Category Archives: Video

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The creator of The Pinokio 1 Lamp (which one can only assume has a functioning bulb) Shanshan Zhou, a digital media student at the Victoria University of Wellington in NZ, sez:

Lamp is an exploration into the expressive and behavioural potentials of robotic computing. Customized computer code and electronic circuit design imbues Lamp with the ability to be aware of its environment, especially people, and to expresses a dynamic range of behaviour.

The people at Pixar may want a word.

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Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (feat. Robyn) tear catchphrase-dependent, crowd-amping brainless dancefloor anthems a NSFW new one.

Punch your friend.

Make your booty speak.

Eat a shoe.

…and so forth

Previously: The Lonely Island: Semicolon

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A ‘sound installation’ inside an abandoned toluene tank in Dottikon, Switzerland by sound artist Zimoun, who (with a lot of help) installed329 DC motors connected to cotton balls to create this walk-in, thrumming, mesmeric perma-din. From Zimoun’s artist’s statement:

Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.

Obviously, to experience the full effect, you’d have to be there.

The man’s a genius. Here’s one he did earlier.

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Nearly 60 years to the day after Edmund Hilary and Tensing Norgay made it to the top of Mount Everest, Russian extreme squirrel Valery Rozov leaps off the north face for the world’s highest ever BASE jump – gliding from 7,220 meters above sea level.

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