https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USM6_nKJlbI
Ainsley Rae of Arizona – who, one can only hope has since found a less insane hobby – narrowly avoids disaster at a Bad Axe Throwing event.
Category Archives: Video
Experiments by Paris-based CGI artist lulu116 using the digital liquid simulator Flip Fluids within the open source 3D creation suite, Blender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGnxB9BXK0
Brad Russell and the rather beautiful results of an extremely dangerous practice – connecting the 2000V transformer from a microwave oven to sheets of wood painted with sodium bicarbonate: tree-like electrical discharge patterns known as Lichtenberg figures which he then overlays, fills, colours and varnishes into art pieces.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones’ Jaime Lannister) helps you seperate your hygge from your dødens pølse for Vanity Fair’s Slang School.
Previously: Know Your Broadway Slang
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A promo for Unreal Engine 4 – a suite of graphics tools for designers and developers of games, simulations, and visualisations. As one commenter (presumably from a southern US state) observes:
Y’all are gonna be able to cook Thanksgiving Dinner with your graphics card.
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A very satisfying time-lapse video (with equally pleasing speeded-up carpentry sound effects) of luthier Patrick Hufschmid creating the neck and body of one of his hand-built electric guitars, a gig at which he is no slouch.
A digital graduation short by Hungarian animator Anna Katalin Lovrity. To wit:
Somewhere, on an oceanic island, the forces of nature are still at work as in primeval times. A young, naive female tiger lives there in harmony with herself and nature. When her awakening femininity is noticed by an older male tiger, the young tigress is getting more and more scared by his heated approach.
VFX lab Corridor Crew superimposes the ships and machines of Star Wars on real world backgrounds.
Fascinating, if you can make it through the Brilliant Kid hyperbole.
And his frankly inexplicable pronunciation of ‘Vader’ and ‘Jedi’.
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Nomadic off-roaders Brice and Irina Bader of Wild Fennec showcase their custom-adapted, super ergonomic Land Rover Defender, which – at the press of a button – transforms from vehicle to ingenious miniature home for two (and a half) in under a minute.
The couple are hoping to mass market the adaptation.