Levitating girl’s diary

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Nestor

This Japanese girl can fly. This is her photo diary

Rating 3.00 out of 5
Posted in art | Leave a comment

Real life particle simulation

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Nestor

F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance from Physalia Studio on Vimeo.

Why bother with 3d simulations when you can do it for real with a big ass magnet you bought on ebay?

Rating 4.00 out of 5
Posted in tech | Leave a comment

Gene Deitch’s The Hobbit

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Nestor

A 12 minute version of the Hobbit made by famous animator Gene Deitch, apparently a rush job intended to secure the rights, so it’s more of a motion comic type deal

Why invest money, plus a year-and-a-half of work, when you can make money without all that sweat? Not only had the Tolkien estate lawyers given Snyder the rights for peanuts, but in their ignorance of film terminology, they had left a million-dollar-loop-hole in the contract: It merely stated that in order to hold his option for THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Snyder had to “produce a full-color motion picture version” of THE HOBBIT by June 30th 1966. Please note: It did not say it had to be an animated movie, and it not say how long the film had to be!


Gene Deitch: The Picture Book Animated

Rating 3.00 out of 5
Posted in animation | 1 Comment

Ryusuke Fukahori’s 3d goldfish paintings

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Nestor

Pretty neat. Also, never seen anyone paint with a broom before.

Ryusuke’s official site is here (Japanese only)

Rating 4.00 out of 5
Posted in art | 1 Comment

Cannibal bakery

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Nestor

This baker, Kittiwat Unarrom from Thailand sculpts and bakes bread products in the shapes and textures of human body parts. The bakery is a hit, apparently, with some of the loaves going for 500$.

Rating 4.00 out of 5
Posted in miscellaneous | Tagged | Leave a comment

The monster of Nix

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Nestor

A short animated musical by Terry Gilliam and Tom Waits about a little boy who has to fight a monster.

Looks nice, in a Tim Burton sort of way.

Rating 3.00 out of 5
Posted in animation | 1 Comment

More Quantum locking

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Nestor

Another longer video from Tel Aviv university showing the mechanism behind Quantum locking levitation. As RGE informs us the previous Wipeout game video is probably some kind of viral advertisment (Although that doesn’t imply it’s fake, it does look a bit CGI on closer inspection)

Anyway, more of the real thing here.

Rating 4.00 out of 5
Posted in SCIENCE! | Leave a comment

Quantum locked wipeout track

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Nestor

Remember the quantum locking floating magnet demo? Well some Japanese researchers decided it wasn’t toyetic enough and made this, based on the wipeout videogame.

Unfortunately the whole deal with liquid nitrogen means bandai won’t be able to sell this to kids, unless we develop children immune to frostbite, but where there’s a will there’s a way, sez I.

Rating 4.00 out of 5
Posted in SCIENCE! | 1 Comment

Wakfu episode 21

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Nestor

In which our heroes get turned into something again

Well at least it’s not another zombie episode.

Rating 4.00 out of 5
Posted in animation | 1 Comment

The credit crisis explained

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Nestor

What I don’t like about this succint explanation is how it basically lays all the blame on a caricature Simpsons type family and not so much on the cronyism and greed of the financial institutions (Who are basically doing fine because they got trillion dollar bailouts)

Rating 4.00 out of 5
Posted in 99%, animation | 5 Comments