br> I totally missed this bit of thinking from the other day by open source enthusiast Douglas Rushkoff. He’s living in the Singularity already, so he can say that “on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need”—and we’re just distributing it wrong, and “we don’t have enough ways for people to [...]
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Music video with simulated special effects
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
[Video Link] Ayahiko Sato, a member of visual design unit in Japan called Rakudasan wrote to me about this cool music video they directed for a 16-piece band called Gaka. The song is called Tsuchinoko.
He said: “Now, as you know we are in critical s…
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost swede Star Wars
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s sweded reenactment of the droids-on-Tatooine scene from Star Wars is a naked attempt to create a viral ad for their new movie Paul, but that doesn’t make it any les…
True Stuff: The Ethics of Retouching
Monday, 14 March 2011
Modern-day photo retouching (as in here and here) is a big business in the world of magazines and advertisements and mass media, and every now and then there’s an outcry about how fake it all is. It distorts perceptions of beauty and reality, and el…
“The horror … the horror …” Apocalypse Now (1979)
Monday, 14 March 2011
“The horror … the horror …”
Apocalypse Now (1979)