Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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François Vautier’s mega HD (3.6 gigapixel) experimental film tribute to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner using, among other things, 167,819 frames from the original film.

A baffling technogasm of eye-candy filled with audio SFX and memorable quotes from Ford, Hauer et al.

Nth degree fan-art. Weird but good. Full screen encouraged.

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Mikro – a series of tiny ‘fold-up’ metal sculptures by artist Sam Buxton.

Each of the incredibly intricate designs starts out as a flat business-card sized sheet of stainless steel just 0.15mm thick. Assembly and fold-out instructions are included.

Considering that Buxton’s first prototype, drawings and models were displayed at the Victoria & Albert Museum earlier this year, £7 seems more than reasonable.

You can buy them here.

‘Boom and bust residential development has drastically affected parts of southwest Florida for decades now, and I spent some time (with the help of Google Earth), looking around the area’.

A spectacular large-format Google Earth gallery of Florida’s suburban ghostscapes by Alan Taylor at Boston.com.

Too remote? Fancy something a little closer to home?

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Garth Davies short film Ride is actually a viral ad for an energy drink (Guess which one? No, it’s the other one.) It’s still pretty impressive though.

The sharp edit makes it genuinely hard to tell where CGI ends and the actual flames begin.

If only they’d done it on DTV Shredders.