Of this footage from 2012, suspected witch Shane Gillen writes:
I did a thing.
Category Archives: Video
Dat Ass
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzimq_b6qKs#t=32
A rather excellent and comprehensive Huff Post mashup of sundry colourful (and occasionally NSFW) references to the human bottom in Hollywood history.
A preview from National Geographic of the upcoming independent short film about extreme athlete Dean Potter and ‘his little family’s vacation in the Alps, ‘When Dogs Fly’.
Already documented in detail on NatGeo’s Adventure blog, the preview features Whisper, the miniature Australian cattle dog Dean takes BASE-jumping with him. Dean sez:
I’ve never had a close call wing-suit flying. I practice a very conservative form of human flight. When I fly with Whisper, we only jump off the safest cliffs in the world with the longest and cleanest rock drops. This allows Whisper to go on amazing, long mountain climbs and hikes with us, instead of being trapped in the car or left at home. It was mostly a matter of practicality of not wanting Whisper to miss out on incredible mountain dog-walks that led us to wing-suit flying together.
Go full frame and enjoy this looping stop-motion film by Kijek and Adamski which was originally made for projection onto a 20m wide space at the Motion Factory Exhibition in Paris.
Li’l Pred
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8HBL7oJOww
The Aero-X is a hoverbike capable of flying up to 3m off the ground at 60km/h. The concept has been in development for some years (the second piece of footage above is of an earlier 2012 prototype) but developer/manufacturer Aerofex plans to release a more streamlined design sometime in 2017 for around $85,000.
Naturally, you can pre-order.
Previously: This Is How We’re Getting Around From Now On
Donnie Darko (spoiler alert for those few who have not yet seen the film) retold in the style of 8 and 16 bit game tech by Cinefix.
Previously: An 8-Bit Clockwork Orange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1HmYNqp8NM
Startup company Mataio specialises in fusing augmented reality with thermal technology. Their first product concept, ‘thermal touch’ is an imaging system they claim will someday turn any surface into a touch screen display.
For now, it remains a prototype that Metaio claims will require another five or even ten years before the powerful sensors required are developed.
Still.
Super Cooper
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Concorso D’Eleganza Villa D’Este is an annual motoring extravaganza showcasing some of the rarest coach-built one-off vehicles in the world.
At this year’s event, BMW unveiled the ‘MINI Superleggera vision’ – a sleek, rear-finned, Union fleg tail-lighted, hybrid German-Italian electric roadster – in collaboration with ultra stylish Milanese coachbuilders Touring Superleggera.
MORE: MINI superleggera vision is an italian coach-built electric roadster (designboom)