Produced by Reza Dolatabadi as a graduate film project, Khoda took over two years to complete and was made using 6,000 different paintings shown at 20 frames per second. What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings […]
Time travel can be confusing. Every time someone steps into a time machine, it changes everything. However, that can be convenient for writers piecing together new movies -it explains every continuity goof and every great new idea that would be hard to explain otherwise. io9 lays out ten different timelines that work in one part […]
What would be the next step after playing music with a tesla coil? Stepping into the music yourself, wearing a Faraday suit, of course! Patrick from ArcAttack does just that, with an appropriate theme song. A comment at Metafilter says it all: “Now, see, if Vader had offered THIS to Luke as one of the […]
Sound designer Diego Stocco realized this song by using various sound samples created with sand alone. I had some sandbags in the backyard that I used in November during a rainy day. I was moving them to a different spot when I heard the noise of the sand. I thought that maybe I could try […]
What can I say? The force is strong with this one! [Via Newlaunches]
Enjoy this brief glimpse into the world of competitive air guitar. Filmed by us last Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz Theatre in Austin, Texas, these guys are just the preliminary qualifiers for the international air guitar championship. Relive the only good part of the 1980s that’s still good today as the long hair flies. […]
It doesn’t often happen that the funniest thing I’ve seen all day would be a mental_floss quiz, but that happened today. And I thought of you. Can you identify whether ten names are Star Trek characters or erectile dysfunction medications? I couldn’t; my score fell within the margin of error for random guesses, which is […]
I need to see this movie again. I must have missed this part the first time I saw Star Wars. Of course that was a long time ago in a town far far away, and I was a bit drunk at the time. [via Gorilla Mask]
It’s toy-on-toy action! I was rooting for Bruce Lee the entire time.
It’s been a badly kept secret, but the games-playing world now has the first official confirmation that there will be a DJ-based spinoff from the Guitar Hero franchise. The game’s site has just launched, though it doesn’t tell us anything other than that it will be available for X-Box, Playstation and Wii. The game will […]