Friday 4/15/11

X-menu First Class trailer from Ted:
http://collider.com/x-men-first-class-fan-made-opening-credits/84435/

Nuit Blanche short film:
http://vimeo.com/9078364

The making of Nuit Blanche:
http://vimeo.com/9076775

Friday 4/8/11

Zoo to get Lynda.com account. Access to hundreds of training videos and resources. See Neda for details.
http://www.lynda.com/

Crazy robot thing that can pick up liquid like substances and leave their shape and form intact from Kenn:

New free running academy just opened up in Northridge this week. Check out the video from Paul:

Trailer for the upcoming movie, The Green Lantern:

Short animation about a guy trying to download his first piece of music:

Friday 4/1/11

Here's what the next generation of Rock Band will look like (hopefully) using augmented reality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTS16klgqMU&feature=channel_video_title

Fake or real. I'm not sure, but I can think of ways to fake it- nail gun art:
http://www.break.com/index/nail-gun-art.html

Friday 3/25/11

Ever wondered what it would look like to visualise all your search engine results at once. Neither had I until I came across Spezify:
http://www.spezify.com

Japanese precision walking. Military parades, eat this:

Free speed reading software for Firefox that moves the words into your view rather than you moving your eyes.

Read Demon iPhone app demo that allows you to read ridiculously fast.

Friday 3/18/11

Fascinating TED talk how Amber Case thinks we're all cyborgs. I think she might be right:
http://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now.html

We might be cyborgs here on earth, but NASA are putting robots up in space:

Friday 3/11/11

This link from Joey shows how someone got carried away and decided to build the house from the movie Up and fly it using just balloons.
http://hypebeast.com/2011/03/disneys-up-house-recreated/

Some of you may remember a while back we played a video featuring tarp-surfing. Well, it's gone mainstream now and you may have seen it in this somewhat higher budget video in the LA river:

Friday 3/4/11

Information on new research to be conducted in association with the University of Leeds into automation of asset matching tools:
http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/postgraduate/research-degrees/scholarships/algorithms-for-audio-content.shtml

TED conference 2011 is on now in Long Beach

TED not only has ideas worth spreading, but also ads worth spreading.
Target Kaeidoscopic fashion:
http://www.ted.com/initiatives/aws/target_kaleidoscopic_fashion_s.html
Intel- the Chase:
http://www.ted.com/initiatives/aws/the_chase.html
World's Smallest Stop Motion:
http://www.ted.com/initiatives/aws/the_world_s_smallest_stop_moti.html

This next video has a parental cautionary warning if you are easily offended. However, if you like Michael Bay and you like explosions, you'll love his new movie- Michael Bay Explosions!!!