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BarBot 2010
Tonight! In San Francisco... BarBot 2010: the third annual festival of Cocktail Robotics! "BarBot is a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes...
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything: a flipbook animation that covers the history of the universe... as related to our planet (and Western cultures in particular).
Cute Things Exploding
Cute Things Exploding takes popular, cute videos and makes the subjects of the video explode. Example: Here's a perfectly innocent & cute video of a kitten making a 'surprised' gesture: Here's that same kitten with the "Cute Things...
Julia Child’s Primordial Soup
Julia Child cooks up some primordial soup in this video for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum exhibit 'Life in The Universe':
Swimming Cities
The Swimming Cities are one of the most incredible art installations I've heard of in quite awhile: both in terms of the resulting works & the experiences of building, sailing & living on the floating constructions. Here's a story about their production....
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich: a site that lives up to its name.
Haiti 360°
In case you need to see more of post-earthquake Haiti to prompt you into action, this 360° video takes you down the rubble-ridden streets and allows you to control the view of the camera. CNN has several more interactive videos available. Have a watch, then lend a...
Effects Meet Reality… Sort of
These are not computer effects... well they are, but they are actually projections on real buildings.
Nic Cage as Everyone
Nicholas Cage might just be the most overused and over-appreciated actor of our times. He might have been OK at one point, but now the choice to cast him spells doom for any film (in my completely solid & irrefutable opinion). As if to bring one of my worst...
The Most Useless Machine Ever
Just for Gymbeaux: what the maker's have called "The Most Useless Machine Ever." I find it endlessly entertaining, so not completely useless, then. Watch the video, then follow the instructions to build your own.
Future of Receipts
One day paper receipts will be a thing of the past. Here's one possible view of that future, where Kevin Rose (who you might know from Digg and/or Diggnation) introduces the Square mobile credit card payment processor. Many will marvel at the system (which uses an...
Enhance… enhance…
A video tribute to the use of "Enhance..." when characters in TV/Movies are reviewing security footage:
Real Pong
Another instance of Pong being migrated from it's video roots... this time into a real-world application. I want to have this as a coffee table. More information at the maker's site: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
Browser Pong
Play Browser Pong, a pong-like game that uses browser windows for the paddles & ball.
We Got That B-Roll
We Got That B-Roll
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