Monday, October 1
sacrilicious!
gemberling! - tron 1.1
Monday, August 6
well, this looks scary as hell
Thursday, July 26
i ♥ turd
Monday, July 23
lilly allen has three nipples! and she doesn’t answer to “dave”
Wednesday, July 4
Beyond Awesome: Finnish Power Metal CG Squirrels - and a pinecone golem
Monday, July 2
more leaked footage from Michael Bay's "Transformers" - these effects are seriously from 20 years in the futchar
Labels: movie, sf, total and complete failure, video
Wednesday, June 13
the odd couple
Mac Rumors: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Interviewed at All Things Digital: It's stunning to see these two on stage together. Bill Gates' memory about programming he did for the early Mac is surprisingly detailed and rings of nostalgia on his part. Steve Jobs' ability to make the autocrat of the OS world look small is uncanny. And the final joke which stymies Bill so badly is worth watching the whole interview.
Labels: apple, interview, mac, microsoft, video
Sunday, June 3
sukiyaki western - no joke
The funny thing is, I've been wanting to make a game or novel about this for some time now. The parallels between samurai movies and westerns is not only a source of historic cinematic greatness, it's heaps of fun. I look at the way Yojimbo was turned into Fist Full of Dollars, Seven Samurai into The Magnificent Seven... I wonder what happens when Takashi Miike of all people takes it in mind to drag some back. (synaesthesiaJP)
Saturday, June 2
Introducing the Hipster Shuffle
You may have heard of the Hipster PDA - a stack of 3x5" cards with an industrial clip or brass brad holding them together. It's fabulous, but how can you get the music playback capabilities of an electronic PDA? (43 Folders)
Labels: video
Wednesday, May 30
jack black covers “kiss from a rose”
...while wearing a ”Kochamara!” Psychonauts shirt! I own this shirt, too! (Thanks, Caroline!) (The International House of Mojo)
AHOY!
Wednesday, May 9
leaked footage from the upcoming Michael Bay/Spielberg Transformers movie
Saturday, April 28
now I want to study the Dark Side, too...
A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead
Tuesday, April 24
The Pirates of Zen Pants
Monday, March 26
store clerk enters “attact mode”
Friday, March 23
star wars jerk
Labels: video
Friday, March 2
neat stuff, in volume
Friend of this blog, and colossal perv novelist M. Christian and his brother are blogging The Extra Kewl Stuff over at meine kleine fabrik. Go check it out; if you are in to history and weirdness, there is gold there. They also bring the Japanese weirdness, like this.
Labels: video
Tuesday, February 20
get your historical engineering research on
The BBC series, The Secret Life of Machines:
The Secret Life of Machines is a television series created by Tim Hunkin and presented by himself and Rex Garrod. In it they explain the inner workings and history of common household and office machinery. According to Hunkin, the series was developed from his comic strips The Rudiments Of Wisdom which he researched and drew for the Observer newspaper over a period of 14 years.Everyday things we take for granted, and which may largely be considered confusing or unknowable, are explained in entertaining, comprehensive and comprehend-able detail. There are currently several episodes for viewing at YouTube/Google Video. Some of them can be downloaded for iPod/PSP viewing, to boot. (gregg tavares)
Wednesday, February 14
“I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.”
—Naguib Mahfouz
Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd - Proper Education (thanks, weezie)
Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd - Proper Education (thanks, weezie)
Labels: mashup, music, quote, video
Tuesday, February 13
YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us: "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" (timmeh)
Labels: video
Tuesday, February 6
“i have to push the pram a lot”
Monday, February 5
my pretty pony, apocalypse pony
Labels: video
Monday, January 29
iPhone according to conan o’brien
Labels: video
i would learn to fear the “clean up” context command
Monday, January 22
college saga - the opposite of machinima
Labels: video
Monday, January 15
peter murphy and reznor doing covers and making my day
Peter Murphy and NIN collaborative live tracks; some stunning covers (zenarchery):
Nightclubbing
Warm Leatherette
Nightclubbing
Warm Leatherette
Tuesday, December 26
dead noon
A low-budget horror-camp festival with appropriated Rob Zombie soundtrack. What’s not to love?
Labels: video
Friday, December 22
beware mistletoe.
Tuesday, November 21
easterneuropop
Severina’s got a video out where she is a 50-foot Woman, and she has presumably traditionally garbed dancers assisting her domination of the whimsically animated cityscape. It reminds me of Zlad’s Supersonik Elektronick (video), I’m hoping it’s intentional. I think I liked her “other video” better. (Beyond the Beyond, Bruce Sterling’s blog)
Labels: video
Tuesday, November 14
toot this trumpet
Thursday, October 26
while americans die needlessly in an unjust war, we are being treated as idiots
Labels: video
Friday, October 20
truth > lies
Labels: video
Monday, October 2
tokyo zombie!
I must see this movie:
Mitsuo and Fujio - Japanese cult icons Tadanobu Asano and Sho Aikawa - are a pair of zero ambition slackers employed in a fire extinguisher factory whose only goal in life is the perfection of their jiujitsu wrestling skills. When a confrontation with their boss leaves the nagging executive dead they opt, of course, to take the easy way out and dispose of the body on the slopes of Black Fuji, a monstrous heap of garbage rising in the midst of Tokyo. But whether by the influence of toxic chemicals, black magic, karma or a mixture of all three, the muck of Black Fuji brings their boss back to roam the earth as a voracious zombie, unleashing an undead apocalypse upon the world. Before long the surviving humans are forced to live in a walled city where Fujio makes a living entertaining the upper classes using his jiujitsu skills in human versus zombie cage fights.
Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Labels: video
Thursday, September 28
indie games are fun
Check out Line Rider “beta” and try your hand at it. Then check out these crazy ass skills at YouTube. If these cats could introduce a sharing feature in the next version, either viewing or collaborative, this could be really sweet. (tokyopia)
Labels: video
Thursday, September 7
japanese tv commercial for gatorade
YouTube - Japanese Gatorade Commercial "MIX SPORTS": It doesn’t matter if the BMX rider is “safe” - he is clearly pwned by the sumo chappie.
Wednesday, September 6
governor bush versus president bush
YouTube - Daily Show Gov. Bush Vs. Pres Bush
Related: Last chance to register to vote from abroad.
Labels: video
Tuesday, September 5
“that’s hot”
Banksy targets Paris Hilton
(...) the “guerrilla graffiti” artist Banksy has taken aim at the cult of empty celebrity and its current poster child, Paris Hilton.
The secretive artist has smuggled 500 doctored copies of Paris Hilton’s debut album into music stores throughout the UK, where they have sold without the shops’ knowledge.
Independent Online (stereogum)
Labels: video
Wednesday, August 30
where no homer has gone before
Thursday, August 17
GO TEAM VENTURE!
Adult Swim’s excellent series, The Venture Brothers has unexpectedly snared me like the invisible arms of The Phantom Limb! It has been all I can do to keep myself from watching the episodes in a single sitting. Apparently I am not alone in my enthusiasm;
Wikipedia has entries on each and every character, episode, and even hypotheses on characters who only make brief appearances—the high geekery speculation the likes of which I’ve not seen since the bounty hunters from The Empire Strikes Back. There are plenty of fansites in addition to the purely collaborative wikipedia.
The creators are down with the love they’re getting from the fans. On the internets, in addition to the Adult Swim site’s Flash games and wallpapers, you can find the Official website with sounds, interviews, and other links, and there’s character and storyboard art at Chrisis Church of Art / Lovelace Pop Art, and series news and insight from Jackson Publick at his LiveJournal, Publick Nuisance.
Anyway, Season 2 (a bad place to start) is available through iTunes music store, though you can find plenty of snippets at YouTube, above.
Labels: video
Wednesday, August 9
following up on the vader theme
Tuesday, August 8
darth smartass
Friday, July 28
this one is for señor koyama
Thursday, July 27
“i’d like to maintain the level of black representation on the committee, so let’s go for a stroll”
Tuesday, July 25
better than the prequels
Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (episode 1) (YouTube link): This is the kind of future that weepy, soppy, spoiled Hayden Christianson’s prequel-Vader would probably have faced.
...
Man, what happened to that badass from A New Hope?
Labels: video
Tuesday, July 11
specially modified automated massage chairs
This hidden camera prank features the ubiquitous, coin-operated massage chairs at Japanese hot-spring resorts. These particular seats are at a ski lodge’s mini-spa, which features a new variation on the indoor-outdoor hotspring theme. Censored, but still potentially NSFW. (YouTube link) (tokyopia)
Labels: video
Sunday, July 9
some facts you might not have known about george washington
Wednesday, June 21
KORGOTH!
While it lasts at YouTube, Adult Swim’s new Korgoth of Barbaria: a loving send-up of Conan, Thundarr, and Heavy Metal. (thanks, weezie)
Labels: video
Saturday, June 17
“ten ten”
Downtown, my favorite comedian team takes part in a contest in which they try not to laugh at Jimmy Onishi’s horrible English. YouTube link (thanks, timk)
Labels: video
Saturday, June 10
more, way cool transformer-style car stuff
Thursday, June 8
van hee-haw
“Dave performing Jump with a southern flair on Jay Leno. Promoting the new Strummin’ With The Devil Van Halen tribute CD.”
YouTube - David Lee Roth on Jay Leno (thanks, lee)
Labels: video
Sunday, June 4
“my way”
Saturday, May 20
possibly the best parody trailer ever
10 Things I Hate About Commandments: The Ten Commandments, cast in the light of a teen comedy. (thanks, timk)
Labels: video
Monday, May 15
in summation
This last week, I was unable to attend E3 for the first time in seven years. For the same reason I was unable to attend, I have been too busy to keep up with the media covering the conference.
Thankfully, someone has edited Sony’s E3 2006 Press Conference down to the most critical one minute of content.
Thankfully, someone has edited Sony’s E3 2006 Press Conference down to the most critical one minute of content.
Labels: video
Tuesday, May 9
spock throwing live-long-and-prosper hand signs
YouTube - Star Trek Cribs - The Director's Cut; I’m guessing this is created by the Robot Chicken geniuseses. “SOLID BEEF!” (thanks, kristen)
Labels: video
Wednesday, May 3
stephen colbert joins the no-fly list, permanently, fearlessly
...and probably a number of other lists that will never be revealed, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act. (YouTube; boingboing)
Update: Video removed from YouTube, Google; it can still be found at Crooks and Liars, for now. Ah, here's a working google.video as well.
Labels: video
Monday, April 17
warning: kevin smith
Kevin Smith has a special tribute sell-out moment to YouTube as part of his promotion for Clerks 2: Passion of the Clerks. Look for the reasonably-subtle Silence of the Lambs reference.
Labels: video
Tuesday, April 11
yakuzploitation?
NERSFW horrifyingly non-PC female yakuza exploitation flick trailer that features more questionable content than you can shake a broken bottle at. However, if this is your thing, there is a guide to this whole “pinky violence” subgenre available to you.
On a side note, if you ever get tired of watching Shintaro Katsu being such a cool good guy in Zatoichi films, check out a couple of Kamisori Hanzo (The Razor) movies to increase your sense of moral dischord.
(inspired originally by this boingboing article)
On a side note, if you ever get tired of watching Shintaro Katsu being such a cool good guy in Zatoichi films, check out a couple of Kamisori Hanzo (The Razor) movies to increase your sense of moral dischord.
(inspired originally by this boingboing article)
Labels: video
Monday, April 10
sometimes ebi-sushi still moves when it’s fresh
Labels: video
Tuesday, March 28
i’ll have my LCARS input device now, thank you.
(link to actual page of Multi-Touch Interaction Research at YouTube) This link at Engadget shows the RnD version of a Mitsubishi model that may not be far off. Also see MAKE: Blog: The Future of Interfaces Is Multi-Touch. As a long-time user of chorded interface technique, I find all this very exciting.
Labels: video
warning: volume, sound... shrieking... ears... bleeding
Thursday, March 9
liquid hit point renewal
Yes, it’s a Final Fantasy XII themed energy drink called “Potion.” No, I haven’t tried it yet, but the testers at work seem fond of them.
Labels: video
Tuesday, March 7
colbert celebrates “the d&d” on-air
Friday, March 3
microsoft redefines the ipod
YouTube - Microsoft iPod (thanks, timmeh)
Update: Holy moly. It is a real Microsoft video. (thanks, timK)
Labels: video
Tuesday, February 21
any landing you can walk away from...
Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong has played host to some of the most dramatic landings outside of a warzone. The approach appears to have required a banking turn before approaching a very short landing strip on what appears to be a reclaimed land island in the harbor. Check out the last portion, the on-strip course adjustment of this landing. Or this barnstorming flight over a park. Worst of all, imagine yourself as a passenger on this flight.
Labels: video
Sunday, February 12
real-world, real-time mashup
Gorillaz’ Feel Good, Inc., and whatever Madonna is doing (her legs are too distracting for me to parse her music) were performed at the Grammy award ceremony. This is particularly impressive when the fact that the Gorillaz are a virtual band of cartoons that appear onstage with the arguably real Madonna. Check out Madonna vs. Gorillaz.
Thursday, February 2
this stuff happens every day in japan. every. day.
Wednesday, February 1
a flood of they might be giants videos
They Might Be Giants Multimedia: Many videos from the career of one of my all-time favorite bands. Does anyone else thing there should be a warning before links directly to RealMedia files? (theynow)
Thursday, January 26
sharing the hoff
(thanks, monty)
I respond with equal force:
Of note:
David’s new album, DAVID HASSELHOFF SINGS AMERICA was released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Feb. 2, 2004 and is already at #11 in the Austrian charts!
davidhasselhoff.com
Labels: video
Monday, January 23
the man who married a hot dog
Labels: video