Friday 10/26/12

Halloween is upon us and so it seems are the light shows people put on the front of their houses:

Did anyone ever stop to think just how creepy Mary Poppins really is?

LG promote their new ultra-realistic monitors in this tower-of-terror style lift/elevator:

Any finally, some idiot who thought he could cannon ball into his frozen pool was proven wrong:

Friday 10/19/12

Tommy reminded us about the importance of donating blood. If there aren't enough participants, the blood bank may cancel their upcoming visit to Zoo.

This week we had photo's by Catherine of the Space Shuttle Endeavour as it made its way through the streets on Los Angeles en route to the Science Centre.

LA Times put together a short time lapse video of the monumental move of the shuttle:
http://www.latimes.com/videogallery/72904629/News/Time-lapse-video-Space-shuttle-Endeavour-s-crosstown-journey-through-L-A

Friday 10/12/12

One of L.A. hottest artists shows us the fundamentals of how he paints his light pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TeTzUzPfleU#!

Fast forward four years and now see just what he is creating:
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/dino-light-photographers-amazing-light-paintings-of-dinosaurs-2572413.html

Also featured this week is another video for Tough Mudder, coming to LA in February (if you're tough enough):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6xsKZXi742I

http://toughmudder.com/events/california-socal-1-2013/

Tommy shared some music from Mars Volta. If you want to see how they've changed over the past 30 or so years, see Tommy for the CDs:

And of course, the fastest vehicle in the whole of LA will be crawling across the streets cause carmageddon like jams. Welcome home Endeavour:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/how-to-see-endeavour-la-streets-oct-13_n_1943930.html

Friday 10/5/12

Ever noticed any similarities in the animation of Disney movies?

John Lloyd takes us through an animated journey of the invisible in the funny TED video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/john_lloyd_an_animated_tour_of_the_invisible.html

Any continuing todays animated them, Don Hertzfeldt's rejected cartoons for the Family Learning Channel: