Duck Sauce – “Mesmerize” [music video]

•February 10, 2021 • Leave a Comment

How do you make a music video during a global pandemic? Low-tech + high-energy, or just ask Duck Sauce, because they did it. The video features obvious stock footage (still watermarked) and janky 3D models, and although it gets slightly NSFWish, it delivers the lolz and goes on to exceed the laws of physics itself! Think wormholes and happy thoughts.

It is also jammpacked with celebrity cameos — Daniel Craig, Vin Diesel, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, to name a few, — so prepare (Johnson & Johnson Vision Treatment Soap should do it) to jam and be ‘mesmerized’:

“Covid kept delaying our shoot so Duck Sauce is releasing the animatic as the official video.” ~ director Keith Schofield. We’ll suspend our disbelief and imagine that there really could have been a live action version of this insanity.

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Mixtape for the Milky Way — “Video Games” [music video]

•February 9, 2021 • Leave a Comment

This nifty papercraft video is a celebration of play. Austin-based creator Eric Power has featured here before showcasing his love for Star Wars. This time Eric chronicles a nostalgia-packed ode to video games — you will recognize a fair few:

Directed and animated by @ericpowerup ericpowerup.net / Piano, synths, production by @John Mark Nelson // Lyrics and vocals by jeremy messersmith

Music was meh. What, I’m being honest with myself. …Meh!

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(More) Wind-Powered Kinetic Sculptures by Anthony Howe

•December 13, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Anthony Howe has shared a new sculpture on his YouTube page, adding to his growing collection of splendid and sleek artworks, all activated by the slightest breeze:

Those are all amazing! To be fair, I am still impressed by the perpetual clacking of a classic Newton’s Cradle.

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🥳 Por Trump [♬]

•November 3, 2020 • Leave a Comment

First allow me to preface by saying that I am not an eligible voter in the 2020 United States Presidential election — what I am however is a stickler for catchy party tunes:

I’m DarkInTheBoy and I approve this message, puto

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•October 31, 2020 • Leave a Comment

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Deleted Scene: Luke’s Lightsaber Construction (Star Wars VI Return of the Jedi)

•May 3, 2020 • Leave a Comment

For decades, fans were intrigued by a rumored “lightsaber construction scene” in which Luke constructs this lightsaber in a cave on Tatooine. Though storyboards for the scene existed, Mark Hamill denied that he ever filmed the scene. However, at Celebration V in 2010, Hamill and George Lucas debuted the deleted clip, which included a brief sequence where Luke assembles the lightsaber, then activates it for the first time. The clip was later included in the saga Blu-ray boxset.

The film plays better having omitted this scene and keeping Luke’s reveal on the planet a secret. I do like this footage though. It wasn’t until I played KotOR on Xbox that I learned about the crystals placed inside of lightsabers. Too much of a world-building plot-hole to mention in the films I suppose.

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Back to the Future Too [fan film]

•April 14, 2020 • Leave a Comment

With the world on lockdown, a Back to the Future fan recruited fellow fans from around the world to help create a remake of Back to the Future Part II, one scene at a time. In the end, over 300 people from 9 countries contributed to the charming and amusing film, which includes live action, animation, and puppetry:

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02/02/2020

•February 2, 2020 • Leave a Comment

A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards (racecar, madam, nurses run), and today’s date happens to be one and a special one at that.

02/02/2020 is the only one of its kind this century making it a very rare eight-digit palindrome.

The previous eight-digit palindrome like this was 11/11/1111, 909 years ago. We’ll only have to wait another 101 years for 12/12/2121, but the next one after that comes on March 3, 3030.

Darn it I wont be alive to see the next one. Considering that the record for the longest human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997), who lived to age 122 years, 164 days, nah there’s no way. Plus I think men die younger than women. Plus I’d be so old, I probably wouldn’t a give a shit about no date. I’d be way too busy dreaming of sipping piña coladas with Kim Novak, oh feet fail me now!

Here’s Weird Al Yankovic with a song written completely with palindromes in the style of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

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Staying Home Tonight on NYE? Been There :)

•December 31, 2019 • Leave a Comment

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The Smashing Pumpkins — “Thirty-Three”

•November 26, 2019 • Leave a Comment

The music video for “Thirty-Three”, directed by Billy Corgan and then-girlfriend Yelena Yemchuk, is a series of images shot in stop-motion, ending with a re-enactment of the Mellon Collie album cover.

Because the group’s videos so often avoid the literal interpretation of lyrics, the video for “Thirty-Three” was created with images closely related to the words of the song, as an intentional stylistic departure.

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Life In A Different Light: Under The Microscope

•November 11, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Martin Kristiansen of My Microscopic World used a polarized light source, a lab microscope, and an iPhone to capture these incredibly detailed, colorful, and otherworldly images of insect larvae, isopods, and tiny crustaceans:

A few weeks ago, I modified my microscope to be able to use polarized light to illuminate my samples. This gives some incredibly beautiful and alien-like footage, so I of course made a video with this technique. All footage in this video is shoot on an iPhone mounted on my microscope with a LabCam adapter. [More images: Instagram]

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Leaf Origami by Japanese Nature Artist @Kusabanaasobi

•November 5, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Japanese nature artist Kusabanaasobi, which means “plant play” in Japanese, creates adorable origami creatures out of leaves, grass, flowers, acorns and peanut shells.

“Keep an eye on the plants on the roads and parks where you are walking. Discover the smell, texture, and interesting shapes of plants that you did not usually notice. Let’s get along with nature through “Kusana Play.” ~ いのり

The artist also has a book about “Flower Play” that provides helpful tutorials showing how she folds the leaves in order to get such remarkable results. Visit https://ameblo.jp/taiyouinori for more.

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