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!
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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!
in lieu of any posts for two months, i offer up some talking cats. please 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.
combining over-hyped y2k fears with that classic good time christian feeling of the end of the world equals pure marketing genius!! yes it does. take a bit a doom, a bit of gloom, add lots of saccharin, and blend with the creamy, deeeeep voice of the cyborg announcer chuck ohman, and you’ve got the year 2000 time bomb! please watch and learn, ’cause it’s your last chance … WARNING: the magic vibrational voice of chuck ohman may actually lull you into buying something.
is it me you’re looking for? answer: yes. why wasn’t sculpture class like this when i was in school? to truly understand the magic of the video for Hello by lionel richie, one must become the video for Hello by lionel richie. hence, the hello experiment. the hello experiment seeks to capture the wonder, imagination, and beauty that is lionel richie’s massive jaw lovingly formed in wet brown clay by sightless, open hearted souls. awesome! it’s either a goofy and fun nostalgic paraody or a tragic spell created by demons to open a hell-mouth that will swallow us all. watch and see (note: please download the song Hello at your leisure so you can sculpt your very own lionel richie). thanks cobras!
download:
Lionel_Richie_Hello.zip (3.9 megabytes)
it’s friday, and my philippine prison is waaay better than your crummy american prison! how so? while your prisoners are busy hiding meth in their orifices, lifting weights, and fighting, my super rad phillipine prisoners from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in cebu, philippines, are busy re-enacting all the dance moves from the michael jackson video ‘Thriller’. yes. really. in unison. all 1,500 of them. complete with a (scary - yikes) tranny stand-in for ola ray. POW!
really liking the video for the song ‘ding’ by the german reggae/dancehall band seeed. it features some really nice stop motion animation. honestly, what is not to like about a red hairy ape in a top hat drinking & dancing at a club?
it’s friday and time more fun with puppets! this time it’s a bit instructional and a bit musical. get the simple how-to on how to make a beat from this funky puppet with an english accent. so clever, you’ll watch it twice. nice.
it’s friday, and are you feeling troubled? down? we hear you! when the staff at giantmonster feels down or has trouble finding direction, we seek comfort in the words and wisdoms of gary busey. yes. nothing can be more calming and affirming than the sage advice dispensed from the star of the awesome made for tv movie quigley. it’s better than aromatherapy, with plenty of boat analogies. the ocean is a spirit … the wind is your spirit … totally.
if you are not interested in shelling out $12 or more for the next bad movie that comes out, then you may want to visit omgfreemovies. it’s exactly what you think - free movies, streaming online. how this is done, i am not sure. it can’t last, that i am sure. but getting to watch the giant turd fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer without paying made the movie a bit more tolerable. do it!
UPDATE:
the omgmovies website is down and/or gone entirely. rest in peace, omg free movies. luckily, there’s the site nosubscriptionrequired that lists free movie sites. thanks robert!
a really funny video by mikey day and andrew friedman titled what am i? what am i? see, it’s tommy’s birthday. and his big wish is that is stuffed dolls come to life so he can have someone to play with. wish granted! not quite a pixar movie. watch for laughs. please be sure to crank up the sounds too so your co-workers can hear all the swearing at the end. there, that’s better.
kind a crazy and funny to watch this clip of original star wars bloopers from star wars, empire, and return of the jedi. what’s that lando? forgot your lines? and did chewbacca’s hair just catch fire? yep. nutty!
truly amazing safari footage titled battle at kruger showing a fight between water buffalo, lions, and yes - crocodiles. good job by the camera man filming the whole scene. the youtube clip is 8 minutes long, but completely worth the wait. via the popular science blog.
wow. hats off to this brave canadian fellow and his very heroic dose of salvia divinorum. i mean that. and good that his friends are looking out for him too. salvia divinorum is a plant and it’s perfectly legal. it grows in parts of mexico. the name salvia divinorum literally translates to “sage of the seers”. it is a plant with a sense of humor and known for it’s shamanistic qualities. salvia divinorum contains a powerful psychoactive called salvinorin A. you can purchase salvia divinorum as an extract where the potency is increased 5X, 10X, 15X, and even 20X. oh boy. be warned though, it’s a rough ride (peep the video). there an informative salvia guide at sagewisdom.org that goes into more detail about the mighty plant. and the youtube clip is a good way to show that salvia is not a party drug. sometimes fun, sometimes not so fun. it’s always an interesting experience, but not a party drug. no. oh no.
i’m a little slow. i gauge this by many factors. one is that i am just now catching on (how did i miss them?) to the comedy stylings of tim and eric via the shrek the third super dumb good funny promos that many a blog covered. thankful & curious, i looked further. to my delight i found tim and eric dot com and have been very happy. tim and eric have got pranks and movies and stuff! just take a look at this clip from their show titled Encounters and another clip titled Horizons Calendar. yay! laughing! thank you tim & eric!
Tim and Eric - Encounters
Tim and Eric - Horizons Calendar
yes, it’s friday, may 25th - and it’s totally star wars day. everywhere. i mean everywhere. star wars, star wars, star wars! to celebrate the star wars-ness, here is a joy: it’s The Two-Hour Star Wars Holiday Special in only Five Minutes! you’re welcome. and what a five minutes. there’s art carney (gotta have art carney - whatever it takes), bea arthur, wookie life day, chewbacca’s disfunctional family, stormtroopers, luke skywalker with waay too much make up, jefferson starship/airplane awfulness, han solo hugging wookies, wookies hugging han solo, bizarre wookie religious ritual, and so much more. all done on a budget of $100! remember though, it’s 5 minutes of your life that you won’t get back. but then there is the largest slave leia photo shoot coming up to rescue you.
it’s friday, and your fat. yes, you are. sorry. it happens. not to worry though! the giantmonster super ultimate fitness crew of personal trainers are here to work you out and get you in shape! start by watching this intense abdominal workout video and you’ll have flat abs in no time. feel the burn!
okay. weirdness. you’ll see, 30 seconds in. laughable, yet still creepy. um, i don’t know what to say. maybe that i’m sorry. really sorry. or how about ‘oh, that poor ottoman!’ but all i have is .. ummmm, whhuuuuuuut?
just for funsies (meaning: showing off) the enlarged creative craniums at cobra creative created these cool motion graphic spots. short & simple and really well done. one is called dig it! and one is called skull. very nice.
this youtube clip is so simple, i wish i had thought of it. and i really wish for the whole song to play. still watchable. the very random addition/buzzkill of sleestaks is kind of nice though. or is it?
a post from politics.tv (and also touched on at alternet and defensenews), documentary film maker robert greenwald testified at a hearing in US Congress on may 10, 2007 about war profiteering. greenwald requested to show a few minutes of one of his films, iraq for sale: the war profiteers, but Republicans blocked his request. here is the 4 minute clip from iraq for sale that Congress didn’t see.
hey - wow! what a cool gift idea for toddlers: a de-fanged cobra that’s all hissy & cuddly! i want one! tickle-me-elmos are sooo tired anyway. get over here, you crazy cuddly cobra! ouch .. ow .. ouch.
loving this find on youtube titled Six Million Dollar Man “The Secret of Bigfoot” featuring a young lee majors and a young andre the giant as the mighty bigfoot. nothing more i need to say. just watch the radness. it’s just enough to make you want to start sewing your own bigfoot costume (if you haven’t done so already).
UPDATE:
more rad bionic bigfoot clips in the comments section …
david hasselhoff. eating a hamburger. visibly drunk. being filmed by one of his children. wearing blue jeans. and no t-shirt. sound kinda weird - like a crazy dream? well, it is weird and it’s definitely not a dream. and yes, of course, there is video (this is the full video, sans commentary). other vids here and here too. oddly enough, this performance by david hasselhoff is considered sober. crazy. so yes, it’s friday, and no fancy black trans-am can save you now. i blame garthe knight.
it’s friday & i am going to have to hit the gym now after watching this über pumped up video by german electro pop band deichkind (link contains embedded audio). power up! you can do it! touch yourself! please watch ‘Ich betäube mich‘ (links to quicktime) which means ‘you’re doing great!’ directed by Alex&Liane. director of photography by christopher häring. lots of in-your-face beefcake + infomercial + WTF video goodness. seems even better that i can’t understand what is being said - all i get is the raw power! giantmonster wants to know why tim biskup’s helper monster is running around in the background? that seems to make it more strange though, so all is well. thank you claudine for the link!
it’s a war of the gargantuas! or to be more specific, a very heated shouting match between the gargantuan fox news political assholes bill o’reilly and geraldo rivera. complete with aggressive finger pointing! and grand-standing! wow. i find myself agreeing with geraldo (did i just type that?) though it’s hard to hear him with the loud sounds of bill o’reilly losing his mind throughout the clip. and yes it is a treat to see bill o’reilly wound up as tight as winnebago man. between geraldo & bill, i can’t tell which is the green gargantua or the brown gargantua. luckily, there is video provided below so you can decide for yourself.
Bill O’Reilly Loses His Mind
War of the Gargantuas (1966) - English Trailer