Several musicians of the real-talk persuasion—Action Bronson, A$AP Ferg, Fetty Wap, The Dream and Jean Grae—try out VR Porn for the first time and get a taste of the future to come. Contains explicit language, but they are rappers so what did you expect, they’re just keeping it real — the results are as follows:
Funny huh. How about a differing opinion though, let’s get some wisdom on this matter:
The 90s man, I was there, and this guy was the stuff of Juice TV music countdowns and your older relatives’ BMW playlists. Jamiroqui is a great name for a game I must say, albeit 18 years late. This funny Frogger-like-game parodies the classic music video for Jamiroquai’s hit song Virtual Insanity — Control lead singer Jay Kay as he sashays over a moving floor and avoid the chairs sliding all around him:
<< Play the game here: gamejolt.com/games/arcade/jamiroquai-game/64407/ >>
This live performance gem:
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I was born, raised on a slave plantation If it was just a dream, listen, call me, call me a dreamer too With more rewards and accolades, then anyone before or after |
Last time I checked, you were sleeping, but you can call me a dreamer too [mad guitar solo here] Peanut butter logic, served on a bed of lies [another mad guitar solo here] << I ♥ PRINCE! >> |
A Western depiction of the Pentecost, painted by Jean II Restout, 1732. Celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus.
Watched Alex Garland’s EX_MACHINA last night with my dad. It is an incredibly controlled piece of storytelling that addresses the notion of human and machine interaction like no film before has. EX_MACHINA is good. And for an extra bit of geekiness for those who enjoy going beyond what is meets the eye, you may find pleasure in knowing EX_MACHINA has quite possibly the geekiest easter-egg in movie history.
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In the film, (no spoilers so don’t worry) the protagonist accesses a computer’s source code, and this source code flashes on-screen (within a computer screen) for a few short seconds (above image). This code looks like your regular, random HTML jargon that many movies and TV shows make up just for the visual look of it. Except, if you transfer and run EX_MACHINA’s source code in python2.7, which is a programming language, it results in a ISBN (International Standard Book Number); “ISBN = 9780199226559″
What is an ISBN? An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings) of a book. A universal cataloging number basically for all books.
So what was the book the number referred to? The ISBN was for “Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds” written by
See, I told you; “geekiest easter-egg in movie history” ever.
The first person who actually discovered this ISBN goes by the Reddit handle of Infintie_3ntropy. He has new-found, self-proclaimed respect for director Alex Garland now, and all it took was an incredibly obscure screen grab of genuine source coding.
A love story, told in tribute to the Sci-Fi world of Mamoru Oshii’s masterpiece “Ghost in the Shell”, where divisions between man and machine are kept under strict surveillance:
This is amazing and I believe every home, building atrium and…interior should have one. This massive chandelier in Russia’s Leningrad Center in St. Petersburg uses a grid of 1,089 moving wires, each of which has a multicolored LED orb at its tip. Its computer control system lets it create wireframe objects that look like they’re floating in space:
“This 3D printed job took about 6 months of work and involved creating over 350 character figures, environment elements and architecture. I was responsible for all 3D modeling and animations. This is the 6th zoetrope I had a pleasure to work on.
The Massacre of the Innocents paintings thrive on the repetition of characters spread across the canvas. They are designed to excite our emotions and to keep our eyes moving around the surface in an agitated manner without intimacy and with no focal point. The zoetrope capitalizes on this, literally repeating characters to create an overwhelming orgy of violence that is simultaneously appalling and compelling.” ~ Mat Collishaw
The gruesome and violent scene Collishaw’s zoetrope depicts take its inspiration from Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ Massacre of the Innocents works, two paintings based on the Biblical story of King Herod’s pre-emptive order to slaughter all of the male children in Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew, Ch.2, vs.13-18.
A jealous scene at a cantina takes an unexpected turn when the spurned lover’s suicide leap is intercepted by a UFO. Émile Cohl borrows liberally from Georges Méliès’s classic A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) but his fantasy of celestial redemption is full of irreverent touches:
Directed by Émile Cohl. Spanish Clair de Lune (1909) also known as: Clair de Lune Espagnol [4 minutes]
Visual artist, musician, actor, and author David Lynch, also has his own brand of coffee! He has a serious love for the stuff, and as a coffee aficionado, it’s a guarantee that the coffee beans that go into his David Lynch Signature Cup Organic Coffee are top notch. Naturally, his commercial may go over the heads of many people, which just goes to prove the point of how the goodness of his coffee is beyond our basic human understanding (but not appreciation of course) — He is David Lynch after all.
Yeah… The commercial was posted on Lynch’s official Facebook page earlier this month, but know that it was actually directed by Andrew Parkhurst. David Lynch’s own directed commercial made in 2013 was weird and featured his voice having a conversation with a static head of a barbie doll, for 4 minutes. Yeah…
To further aid your Lynch fix, here is a Georgia Coffee commercial (aired in Japan) that David Lynch did with the cast of Twin Peaks:
And because this is a good tie-in and I don’t actually remember if I posted this already or not, here is every mention of pie and coffee, and every sip of coffee, in the two seasons of Twin Peaks:
…I admire this guy.
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