The latest animated short from PES (New York-based filmmaker Adam Pesapane), Western Spaghetti is a delicious study of everyday objects. Read more about his work here and here.
Chris Tackett at Treehugger just sent me this article about a guy who is getting rid of his SUV but wants your help to decide what to do with it. So, whether you think he should blow it up, take it apart, cover it in graffitti or throw it off a cliff, let him know at onefewer.com.
The peerless You Tube surfer Vanessa Roanhorse has just drawn my attention to a new video from Venezuelan-American folk rock musician Devendra Banhart (whose website is super fun to play with). The song, Carmensita, is from his latest album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon and the video stars none other that Natalie Portman . I’d be curious whether any Hindus find it offensive…
Last weekend, Dorothee was sent by See3 Communications to the Netroots Nation Conference in Austin, Texas. There she interviewed bloggers, attended panels and partied at the GQ/Huffington Post party! Check out her interview series with prominent bloggers, including OrangeClouds115, Red Wind, Lee Camp and One-Pissed-Off-Liberal, on the See3 blog.
After seeing The Dark Night yesterday evening (yes, it does in fact live up to the hype), I was thrilled to come across this gem of an animated short this morning. Baman Piderman is the perfect antidote to the slew of over-produced superhero films coming out this summer. The video was made by artist Alex Butera who readily admits on his blog,
Animation is my life. I eat it for breakfast, have some for lunch, and usually go out to a movie for dinner. If I’m working on a project, whether it be solo or with my amazingly talented girlfriend, I can’t wait to get onto the next one.
According to the YouTube description: “Dis baman an piderman dey is fwends.”
By now you’ve probably heard of colony collapse disorder but it’s not on your major list of things to freak out about (like the economy, climate change and food shortages). BUT the disappearance of honey bees is such a serious matter that it might actually effect all those things. In an effort to raise awareness, Haagen Dazs (why them?) has created helpthehoneybees.com, a sweet interactive flash site and a companion viral marketing video:
No, bees do not wear pants. And if you think this is weird check this shit out.
We just want to take this opportunity to commend Ray Tintori, a 24 year old director from Brooklyn, on his fabulous music video for the song “Time To Pretend” by MGMT. The video has been described as “a low-fi, epic, psychedelic 3D odyssey”. We prefer to catagorize it as “a neon explosion of carnal delight with a Lisa Frank and Lord of the Flies-meets-Dune aesthetic”. Since the video has been blocked from embedding you’ll have to click here to see it.
Ray Tintori also directed MGMT’s interactive music video Electric Feel which is similarly rad.
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What’s the street-level experience of voters in today’s America?
For the first time ever, P.O.V. is offering a streaming version of the entire broadcast of ELECTION DAY on their website during the month of July. ELECTION DAY combines 11 stories — shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight — into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result is an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling story of citizens determined to vote on one fateful day. ELECTION DAY is a co-production of Arts Engine, Inc. and the Independent Television Service, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The Website is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude is probably the funniest video I’ve seen this summer and it’s all done purely with screenshots and audio. When it was posted in June, the video actually got so popular that the server crashed and The Website is Down actually was down…See the credits below.
Created by: Josh Weinberg
Sales Guy: Casey Cochran
Web Dude: Josh Weinberg
Trevor from Arvada: Jesse Johnson
Irving Whitefellow (The Boss): Josh Childs
Sales Manager Nancy: Ruth Sherrod
Music By: Rap Team - www.myspace.com/rapteam
User interface Open Source Credits:
// VT100.js: http://fzort.org/bi/o.php
// Released under the GNU LGPL v2.1, by Frank Bi
SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound for the Web
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http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
Copyright (c) 2008, Scott Schiller. All rights reserved.
Code licensed under the BSD License:
http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/license.txt
Thanks To:
Apple, Skype, Linus Torvalds, SuSE Linux, Redhat Linux, VmWare, AOL, HijackPro and Microsoft.
Thanks to blip.tv for originally hosting this video.
Special thanks to Bitgravity for their generous support. You guys rock.