June 07, 2009

June 06, 2009

June 04, 2009

Easter Eggs in Pixar’s Up


Click here to see the list of hidden easter eggs in Pixar's film "UP".

Eminem meets Bruno

LEGO Entertainment System

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This teeny-tiny NES by Arkov reminds me how much I miss playing with Legos. My love for gaming took priority somewhere along the line. Maybe someone should just make a Lego simulator for consoles…It even opens up! Extra credit if someone makes a tiny NES cartridge to fit in there.

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Aww. Lookit the cute little controller!

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And of course, you can’t forget the A/V outputs.

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[Via Tiny Cartridge]

A Solar Prominence


How can gas float above the Sun? Twisted magnetic fields arching from the solar surface can trap ionized gas, suspending it in huge looping structures. These majestic plasma arches are seen as prominences above the solar limb. In 1999 September, this dramatic and detailed image was recorded by the EIT experiment on board the space-based SOHO observatory in the light emitted by ionized Helium. It shows hot plasma escaping into space as a fiery prominence breaks free from magnetic confinement a hundred thousand kilometers above the Sun. These awesome events bear watching as they can affect communications and power systems over 100 million kilometers away on Planet Earth. Recently, our Sun has been unusually quiet.

May 30, 2009

Orgesticulanismus



I showcased this animated short 14 months ago, but I just had to show it again.
It’s rare to me to find a piece of work in our industry that seems to have true meaning to someone beyond just creative expression. Mathieu Labaye made this stunning animation in honor of his father who struggled with multiple sclerosis.

Be patient through the beginning, it starts a little slow. Definitely read through the translation of the voice over, I’m sure you will find this piece to be much more than just a beautifully executed, tedious, and impressive bit of hand drawn animation. What a great expression of what it means to be free to move, we can only imagine how Mathieu’s father struggled with the desire to feel like this (full of life and motion, wanting to break free from his body) every day of his life.

Here is a version of the animation with subtitles.

Produced by Camera-Etc.