One of the best parts of growing up in the 1980s were the awesome action-packed commercials for G.I. Joe toys. They featured kids actually playing with the vehicles and figures, re-enacting scenes of heroism as the Joes battled Cobra. The folks at Movieclips clearly enjoyed those ads too, as they were inspired to make a modern version using one of the trailers for the recently released G.I. Joe sequel. More »
Overachievers take heed: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man may be king but the two-eyed corneal thief is a victim of his own success. This cautionary tale from We Think Things illustrates the dangers of society turning a blind eye to crime. More »
It never ceases to amaze me how sentient extra-terrestrial civilizations can create massive interstellar spacecraft, navigate through the unimaginable voids of the cosmos, and nearly exterminate humanity with their nifty laser weapons, only to be taken down by a computer virus designed by Jeff Goldblum. At least make them incompetent like the invaders from this awesome, hand animated short by Bradley Schaffer. More »
You have a lot of work to do. You’re on a deadline. You’re stressing out because people are constantly dropping by your desk saying hi, how you’re doing because you’re in a computer lab. You need to block everybody out. What do you do? Slap on some headphones and tape this sign onto your back. That should do the trick. You can work without any interruption now. More »
A young girl’s flights of fancy take a turn for the frightful in her pursuit of a mysterious glowing butterfly. Between the mythical dangers and deadly adversaries, it’ll be a small miracle if she can make it out of these woods alive. More »
In one of the most iconic scenes from American Psycho, murderous young turk Patrick Bateman waxes psychotic about Huey Lewis and the News. It’s funny, it’s weird, it’s unsettling. But watching Huey Lewis and Weird Al Yankovic create the bizarro world version of that scene? Well, okay, it’s all of those things, too. More »
You know all the social networks we use? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, hell even LinkedIn and everything else? They’re all just replacing old stuff we used to do by ourselves at our desks. Twitter would be Post-Its, Skype would be a phone call, Foursquare is your globe and YouTube is the distracting window to the outside world. I rather like these old world translations to new social networks. Quick! Somebody find something that we used to use at our desks and create a social network. You’ll make millions! More »
Matt Gemmell, developer of Mac and iOS apps, created a little funny about tech companies and file menu commands. Using TextEdit’s actual File menu, Gemmell used it to describe tech companies like Apple, Google, Samsung and more. My favorite might be describing HP as just a printing company. See the full picture here. [@MattGemmell] More »
This impressive mixed-media short from Masashi Yokota, translated roughly as “Memory Panorama,” combines cinematography and papercraft. Every advancing video frame is recreated on a new still layer which, over time, grow into a stop motion animation of their own—while remaining in sync with the video itself. [Masashi Yokota] More »
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