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November 7, 2011

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Skinemax: 80′s and early 90′s TV compressed for your ADD pleasure

Skinemax from Smash TV on Vimeo.

Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.

A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.

Please support the original works, these are film makers and musicians that have upheld the values of originality and creativity.

This video is protected under fair use copyright law. It is presented for the purposes of entertainment, education, and criticism/commentary only. No infringement is intended.

July 28, 2011

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Visualization of the U.S. debt in skyscrapers of $100 bills

It goes WAY on. See the rest here.

July 21, 2011

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TED Talk: Don’t take consciousness for granted

After a catastrophic car accident that left him in a coma, Simon Lewis found ways to recover — physically and mentally — beyond all expectations. At the INK Conference he tells how this remarkable story led him to concern over all threats to consciousness, and how to overcome them.

April 20, 2011

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China’s Housing Bubble: Ghost Cities and Malls

Did you know about China’s housing bubble? Watch here the full extent of it. 64 million empty apartments, and as many near-homeless people work building more. Astonishing stuff.

April 14, 2011

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RAY KURZWEIL’S technological prophecy for 2049 on colbert

Reality always excels fiction and our expectations, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy’s estimation —that we will merge ourselves with computers by 2049, making us “billions” of times smarter— is conservative. The mere idea of backing up our own memory (info in our brain) has to be just around the corner.

Here’s last night’s interview at The Colbert Report, and below the trailer of his documentary “Transcendent Man”

March 22, 2011

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The Daily Show’s brilliant segments about the war in Lybia

Today’s show (March 21st 2011) was an uninterrupted session of hardcore nailing. The pattern of BIG news happening just when these guys are on holidays is getting pretty ridiculous (-ly hilarious).

Part 1/3 “Oddyssey Dawn”

2/3 “Unconstitutional War”

3/3 “America’s Freedom Packages”

February 12, 2011

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A very nice The New Yorker cover

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Some say this was the inspiration for Windows Phone 7.

October 6, 2010

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The Daily Show`s Best Moment Of Zen Of The Month

Using once again the “we’re all gonna get laid” clip that’s becoming a classic in the show, and never fails to make me laugh.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Moment of Zen – Rally to Restore Sanity and That Other Announcement
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity
November 4, 2009

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This Is Where We Live

 

A short film by the 4thEstate editorial to celebrate 25 years in publishing. Gotta love a soundtrack like this for any sort of story telling. Very human but still fits something modern.

[Via Urban Neighborhood]

October 26, 2009

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I Ran So Far. SNL song using Afx tune

On top of being hilarious, this is actually a pretty good song! The piano tune you hear in the background is Aphex Twin’s Avril 14th, from 2002.

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