Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

Google Glass For Fitness – Race Yourself

Welcome to the future, and you might want to look away now if you enjoy sitting down, because the future looks to be quite energetic—the good news though, exercise is about to get a lot more fun, with wearable tech able to merge digital and physical realities it means we’ll be living in an augmented [...]

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

Midday Traffic Time Collapsed and Reorganized by Color

Using footage shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego, filmmaker and artist Cy Kuckenbaker reveals the color palette and color preferences of contemporary San Diego drivers in addition to traffic patterns and volumes, by reordering and reorganizing the passing cars by color in 4 minutes of footage that he [...]

Saturday, January 11th, 2014

Everything is a Remix Case Study: The iPhone

There is no originality in any creative endeavour, everything is just copied or “inspired” by something else: this idea has been the basis for Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix series, which looked at how films and TV and music regurgitate ideas and images. But it doesn’t stop there, in his latest video Kirby shows [...]

Friday, January 10th, 2014

One Man’s Journey to Work on the Coldest day in Chicago

This is Tyler Langford, he moved from sunny and warm Georgia to Chicago just in time for the Polar Vortex to make his journey to work a challenge of frozen obstacles and delayed trains—and this is his hilarious experience of trying, and succeeding eventually, to get from his home to the office while dealing with [...]

Friday, January 10th, 2014

Belharra Reef Meets Winter Storm Hercules

It takes a brave person to take on this wave, just watching the sheer magnitude of it on this video is brave enough for most of us—with howling offshore winds and the face of the wave standing at least 60 feet tall, surfer with balls the size of a blue whale Jamie Mitchell takes on [...]

Thursday, January 9th, 2014

YouTube Comment Reconstruction #5 – ‘Nelson Mandela Is Dead – Official News’

Yep, with come to a point in civilised society where YouTube arguments are being reconstructed in the name of entertainment—and it’s actually pretty hilarious. This particular episode sees commenter Sudasha Patel and SGOR2047 face off with one another, and it must be said, the actors playing the parts of Patel and Mr SGOR2047 are a [...]

Wednesday, January 8th, 2014

Snoop Lion – Get Away ft. Angela Hunte (prod. Major Lazer)

Whether you’re down with Snoop changing his name, yet again, and going all reggae on us or not, everyone loves an old school video game music video homage—this one features Major Lazer and Snoop Lion battling enemies like flying robots and speakers with eyeballs in this Megaman/Pokémon style shoot ‘em up. It’s just a shame [...]

Wednesday, January 8th, 2014

GRAVITY “From Script to Screen” Making-Of Featurette

If you’ve seen Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity then you probably left it wondering how the hell they filmed all those scenes in space with the camera floating around in simulated weightlessness—and it turns out the real genius behind the FX is the incredible “light box” technology, which enabled them to shoot the film so it looked [...]

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014

THE NFL : A Bad Lip Reading

If you’ve ever wondered what the NFL players and coaches are saying to each other on the side lines, then you’re about to get quite a shock. Because according to this lip reading “expert”, they’re talking about all kinds of weird stuff like burning an old man and Scooby snacks—the sort of language that could [...]

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014

Doug Stanhope – The Oklahoma Atheist

Doug Stanhope demonstrates how one man’s utter contempt can be used to provide solace and protection for others, proving that compassion for your fellow human being isn’t the only way you can help people in a crisis (and also channel your hatred for your fellow human beings in the process, so it’s a ‘win-win’ situation), [...]

Saturday, January 4th, 2014

100 Greatest Action Movie Punchlines

There’s never a moment in your daily life that can’t be improved with a line from an action movie—from buying your morning coffee to getting on the train and giving someone your seat, to dealing with the boss, the right line delivered completely out of context in the wrong environment can turn a bad day [...]