This past weekend some pals and I made our first film for the 48 Hour Film Project here in Minneapolis where a whopping 85 teams competed! Here’s how it works: Last Friday evening at 7pm each of the 85 teams drew a genre out of a hat, along with a character, prop and line of…
Flatland
This is one of my favorite books of all time! Edwin Abbott wrote the story in 1884 and it stands as a great epic to this day. I first read it while living in Chapel Hill and recently discovered it on YouTube recreated as a somewhat crude animation: = c
Nicolas Cage in another retarded movie
He was in Wild at Heart and Raising Arizona, which IMHO were great. But why is Nicolas Cage in so many retarded movies??? = c
CCTV and the PD in the UK
traffic wardens in Eccles, Manchester are being issued CCTV head sets and given the legal power to impose fines of up to £80 for littering and other anti social behavior. that will be interesting to *watch* = c
Google Maps : test
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Happy Birthday Vids!!!
Even if you aren’t a *gamer* in the purist sense of the word, you have PLAYED a videogame and may even have a favorite over all others. Which is why you should head out to the arcade nearest you today and drop a few coins in and let go! Today, by all accounts, videogames turn…
Don’t look into the straw…
Did you know our primitive brains weren’t wired very well to read this paragraph? Scientific research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies, a small Minnesota startup that has been studying our ability to read for the last ten years, has concluded that the natural field of focus for our eyes is circular, so our eyes view…
Humanoids making progress
this is interesting to follow. have you seen the Asimo commercial? = c
The dilemma of copyright continues…
surely the battles of taste will never be won. there are some debates that have raged on and will continue to rage on until the end of time. among these : copyright here’s yet another interesting take on it. of course, it doesn’t really clear anything up but these are all just exercises not facts….
Alas, a threat to Google? Nah…
The evolutionary path of the computer is curiously cyclical. In the 1970s, companies relied upon mainframes, with multiple users sharing a single central computer through “terminals.†But by the early 80s, the ascendancy of the personal computer had pushed this setup to obscurity, essentially re-orienting the relationship to keep most of a computer’s processing and…
bikefurniture!
Tho this is not a new idea, it looks to me to be more well done than any i’ve seen previously. If you’ve recently recovered from a bicycle accident and have some leftovers, check out Andy Gregg’s work. If A and i hadn’t already styled out our new place, we’d be in the market for…
Kurt Vonnegut has left the building
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand” 1922 – 2007 THANKS FOR EVERYTHING WE COULD NEVER FORGET YOU = c
we Like Sheep
Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera – which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells – and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer. Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the…
R2 honored by USPS
WASHINGTON – Thirty years ago, in theaters near and far, far away, a movie opened the imaginations of millions, combining the magic of mythology and special effects to launch the “Star Wars†phenomenon. A star of these films  the brave little droid R2-D2  is about to take a turn collecting mail as the…
Surveillance
I created the short below as part of a multimedia installation for a gallery at my office. It is a brief meditation on public video surveillance using footage i took from out of my office window in downtown Minneapolis. The audio i mixed from various podcasts available on the Web.
Bradley Bergey
Bergey and Ton just announced their plans to marry this summer! Congratulations, you two! Soon after the wedding, they’ll be moving to Barcelona where Bergey has accepted a teaching position. We’re currently in the process of adding the most recent work to his website which was built by yours truly. Check it out here if…