Today’s entry is by far the most ambitious, from starwarsuncut.com. It’s a crowdsourced remake in which web users each claimed a 15 second section of the movie and reshot it using whatever facilities they had available. The clips were then stitched back together to make the full-length movie, as well as this trailer:
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Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.
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This happens all the time. You’re on AIM, Skype, whatever you kids are using these days, and here comes a ping from some heavily made-up young lady you don’t know with a multi-numbered generic name. Most of us ignore or block these, because clearly someone called SexxiGurl087421 is a bot, right? Not Clive Thompson. He decided to have some fun–perhaps not the kind that requires a credit card, but definitely the useful, “get this bot to STFU” variety.
(If one of you are actually named SexxiGurl087421, my sincerest apologies. Also, change your screen name. You look like a bot in that getup.) Continue reading
[Source: Foodie Friday]
Youtube user Annodomino2007 spent 5 weeks building what he says was the biggest domino pyramid ever (with over 13,482 dominoes!), only to have his dream shattered at the last possible instant. Unfortunately, the remainder of the footage where the dude wrecks his whole house in rage wasn’t caught on tape.
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Why isn’t there anybody online selling those awesome space invader concept chairs? I know my kids would totally freak out if they’d find these waiting for them in their playroom.
[Source: We Are Dorothy]
If you’ve been following the Charlie Sheen intern contest, you know 74,000 people applied, including some pretty heavy hitters. Well, it’s now down to 50! Some YouTube Celebs got together and filmed the following PSA to help up one contestant’s chances. There’s no voting or anything. It’s really just a PSA to help spread the word. (Featuring: KassemG, DeStorm, MysteryGuitarMan, ShayCarl, iJustine, DaveDays, NicePeter, TimothydelaGhetto2, TotallySketch, Ceciley, GoodNeighborStuff, hiimrawn, LisaNova, and CourtneyPants)
Yep geeks, Warner Bros. is planning to take the last four minutes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and split it into seven separate films… or at least, that’s what the ONN wants you to believe! :)
A rather enlightening video tutorial by the folks from Star Trek: Infinite Space showing two of the most basic words of the Klingon language: Qapla’ and nuqneH.
Qapla’!