www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2PM0om2El8

I’d go see it in theaters.

It’s almost like you expect Vangelis to pop out at any moment and orchestrate the shit outta things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzYOaqJjWJU

I… really don’t know what to think about this, except that maybe the Japanese need to sleep more and plot our domination through cuteness less.

catch it while it’s hot. it’s kinda like watching galaxies form in reverse. This was shot by a net.friend of mine. Music by Mum.. I think? In any case, fun is to be had.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmE_lNEVl7k

Mind: Blown
Ears: Owned

expressed accidentally

The internet is magic.

via PT

What would he see now, looking down? Probably the top of this.

ENVISION: Step into the sensory box. Under this name hides
immersive experience available by Alcatel-Lucent to its customers as
the last Mobile World Congress. An experience-based video
mapping developed by the agency and the Department SUPERBIEN New Media
Agency \ Auditorium. The public was invited into a cube and
discover an artistic vision of the tagline of the event:
Transforming the mobile experience.

Fuck Alcatel-Lucent though, this thing they bought is fucking amazing.

Michael Langan Mugshot

Independent filmmaker and commercial director Michael Langan is serious about his dedication to multimedia. With a degree in film and animation from the Rhode Island School of Design and a professional background in theater, graphic design and music, the bi-coastal artist makes great efforts to incorporate all of these elements (and more) into each of his projects.

Found this director a while back. Glad to see he’s getting some recognition. I suspect we’ll see him going places. His website is Langanfilms. You can view select works there.

Moe (the bully): You’re gonna taste asphalt fifth period Twinky. Just so you know.
Calvin (the hero): Great. I’m dead. Fifth period – “Studies in contemporary state-sponsored terrorism.” Also known as gym class.

How did Watterson get away with this? I don’t mean the statements, I mean how did he get to be one of the voices of our generation, wildly popular and critically acclaimed by almost everyone. I have never, ever, ever, ever come across anyone with a cross word for this comic strip.

And it’s not just that I grew up reading it. Reading it again, with 20 years of knowledge separating me from the child, has just brought on new layers of meaning and intelligence.

Eyafallajökull eruption - Stromboli Online

If I could, I’d go see that shit in person, up close.

Volcano and Lightning - HuffPo

Spiral Stairs, generative art via But Does It Float?

Notice how the spiral switches direction, and the stairs on the bottom become the stairs on the top. Not an optical illusion, but a trick on anyone travelling down. M. C. Escher would be starting to be proud. This was the tamer of the pieces on display.

Generative artworks by Keith Peters Title: Kazys Varnelis - More at But Does It Float?

In network theory, a node’s relationship to other networks is more important than its own uniqueness. Similarly, today we situate ourselves less as individuals and more as the product of multiple networks

And it’s true. You are not a person, you are a confluence of events under your conscious directions that draws from everyone and everything around you, you are the locus of your own personal network of thought, environment and social interaction.

Filmed entirely with the 5DII. Also, apparently the season finale of House was shot entirely on the 5D. When these cameras go from capturing 8 bit to 10 bit or higher video (they currently do 12 or 14 raw stills but no option exists that I know of to engage ‘raw’ video, at least on my T1i) all bets are off. RED captures in raw so you get that extra depth, though Canon’s digic chips do a pretty good job of cramming their sensor data into 8 bits intelligently (once you figure out where to set the white balance, anyway).

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Maybe I’m late to the game, but damn, this is utterly amazing. And except for the people, absolutely unreal, as are the emotions it manages to stir. It makes me feel something I can’t define that’s almost, but not quite, sadness, not even bittersweet. Freudenschade maybe? I guess it expresses in perfect visual metaphor what it can feel like to go after the things you’re driven to in life.

And I’m apparently not the only one that finds it so. The guy had Hollywood agents and managers on the phone with him within days of posting. I imagine the conversations went something like this: Boss to underling, “Hire this man or fire yourself.” And if you’re interested, his digital home is here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcXtT3rZcqg

Watching skyscrapers tetris away, I mean, how does it get any better than that?

I was reading somewhere about the old guard of media. I think this proves that anything they could do, we can eventually on our desktops, and we can do it way fucking better. They have paychecks, we have passion.

Edit: Apparently I was completely fooled by the crap youtube quality, as my friend found the design company’s website. It looks like a small firm based out of Paris, but definitely not bound by old media standards. The video is an Atari commercial, but the concept is cool enough for all to be forgiven for the entertainment.

2nd update: was chatting with a friend on AIM when I came up with this gem: 5:16:13 PM n6ko: some atari exec is crapping his paycheck in delight

Just thought I’d share that with you. The video went from 370 hit yesterday to 190k+