Friday 2/24/12

Where's Wall-E?
http://www.toplessrobot.com/u1gu1.jpg

Great video and animation by Siriusmo- Idiologie
http://vimeo.com/21407922

And Hod Lipson builds self aware robots:
http://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.html

Friday 2/17/12

Try saying boots and cats enough times in succession and you'll have some beats!

Zombie apocalypse comes to Los Angeles:
http://runforyourlives.com/

Just try not to get eaten if you take part:

And finally, a short film- snowboarding like Tron:
http://io9.com/5885786/become-a-tron-snowboarder-with-this-full+body-led-snowsuit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aIX3ntiTV-g

Friday 2/3

The Oscars are on the way, so here's a few short trailers for a few nominees for animated short:
Dimanche/Sunday

the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore

a-morning-stroll

wild-life

Tommy this week introduced us to Candy Chang, an urban designer:
http://candychang.com/

And two of her public engagement pieces:
http://candychang.com/i-wish-this-was/
http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/

Friday 1/27/12

If you ever remember the 3D solar synter printer we had a while back, well he're a 3D artist who creates fish:

And thanks once again to Tommy for showcasing his website and a few of his interesting articles:
http://accordprogression.wordpress.com/

Friday the thirteenth 1/13/12

Forget dodgeball, quidditch is where it's at these days:

Finally, Wipeout the game might be a possibility, or is it just faked:

I saw a photo of a kinetic installation, Metropolis II in the news the other day (#5):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16525604

And it's coming to LACMA this weekend:
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/metropolis-ii

Check out the video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YqSkRgySAEg

Fed up of trying to change your image with diets, then look no further than Fotoshop by Adobé:

Friday 12/30/11

So you think you can dance? Check out this guys break-neck moves:
http://vimeo.com/30619461

What do you get if you combine Battle Royale with Running Man? The Hunger Games:

Fed up of typing in made up words on security forms like on Ticketmaster? Did you know they're actually making you work digitising books at the same time?
http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration.html

Want to learn a new language for free and translate the web all at the same time? Try Duolingo:
http://duolingo.com/

Friday 12/23/11

Everyone's favourite hobitt is making a return to the big screen. Just one more year to wait:

Screening of Disney's new movie, War Horse, up at the Disney lot:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568911/

Unless you have a cat, you probably didn't know this is how they yawn: