An open letter to Hollywood trailer makers by Mario and Fafa.
Category Archives: Video
Boiling Coke
at
Youtuber Crazy Russian Hacker boils up five litres of Coca-Cola to reveal the secret sauce of Tasha Yar-murdering evil you always knew lay within.
Other diabetes-inducing sugar drinks are available.
Caveirão – a superb live action, 2D and 3Dvfx animation by Guilherme Marcondes featuring the night spirits of São Paulo – inspired by the darker side of Brazilian street culture
Behind the scenes feature here.
Büsker Dü
at
Polish busker Mariusz Goli does his thing on the streets of Katowice.
His fretwork is somewhat nifty.
ARST ARSW
at
Übergeek Tom Murphy took all the lines spoken in English in Star Wars: A New Hope and divided them up into 11,684 single-word clips.
He then alphabetised all 11,684 and cut them into a 48 minute edit of the film, appropriately called ARST ARSW. It opens with all 201 instances of the word ‘a’ and concludes with the single use of the word ‘zone’.
Tom adds the following ‘fun facts’:
The word “lightsaber” only appears once in this film.
There are 43m5s of spoken English, 81m39s of other.
The most common word is “the”, of course, said 368 times.
The word with most screen time is “you”, at 52.56 seconds.
There are 1695 different words, and 11684 total words.
The longest words are “responsibility,” “malfunctioning”, “worshipfulness”, and “identification”, all 14 letters.
Sir, the internet is not worthy.
Related: Eht Aepprs
Clawsome
at
Jizai Okimono is a niche Japanese craft dating back to the late 1700s when metalsmiths found themselves with a lot of time on their hands as the demand for multi-plate armour waned. It involves the meticulous carving of hyperrealistic animals with fully articulating, anatomically correct joints.
Here, 25 year-old sculptor Ryosuke Ohtake carves a lobster from boxwood for an exhibition at Tokyu Department Store – a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that it was apparently his first attempt at the craft.
LJ Quirke writes;
Tomorrow is YMCA World Challenge Day. YMCAs worldwide are putting on events and asking people to sign/ tweet photos with our declaration: ‘I stand up for young people and I want their voices to be heard’. We are asking if people will stand up for young people? Who can say no to that?
Sign the declaration here.
Tweet photos (#stand4youth) to @YMCAIreland
A motion graphics experiment by Panop Koonwat merging 2D cel animation with 3D wherein Cupid attempts to set the world straight having contributed to overpopulation, overconsumption and global warming with his pesky woo-arrows.
