Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

A Spacemunki Odyssey

Little video I made for X-Rite’s Show Us Your Monkey contest. The idea was to use their product and a monkey in a funny video.

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Another stock market, except the fate of the planet is at stake? I like it!

The Story of Cap and Trade

A stock market for carbon emissions? Can’t-miss idea, right? Right? [cue crickets]

From the creators of The Story of Stuff comes The Story of Cap and Trade.

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If Earth had rings

(via Kottke)

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This is me right now


YouTube link

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The Thrilling Charts ‘n’ Graphs of Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling might be a brilliant statistician (how would I know?), but he’s definitely a brilliant presenter of stats. In this TED Talk about Asia’s rise, he turns his graphs into a horse race and even manages a few good visual gags. See more of Rosling’s TED presentations.

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DIY Destruction

Uruguay filmmaker Fede Alvarez gives Montevideo an NYC-style demolition — and does it for a few hundred bucks. The video has landed him a production deal with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures. The effects are sensational but the nicks from District 9, Cloverfield, Independence Day, and you-name-it are countless.

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OK Go are annoying

It irks me when a band who makes pretty catchy tunes also possesses an unerring talent for producing ingenious videos (see above). Even this “making of” video displays an inventiveness that suggests if they weren’t writing songs, they could just as easily be excellent filmmakers.

Maybe I can find solace in the latest tune being so derivative of The Flaming Lips.

Free Radicals – The Flaming Li…
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Visualization of the decline of Western European empires

See also Food Fight, the story of American warfare told with food.

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Keanu Reeves is immortal

The second flimsiest conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard. (Find out #1 tomorrow.)

Thanks to Stephan

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