Category Archives: Video

starwarscostumesbook

A promo for what will be essential reading for any cosplayer worth their salt: Star Wars® Costumes: The Original Trilogy by Brandon Alinger – an insider’s tour of the original Trilogy wardrobe.

laughingsquid

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A  nightmarish deMickeyfication by Korean artist Kim Byungkwan who sez of his ouevre:

What I would like to express through my work is very simple. I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity.

Nailed It.

curiousbrain

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Curious about the behaviour of water in microgravity, ISS astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, and Alexander Gerst suspend a GoPro camera inside a bubble.

It’s all about surface tension, apparently.

If you have the appropriate eyewear, you can also watch it in 3D.

iflscience

(H/T: Graeme Kelly)

aerial-1

A 3D aerial laser display developed by a team of Japanese researchers that can display text and images in mid air.

A 1kHz infrared pulse fires directly into a 3D scanner which focuses and reflects the laser to specific points in 3D space, ionising air molecules which release energy in the form of photons.

Much as you’d expect.

colossal/diginfo

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A 2015 Oscars long-listed metaphor for the encroaching hegemony of giant multiples over local shops, UK animator Robert Grieves’ short is the tale of a turf war between two market vendors and the competitive trader who muscles in on their square.

shortoftheweek

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http://vimeo.com/110882372

A very watchable promo for Making Waves: the 2014 ICAD (Institute Of Creative Advertising And Design, Dublin 8) Upstarts Exhibition, which opens this Thursday at the Science Gallery..

Directed by Dave Tynan and starring Dave Cowzer, Anne Gildea, Elaine McDevitt, Meagan Hyland, Karl Davis, Patricia Fox, Amy Heffernan, Sarah Butler, Gaelle Robert , Kate O’Moore.

(H/T: Meg Hyland)

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Marty Cooper once again applies his iPhone 5s and animation cells to create low cost, highly effective scenes.

Bonus cameo by Mythbusters’ Adam Savage – clearly a fan.

Previously: Aug(de)mented Reality

(H/T: Graeme Kelly)