700 Movies and The Glitch Mob
What happens when you decide to take a whole shitload of films, some awesome remix music, and play with the concepts of sound and motion? You get The Apple Tree, the first installment of Project Inertia, Codenamed: “Sentiments”
This incredible supercut by Khameleon808 takes music from The Glitch Mob and runs it through a hugely ambitious sliced and diced gamut. The results are pretty awe-inspiring, to be honest.
Enjoy!
Never, EVER Give Up – Arthur Boorman’s Incredible Story.
Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran of the Gulf War for 15 years, and was told by his doctors that he would never be able to walk on his own, ever again.
If you don’t want to cry this morning, time to move along folks.
If you didn’t catch this week’s HSA, I highly recommend you check it out.
NASA’s Seven Minutes of Terror
When people look at it, it looks crazy. That’s a very natural thing. Sometimes when we look at it, it looks crazy.
Thus begins NASA’s video about the challenges of dropping a lander on Mars. Trust me: you have no idea how complicated, terrifying, and amazingly awesome this mission is – and this is just the landing! This is NASA’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” where the entire mission lives or dies based on the most ambitious planetary landing in the history of human space exploration, and lucky for you – it’s all detailed here.
This Would Get Me To Watch Rugby.
I barely have any semblance of an idea what’s going on here (obvious fantasy elements aside) but I can say with absolute authority that were all rugby games like this, I would become the world’s biggest fan. Any description would just ruin it – you’ll have to see it for yourself.
HOLY BALLS, BATMAN!! Badass does not even begin to cover it. WATCH!!
Yesterday’s Here’s Some Awesome post.
Source: heressomeawesome.com
Kara – A Short Story by Quantic Dream
I’m going to begin with this: what you’re about to watch is running in real-time on a Playstation 3. Normally, that statement is a fanboy signal that this demonstration features graphics impressive enough to also convey doubt at whether or not they’re pre-rendered, Hollywood-style CGI. This time, the reason I’m stating that upfront is because what you’re about to see isn’t a video game, and doesn’t mean to be, but was born from the platform.
The history of storytelling in video games is…checkered. For every Uncharted and Mass Effect series, there are a litany of plots so thinly transparent that they rival the cellophane the game came in. But as with any emerging medium, the art comes from unexpected places. Video games’ own attempts at storytelling led to the birth of Machinima, for instance. A focus on the emotions brought about by gameplay itself birthed games like REZ and Flower. It’s a cycle destined to continue repeating itself that art begets technology which further begets art.
So what you’re about to see is a short story about the future – in so many different ways; the future of storytelling, the future of gaming, the future of machines, and even – potentially – the future of humanity.
This week’s HSA entry, and one of my favorite videos of the year so far.
So what you’re about to see is a short story about the future – in so many different ways; the future of storytelling, the future of gaming, the future of machines, and even – potentially – the future of humanity.
From this week’s post.
Justin Timberlake, Make Music Again (AKA “I Can’t Jerk Off To Justin Bieber”)
A public service announcement written by Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer.
Considering the last year of music, this seemed the most appropriate video to start off 2012.
Just in case there was any doubt: NSFW due to language – so put your headphones on.
I’m pretty sure Justin Timberlake doesn’t follow me, so if someone could pass this along to him, I’d (read: “we’d all” ) appreciate it.
This week’s HSA may leave you in tears, fair warning. It’s one of the most powerful arguments for connectivity and the potential for good in humanity that I’ve ever heard.
Earlier this year, this video popped up onto my radar with the title “The Internet is my Religion.” As someone who has a very Internet 1.0 view of the nearly boundless possibilities the Internet holds within its scope, there was no way I wasn’t clicking through that one. Now I’ve done my best to keep religion and/or politics out of this venue, feeling that to be more appropriate for my personal blog as opposed to this group venture; in this case though, Jim Gilliam‘s personal journey is so powerful it eclipses any concerns I would otherwise have had about the subject matter..
This week’s HSA post.
“Creativity isn’t magic,” is how Kirby Ferguson describes the new episode in his four-part series Everything Is A Remix. While parts one and two dealt with music and film respectively, this episode delves into something a little more esoteric in its implications: technological innovation. Kirby describes how we got from early digital and analog technology to the modern world; showing how technological innovation functions as a byproduct of being remixed and reinnovated.
Some of you may remember that we posted on the last installment of this series. Full disclosure, I’ll probably post every subsequent one as well – it just ticks so many geeky boxes in the list of my interests. I also appreciate how interesting he makes what could otherwise be fairly dry material. Yes, not everyone wants to see how Xerox influenced the Apple Lisa, or how Henry Ford (re)invented the automotive assembly line, but somehow Kirby has the ability to take topics that flit across varying divergent interest groups and tie them all together into a tightly-wound bundle of fascination. It’s like Kirby took everything I loved about the old James BUrke series Connections, added some of his own personality and insights into the equation, and made it feel new again.
Funny how that happens.
Alone in the Alaskan wilderness for over 30 years.
In April 1992, seduced by the charm of simplicity and wanting to test his mettle against the wild, Christopher McCandless walked into the Alaskan wilderness. 113 days later, McCandless was dead. He had starved to death in the unrelenting and nigh unspoiled wilderness of the Alaskan summer. I don’t know what it is about this story that always stuck with me, but I think there’s something inside everyone that asks “if I really needed to, if I was all alone and had to live on my muscle and mind alone…would I survive?”
Richard Proenneke was one of those people that decided to find an answer that question. After spending time in the Navy and working as both a fisherman and a mechanic, he retired to the side of Twin Lakes, Alaska.
Why? His answer was elegant in its simplicity: “To do a thing to completion.” Dying of a stroke in 2003 at the age of 86, I think Proenneke definitively accomplished his goal.
In case you missed it yesterday.
This week’s HSA, hitting a little close to home for me.
In April 1992, seduced by the charm of simplicity and wanting to test his mettle against the wild, Christopher McCandless walked into the Alaskan wilderness. 113 days later, McCandless was dead. He had starved to death in the unrelenting and nigh unspoiled wilderness of the Alaskan summer. I don’t know what it is about this story that always stuck with me, but I think there’s something inside everyone that asks “if I really needed to, if I was all alone and had to live on my muscle and mind alone…would I survive?”
Richard Proenneke was one of those people that decided to find an answer that question…
This week’s HSA post has a fairly long post accompanying the video, so I won’t be posting it in its entirety as I normally do. Instead I’ll just encourage you to take a few minutes to head over to the site to read it there and watch the video.
This is one of those videos that’s stuck with me for months. Every once in a while it will just pop into my consciousness, reminding me of its incredibly powerful words and images.
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