SciFi-Short: Archetype
Schicker SciFi-Kurzfilm von Aaron Sims, der als Concept Designer unter anderem an War of the Worlds, Green Lantern, Planet of the Apes und The Thing mitarbeitete. Das Ding leidet (so wie viele Kurzfilme von Designern oder Effektleuten) leider an einer eher dünnen Story, die nicht so richtig zu Ende erzählt wird, dafür sieht das aber alles richtig gut aus. Immerhin.
Sims is a creature/conceptual designs with a prolific resume in some of the biggest summer blockbuster including Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers and The Thing. Its produced through his own company and his visual effects outfit, Archetype VFX and it stars Robert Joy (Land of the Dead, CSI:NY) and David Anders (Heros, 24).
RL7 is an eight foot tall combat robot. Only problem is he’s starting to remember once being human. Now on the run from an all powerful corporation that will stop at nothing to destroy him RL7 desperately searches for the truth behind his mysterious memories before it’s too late.
Natalia Fabias Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle
Vor rund einem Jahr hatte ich über Natalia Fabias Huren-Portraits gebloggt, jetzt zeigt sie neue Arbeiten in ihrer Ausstellung mit dem tollen Namen Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle. (via Animal NY)
Punk rock is one of my true loves. Punk to me is an attitude, a lifestyle. Punk is a middle finger, punk is do-it-yourself, do what you want. It’s a kind of freedom. I’m attracted to my subjects for having that quality. This attitude is what I wanted to convey in this series. My models (many of which are friends) are all tough, independent, strong, fun, hard working, talented, tattooed and stylishly dressed. I look at punk rock as being dirty and rough, yet sparkly and enticing at the same time, and that’s the theme of my paintings.
Meine Favorites nach dem Klick.
Winnie Tattooh and his Friends
Schöne Illus von Grapheart aus Paris: Winnie Tattooh and his friends. (via Who killed Bambi?)
Wood-Boombox-Illu Timelapse-Video
Die DKNG-Studios haben ein Poster für die Sitcom „Portlandia“ gestaltet und haben dazu ein nettes Timelapse-Video auf die Beine gestellt. Hier die Illu in 1600x1200px.
Vimeo Direktwood, via Ronny
Links for 21.1.2012: Ottawa Punks, Jim Steranko, What were you raised by Wolves?
Webcomic: What were you raised by wolves?
Wat – Destroy All Software Talks: A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012 (Coderhumor, wait for it!)
Jim Steranko – misc paperback covers
The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com: As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck observed, introversion fosters creativity by “concentrating the mind on the tasks in hand, and preventing the dissipation of energy on social and sexual matters unrelated to work.” In other words, a person sitting quietly under a tree in the backyard, while everyone else is clinking glasses on the patio, is more likely to have an apple land on his head. (Newton was one of the world’s great introverts: William Wordsworth described him as “A mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”)
Kyrielle by Boris Labbé on Vimeo
Dans le cochon tout est bon by Iris Alexandre on Vimeo
Satori on Vimeo
A Good Wife on Vimeo
THIS IDEA IS NOT WORKING on Vimeo
The Whisky Water Trick on Vimeo
Max More – Transhuman and the Singularity – YouTube
The Kills ‘Into The Unknown’ Short Film – YouTube: A beautiful six minute rockumentary filmed in London by videomaker Giorgio Testi (under Marilena Borgna”s supervision) that follows the final moments as The Kills prepare to go on stage for their headline show at Brixton Academy in London.
FAILE on Vimeo: A few months ago we met Brooklyn-based street artists FAILE and spoke with them about their use of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger imagery.
Where Did The Night Go’ on Vimeo: This is a personal project and tribute to the late Gil Scott-Heron.
Indie Game: The Movie – Online Extra – CONTROL on Vimeo: Tommy & Edmund from “Team Meat” talk Super Meat Boy Controls
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World – YouTube: Original 1980 BBC Television Production
A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol – HD on Vimeo:
Blood Orange Documentary Special on Vimeo: Last year, Channel 4 (British Television network) approached Dev about being interviewed for a music special regarding Blood Orange. He agreed, but only if they let us send them the complete package ourselves. Surprisingly, they said yes, and so it aired on British T.V late last year. Here, for the first time, it is available to watch online.
Timeless a video essay / design fiction by KS12 on Vimeo: The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would be considered schizophrenic in the last century. We have more friends than ever before yet know new frontiers of isolation. The quantification of our experience haunts us in the form of a persistent history. And we are distracted more than we ever knew possible. These circumstances are paradoxically a description of the near future and a diagnosis of the current state of affairs. The truly timeless is redefined – it has transcended that which is classic; it has become that which is never finished.
Comics – Zum “Schundheft” gemacht! – Eine Kampagne? – YouTube
TADUFEU – ESMA 2011 on Vimeo: A pack of “Cromags” obtains fire without knowing how to make it. The “Neandert” family is cold. The father sees a smoke in the distance and decides to go…
Classic old computers and machines – YouTube: Classic old military computers and machines — lots of buttons, knobs, and lights. General purpose data processors. Typewriters. Electronic brains will take guesswork out of decisions. High speed information retrieval.
Symphony of Science – The Greatest Show on Earth! A music video about Evolution – YouTube: A musical celebration of the wonders of biology, including evolution, natural selection, DNA, and more. Featuring David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye. “The Greatest Show on Earth” is the 13th video in the Symphony of Science music videos series.
1980′s Canadian Punk – a set on Flickr: Ottawa 1981-1983 and some photos from travel to Montreal & Toronto to see bands.
Legal Responsibility for Insane Robots | Law and the Multiverse: Insane robots that turn against their creators or try to destroy humanity are a pretty common theme in lots of media, not just comics. Of course, this is a blog primarily about comic books, so we’ll take an example from there, as inspired by a question from TechyDad, who asks about Henry Pym (aka Ant-Man) and his potential liability for the creation of the robot Ultron, which in its various incarnations has done all kinds of terrible things, including attempting to destroy the world.
New map of the universe reveals its history for the past six-billion years: The scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including astronomers at Penn State, have produced a new map of the universe that is in full color, covers more than one quarter of the entire sky, and is full of so much detail that you would need five-hundred-thousand high-definition TVs to view it all. The map consists of more than one-trillion pixels measured by meticulously scanning the sky with a special-purpose telescope located in New Mexico. This week, at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, the SDSS scientists announced results of four separate studies of this new map that, taken together, provide a history of the universe over the last six-billion years.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? By Richard Dawkins | Response | 2012 Annual Question | Edge: Part of what makes a theory elegant is its power to explain much while assuming little. Here, Darwin”s natural selection wins hands down. The ratio of the huge amount that it explains (everything about life: its complexity, diversity and illusion of crafted design) divided by the little that it needs to postulate (non-random survival of randomly varying genes through geological time) is gigantic. Never in the field of human comprehension were so many facts explained by assuming so few.
Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking | The Creativity Post: Creative geniuses do not think analytically and logically. Conventional, logical, analytical thinkers are exclusive thinkers which means they exclude all information that is not related to the problem. They look for ways to eliminate possibilities. Creative geniuses are inclusive thinkers which mean they look for ways to include everything, including things that are dissimilar and totally unrelated. Generating associations and connections between unrelated or dissimilar subjects is how they provoke different thinking patterns in their brain. These new patterns lead to new connections which give them a different way to focus on the information and different ways to interpret what they are focusing on. This is how original and truly novel ideas are created.
One Per Cent: Curious skull-bots interact with their human visitors: How can curiosity help robots to communicate with humans? That”s the question Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, head of the Flowers team at research institution INRIA, in Bordeaux, France, wants to answer – and to do it he is enlisting visitors to an art gallery in central Paris.
Musicvideos: Justice, Alex Winston, Class Actress, Kettcar
Oben erstmal Justice mit „On’n'On“, weitere Clips nach dem Klick.
Vi Heart: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant
Die wunderbare Vi Heart hat eine dreiteilige Videoserie über Muster beim Pflanzenwachstum, Spiralen und die Fibonacci-Sequenz am Start. Der letzte Teil oben ging gestern Nacht online, hier Teil 1 und hier Teil 2.
Knitted DIY Anatomical Heart-Pillow
TheTearySeal verkauft in ihrem Shop selbstgehäkelte Herzkissen inklusive Aorta und das Teil ist ein perfektes Reisekissen für den Flieger. Das hier ist ausverkauft, hier gibt’s noch eins. (via Who killed Bambi)
News from the Future: Downloading New Skills to Your Brain
‘Ne Studie hat gezeigt, dass man per „decoded functional MRI neurofeedback“ (soweit ich das verstanden habe, ist das schlicht die Visualisierung eigener Hirnaktivität) vorgelegte Muster nachbilden kann. Sprich: Man „paust Hirnaktivität ab“ und kann so Fähigkeiten trainieren. Und in drölf Jahren laden wir uns dann die Skills zum Helicopterfliegen aus der Cloud runter, so wie Trinity in The Matrix.
PROBLEM: Unlike Neo in The Matrix or the titular superspy in the comedy series Chuck, we can’t master kung fu just by beaming information to our brain. We have to put in time and effort to learn new skills.
METHODOLOGY: Researchers from Boston University and Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories designed a decoded functional MRI neurofeedback method that induces a pre-recorded activation pattern in targeted early visual brain areas that could also produce the pattern through regular learning. They then tested whether repetitions of the fMRI pattern caused an improvement in the performance of that visual feature.
RESULTS: The experiments successfully demonstrated that, through a person’s visual cortex, decoded fMRI could be used to impart brain activity patterns that match a previously known target state. Interestingly, behavioral data obtained before and after the neurofeedback training showed improved performance of the relevant visual tasks especially when the subjects were unaware of the nature of what they were learning.
CONCLUSION: It may someday be possible to use brain technology to learn to play the piano, reduce mental stress, or even master kung fu with little or no conscious effort. Lead author and BU neuroscientist Takeo Watanabe says in a statement: “Adult early visual areas are sufficiently plastic to cause visual perceptual learning.”
Study of the Day: Soon, You May Download New Skills to Your Brain, hier die Studie: Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback Without Stimulus Presentation (via Reddit)
Star Wars Uncut: Directors Cut online
Vimeo Direktuncut, via Star Wars Uncut
Casey Pugh hat den Directors Cut seines mit einem Emmy ausgezeichneten Star Wars-Remixes online gestellt. Yours truly spielt übrigens auch mit, ich bin der Jawa, der „Utini!“ ruft.
Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The “Director’s Cut” is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.
In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.
SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Star Wars Uncut: „A New Hope“ neu gedreht in 473 DIY-Clips
Star Wars Uncut jetzt für noch mehr Amateur-Filmer
Star Wars: Uncut – Trailer zum fanmade Remake
Star Wars Uncut finished!
Star Wars Uncut: The Escape Teaser
Star Wars Uncut ist fertig und online!
Webseries about People who did Things first
Sehr schöne Webserie von BankShot über Leute, die irgendwas zuerst gemacht haben. In ihrem Vimeo-Channel gibt’s bislang vier Clips, unter anderem mit nem Clip über den ersten Tagger Larry Lovebone.
1st To Do It chronicles some of the most innovative, daring and unknown maverick’s in the fields of art, music, sports and fashion. Through arduous research, spanning the stacks at toppled libraries to unearthed microfilm, these pioneers were the first people to do things that seem quite commonplace in today’s society. 1st To Do It is an ongoing series of short documentaries that sheds a much needed light on the people who made their mark first.
Oben das Video über El Santo, den ersten Lucha Libre-Wrestler, der eine Maske trug.
El Santo harnessed the power bestowed upon him by a celestial body which gave him an unbelievable grappling ability in the ring, while sacrificing his own face to the delight and horror of lucha libre enthusiasts around the world. After enjoying a career that spanned decades, the tale turned tragic as El Santo died days after removing the mask that had cemented him as a wrestling legend.
Und hier noch ein Clip über den Rapper GLC, der als erstes zusammengebundene Schuhe über Hochspannungsleitungen geschmissen hat. Die wirklich wichtigen Dinge des Lebens eben.
In cities across the world shoes swing haphazardly to the rhythms of culture happenings while on electrical lines. GLC takes the audience to church as he explains why he first threw a bevy of sneakers into the air. From Samba adidas to the Air Jordan IV, there’s a science behind the action of throwing shoes on a wire.
Cthulhu Carpets
Kirill Rozhkov hat Illus für ein paar von Lovecrafts Cthulhu-Mythos inspirierte Teppiche gemalt: „I created a collection of illustrations called Dark Water for Danish company EGE in production of carpets. And creating of the artwork was inspired by the stories H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu mythology. The project was implemented in 2010.“
Untooned Beavis & Butthead-Sculptures
Untooned Beavis & Butthead als Skulpturen von Makeup-Artist Kevin Kirkpatrick. Ich kannte ja mal einen, der sah echt genau so aus wie Butthead, den hab’ ich immer damit aufgezogen. Fand er am Anfang noch witzig. Dann irgendwann… nich’ mehr so. (via NCOTB)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
GTA4s Niko Bellic, real life’d
Stewie Griffin Untooned
Jessica Rabbit Untooned
Superweird Real Life Homer Simpson
Real Life Super Mario
Photographers posing with their famous Pics
Wireds Raw File hat ein Preview von Tim Mantoanis Fotobuch „Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends“. Die Bilder entstanden in einer riesigen 20×24 Polaroid-Kamera (Bild rechts) und kosteten 200$… pro Aufnahme.
Alle (?) Bilder der Serie inklusive Behind the Scenes-Shots gibt’s auf seiner Website, finanziert wurde das Buch über Kickstarter. Hier das Video von dort und ein Snip von Wired:
The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.
Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.
“I felt like there was kind of this void,” says Mantoani. “There were all these anonymous photographers out there who have not been given enough credit.”
At a time when everyone has a camera in their pocket and millions, if not billions of photos are flying around the internet each day, Mantoani wants to help people understand that iconic photos don’t just happen. They are the product of people who devote their entire lives to photography. Giving these people a face, he says, helps do that.
Famous Photogs Pose With Their Most Iconic Images
Amazon-Partnerlink: Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends
Pfandring für öffentliche Mülleimer
Youtube Direkttrash, via Interweb3000
Tolle Idee von Paul Ketz, „entstanden im Rahmen eines Kooperationsprojektes mit der Kölner AWB.“ Sollte schnellstmöglich in Serie gehen.
