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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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

Stop Motion is amazing

Stop-motion used to be a bit of an artsy thing, that you might see here and there - but more as a novelty. Now though, with the advent of things like youtube and other video sharing sites, people are being creative in the stop-motion medium like crazy (the amount of time it would take to make one of these boggles my mind!!). Check out the following for excellent examples.

Here we have some classic video games done in various foods and objects. I especially like the candy for the jet propulsion in Asteroids. So much good stuff here it's tough to choose a single 'best moment'... so simply enjoy.
Classic video games expertly animated with stop-motion

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Tony vs. Paul


Here are some FAQ's from the Tony vs. Paul video:
FAQ's

1. The video took two months to film and edit.

2. The music is available here:
http://www.myspace.com/christopherlee...

3. Nothing is fake and no green screens were used. The only computer animated part was the letters falling on the page.

4. Yes, we really did jump all those times.

5. I edited it with Final Cut Pro

6. The camera we used was a Canon GL1 with both digital stills being taken, and footage being shot.

7. It was filmed in Massachusetts in the following towns: Arlington, Medford, Upton, Gloucester

8. There are 4,000+ still shots in the video.

Welcome back!

Ok, so i haven't been paying a lot of attention to this blog for a while, but i thought of a good 'topic' that i think will keep me updating - it's something that i'll be looking at/for anyways, so it should be good. I'm going to try and be my own Digg.com - that is, i'll be posting interesting videos and articles that i find, or my friends find, from all around the web. Generally they'll be funny or insightful videos and/or geeky developer stuff. But i think there'll be enough fun things for anyone.

So to start off i found this interesting interview over at O'Reilly that asks questions to the "project software engineer for the Phoenix Lander Mission". Some pretty interesting stuff. They have to work under some pretty stringent guidelines and ensure that a 700lb object lands on a planet millions of miles away... pretty crazy software/hardware feat!

On a bit of a lighter note, my co-worker Matt sent me a link to this cool website that does a lot of i'm hoping to do in the future - and that is provide lots of entertaining videos and content. So you might want to check out todaysbigthing.com. The one for today is especially cool - stop-motion is a huge internet hot item. Some people are taking the medium to amazing levels. I've embedded the video below in case you want to check out all my other stuff as well:

Western Spaghetti



Continuing on, another co-worker (Clinton), sent me this fun game that grabbed my attention for a while - IndestructoTank A.E. Not a lot to explain, just make sure you hit the ground every now and again or else you run out of gas (not sure how that works, but i didn't make the game!)

Well i think that's enough for my first post on this new topic. I've got a number of videos that i plan on putting up here soon, it's just a matter of time now. Hopefully i can get a couple of people to view the blog and if my friends at work keep coming up with content, then i'll have lots of goodies to share with the masses (or just you 2 people who'll show up randomly - thanks by the way)...