Ticklinks: The Future is Our Present
And now, for no reason at all…
- Superjail – Take a sneak peek at the new animated series from Augenblick Studios, of Wonder Showzen fame. The clip is available both in Quicktime and Flash Video formats. (via feed)
- In the Year 2000: The Rock Edition – Conan O’ Brien and The Rock take a look into the future… all the way to the year 2000.
- RSIZR! – Remember that amazing presentation of a new technology for Content Aware Image Resizing? Well, it’s already available as a free online application!!! More links on Photojojo. (via Ample Sanity)
The Meth Minute 39: Sex Machine
James Brown does it like a sex machine…
This is episode 2 of The Meth Minute 39, hot on the heels of episode 1, Internet People.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Take these, Mr. Jobs, YO!
Here’s a couple of viral videos realized in the 80s by Microsoft for MS-DOS 5 and Windows 386, respectively.
Watch YO! MS Raps. (Flash Video)
Watch Windows 386 Promo. (Flash Video)
Ticklinks: Bloody Internet Tubes
Gmail: Behind the Scenes – Google even does its promotional videos right. (via mesimagesquibougent)
The Internet is killing our culture – If he wasn’t so snobby, his points would seem more acceptable.
Inbox Zero – dealing with email onslaught.
Top Ten Online Filmmaking Techniques.
Content, emotion and motivation.
Keepon Dancing
Keepon robot makes all other dancing robots seem small time. This guy pulls off wiggles and shakes like no other.
Keepon has been built by Hideki Kozima and Marek Michalowski. Music: Spoon‘s Don’t You Evah.
The robot and the band will be on stage at the Wired Nextfest 2007.
Watch Keepon Dancing. (Flash Video)
More videos at Carnegie Mellon‘s. (thx Mark!)
via Shots Ring Out
Ryan vs Dorkman, part 2
When I linked to part one, I thought that was the best light saber scene ever. Well, I change my mind, part two is better and takes the prize. This time around (RvD2), Ryan and Dorkman are clearly in better shape and move like real lightsaber fighters. Version two also features better fight choreography and cinematography. Bravo! Can’t wait for part 3.
Watch part two – higher quality Divx found here
The filmmakers also have a video on how one of the special effects were done. (via Prolost)
List of 50 best movie robots of all time, with video
Complete geekdom. Watch and read it here. (via BoingBoing)
Brad Bird’s Family Dog
From the director who brought you The Incredibles and Ratatouille comes Family Dog. A short film that Bird directed early in his career. It is an absolute gem. One of my all time favorite animated shorts. You can find many traces of Ratatouille in this film.
Every element of the animation is expressive, from the rug to the character’s pants, to the nose to the hair. All these elements hide the weak story. It almost feels like a Shrek sequel where we move from one joke to another instead of one plot point to the next.
This short was originally created for Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories, an 80′s television show.
(thanks Fiona! thanks aj!)
Tetris Gone Wrong
No, no, not that wrong. Just the Japanese comedy kind of wrong…
Watch it here. (Flash Video)
Will iPhone Blend?
Tom Dickson finds a suitable way to put his new iPhone to an use.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Digital Domain’s mindblowing body of work
So Digital Domain is behind much of the cool effects in Hollywood. They have worked on movies such as the Lord of the Rings, Flags of Our Fathers, Titanic and scores more. The reels are combinations of the actual end effect and what took to make it.
The reels come in many flavors: Company, Character, Vehicles, Environment, Natural phenomenon, Matte Painting, Water, Humans & Compositing. A lot of these reels intersect so there is plenty of repetition.
Also they have page on how it is done (go to home, then click features, then behind the scenes).
via Tropist
Apartment Composting 101
Barb Finnin is part of the amazing Freshtopia team. She’s a certified master composter- her specialty is Vermicomposting with worms. We were super excited to learn that we could compost in our city apartment with a homemade worm bin even though we don’t have a yard. Throwing food scraps away in the garbage is not something either of us enjoys, so having a green alternative has been more than satisfying for our sustainability goals. After 4 weeks, our worms are happy and thriving.
Just fascinating stuff (at least for someone like me).
iPhone New York
Alternative ads to the ones released by Apple.
TED – Photosynth demo
Even if you are not even a little bit geeky, this demo will rock your world. It is a glimpse into the wonderful future of the web.
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. “Perhaps the most amazing demo I’ve seen this year,” wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.
Simply breathtaking.
Watch it – via HD for Indies
iPhone Ads – Hello Mr. Hand
Apple posted new ads for its iPhone (ads 1, 2 & 3) scheduled to be released on June 29th. The ads are very different from their Mac ads and certainly their iPod ads. Reactions:
- I miss my dancing silhouette iPod people. It really sucks that Apple dumped these “Black” people for a white hand. Stinks of racism, I tell ya.
- Where is the PC phone guy or BlackBerry guy? We Apple people need to laugh at the clueless others. This is part of the Apple experience and Apple is selling us short.
- Those are some pretty hands. If I were a girl, I’d ask for your number. Oh what the hell! Mr. Hand, can I…
- Mr. Voice, your guitar playing is stuck in my head. Your voice is not deep enough to be a Father figure but it is deep enough for the Uncle figure.
- We Apple people are also not happy with the ad because it shows how the telephone works instead of cool graphics. We have seen the Keynote, now give us our graphics.
- Also by showing how the telephone works, people are more likely to believe the touchscreen can work and are thus more willing to buy it. Which sucks for me because I’d like to be the first on the block to own one. Apple! stop being so nice.
- We Apple people are also unhappy that this ad doesn’t make pull out our credit cards. These ads stink of intrigue. We are tired of intrigue, we have been intrigued for three years now when the Mac web started talking gossiping about the iPhone.
- Who is the cute kid? and is that a Mohawk?
- Zoolander!!?? You are proud to have that on your iPod! are you kidding me?
- The vegans are up in arms for wanting Calamari. San Francisco is now officially BlackBerry country.
- Finally, I like to tell Apple to stop trying to make money at the expense of looking cool. You are all we’ve got.
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