Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Friday, January 11th, 2013

PaperTab: Revolutionary Paper Tablet

You can keep your iPads and Galaxys, this is the tablet of the future. It’s a tablet (or many tablets) that are as thin and flexible as paper, so you can use lots of them together to link the screens and you bend the tablet to interact with the information displayed on the device. Sure, [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2013

The Mixtape

Mashups are a ubiquitous practice because digital technology makes it all so easy, but how about if you did a 16 track live mashup on a 23 year old Tascam 1” tape machine? You’d be pretty impressed with yourself, wouldn’t you? Ithaca Audio did just that to celebrate 50 years of the cassette tape, that [...]

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

New Changes to YouTube COMING SOON (Feb 2013)

Brilliant. These are the changes every YouTuber has been waiting for — instead of having to laboriously type out your intelligent, well-crafted, perfectly punctuated comments you can choose a comment from a drop down menu — all the faves are there — then just double click and you’re away. Incredible. And that’s just the beginning, [...]

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Kon-Tiki – Complete VFX-Breakdown

In 1947 Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl took off on an expedition across the Pacific Ocean starting from South America and completing in the Polynesian Islands, a journey of 4,300 miles undertaken in a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki. It was an epic undertaking which was turned into a film by two Norwegian filmmakers — this [...]

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Dizzee Rascal – Bassline Junkie

This is how you deliver a responsible message to the kids, using foul-mouthed language to get it across to them. That way in amongst the expletives they’ll get the anti-drugs message that basslines are so much more rad than lines of ket. Sure, it might slightly terrify very young children as they hear Dizzy’s rasping [...]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

F***IN’ CRUISE SHIP!

You know what’s annoying about being on a fuckin’ cruise ship? Fuckin’ everything, and this guy fuckin’ knows that only too well. So off he goes and gives us all the grand fuckin’ tour, punctuating his introduction of everything with the word “fuckin’” because it makes everything sound infinitely cooler and much more hilarious than [...]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Everything Wrong With The Dark Knight Rises In 3 Minutes

If you saw the latest Batman movie then you’ll probably fall into one of two camps. You either thought it was a fitting end to Nolan’s brooding trilogy or you sat there picking holes in the plot because you have a complete ineptitude to suspend your disbelief when it comes to a movie about a [...]

Monday, January 7th, 2013

100 Greatest Shut Ups in Films

Shut up. It’s such a great–and mean which makes it great–thing to say to someone. And no one does it better than the movies, from “Shut the fuck up, Donnie” to “SHUT UP GRANDMA!” there’s some classics in here. We can all learn something from watching this, we can learn that we could all tell [...]

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: Airport

You know the reason she can dance like nobody’s watching in such a crowded place? Because nobody is watching. Look at them, they’re just getting on with whatever it is they need to do, like checking their luggage in or staring at some litter on the floor in case it does an impromptu mime act–anything [...]

Saturday, January 5th, 2013

Pale Blue Dot

When Carl Sagan saw the image from the Voyager 1 space probe, the shot that shows the earth at it’s most distant we’ve ever seen in a photograph, he went off on one in a monologue about this place we call home – and the rest is history. This video is a visual response to [...]

Friday, January 4th, 2013

BMX 16ft Full Pipe Loop

Holy 16 foot full pipe loop Batman! Red Bull continue their complete domination, I mean sponsorship, of all extreme sports by letting BMXers ride through a tunnel and do jaw-dropping stunts like riding standing on the handle bars in a very dangerous don’t-try-this-at-home-or-if-you-do-at-least-have-the-decency-to-film-it-so-we-can-all-laugh-at-you-injuring-yourself way. Epic stuff though.