Witness 2,500 cheese wheels careening down a mountainside in popular cheese-wheel-racing-simulator, Skyrim. Pretty neat particle physics engine, but I think this needed, hmm, more cheese:
ALTERED STATES (1980) Directed by Ken Russell – RIP
•December 2, 2011 • Leave a CommentFor a long time now I have been searching for ‘Altered States’ on DVD. I found a copy last weekend when I signed up to my local video store and watched it the day that Ken Russell passed away (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011)
Russell (84) will be forever remembered as a controversial and visionary artist with something of a third eye when it came to making oddball dramas that have captivating images and themes.
I had no idea what to expect of this film and I was blown away by its depth, special effects, psychedelia and by William Hurt’s standout debut performance, so if you’re as keen as I was you can relax, I’m not going to drop any spoilers. But I will say; If you love immersing yourself in a good science-fiction story, then ‘Altered States’ will definitely warp your mind through a vortex of reverence and existential fear.
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. – IMDB
Wampug!
•December 2, 2011 • Leave a CommentI want one! Ooh genetic engineering, hurry up already!
Wampas are badass; thanks Kitty for the memories and for the heads-up.
“Because I have created this new animal to be a reflection of my love for you, his name will be a reflection of my own name, and you shall call him DOG.”
OK, but I’m calling my dog Gupmaw!
Laserman Derezzed
•December 1, 2011 • Leave a CommentThe master of lasers works his light-bending magic in Disneyland’s ElecTRONica
Pretty cool. This is the type of entertainment we will come to expect from our strippers of the future. Seriously, lasers are cool and all but I was expecting Laserman to start grinding on a laser pole. Light-bending beams is sweet, but that guy is in the way!
Replace Laserman with a Laserbot I say…OK, I may be a l-i-t-t-l-e bit jealous, but not of his get-up that’s for sure – Here’s Wei Chieh Shih with a real laser suit to envy:
Earth From Space – Full ISS Time-Lapse Edit [time-lapse]
•November 26, 2011 • Leave a CommentStunning. Astonishingly beautiful and almost surreal footage like this makes me want to turn my computer into a shrine and worship the internet and the awesomeness of science and technology! Only the ISS can show me this side of the world, and I love it.
Images like this would have united the world a few years ago and I guess with more mediums of media and cgi we’ve become less sensitive to recognizing or certainly acknowledging true beauty.
Footage from the International Space Station orbiting Earth is always impressive, but this 5 minute edit by Michael König is truly the pièce de résistance:
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km.
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KEEP DRAWING [animation]
•November 24, 2011 • Leave a CommentA wonderful suggestion by Korea’s Studio Shelter, reminding us that doodling is one of mankind’s ultimate forms of personal expression. Keep drawing!
Awesome People Hanging Out Together — Part II
•November 21, 2011 • Leave a CommentThere aren’t many tumblr sites that I return to, but ‘Awesome People Hanging Out Together’ has what I like. Aside from the standard press picture, there are some wonderfully surreal photos, hapless expressions, plenty of beautiful black-and-whites and people immortalized together that I just wouldn’t have imagined ever meeting. Enjoy:
Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke
Björk & Beck
Stevie Wonder & Bob Marley
Prince and Prince Charles
Dave Grohl, RuPaul and Kurt Cobain
Alex Turner, Alex Kapranos & Julian Casablancas
Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore, 1930
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry play chess in Fry’s rooms at Cambridge, 1980
George Lucas, David Bowie and Jim Henson
Woody Allen and Larry David
Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore
Clint Eastwood and PJ Harvey
Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper
Carol Channing, Betty White and Lucille Ball
Danny Boyle, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan
Jack Nicholson & Dennis Hopper At The 1970 Oscar Ball
Hunter S. Thompson and Bill Murray
Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman and Sting
Gary Oldman and a 12-year old Natalie Portman
River Phoenix, K.D. Lang and Liza Minnelli
Stephen Colbert and Stephen King
Marilyn Monroe and Sammy Davis Jr.
MURMURATION
•November 19, 2011 • Leave a CommentBehold the magic, beauty and poetry that nature surrounds us all with in this video, which shows a chance encounter and shared moment between two adventurers and a collection of starlings:
The Colourful History of Video Games by COLOURlovers [Infographic]
•November 19, 2011 • Leave a CommentColour has always played a key part in the style of video games, and the evolution from 2 to millions of on-screen colours parallels the advancement in game console technology. This bright, cheery infographic shows how far video game colors have come from since the days of Pong to our modern day warfares:
VINES by Paul
•November 17, 2011 • Leave a CommentA birthday gift to his girlfriend, Emma, has all the winning ingredients of creativity from the heart, a tale of adventure and a happy ending. Add Explosions in the Sky and you’ve got a winner. Crappy boyfriends take note:
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