Toy Fair is where America’s children’s dreams come true—sometimes. After visiting the 2013 edition at NYC’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the kid in me was terrified as much as he was delighted. I don’t know if any boy or girl would play with some of the things I saw… or run. More »
Today John Williams—one of cinemas most memorable and prolific composers—turns 81. And even if you’ve never heard of him, you’ve certainly heard his work. He’s responsible for some of the most recognizable movie soundtracks from the past 40 years. More »
I don’t care about Vine. Everything I’ve seen so far is soporific or sophomoric, boring beyond redemption or a big steamy pile of jerky blurriness. And then—then this happened: these LEGO VINES by Mark Weaver. They are simple, well thought out and visually enjoyable. More »
This is the first song composed and recorded in space, the result of the collaboration of ISS Commander Chris Hadfield and Ed Robertson, the singer of the Barenaked Ladies. Together with the band and the Wexford Gleeks choir, they recorded I.S.S (Is Somebody Singing) using a live connection between the International Space Station and CBC Music’s studio in Toronto, Canada. More »
Take three minutes of your life to listen to Dr. Jeff Norris, one of the science rock stars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He talks about how NASA is working to democratize space exploration by using robots, holodecks and 3D technologies so we can all see space with our own eyes using space probes that will travel to other planets and stars. More »
Indie-electrorock group, Astro, is kind of a big deal. Already one of the most popular bands in their native Chile since forming in 2008, Astro’s summer 2012 debut album arrived to heapings of praise by the New York Times and NPR. The band has even received invites to play some of the biggest music festivals in North America, including SXSW. More »
This is what benign paroxysmal positional vertigo feels like. Director Borja V. Conde had suffered from the debilitating effects of this disease in the days leading up the shoot for Barcelona-based Begun’s first music video, “San Francisco,” so he incorporated many of the visual distortions he felt into the project. More »
After watching this video by Lena Steinkühler, I like to think that New York turns into this rain forest of weird and wonderful urban creatures when nobody is looking at night. What a beautiful and mesmerizing short. More »
This guy claims that this invention is a perpetual motion machine, the Philosopher’s Stone of physics, the Holy Grail of power. Play the video and check it out for yourself. More »
Caleb Wood was walking through Yoyogi Park in Japan recently and noticed that the heaps of excrement from a local murder of crows that coated the walkway (btw, ew) also created a poopy Rorschach Test. So he did what, really, any of us would have done: he whipped out his camera, snapped some crow crap close ups, and animated the results. [Cartoon Brew] More »
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