Friday 12/14/12

This parody is timed with this weeks release The Hobbit. Ever wondered how wizards keeps their clothes clean? Tide of course:

Avatar meets Transformers meets War of the Worlds =  Pacific Rim:

Charlie Brown mashup:

Ever wondered what classical singers sing about? Here's one interpretation:

Someone I know made a bowling themed game show pilot. Unfortunately it wasn't picked up, but here's the trailer:

Friday 11/30/12

What happens when you get bad lip readers to dub the presidential debates? This:

Giving Tuesday happened this week:
http://givingtuesday.org/

And so in commemoration, I'm turning bananas in the meals for homeless people through banana bread. All proceeds go to the Union Rescue Mission. Eat up and pay up!
http://urm.org/

Friday 11/9/12

This week Duncan submitted the following fascinating video on changing education paradigms:

If you're interested in taking a free online university course from one of over 30 leading universities from around globe, check out Coursera. They offer courses in just about everything for all levels. It even includes prestigious Ivy League schools:
https://www.coursera.org/

Alternatively Khan academy offers a different style of online learning suitable for all: children through adults. This one is especially good for learning a particular thing if you don't have the time for a course.
http://www.khanacademy.org/

And lastly, a reminder that Zoo has a Lynda.com account offering video tutorials and training material for software and a whole host of subjects. Log in details are available from Neda or myself:
http://www.lynda.com

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: