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.
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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.
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.
Clair de Lune Espagnol / Spanish Clair de Lune (1909)
•May 14, 2015 • Leave a CommentA 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]
David Lynch Signature Cup Organic Coffee Commercial
•May 10, 2015 • Leave a Comment
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.
Ryan Gosling Finally Eats His Cereal in Tribute to Meme Creator Ryan McHenry
•May 9, 2015 • Leave a CommentOn the eve of May 4, 2015, Ryan McHenry, age 27, after battling bone cancer, peacefully passed away in his sleep at his parents’ home in Dumfries, Scotland. Ryan McHenry was the creator of your favorite meme “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal”. In tribute, Ryan Gosling posted this Vine in which he finally does eat his cereal:
“I was watching ‘Drive’ and eating cereal one day, and it kind of looked like Ryan Gosling was staring at my cereal,” McHenry told EW regarding the origins of the meme.
And not to make this post solely about Ryan Gosling; here are two short films made in 2012 by Ryan McHenry called “TOAST” & “ZOMBIE MUSICAL” which won McHenry and crew a BAFTA and a feature film deal:
After an attempt to win a romantic trip for two to Hawaii goes horribly wrong, Robert Read finds himself with thousands of pieces of toast and a nasty habit for kidnapping postmen…
The short film that started it all. This film got us a feature film deal with Black Camel Pictures (OUTPOST franchise, SUNSHINE ON LEITH), and won us a BAFTA. It’s three years since we filmed it and we’ve moved on a lot as film makers, but with the feature in very late development we can finally show this to the world!
Flight Facilities “Down To Earth” feat. Sam Rockwell [music video]
•May 8, 2015 • Leave a CommentHow I feel almost all day everyday. Dance like nobody is watching:
8-Bit Cinema: Spirited Away
•May 7, 2015 • Leave a CommentLove that MIDI-version of Joe Hisaishi‘s score. Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli‘s award-winning film Spirited Away is a classic; a truly magic, wonderful piece of storytelling that I highly recommend everyone this side of reality should see:
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