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“I used to be somebody” – trauriger Mac

Markus — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:50:46 +0000

Schöner Kurzfilm von Scott Wayne Indiana und Rune Madsen über einen älteren Mac, der betteln gehen muss weil sich alle Welt nur noch für iPhones, iPads und iMacs interessiert.

[I used to be somebody, via woostercollective, interweb3000]

Lesezeichen vom 16. November 2010

Markus — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:23:14 +0000

2011 Time Traveler’s Calendar
“Alex Griendling created a 2011 Time Traveler’s Calendar featuring 95 time travel points on a single timeline from TV shows, movies and video games.”
“Zombie Wars” Zombified Star Wars Animated | misterhonk
“eine animierte Star Wars Zombie Parodie mit dem Namen “Zombie Wars” für JibJab, die Jungs mit den lustigen Flash Ecards)”
Concrete Misplots | ZEITGUISED
“Featured in swiss architectural magazine Hochparterre’s “Raumtraum” section, these visualizations of future architectures search for the accidental in computer driven manufacturing processes.”
WWI-era photos of people pretending to be patriotic pixels | Boing Boing
“Here’s a selection of WWI-era photos showing large groups of people meticulously arranged to form pixels in enormous, low-rez patriotic images.”

Reise mit einer 80s Pinballkugel in 3D | Kraftfuttermischwerk
“Wunderbare Animation. Alles. So. Bunt.”
MotionSwinger: Kinect Porn-Game | Nerdcore
“Wer braucht schon 3D-Hacks oder solchen Schnickschnack für Kinect, wenn man Porno-Games für das Ding haben kann”
Realistic Miniature War Scenes | Likecool
“To rebuild his hand-eye coordination, deal with the mental wounds of the attack and because he could not afford therapy, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard which he called “Marwencol.””
Above Everything Else – hyperrealistische CGI | Minds Delight
“Alles wurde am Computer erstellt, wie man so schön sagt. Alles. Nichts. Ihr wisst schon. Es ist auf jeden Fall sehr beeindruckend, was Alex Roman da gebastelt hat.”
Apple vs. Apple der Rechtsstreit der Giganten | Kotzendes Einhorn
“Dafür muss man ausholen.”
Roa – Making of a Big Bird | Publique
“Roa bei der Arbeit an einem seiner riesigen Vögeln in London.”
Blast from the 80s – Arcade Attack | The Retroist
“Geoff Harvey and Stephen Highfield show off their gaming skills and then the characters of pinball and the late 1970s video game world come alive and fight an epic battle.”
rivva: Der Longtail von Blogs ist schon vorhanden | Netzpiloten
“Im ersten Teil redet Frank Westphal über die verschiedenen Rivva-Quellen und den den Leitmedien-Index sowie über die aktuellen Entwicklungen des Meme-Trackers sowie über sein Roh- und Arbeitsmaterial Blog- und Twitter-Links.”
Metamaterial ‘Space-Time Cloak’ Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events | Popular Science
“making a viewer see one thing while something entirely different takes place behind the cloak”
TorrentMeter – A steampunk bandwidth meter | Make
“Since we’ve got fiber optical intertubes at home, I wanted a big brass gauge telling me how big my pipe was. And that’s the idea of my TorrentMeter.”
Andy Irons Kurzfilm “I surf because” | Testspiel
“Am 2. November verstarb im Alter von nur 32 Jahren Andy Irons. Andy Irons war einer der größten Surfer ever.”
Spektakuläre Virus-Analyse: Stuxnet sollte Irans Uran-Anreicherung stören | SPIEGEL
“Die mysteriöse Software ist eine Art Undercover-Agent, der die iranischen Uranzentrifugen sabotieren sollte – gezielt, subtil und hinterhältig.”
Itty Bitty Jumping Robot Gets Steering, Tackles Obstacle Course | BotJunkie
“EPFL’s jumper is simple, small, and cheap, but it’s able to rapidly negotiate an obstacle course that would be otherwise impassible by anything except a flying robot.”
Neuer Song von Two Door Cinema Club – “Kids” | nicorola musikblog – rock-a-hula baby
“Die unbeschwerte Party geht weiter. Mit “Kids” ist ein neuer Song der jungen Iren aufgetaucht, und zwar als Bonustrack einer Special-Edition ihres Debüts “Tourist History””
Roa in L.A. | Publique
“Der Belgier hinterlässt Spuren in L.A. und stellt in der New Puppy Gallery aus.”
“Cement Eclipse” von Isaac Cordal
“Cement eclipses is a research project of urban space that runs between the fields of sculpture and photography. The sculpture is used as a starting point and photography as a witness to the execution of installations for later viewing or exhibition.”
The Blind Man Who Can Play Any Piece of Music After Hearing It Once | Geekosystem
“the video provides some insight into his life and showcases his talents. Long video, but it’s worth it.”
Neil Youngs “The needle and the damage done” zu einem Stop Motion Video | Kraftfuttermischwerk
“Laura Marling covert Neil Youngs “The needle and the damage done” und lässt sich dazu von Redman & Sasufi dieses klasse Video machen.”
How quantum mechanics brought us the Blu-ray player | Boing Boing
“In this short video he delves into the history of the laser, and why our ability to stuff more and more information onto a compact disk has been all about the development of new and different laser types”
DIY: Building a homemade nuclear reactor in NYC | BBC News
“Mark Suppes is a web developer for fashion giant Gucci. By night, he cycles to a New York warehouse and tinkers with his own nuclear fusion reactor.”
Robot model kits | Super Punch
“these are Futuristic Robot Model kits based on various anime films. The kits are designed by Walter Pezzali and feature packaging illustrations by Shinji Kimura”
Dress the Part – Filmposter Mode Redesigns | The Brainbar
“Diese 10 schönen Filmposter Redesigns von Klassikern wie The Shining, American Psycho, Shaun Of The Dead uvm. zeigen ganz minimalistisch typische Kleidungssstücke, an denen wir einen Film sofort erkennen.”
One Hundred and Eight | CreativeApplications
“Created by Nils Völker, One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by an Arduino and Processing, each of the bags is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans.”
Go Longboard 2010 | mitteilungswahn
“Viel mehr als ” How cool is that then…” braucht man zu diesem Longboard Video eigentlich nicht zu sagen. Sehr schöne Aufnahmen”

Lesezeichen vom 4. November 2010

Markus — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:57:09 +0000

Google Street View – „Das Leben ist eine Reise.“ | Feingut
“Unter dem Motto „Das Leben ist eine Reise“ produzierte die Berliner Werbeagentur Sehsucht diesen schicken Stop-Motion-Spot für Google Street View.”
Harrison Ford pres. “The Art of Screaming” | misterhonk.de
“Harrison Fords Schreikünste, die potenzieller Anwärter wären den legendären Wilhelm Scream abzulösen”
Shortmovie: To Claire; From Sonny | Nerdcore
“Schöner, toll fotografierter Kurzfilm „To Clair; From Sonny“ vom erst 17jährigen Josh Beattie”
Doku-Trailer: “100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience” | misterhonk.de
“IMAGINE a world where video games reign supreme. Five stories of arcade cabinets, new and old, dominate the streets of downtown Tokyo. Welcome to Japan”
Building the Empire State Building
“New York, the documentary film by Ric Burns, contains a great segment on the Empire State Building”

Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain | TED
“Gero Miesenboeck manipulates specific neurons to figure out exactly what they do, through a series of stunning experiments that reengineer the way fruit flies percieve light.”
Amazing close-ups of comet Hartley 2! | Bad Astronomy
“We knew from ground-based radar that the nucleus wasn’t round, but these pictures clearly show it to be shaped like a peanut.”
Predator Fleshlight | Angelslayers Rumpelkammer
“doch eher… strange”
Video: Eine gewöhnlich ungewöhnliche Hochzeit | Der Stilpirat
“Endlich mal keine langweiligen Hochzeitsbilder”
Hahahaharharharhehehjeijeiharharharbwahhharrrrrharhar… Harharharrrrrrrhar | Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
“Ein klein bisschen Photo Booth und die junge Dame flippt völlig aus.”
The Five Pigs | We like that
“Vier auf einen Blick sichtbar, das Fünfte erst nach Falten des Papiers.”
Rüstungsatlas Bodensee | KULTURTECHNO
“wo andere Urlaub machen, arbeiten hochqualifizierte Ingenieure fieberhaft an der Weltmeisterschaft in Sachen Hightech, sie bauen Drohnen für den Frieden und Satelliten gegen Überbevölkerung und soziale Unruhen”
Beautiful Modeler | CreativeApplications.Net
“Created by Karl D.D. Willis, Beautiful Modeler is an iPad and Desktop openFrameworks application for gestural sculpting using iPad as a multi-touch controller.”
Video Game Ads Were Better In The 1930s
“IGNs art team whipped up this line of ads showing how video game vehicles would have sold themselves if they were around in the 1930s.”
Eric Staller | iGNANT
“Faszinierende Installationen, Skulpturen und Bilder von Eric Staller.”
The Walking Dead Google Map | Interweb3000
“A complete annotated map of appearances, deaths, events and locations from Robert Kirkman’s zombie comic book series The Walking Dead”
Cat Massages Boob, and the Internet Is Over (NSFW) | Urlesque
“two gargantuan forces come together in a YouTube video that marries two of the most powerful forces on the whole damn web: cats and boobs”
Get Well Soon – Gratis-Live-EP vom Auftritt im Dortmunder Konzerthaus | WhiteTapes
“Das Konzert von Get Well Soon im Mai im Dortmunder Konzerthaus, ein großartiges Konzert mit Ensemble und allem drum und dran.”
Did somebody just try to buy the British government? | Charlie’s Diary
“Did a not-obviously-insane member of the government really just stand up in the House of Lords and announce that a shadowy Foundation was offering the British government an investment of umpty-billion pounds in order to reboot the economy — free, gratis, with no strings attached?”
Robots Climb Like People | BotJunkie
“We’re used to all kinds of weird stuff like claws and geckos and electroadhesion, but these robots just climb up with boring arms and legs and hands and feet”
Shapes In Motion | Vimeo
“I wanted to experiment further with simple forms and premade vectors”
DIY universal robot gripper | Make
“Inspired by the awesome universal robotic gripper, Carlos of Carlito’s Contraptions decided to take matters into his own hands, and built his own using a party balloon, tubing, cloth, coffee, rubber band, and his lungs”
Don Draper says “what?” | Have you seen this?!
“This is a supercut of Don Draper’s many instances saying the word “Wha”
Demo Reel 2010 by Colin Hesterly
“Music: “Garbage Truck” by Beck”
“Sucker Punch” Movie Trailer
“New Sucker Punch trailer delivers robots, dragons and sexy lady fights”
Amazons Mechanical Turk hilft bei ökonomischen Gruppen-Experimenten
“In den USA nutzen erste Forscher jetzt Amazons Mechanical Turk, um Experimente durchzuführen”
Roboter müssen zur Psychoanalyse | Stuttgarter Zeitung online – SERVICE – Stuttgarter Zeitung
“Um ein echter Freund sein zu können, braucht ein Roboter ein Unterbewusstsein, sagt der Mathematiker Andrei Khrennikov.”
Rita weiß Bescheid – Folge 1 – Im Café
“Die technikaffine Rentnerin gibt Tipps & Tricks zu Produkten rund um den Digital Lifestyle”