03/10/2009
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.
02/10/2009
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
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
29/09/2009
The Dawn of Superheroes?
A unspecified number of months ago I encounter Real Life Superheroes for the first time. At the moment it's still a pretty new and media friendly phenomena, but personally it both scares and inspires me to some degree. More on that soon though.
Like I said, it's new, and since it's popping up locally in various cities in the US (for the most part at least) it's getting at least some local attention.
In the case of Master Legend, it's international even, with an article in Rolling Stone magazine.
And even if it's not the glamorous playboy lifestyle of Bruce Wayne, it seems like he's doing some good at least.
Master Legend appears to be more of a "traditional superhero" you might say. Fighting bad guys, working with the police, things like that.
Then there's others who do more of a community service, neighborhood watch sorta deal. They put on a costume and go around helping people basically.
Like The Black Monday Society:
This sorta thing is what inspires me. Fighting crime is all very well, but in my mind crime is a symptom, not the disease. People turn to crime mainly because of social factors. They can't get a job because of a lack of education, because they end up with people who only want get rich as quick as possible, gangs, drugs, and so on. Making sure the streets are safe, helping the homeless, and just being a nice person might not seem like fighting crime, but the purpose isn't to stop crime. It's to prevent it.
This is done by becoming a symbol of what is good. You do good, because it might inspire someone else to be a little nicer to others. If you're lucky they might even help someone who really needs it at the right time. By proxy you might be changing lives.
It affects both the people you're helping, and the people who see you helping. They might dismiss you with "Anyone could do that!" But then if it's so easy, why aren't you doing it?
Like I said, it's new, and since it's popping up locally in various cities in the US (for the most part at least) it's getting at least some local attention.
In the case of Master Legend, it's international even, with an article in Rolling Stone magazine.
And even if it's not the glamorous playboy lifestyle of Bruce Wayne, it seems like he's doing some good at least.
Master Legend appears to be more of a "traditional superhero" you might say. Fighting bad guys, working with the police, things like that.
Then there's others who do more of a community service, neighborhood watch sorta deal. They put on a costume and go around helping people basically.
Like The Black Monday Society:
This sorta thing is what inspires me. Fighting crime is all very well, but in my mind crime is a symptom, not the disease. People turn to crime mainly because of social factors. They can't get a job because of a lack of education, because they end up with people who only want get rich as quick as possible, gangs, drugs, and so on. Making sure the streets are safe, helping the homeless, and just being a nice person might not seem like fighting crime, but the purpose isn't to stop crime. It's to prevent it.
This is done by becoming a symbol of what is good. You do good, because it might inspire someone else to be a little nicer to others. If you're lucky they might even help someone who really needs it at the right time. By proxy you might be changing lives.
It affects both the people you're helping, and the people who see you helping. They might dismiss you with "Anyone could do that!" But then if it's so easy, why aren't you doing it?
25/09/2009
Mars on Earth
For a few day parts of Australia gets to travel to the red planet for a few hours. Well, at least the ones with a bit of imagination does...
Here's from the one yesterday morning:
And here's from one two years ago:
And here's photos from it.
Here's from the one yesterday morning:
And here's from one two years ago:
And here's photos from it.
19/09/2009
15/09/2009
Global Astroliner by Studio 4°C
Really cool animation. This is probably the first of a few I'll throw up here.
10/09/2009
Links
Penny Red on a protest about protests
Global Guerrillas have 10 points for informational warfare
io9 about the Hacking at Random camp in the Netherlands. Here's their Wiki.
And another piece about the effects of television on our minds.
Grinding has another reason why the iPhone suck
And yet another one about the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics
Greg Palast is covering New Orleans. It makes me want to stab people. It's that fucked up.
Here's Orrot, which is a site based on Warren Ellis rotor concept. I wrote 3 pieces for it before it died. Just as well really, only one of them were any good.
Here's a little something about wrecking new houses from the Wall Street Journal.
Carl Sagan on cannabis
Future Perfect on the path to modern slavery in the western world. New site found via Warrenellis.com. Good stuff.
Global Guerrillas have 10 points for informational warfare
io9 about the Hacking at Random camp in the Netherlands. Here's their Wiki.
And another piece about the effects of television on our minds.
Grinding has another reason why the iPhone suck
And yet another one about the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics
Greg Palast is covering New Orleans. It makes me want to stab people. It's that fucked up.
Here's Orrot, which is a site based on Warren Ellis rotor concept. I wrote 3 pieces for it before it died. Just as well really, only one of them were any good.
Here's a little something about wrecking new houses from the Wall Street Journal.
Carl Sagan on cannabis
Future Perfect on the path to modern slavery in the western world. New site found via Warrenellis.com. Good stuff.
03/09/2009
28/08/2009
Dash and Cash by Sabu
Ties into the release of The Taking of Pelham 123 in Japan, hence the trailer after the short.
26/08/2009
Castlevania Birds
If you are kind of person who occasionally play video games you might have stumbled across an enemy that makes life difficult for you. Sometimes you get pissed and throw the controller into the wall, other times you cry into your hands in desperation. But sometimes you sing...
22/08/2009
16/08/2009
13/08/2009
Thunder
A few posts ago I mentioned that I like rain, but what I really love is thunder (and lightning too).
Just few moments ago lightning hit just right around where I live and the most massive rumble hit me just after I registered the flash outside. It sent a shiver trough my entire body and I just stood there with a big smile on my face.
Occasionally there comes another rumble from somewhere in the distance as the clouds releases their built up charges upon our world. But it seems it's already passing on. Too bad. I was hoping for a massive thunderstorm. It's been ages since I've seen one now. If I'm not mistaken I was probably still a child during the last one. I remember going out to sit on the porch while the thunder almost shook you and the lightning lit up the dark.
Your body tingled from static electricity and pure excitement. Mixed with some fear and awe it made for one excited boy. I probably dreamed about lightning and thunder that night.
It also makes you realize that you're just another part of the world we live in. You feel small and gets taken down a peg for a while. Then it shifts into a childish excitement. You feel as if the lightning and thunder somehow empowers you. Maybe it's the boy and the man fighting for control inside of me?
It doesn't really matter. I'm pretty sure I'll always like thunder, no matter what happens.
Just few moments ago lightning hit just right around where I live and the most massive rumble hit me just after I registered the flash outside. It sent a shiver trough my entire body and I just stood there with a big smile on my face.
Occasionally there comes another rumble from somewhere in the distance as the clouds releases their built up charges upon our world. But it seems it's already passing on. Too bad. I was hoping for a massive thunderstorm. It's been ages since I've seen one now. If I'm not mistaken I was probably still a child during the last one. I remember going out to sit on the porch while the thunder almost shook you and the lightning lit up the dark.
Your body tingled from static electricity and pure excitement. Mixed with some fear and awe it made for one excited boy. I probably dreamed about lightning and thunder that night.
It also makes you realize that you're just another part of the world we live in. You feel small and gets taken down a peg for a while. Then it shifts into a childish excitement. You feel as if the lightning and thunder somehow empowers you. Maybe it's the boy and the man fighting for control inside of me?
It doesn't really matter. I'm pretty sure I'll always like thunder, no matter what happens.
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