29/10/2009

The Horribly Slow Murder with the Extremly Inefficent Weapon by Richard Gale

Awesome short. You should watch it at least twice.

27/10/2009

The Forgot My Meds trilogy by Adam Wingard







Via Twitch

This is your future!

I've decided to try and follow a theme of sorts in an attempt to try and post at least semi-regularly. And if this doesn't feel like an alternative dystopian future where everyone is a potential eye of the state, I don't know what does. It's got a basic psychological appeal though. When you're threatened you tend to switch focus from the individual to the group. Becoming as identical to the members of the group becomes more important than being an individual. The expression "safety in numbers" comes to mind. In this case the group is Americans, and the threat is terrorists. Problems arise thanks to the ambiguity these two groups posses. There are, for instance, American terrorists which makes the division more or less useless... Unless we generalize terrorist into something else. Why not a middle eastern man wearing traditional clothes? If you do it becomes a lot easier to tell who to keep out of your group. And the thing is that this sort of group behavior, were a big and strong group under threat decides that it needs an enemy, rarely targets the weakest group in society. Usually it some other group in the middle. They become the target of something of a propaganda campaign aiming to show just how low and evil they actually are. This is done to strengthen the main group bu giving it something to fight against. Anyway, enough psychology for now. Hopefully someone found that interesting. Neo-Nazis, violent political activists, and probably quite a few others would fit into this kind of group behavior.

22/10/2009

Turbo by Jarrett Lee Conaway

TURBO from Jarrett Lee Conaway on Vimeo.

Pretty damned impressive short.

03/10/2009

Mykonos by the Fleet Foxes. Video by Sean Pecknold

Prelude to Eden by Michel Gagne



Music video for Kokiriko Bushi directed by Teppei Maki



Laundry Day by Guillaume Chartier



How to Cope With Death

Don't know who's made it. Any info would be welcome.

The Owl music video




The best video I've seen in quite a while.

Music: Leeni



And here's her page where you can listen to music.

Knowledge of the Cone by Eran Hilleli

Galactic Mail by Asterokid

Galactic Mail from Asterokid on Vimeo.

Lovely little thing about full of action.



Zoudov by Clement Bolla, Aurelia Vernhes and Laurent Gillot

Zoudov from Clement Bolla on Vimeo.

Another cool example of animation. This one more centered around the cold war and espionage.



Red Rabbit

Red Rabbit from Egmont Mayer on Vimeo.

A really good little animation about a man and the giant bunny rabbit he lives with.



01/10/2009

Links

According to Wired: Soviet Built Doomsday Devise
It's essentially a automatic retaliation system for nukes. Which makes it a lot more realistic than lasers or zombies. Or zombies with lasers fighting sharks on land, for that matter.

Guardian: Increasing Sea Levels Lead to Ghost States

Blog Archive