Performance artI didn’t know you could do this with a car. Well, not exactly you, but some kind of overskilled human in Britain A guy with the fastest hands on earth, an amazingly agile Lotus Seven and some sort of drift/dance/track competition [Windows Media]. [Via Jalopnik]
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Pocket projectorSo hot. Not exactly “pocketable” but small enough to fit in your laptop/gadget bag, this DLP front projector can create a 20″ screen It weighs just 400 grams and the picture below speaks for itself. With a maximum resolution of 800 x 600 pixels, Mitsubishi’s PocketProjector, the first in the new breed of tiny projectors, may still not be very powerful for working or even surfing the net, but with VGA, S-Video and composite video input connectors, I do see myself using it as the standard screen for portable video players like my Archos Gmini400. $700 (or 540€ I should say) is not a bad price for 20.000 hours of lamp life (thanks to the triple-led lamp), but I’m waiting for the 1024×768 version. [Via Engadget]
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London Underground, the songStop telling me to mind the gap Etcetera: London Underground, the song and flash video. [Via Screenhead] |
NexusproductionsAnother group of highly awarded animators who have produced some of the most striking tv commercials/videoclips/short films I’ve seen in a good while I found them in the links section of Tokyoplastic, but Nexusproductions‘ professional real-life projects are another whole story (I didn’t really mean to compare them here). Don’t leave the site without checking the “Latest” section, and be sure to watch the clips for Panasonic, BMW and Watermelon Love.
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TokyoplasticBack to the cool material; version 2.0 website of the winners of the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival audience award, Animation category. Pure audiovisual pleasure. These couple of Flash animators got so famous for their “Drummachine” last year that they had to produce a limited edition of the drumdolls (pictured below). Good to see they’ve managed to keep up the cool stuff since then. In this second version you’ll still find the Drummachine, but also some other great pieces of animation. Too bad you have to be clicking around all the time to keep the animations going, but hey, they weren’t supposed to be useability gurus. Just animation’. To their/my request, please turn your speakers up to 9000. [Via Core77]
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Consume or ProduceWhy haven’t I been checking Gearbits.com more? Entries like this one about the great decision about either consuming or producing information justify adding this blog to my regular visits It’s okay if you don’t bother to do the same but at least do read The Great Decision: Consume or Produce, a story with which I feel very much identified. |
SpamThe latest kind of blog-attacking spam just revived passions in my heart against/for this industry I’m sure the automatic notification email sent to AVTG’s suscribers will go directly to the spam folder due to the awkward repetition of the word spam in this post about spam. You are free to stop reading if you feel spammed at this point. Gearbits.com (Craig Froehle) is the first blog I’ve heard of receiving trackback spam attacks (just after myself). This happens when bloggers around the world seemed to have eradicated comment spam attacks. I’m experiencing all this drama too but apart from the obvious I’m-highly-annoyed rant, I have to say that I feel the same morbid interest for the people/strategy/technology behind the spam industry as I have always felt for the virus/antivirus industry. I mean, it keeps freaking me out that they are actual industries with big money involved. There’s nothing I’d love to see more than Michael Moore’s approach to the topic |
In-take, out-crapA bloody hilarious corporate film for Hallmark’s Greeting Card division (i think so) by animator Chris Harding This made me laugh out loud, and so should happen to you as long as you 1. understand some Flintstones-style spoken english, and 2. are a little bit aware of the so called creative process. In-take, out-crap has immediately become my Messenger nickname. Watch Chris Harding’s “Make Mine Shoebox” (Quicktime). [Via Screenhead]
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Björk smilingI think I hadn’t seen Björk smiling since… her second album almost one decade ago? And even then she didn’t look as happy as in her latest video “The triumph of a heart” And I’m not the only one to feel extremely happy for this fact. Not the only one in this world to love her
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That old Rover 75 adA friend just lent me a couple of albums of previously-unknown-by-me Steve Reich and one song happens to be the soundtrack of the Rover 75 commercial I loved so much 6 years ago You know when you hear a song somewhere one time or one hundred (just enough to make you love it), but there’s no way you can find the original (CD, Mp3)? How relieving it is to find it, intentionally or casually. By 1999 not only did we still use Yahoo! as search engine: you simply couldn’t find every thing on the internet as you do now; so I guess I just enjoyed the commercial during that summer and forgot about it until now. Good songs never die. Altough Nobukazu Takemura‘s Remix of Steve Reich‘s “Proverb” (Download Mp3) may not be of your own personal taste… But it really worked toghether with the image of a then-revolutionary car design slowly emerging from a dark pool of some mercury-ish kind of liquid. By the way, I couldn’t for the life of me find the ad. It seems we can’t find every thing on the internet yet! [Thanks Miren] |
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