“AMC, History Channel, Spike — every TV network that ever wanted to do a “Comic Book Idol” TV show — here is the comic book life captured in its most primal and dramatic: people arguing about cover design in front of over stuffed bookcases and furnishing mingled from antiques and plastic storage boxes from Target.” (Via “The Beat”)
CARTOON COLLEGE Trailer (by CartoonCollegeMovie)
Here’s something you don’t see everyday, at least not around here: three human shaped RC planes flying around New York City to create the illusion of people flying, set to a dubstep tune.
Flying People in New York City (by ChronicleNYC)
“Some historical photography, photoshop recoloured by Sweden-based artist Sanna Dullaway - for example we have Che Guevara, Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Hitchcock, Che Guevara, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Anne Frank, Charlie Chaplin and many more.”
While Samsung is showing off their transparent display tech, GM is prototyping a similar concept for car windows – offering passengers interactive media and games on touch-screen glass.
2012 GM Advanced Tech Window (by SupercarHall)
Joseph Herscher takes 19 steps to turn a page of his newspaper, but it all starts with a sip of coffee. This triggers a zany chain reaction that involves boiling water, a broken laptop and a hamster named Chester. If that sounds inefficient, that’s the whole point.
The Page Turner (by allonewordplease)
An online group has dedicated itself to finding all the instances of The Lick, a particular series of notes that’s almost always played at the same speed and duration.
The Lick (by tbonealex)
This striking Radiolab video made by Everynone was inspired by Radiolab’s Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode. Filmmakers Will Hoffman, Daniel Mercadante, and Julius Metoyer III play with our yearning for balance, and reveal how beautiful imperfect matches can be.
Radiolab Presents Symmetry (by Radi0Lab)
“Nice mini-doc about an interesting evolution in music. Straight from the future.”
araabMUZIK Documentary (by Eri12345C)
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Like the musical ones we enjoy, architect/designerLuis Urculo created his own Covers, a clever short film in which iconic monuments in architecture are reinvented as models with everyday objects.
Covers/Luis Urculo (by Luis Urculo)
Korehira Watanabe is a swordsmith, a dying breed of craftsmen. He has dedicated his life to his profession and passion and desperately hopes that the art of sword making will continue to live on.
Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker (by Etsy)
“Wang’s work begins from the birth of Z, a mechanical man. He refers to this man as a post human species, appropriating his own appearance and naming the mechanic man Z after his own name’s English initial. In his work, Z has proliferated and evolved in diverse modes.”
This guy nails Radiohead’s “Karma Police” on 6 string bass…
Tom Morgan - Karma Police.mp4 (by resonantmind)
Outerwear retailer Moosejaw has released an augmented reality app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices that lets users see through the clothing featured in its winter catalog.
Moosejaw X-Ray App (by Gary Wohlfeill)
We’ve been pretty impressed by the previous footage shot from the International Space Station orbiting the Earth, but this 5 minute edit by Michael König is truly the pièce de résistance.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS (by Michael König)
Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve heard about the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread across the country and around the world. We believe this is an incredibly unique movement that transcends the usual partisan gridlock and could have a profound affect on all our futures. Even if it dissolves completely, it has changed the conversation in the country and around the world in a way that deserves to be remembered.
Occupy Comics (by Halo-8 Entertainment)
Michael Moroney is a seasoned creative and strategic consultant and a Executive Producer and Chief Creative Technologist at 1stAveMachine. His client experience includes work for HTC, Toyota Prius, Concord Music Group, Gap, Virgin, Target, Time Warner, Apple, Microsoft, Nike, Samsung, Bank Of America, Chevron and Amnesty International.
As an evangelist for the creative application of new technology, Michael has lectured at UC Berkeley and The Stanford Business School and has been a featured speaker at the Ad:tech, CES, OnMedia and OMMA conferences regarding new media technologies and entertainment business models.
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