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安室奈美恵 Namie Amuro “Golden Touch” [music video]
•May 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentThis is a semi-interactive music video from J-pop act Namie Amuro, and it is quite neat. It has little effect without your participation, so all you have to do is press your finger to the allocated position (best viewed on full screen mode) — enjoy:
“The Boy and The Beast” Written and Directed by Mamoru Hosoda [movie trailer]
•May 31, 2015 • Leave a Comment
The primary reason why I am looking forward to this is because Mamoru Hosoda is responsible for two of the more likable animes I have seen in the last decade — “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” and “Summer Wars” — which I felt were really progressive for the Japanese anime industry and for feature animated storytelling in general. Mamoru Hosoda understands the importance of story above all else (and by ‘else’ I mean fan-servicing otakus). “The Boy and The Beast” looks promising:
“The Boy and the Beast” centers on Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya in modern-day Tokyo, who befriends and becomes the disciple of the lonesome beast Kumatetsu after he finds himself in a supernatural realm.
For anyone interested in getting into anime but is put off by graphic content and/or blatant fan-service, then you should definitely check out some of Mamoru Hosoda’s work — and just FYI, I have hated disliked all the trailers for his films so far, so don’t judge too harshly based on them alone; Mamoru Hosoda is very good.
Tales of Alethrion: Animated Webseries [animation]
•May 30, 2015 • Leave a CommentA series of adventure-filled crowdfunded animations have been exciting the animation community online recently for their storytelling and the creator’s—Sun Creature Studio—gained reputation for delivering what they promise.
“The First Hero” (below) is the prologue to the one below it, “The Reward.” I watched them in that order but you don’t have to, it doesn’t matter really as they are stand alone stories in their own right. “The Reward” came out in 2013, a dialogue-free animated tale of two men who go on a heroic quest and become great friends in the process. Now the creators have released a longer prequel film and are raising funds for a webseries based on the world of bromance, romance, and monsters that they created.
“The First Hero” tells of a powerful warrior obsessed with fame and fortune:
Surreal Rotoscoping of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”
•May 30, 2015 • Leave a Comment
I know people have made a big deal about her new femme fatal music video, but this right here is something Swift fans really should see — 49 animation students from ‘The Plasmatic Research Laboratory’ (animation lab of the Design department at the University of Newcastle) were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” music video, to rotoscope anyway they wanted. Together they produced 2,767 frames of lovingly hand-drawn surreal footage:
DIY Jelly Baby Wave Machine Demonstration
•May 27, 2015 • Leave a CommentTo promote the UK’s National STEM Centre, science teacher Alom Shaha shows how to build a device which demonstrates the principles of wave physics using some duct tape, kebab sticks and Jelly Babies:
The Wave Machine is a fun and useful tool for the science classroom as it can be used to demonstrate transverse wave motion and is a great way of demonstrating how light waves change when moving through different media such as glass and air. If you like this demonstration video please share your thoughts on the National STEM Centre webpage.
Neat. Plus, you know, it requires delicious jelly babies! The Doctor would be so proud:
Dean Pelton: The Community Paintball Solider
•May 27, 2015 • Leave a CommentIn episode 11 of Community season six (“Modern Espionage”), the Dean out maneuvers a group of paintballers in an elevator all by himself. The scene is a nod to Captain America: The Winter Solider, which is quite clever, considering the directors of The Winter Soldier; brothers Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, have written and directed episodes for Community in the past. Here are the scenes for your viewing pleasure:
Abed’s (Danny Pudi) big movie cameo totally makes sense now.
Game of Thrones: The Musical
•May 27, 2015 • Leave a Comment
For the charity fundraiser Red Nose Day, Coldplay assembled the cast of Game of Thrones to create a Broadway (or West End) musical. NBC cut many of the funny bits for time during broadcasting, so here is the full 12-minute version for your enjoyment:
That was good spirited. Not a fan of Coldplay however. Their music is too safe for my liking. Having said, I am willing to defend this one song of theirs in particular, always:
“And we live in a beautiful world (yeah we do yeah we do)
We live in a beautiful world.“
Rappers React to First-Person Virtual Reality Porn
•May 27, 2015 • Leave a Comment
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:
Jamiroquai: The Game
•May 26, 2015 • Leave a Comment
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/ >>
Prince “Dreamer” (2011) [♬]
•May 26, 2015 • Leave a CommentThis 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! >> |
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