Are we there yet?

A lot of wood.

Insane stop-motion sequence with 400 blocks of wood and nearly 4085 images.

Stop Motion Animation ‘Grindin”
Director: Rogier van der Zwaag
Music: Grindin’ by Nobody Beats The Drum

Here’s looking at you, data point.
Data Underload #12 – Famous Movie Quotes

Photon Light Boards - You gotta love this!

Life is a game.

Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

Hypnotic music video that had my eye twitching today.

Acid Washed – Snake (feat. Barbara Panther) from Record Makers.

Snake is the latest collaboration from Acid Washed, between Anthony Burrill, Jack Featherstone and Paul Plowman.

Via hellokinsella - thanks Andy.

Change something: http://twibbon.com

“Twibbon is the easiest and most powerful way to promote awareness of your cause on Twitter. The service overlays a small icon onto supporters’ profile images to create a ‘Twibbon’, making an impactful online statement. The user’s Twitter account automatically tweets to let everyone know about their affiliation.”

I particularly like the trending information because people who care about causes (and invest emotionally), care about how those causes are doing. And because I’m probably a slight geek.
Here is a campaign that is getting the Twibbon treatment at the moment.

New Bing Maps - looking rather good

Photosynth & augmented reality integration and the goddamn moon for fuck’s sake!

This video showcases WIRED magazine’s collaboration with Adobe.

It’s all change in the publishing world and in spite of Apple’s iPad initially getting slated, it will prove to be the first device to really offer a new way to consume print. But I wonder how quickly publishers will move into this new area as many of them are still quite traditonal and slow to take up new technology.

Weird time morphing/stitch style video

Technially this seems quite sophisticated and I think there are some creative opportunities in there somewhere but on first viewing it also made me feel uneasy and queasy but I might just be hungry.

Found on kottke.org

A worrying personal trait

Since I started this blog recently I’ve noticed a disturbing personal trait. It’s the ‘First to Press’ trait.

Traditional press try to scoop their competitors and it seems the same is true of me to some extent.

As soon as I see something interesting and comment worthy, I know that others (my blogging friends mostly) will also soon see the same thing; and so the competitor in me wants to beat them to it.

This is pretty unhealthy given the frequency of new, cool ‘stuff’ that passes through my glazed eyeballs and my absolute inability to respond at that sort of pace for any sort of duration. Also in hurrying, I’m more likely to do a half-arsed job of it and in so doing add to the ‘average’ quality of the interweb. So I’ve made a decision.

I’m not going to rush. I’m going to take my own sweet time and try to only press ‘GO’ on the posts I genuinely think are interesting.

Let’s enhance

Found on…

http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/

…which is depressingly droll.

Lock and load motherfuckers!

In the past people used to think people speaking on handsfree mobile devices were bonkers.

In the future people will be talking to full scale 3D avatars in real space/time. (Or shooting them.)

Imagine how us carbon based humanoids will cope with that!

Future fuck. EJECT EJECT EJECT

I’m not sure I can handle this future, certainly not with a hangover. And I’ll need to drink if this turns out to be the future.

Cape Town hippity-hoppity

Goddamn this is FULL FLEX!!! Die Antwoord taking it to NEXT LEVEL; balls-out good.

There is a darker and perhaps funnier video on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3f4xU_FfQ

http://www.dieantwoord.com/

(Found thru: crackunit.com)

Truckers Delight Animation

This is bit old now but I wanted to blog it, so I don’t forget it! It is quite long and you do wonder what can possibly happen next and when it will end. Enjoy, you weird twisted pervs!