There’s an earlier, crappier version of this, and a later, better edit, and I don’t know which one this is. But man, this movie’s good, and the comic is even more wonderful in the ways you’d guess.
I think it’s probably still too scary for my niece, who’s excited about Totoro and the nonscary parts of Spirited Away, but I look forward to being able to watch this with her soon.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCBk6LTmNY&feature=player_embedded
I’m really excited to get to see this. $30000 of funding made this entire series (of which $27k+ has been raised — if you like it, donate!).
This is the future of media, everyone. Artists making money making art. I hope it works. I might just fire up Kickstarter to make sure I can afford to make Human Contact the thing I want it to be.
Edit: Not bad! Now I want to see the rest of the series!
Penny Arcade just started a really neat Automaton story. As before, it’s largely about Carl, an automaton living in 1927 America, with the Issue of racial segregation. It’s got a lot of shout-outs to Caves of Steel, which is a good move, but says a lot more about the ugliness of humanity than Asimov could ever manage to say.
I am very, very happy about this mash/teamup.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10RYSMhs3o&feature=player_embedded
Frong is a good background video track for when your flurbbing your loved one/s in ultraconsciousness.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_3rsEwYVE&feature=player_embedded
Since Delia Derbyshire‘s initial treatment of the title theme, each version has gotten slightly worse. It’s what happens when a creative experiment is successful, I suppose: rather than learning from it to do more creative experiments (which are often unsuccessful, after all), subsequent creators often just kind of polish up the remaining artifact to try to retain what success it had.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvo5OHH6o8&feature=player_embedded
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZf3lo-16wQ&feature=player_embedded
A little more Academic technology from the real world. If you were to put a 1200 dpi reflective/transmissive display on each of those planes, then increase the resolution to the point of imperceptibility, then pack it full of sensors and computation, you’d get their smart Paper.
I used to babysit for Mike, and taught him about digital art back when he was a teenager. He worked at Google for a while before geniusing out on his own and getting an article in the New Fucking Scientist.
Check out his site. It’s full of excellent and weird music.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhheiPTdZCw&feature=player_embedded
Probably best if you watch this in full screen with a blanket over your head.
