Showing posts with label cool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cool. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Bicycle Ballerina

This has been around for a little while, but it's impressive no matter how old. The bike is a bit crazy looking, but watch the whole thing and see some seriously amazing bike skills (And she's a girl!!)... :o)

Bicycle Ballerina

Monday, August 18, 2008

More Stop-motion fun

This guy is pretty amazing/talented. I'm assuming that he has some decent musical ability - otherwise he's a genius. Enjoy

Stop Motion Piano And Drums

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Friday, August 1, 2008

People are awesome

This is another one of those 'i have no idea how long it would take to do something like this but it must have taken a very long time' type things. Project Game Over is
one of the art projects developed by the French-Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each "pixel" has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds "live".
You can check out all the info and the videos here, but i've also embedded them here for your convenience (i'm right nice like that...)

Tetris (won the 2007 Youtube award for 'Creative' video)


Space Invaders


Pong

Japan is crazy

'Crazy' here means odd, strange, interesting, cool... The Japanese just do things way different than the rest of the world (or at least North America). Case in point, Kasou Taishou. Basically people perform really interesting/bizarre skits using people in black outfits to shadow the main actors or to allow them to perform Matrix-like movements. The most famous one that i've seen is the ping pong one below, but the other ones are equally entertaining.

Matrix Ping pong


Shadow Basketball


Olympics


Feel free to post any videos that you may have found, in the comments section.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

TED - Ideas worth spreading

I've known about the TED conference for a couple years now and it's unfortunate that more peoples don't know about them. A brief history of the conference is available here. Basically a bunch of smart/talented/interesting people come together to disseminate information and to dream and share ideas. It's pretty cool. Since 2006 the TED talks have been available online for all to view. Below are a couple of my favorites.

Robert Ballard: Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds


Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote


Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo