of Thrones location is a lesser-known saintly site. Towards the town's periphery you'll find Saint Dominic's Priory (pictured above). This doubled as the Red Keep courtyard where, in episode seven, Ned seals his fate by telling Cersei he knows her and Jaime's secret. "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die," comes her prophetic response.
2. San Anton Palace
Ten minutes' drive east of Mdina, towards Valletta, is another Red Keep site — San Anton Palace and gardens in Balzan (above), where the courtyard and stables were filmed. This is the President's residence and it's clearly the posh part of the island. Whether you're into Game of Thrones or not, the tranquil gardens here are a must, with their exotic flowers, fountains and roaming peacocks. They have a similar feel to Dorne (which appears in series five), although if you want to see the real location for that you'll have to visit Seville.
Ten minutes' drive east of Mdina, towards Valletta, is another Red Keep site — San Anton Palace and gardens in Balzan (above), where the courtyard and stables were filmed. This is the President's residence and it's clearly the posh part of the island. Whether you're into Game of Thrones or not, the tranquil gardens here are a must, with their exotic flowers, fountains and roaming peacocks. They have a similar feel to Dorne (which appears in series five), although if you want to see the real location for that you'll have to visit Seville.
1. Mdina
Malta's original capital (pronounced Imdina) is seriously beautiful. It's also the prime spot for Thrones fans. Perched imperiously on top of the island, its medieval walls encircle a labyrinth of museums, shops and King's Landing-style alleys.
Its plazas evoke many familiar scenes, including the courtyard outside Littlefinger's brothel (pictured), where Ned Stark feels the pointy end of Jaime Lannister's sword. The sandy stone buildings and horse-drawn carriages evoke the essence of Westeros's principal city, making the whole area a delight to stroll around. This is King's Landing all right, minus the muck and violence.
Malta's original capital (pronounced Imdina) is seriously beautiful. It's also the prime spot for Thrones fans. Perched imperiously on top of the island, its medieval walls encircle a labyrinth of museums, shops and King's Landing-style alleys.
Its plazas evoke many familiar scenes, including the courtyard outside Littlefinger's brothel (pictured), where Ned Stark feels the pointy end of Jaime Lannister's sword. The sandy stone buildings and horse-drawn carriages evoke the essence of Westeros's principal city, making the whole area a delight to stroll around. This is King's Landing all right, minus the muck and violence.
Apple MacBook (2016)
Introduction, Design & Features:
Way back in 2008, when Apple first introduced the MacBook Air, it was met with mixed reviews, largely for its single USB port—but also its price. Later, a 2010 MacBook Air redesign turned the Air into one of the best (and most often emulated) hardware designs in the whole history of consumer electronics.
Flash that idea forward to 2015, when Apple announced its redesigned Apple MacBook $999.99 at Amazon, a roughly 2-pound laptop that was far thinner and lighter than the Air and...well, also had a single USB port—this time in the form of a cutting-edge USB Type-C connector.
It, too, was greeted with a fair bit of criticism for its single port
(not counting the audio jack), as well as its input devices that,
despite some fancy haptic feedback, seemed to sacrifice comfort and
usability for the sake of maximum slimness.
Afeni Shakur, Activist and Mother of Tupac Shakur, Dies at 69
Afeni Shakur, a onetime Black Panther who guarded the legacy of her son,
the perennially popular and controversial “gangsta” rapper Tupac Shakur, after his drive-by shooting death in 1996, died May 2 at a
hospital near her home in Sausalito, Calif. She was 69.
Her death was announced by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, which said deputies responded to her home for a report of possible cardiac arrest. A coroner will determine the cause of death.
Ms. Shakur gave birth to her son in 1971, a month after she and a dozen other members of the Black Panther black nationalist group were acquitted in New York on charges of conspiring to kill police officers and bomb police stations and department stores. She had spent a portion of her pregnancy in jail and represented herself in the high-profile legal proceedings that carried her briefly to national attention.
After the trial, Ms. Shakur worked as a paralegal before descending into drug addiction. Drugs brought her to “the pit of the garbage can,” she once told The Washington Post, “underneath the corroded bottom of the garbage can, where only the maggots live.”
She raised Tupac and his half-sister, Sekyiwa, in the Bronx, and then in Baltimore and Marin County, enrolling her son in arts schools and programs. The rapper recalled his upbringing in his 1995 platinum single “Dear Mama,” written while Ms. Shakur was undergoing treatment for drug addiction:
And even as a crack fiend, Mama
You always was a black queen, Mama
I finally understand
For a woman it ain’t easy trying to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There’s no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I
understand You are appreciated
The song was entered into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry and was described as a “moving and eloquent homage to both [Tupac Shakur’s] own mother and all mothers struggling to maintain a family in the face of addiction, poverty and societal indifference.”
Ms. Shakur said that the song had “done wonders for me and my spirit.”
“Now that my son seems to be able to deal with those things and bring them to the light, it helps me face them,” she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1995. “Deal with that ugliness. And move toward some peace.”
Tupac Shakur, who also acted in films including “Poetic Justice” (1993), was widely regarded as a brilliant musician, but he provoked a firestorm with lyrics that to some listeners seemed to glorify violence. The rapper was convicted of sexually abusing a female fan and, in a separate incident, of assault and battery. He tattooed the phrase “thug life” across his abdomen.
He survived a shooting in 1993 before he was fired upon in his BMW in Las Vegas in 1996. He died six days later, at age 25. The crime remains unsolved.
After her son’s death, Ms. Shakur fought an extended legal battle over the rights to his unreleased recordings. She became chief executive of Amaru Entertainment/Amaru Records, which released albums of her son’s music including “R U Still Down? (Remember Me)” (1997) and “Loyal to the Game” (2004). She was the executive producer of the documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” (2003).
For a period, Ms. Shakur also ran the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation in Georgia.
Ms. Shakur was born Alice Faye Williams in Lumberton, N.C., on Jan. 10, 1947. She grew up in New York, where she took the name Afeni Shakur around the time that she joined the Black Panther movement. She traced her activism to the horror of seeing photographs of the lifeless body of Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Her death was announced by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, which said deputies responded to her home for a report of possible cardiac arrest. A coroner will determine the cause of death.
Ms. Shakur gave birth to her son in 1971, a month after she and a dozen other members of the Black Panther black nationalist group were acquitted in New York on charges of conspiring to kill police officers and bomb police stations and department stores. She had spent a portion of her pregnancy in jail and represented herself in the high-profile legal proceedings that carried her briefly to national attention.
After the trial, Ms. Shakur worked as a paralegal before descending into drug addiction. Drugs brought her to “the pit of the garbage can,” she once told The Washington Post, “underneath the corroded bottom of the garbage can, where only the maggots live.”
She raised Tupac and his half-sister, Sekyiwa, in the Bronx, and then in Baltimore and Marin County, enrolling her son in arts schools and programs. The rapper recalled his upbringing in his 1995 platinum single “Dear Mama,” written while Ms. Shakur was undergoing treatment for drug addiction:
You always was a black queen, Mama
I finally understand
For a woman it ain’t easy trying to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There’s no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I
understand You are appreciated
The song was entered into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry and was described as a “moving and eloquent homage to both [Tupac Shakur’s] own mother and all mothers struggling to maintain a family in the face of addiction, poverty and societal indifference.”
Ms. Shakur said that the song had “done wonders for me and my spirit.”
“Now that my son seems to be able to deal with those things and bring them to the light, it helps me face them,” she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1995. “Deal with that ugliness. And move toward some peace.”
Tupac Shakur, who also acted in films including “Poetic Justice” (1993), was widely regarded as a brilliant musician, but he provoked a firestorm with lyrics that to some listeners seemed to glorify violence. The rapper was convicted of sexually abusing a female fan and, in a separate incident, of assault and battery. He tattooed the phrase “thug life” across his abdomen.
He survived a shooting in 1993 before he was fired upon in his BMW in Las Vegas in 1996. He died six days later, at age 25. The crime remains unsolved.
After her son’s death, Ms. Shakur fought an extended legal battle over the rights to his unreleased recordings. She became chief executive of Amaru Entertainment/Amaru Records, which released albums of her son’s music including “R U Still Down? (Remember Me)” (1997) and “Loyal to the Game” (2004). She was the executive producer of the documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” (2003).
For a period, Ms. Shakur also ran the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation in Georgia.
Ms. Shakur was born Alice Faye Williams in Lumberton, N.C., on Jan. 10, 1947. She grew up in New York, where she took the name Afeni Shakur around the time that she joined the Black Panther movement. She traced her activism to the horror of seeing photographs of the lifeless body of Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Game of Thrones: Kit Harington had to tell cast he was leaving
Exclusive: Cast and crew were told Jon Snow was truly dead while making season 5
Kit Harington’s secret mission to protect Game of Thrones‘ biggest spoiler was far more elaborate than fans realize.
You already know Team Thrones worked together with HBO to publicly obscure that Jon Snow was to be resurrected at the start of season 6. But long before the world saw Snow get stabbed by the Night’s Watch, Harington had to pretend he was leaving the show behind the scenes while making season 5 – because the rest of the cast wasn’t in on the secret.
Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss told Harington he was going to eventually be revived just two weeks after the cast received the season 5 scripts in the summer of 2014. But the producers swore him to absolute secrecy. So for nearly a year, Harington had to convince his fellow Thrones actors and the show’s crew that he was leaving the show.
“At first I thought I would find it fun,” Harington tells us. “This will be a fun game. But I had to lie to a lot of close friends and cast members and crew. The longer it went, the more I felt like I was betraying them. So I did end up letting people in, slowly.”
Some castmembers didn’t believe Harington was departing at all. Ser Davos actor Liam Cunningham, for example, “told me to f— off from the start,” Harington says.
While others bought the deception, at least initially – such as Sansa Stark actress Sophie Turner.
“Sophie Turner, bless her, wrote me a really long letter about how much she loved working with me – and I still got it,” Harington says. “That made me chuckle.”
By the time the scripts for season 6 went out last summer, the cast had pretty much figured it out.
Harington is on the cover of this week’s EW where we chronicle the incredible two-year story of how the actor and the Thrones team killed off his character, then secretly brought him back to life for the Lord Commander’s greatest season yet. Buy the issue here, or subscribe to receive digital access the moment the story is posted online.
For more coverage of Thrones’ second episode of the season, “Home,” here’s our first interview snippet with Harington (“Sorry!”), our interview with Ramsay Bolton actor Iwan Rheorn on those gruesome murders, our deep-dive recap, and our new Game of Thrones podcast.
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Kit Harington’s secret mission to protect Game of Thrones‘ biggest spoiler was far more elaborate than fans realize.
You already know Team Thrones worked together with HBO to publicly obscure that Jon Snow was to be resurrected at the start of season 6. But long before the world saw Snow get stabbed by the Night’s Watch, Harington had to pretend he was leaving the show behind the scenes while making season 5 – because the rest of the cast wasn’t in on the secret.
Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss told Harington he was going to eventually be revived just two weeks after the cast received the season 5 scripts in the summer of 2014. But the producers swore him to absolute secrecy. So for nearly a year, Harington had to convince his fellow Thrones actors and the show’s crew that he was leaving the show.
“At first I thought I would find it fun,” Harington tells us. “This will be a fun game. But I had to lie to a lot of close friends and cast members and crew. The longer it went, the more I felt like I was betraying them. So I did end up letting people in, slowly.”
Some castmembers didn’t believe Harington was departing at all. Ser Davos actor Liam Cunningham, for example, “told me to f— off from the start,” Harington says.
While others bought the deception, at least initially – such as Sansa Stark actress Sophie Turner.
“Sophie Turner, bless her, wrote me a really long letter about how much she loved working with me – and I still got it,” Harington says. “That made me chuckle.”
By the time the scripts for season 6 went out last summer, the cast had pretty much figured it out.
Harington is on the cover of this week’s EW where we chronicle the incredible two-year story of how the actor and the Thrones team killed off his character, then secretly brought him back to life for the Lord Commander’s greatest season yet. Buy the issue here, or subscribe to receive digital access the moment the story is posted online.
For more coverage of Thrones’ second episode of the season, “Home,” here’s our first interview snippet with Harington (“Sorry!”), our interview with Ramsay Bolton actor Iwan Rheorn on those gruesome murders, our deep-dive recap, and our new Game of Thrones podcast.
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‘Game of Thrones’: What Really Happened to Jon Snow?
Since July 2011, readers of George R.R. Martin's books have been in suspense about the fate of one of the series' central characters, Jon Snow.
Now, nearly five years later, Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones, titled "Home," has resolved this cliffhanger in dramatic and definitive fashion.
As many fans suspected, Jon Snow was not in fact gone for good. With the aid of Melisandre's magic, he returned to life in the final moments of this week's episode.
And though some may cry foul that Game of Thrones has chickened out of killing a major character, delivering a cheap fake-out instead, this is a plot development that's been long in the making.
There were ample clues in the books and hints by the show's creators that Jon's death wouldn't necessarily be permanent, as I wrote last week (and last year). And the series laid the groundwork for Melisandre's resurrection of him all the way back in season three.
So the big question all along, to me, hasn't been whether Jon Snow would come back — it's been whether his brush with death would make the character more interesting. And on that, the jury's still out.
Now, nearly five years later, Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones, titled "Home," has resolved this cliffhanger in dramatic and definitive fashion.
As many fans suspected, Jon Snow was not in fact gone for good. With the aid of Melisandre's magic, he returned to life in the final moments of this week's episode.
And though some may cry foul that Game of Thrones has chickened out of killing a major character, delivering a cheap fake-out instead, this is a plot development that's been long in the making.
There were ample clues in the books and hints by the show's creators that Jon's death wouldn't necessarily be permanent, as I wrote last week (and last year). And the series laid the groundwork for Melisandre's resurrection of him all the way back in season three.
So the big question all along, to me, hasn't been whether Jon Snow would come back — it's been whether his brush with death would make the character more interesting. And on that, the jury's still out.
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