Actually, time travel is confusing on many levels—what the hell did happen in Twelve Monkeys exactly?—but it’s the simple things that can cause the biggest headaches. Especially, as the mouse-over text in XKCD points out, the countdown: “T-minus 10… 11…”. [XKCD] More »
Norwegian filmmaker Jakob Rørvik follows the daily routines of Thomas Duggan, a design graduate from Central St. Martins during his self-imposed exile in the British countryside. This introspective documentary examines Duggan’s slow transformation as he withdraws from connected society. Whether it’s a change for the better or the worse is for you to decide. [Nowness] More »
Remember when you were in preschool, sitting around in a circle, whispering a message from person to person until it reached the last kid in the chain and was completely different? As part of his “Digital Humor Theory” thesis, Pratt Institute graduate student Michael J. Silber did just that with Siri’s text-to-voice and Google’s voicemail transcription services—50 times in a row. Here’s how he describes the four step process: More »
Hardcore pharmaceuticals turning an apathetic, anonymous public into exhibitionists while conventional relationships crumble to dust. This totally not safe for work (unless you work at the Power Exchange) music video for Bot’Ox’s latest single featuring Anna Jane was directed by Berlin-based Flokim Lucas. More »
Batman, the Dark Knight, The Caped Crusader, Bruce Wayne. Whatever you call him, you always think he’s operating with stronger principles and on a higher moral ground than most people. He doesn’t like to kill. Or so he says. In this video by CollegeHumor, The Penguin, played by Patton Oswalt, exposes Batman’s lie and pays for it. More »
What? You act like you’ve never seen a troop of baboons play Black Spire’s “Scars” before. Get with the times man. Kristof Luyckx directed the animation. More »
After pranking elevator passengers to think they were falling with its IPS displays, LG has moved on to trick even more vulnerable suckers: males trying to pee at a urinal. This time, LG put its IPS displays right in front of a urinal and let two attractive women tease the restroom goers. It’s pretty hilarious. More »
How will the future look back at 2013? Will they be in awe of the sheer number of hours we spent on the Internet like we’re in awe of the cast of Mad Men drinking and smoking? Will they be in disbelief that many people spent most of their waking hours in front of a computer? Will they eventually be saved from the Internet or will they be even worse than us? The Poke imagines a future where the Internet was destroyed and its survivors remember how dark and time wasting the Internet era was. Go outside! [The Poke via Laughing Squid] More »
Whoa, who would have thought that mutating hexagons could be so beautiful. It’s like watching a sheet of sentient paper origami itself into form. More »
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