quite possibly the coolest graffiti project i have ever seen. absolutely amazing animation considering all of it was done in public as painted graffiti on walls & sidewalks. wow. i’m talking about muto: an ambiguos animation painted on public walls, done in buenos aires and baden. wow. double wow. the amount of planning and time this must have taken boggles the mind. please watch it. it should amaze you. be sure to also check out blu’s other amazing animations & videos when you can.
i am amazed and inspired each time i watch this video titled Qigong Demo with John Chang. it was sent in from brit and i’ve since found it (along with other great material & insights) on the sites martialdevelopment.com and also mind-energy.net. the videos posted below are of john chang (’dynamo jack’ & also John DiJang) demostrating his remarkable chi energy that he has developed over the course of his life through a deep & ancient meditation practice. john chang is a healer and lives in java. he is also the subject of a book titled The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal. truly amazing. beginning my meditation practice right now …
check out this video titled Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote. it’s quite impressive! you can watch the whole video and see how the virtual reality & headtracking is accomplished. or let the video load and skip to the 2:30 mark to see the vast difference between a normal display and a virtual reality headtracking display. amazing! excellent work & video by johnny lee! & thanks goose for the link!
The Power of Now written by eckhart tolle is a very wonderful, powerful, and transformational book. books find you in strange ways. i am grateful that eckhart tolle wrote it and grateful to my father and then my friend mike murnane for introducing me to it. without the messages and insights gathered from that book, i do not know where i would be right now. i imagine less aware, less awake, less alive, less loving, less caring, more reactive, more negative, and more afraid to be who i am. open up and begin reading The Power of Now at any point in the book and you will get some great insight, simplicity, and wisdom, as well as pathways to peace, stillness, and understanding. i found this is also true of eckhart tolle’s second book A New Earth. soundstrue has a great interview with eckhart tolle and also has several great videos of eckhart tolle lectures and speeches. i’ve posted two of those videos below. one is titled Not Reacting to Content and the other is Your Pain Body is Very Seductive. i feel that the consciousness of human beings on our planet is changing. it has to in order for our world to survive. thank you very much eckhart tolle for putting you thoughts and ideas out into the world and for your work and insight!
when politics collide with my hard wired sense of star wars nerdy-ness, magical things can happen. the battles and infighting between our next president barack obama and former first lady hilary clinton can best be summed up in this awesome clip titled the empire strikes barrack. totally laugh it up fuzzball - it’s good stuff! i feel oddly compelled to watch the empire strikes back again. thanks brit for the link!
the makers of the fantastic & inspiring film One Giant Leap are coming out with a new film titled What About Me? the first chapter of the movie is titled Bombardment. the entire chapter (spanning 15 minutes) is available to view on the whataboutme website & even better at dailymotion as well. this movie looks to be as moving and as powerful as their first project, with a wonderful message that we all have & share many more similarities than we do differences. the project creators use music & song as a common thread to connect artists & musicians from around the world along with interviews with people like eckhart tolle, noam choamsky, timothy “speed” levich, and more. take a look when you get a chance & thanks claudine for the link!
brain scientist and neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor spoke recently at the TED conference. the speech she gave is available on the TED talks site. what she talks about it is very fascinating, beautiful, and moving. from the TED talks website: One morning, Jill Bolte Taylor realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. it’s friday and it’s time to enhance your brain and perspective on your life, your mind, and your world. please enjoy Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight. it’s great!
something to be said for taking the stairs. here’s a nightmare of a story about a man named nicholas white who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. no joke! 41 continuous hours!!! damn! poor guy! the elevator security cameras captured the entire ordeal. watch the time lapse video below and see almost 2 days pass before your eyes in under a few minutes.
this is how i’m feeling right now: my loony bun is fine benny lava. yeah, you know it. i hope your sunday is half as awesome as this video clip and it’s phonics based subtitles! just keep dancing …
it’s friday, and this weekend you may be heading out on a lukewarm to semi-hot date. need advice? no problem! that funny fella dan clark is here to help you with the conceptual art that is dating. first, please watch and learn with dan clark’s 10 reasons not to take drugs on a date.
so maybe you’re going out to a club this weekend. yeah? need some awesome moves? really awesome? then you got ‘em! here’s the official freshness on rave dancing from sweden called stampa med leroy. double yeah! at 1:42 i find hurt & myself rather upset that leroy is revealing my signature move titled ‘wash the laundry.’ dag-nabbit! i recommend letting the video fully load and then skipping right to 4:23 for the sweet sweet dessert that is leroy’s ultimate rave dance showcase demo! it’s quite a feast. good stuff. now go dancing!
interesting + amazing + creepy + fascinating + ‘it’s coming to get me’ new footage of boston dynamic’s big dog pack mule robot traversing through the woods and snow. while it looks like two actors in leotards performing an elaborate mummenschanz show, it’s not. it’s a robot, built to walk & deliver supplies, and it can’t fall down. in fact, i can hear it approaching right now … yikes … gotta go!
thank you mojito’s in north beach for bringing the lovely & soulful alice russell to the bay area! giantmonster especially thanks alice russell & mike simmonds for 1) a really amazing show at mojito’s in north beach on march 10th & 11th, and 2) getting a ticket-less me into the sold out show for free! thank you thank you! if you haven’t heard alice russell sing, check out alice russell’s myspace page to get a listen to her music. previously with tru thoughts recordings. video of alice russell singing to know this below.
oy! fresh on the heels of my skydiving post, please check out this amazing clip of extreme base jumping in wingsuits. beautiful!!!! what are wingsuits you ask? think giant flying squirrels. closest thing to flying. great audio on the video too.
it’s very nice to see something low tech and simple executed with great style. from late show with david letterman comes this clip of austrailian artist/unusualist raymond crowe performing his art of hand shadow puppetry. very amazing - right down to louis armstrong’s eye! see more of this unusualist at raymond crowe dot com.
taking the art of dining to new and savory heights comes this clip from a japanese game show with pointers on the proper way to eat marshmellows. can it be done any other way? i don’t think so. side note: with the competing teams in this video wearing red and blue outfits, i can’t help think of US politics and that someday this is how our elections will be decided. awesome! thanks jamie for the clip!
sent in from jonathan, here’s a link via ticketbooth to view all the Oscar nominated animated shorts online. listed below are embedded video links to the five nominated animated shorts. the oscars are broadcast this sunday Feb 24th, 2008. thanks jonathan for the link!
very cool time-lapsed video clip of what is called an automatic graffiti robot. the art is created using a spray can attached to cables running on a X / Y axis. the cables control or press the nozzle on the spray can at precise moments. the cable are moved & controlled by a computer program. it reminds me of a giant plotter printer. very cool idea! the clip is from 2006 but i haven’t been able to find any other info on this artist other that the video. anyway, enjoy!
take a look at a really amazing animated short by alan becker via deviantArt titled animator vs. animation. the battle takes place on the flash interface! so so great & clever! thank you alan for the hard work and great animation!
what doth life, you ask? well, sunday night november 4th at midnight on adult swim (and soon after, a bittorrent site near you), it’s highway to heaven meets wondershowzen meets billy jack meets jeff spicoli meets half-life with six-nipple goodness! yes, it’s xavier: renegade angel. the weirdness and humor of xavier renegade angel happens so fast that you’ll wake up ten years from now finally getting phrases and punchlines that were too clever and sophisticated for your limited 2007 brain to comprehend. so stock up on futuristic weirdness while you can! props to the kids at cinematico for all their hard work!
this is pretty damn brilliant. and funny. it’s a simple contest: Who could come up with the shittiest mix-tape mix ever? there were two contestants. each contestant would pick five of worst songs they could find. whoever had the least shitty five song selection would be then be deemed the loser. the loser would then have to walk around the streets of NYC carrying a boombox blasting all 10 of those shitty songs. aziz ansar of azizisbored.com lost that bet. and below is the video. enjoy!
a very amazing lecture and demo video from TED talks by software architect blaise aguera y arcas showing the incredible new photo technology called photosynth. from the what is photosynth page on the microsoft live labs website, photosynth “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.” please watch the video (also on the clip-a-day website) to see what that entails - it’s pretty incredible.
Yves Rossy has made history. the former swiss military pilot was the first man to ever fly with wings - a homemade four engine winged jet pack - strapped on his back! after ascending in a plane to 7,500 feet, yves rossy unfolded the 8 foot rigid wings, jumped from the plane, then after a slight free-fall, triggered the four jet turbines and accelerated to 186 miles per hour! rossy steered the winged jetpack with his body, performing loops, rolls, and dives! the flight took place on May 14, 2008 in the southern swiss alps near Bex. photo slideshow of the the winged jetpack on yahoo. & thanks jamie for the video link!
a very amazing lecture and demo video from TED talks by software architect