Colin Hassard writes:
I penned this poem in light of the imminent G8 summit in Northern Ireland and the global “stick up”. It also laments the demise of the NHS and the media’s obsession with celebrity culture. Peace!
Category Archives: Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLh-SR0yHPQ
In a very, very stupid attempt to leap over a speeding, oncoming car, Youtuber and high school long jumper friekenwork snatches an undeserved partial win from the jaws of fail.
As his friend in the car so rightly points out ‘Oh my Gawd-uh’.
That knee will be killing him when he’s older.
Our pitifully low rate of corporation tax and relaxed attitude towards financial malfeasance?
No.
Our young, highly bearded educated workforce and beautiful climate?
Yes.
A new spot for the IDA [Industrial Development Authority].
Via Senan Ryan
An edit of deleted and alternate scenes from Blade Runner, ‘merged’ from separate sources (with a reinstated and hugely expanded Harrison Ford voiceover) by YouTuber JohnnySRB Belgrade.
It’s doubtful that Ridley Scott would approve, but it’s an interesting skew on a sci-fi classic all the same.
Or an exercise in melon-twisting cognitive dissonance echoing the work of Philip K. Dick.
Or just a mess of cobbled-together giblets never intended for public consumption.
You decide.
(Hat tip: Brian O’Connor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obcvWJZ33-w
Eleven and a half minutes of lyrical big-ups in reply to older, grittier supercuts like Harry Hanrahan’s 100 Greatest Movie Threats Of All Time (2011) by HuffPo’s Oliver Noble.
A mini-doc primer on the Turkish uprising from VICE.
Live streaming from Istanbul here.
Erdoğan’s chilling warning: ‘these protests will be over in 24 hours’ (Guardian)
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An epic sequence that Arizona storm-chaser Mike Oblinski has spent the last four years trying to capture – the epic cloudscape of a huge rotating supercell storm forming near Booker in northern Texas, taken earlier this month.
It’s full screen or nothing with this one.
Michael Rigley, a student at the California College of Art, created this beautifully rendered and now somewhat timely animation about data capture from mobile phones for his BFA design thesis project. Sez he:
Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.
