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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! >> |
•May 24, 2015 • Leave a Comment
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.
EX_MACHINA Source Code [cameos & easter eggs]
•May 22, 2015 • Leave a Comment
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.
<<http://moviecode.tumblr.com/>>
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.
Rebeat feat. Shirley Bassey “If You Go Away” — Music Video Tribute to “Ghost in the Shell” [music video]
•May 21, 2015 • Leave a Comment
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:
Kinetic Chandelier
•May 16, 2015 • Leave a CommentThis 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:
3D-Printed Zoetrope by Mat Collishaw, Inspired by Peter Paul Rubens’ “Massacre of the Innocents” (1608)
•May 15, 2015 • Leave a Comment“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.
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