Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Monday, June 27th, 2016

The Visuals in this Real-Time-Rendered Sci-Fi Short film Are Jaw-Dropping

This short demo film was created using the Unity game engine and rendered in real-time. While the narrative is relatively simple the graphics are stunning, it looks just as good as if it came from a Hollywood studio but was completed at a fraction of the cost. It’s implications for making this kind of virtual [...]

Monday, June 27th, 2016

The Onion Reviews ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’

The world’s greatest film critic, The Onion’s Peter K. Rosenthal reviews, Independence Day: Resurgence the upcoming sequel to 1996’s Independence Day. As Rosenthal so eloquently points out in this video the original film did so much for servicemen in regards destigmatizing the prejudices surrounding their wish to marry a stripper.

Friday, June 24th, 2016

‘Gorillaz – Deconstructing Genre’ Looks at how the Band Revolutionized Pop Music

They’re a band that, theoretically, don’t actually exist instead they consist of cartoon characters—but behind the fictional lineup of Gorillaz is Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett and a lot of musicians who have collaborated on the project. In this video Kaptain Kristian takes a look at the group and the influence they’ve had.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

Brilliant Mashup of ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Leeroy Jenkins’ Viral Video

If you haven’t been paying attention Game of Thrones recently aired its much-anticipated episode “Battle of the Bastards” where Jon Snow took on Ramsey Bolton. In a video titled ‘A Jon Snow’s tribute to Leeroy Jenkins’ YouTuber The Blind Editor hilariously mashes up the epic battle with the classic Leeroy Jenkins viral video.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

Aphex Twin’s New Music Video is Directed by a 12-Year-Old

Earlier in June Aphex Twin announced a new EP, Cheetah due out July 8 and he’s recently released the first song off it and an accompanying music video. In typical unexpected fashion the music video for “Cirklon3 [ Колхозная mix ]”, his first music video in over 15 years, is directed by a 12-year [...]

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016

Barney the Dinosaur Raps Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Big Poppa’

YouTuber Adam Schleichkorn has been doing a series of videos bringing old school hip hop to the masses by mashing them up with popular TV shows. Often they’re kids shows and Barney the lovable purple dinosaur has featured in quite a few. Mainly because he seems to be the perfect figure to edit into looking [...]

Monday, June 20th, 2016

‘Autopilot Road Trip’—This is How You Use Tesla’s Autopilot Feature

Michael Woolson and his wife went on a road trip and they thought it would be the perfect opportunity to have some fun with the Tesla Model X autopilot feature. Because after all what’s the point of having an autopilot feature if you can’t sit around and play a game of card’s with your wife [...]

Sunday, June 19th, 2016

How Wolves Changed Rivers in Yellowstone Park

You might not think there was a direct link between the behavior of wolves and the behavior of rivers, but there is. At least, there is when wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The wolves had been absent from the park for nearly 70 years, and when they were brought [...]

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

‘Sunspring’ is a Sci-Fi Short Film Written by Artificial Intelligence

Richard Hendricks from Silicon Valley stars in this strange and very dark sci-fi movie written, which bizarrely is written by a machine. AI researcher from New York University Ross Goodwin teamed up with director Oscar Sharpe to produce the short film. The script was made by a feeding a “recurrent neural network” (nicknamed Benjamin) with [...]

Friday, June 17th, 2016

Watch the Trailer for Hideo Kojima New Project ‘Death Stranding’

You’ll probably have no idea what’s going on in this video but it doesn’t matter you’ll still be hyped to the max. Because it’s the new project, called Death Stranding, for the PS4 from legendary game designer Hideo Kojima, former president of Konami Digital Entertainment, creator of some highly praised video games, including the Metal [...]

Friday, June 17th, 2016

The Kevin Hart vs. James Corden Rap Battle is Hilarious

James Corden takes on Kevin Hart for a heated rap battle for the ages where nothing is off the table. Which means the two trade verbal blows and insults as part of The Late Late Show’s “Drop the Mic” rap battle series. So Corden went for the obvious and attacked Hart’s small stature—and he really [...]