Angry Birds Los Angeles
Perhaps the best live-action VFX Angry Birds vid you’ll ever see! We especially loved the cameo by The Finger.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
The Who, Why and How of Twitter [Infographic]
“Of the millions of tweets created every day, 71% produce no reaction.” I find this unsurprising when people talk so much about what they’re eating and where they are. [by BuySellAds via TNW]
Space Age Designs from the PopSci Archives
Years before Sputnik launched and even longer before The Jetsons debuted, Popular Science was tracking Space Age trends in automobiles, appliances, architecture and interior design. Check out the PopSci gallery of Space Age-design articles from 1951 – 1968, which include everything from rocket-shaped cars to a lunar-base summer camp. [PopSci]
7 Things I Learned from This Week’s Infinite Monkey Cage
This week saw the start of the fourth series of British radio series The Infinite Monkey Cage, which aims to present “a witty irreverent look at the world according to science.” (The show has proven so successful it even produced a national live event tour, which I reviewed recently.) British readers who missed the show […]
Super-Geeky (And Awesome) “Space Girl” Video
This video couldn’t be more awesome for sci-fi geeks. “Space Girl” by The Imagined Village is set to clips from The Outer Limits, Attack Of The 50-ft Woman, Contact, Star Trek and more. This is going to be stuck in my head all day. I’m okay with that. [via Charmax67]
Asteroids! Moons! Planets! CASSINI MISSION Film Has It All
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan This is the quote designer and director Chris Abbas recalls when discussing CASSINI MISSION, the film he created using stills from the NASA image archives. Abbas’s love for space is evident in his treatment of the footage (isn’t the soundtrack perfect?), but his statement on […]
10,000-Piece LEGO Star Wars Sandcrawler [Video]
This seriously impressive mini-fig scale Star Wars Sandcrawler was built by MarshallBanana and took over 9 months to finish. With three interior decks plus a detailed cockpit, forward and reverse movement, remote steering, a working ramp and crane, and interior lighting, the Sandcrawler is about as faithful a model as LEGO can build. [source] [image]
Some More Twaggies [Cartoons]
Here are some of the latest and greatest Twaggies cartoons. In case you missed our last post highlighting some of our favorites, that’s right over here. Enjoy! The above Twaggie is by the amazingly talented Sam Spratt, whose work you might recognize from Gizmodo.
Class Of 2011: If Social Media Were a High School
These are pretty accurate, don’t you think? [Source: Flowtown]
The Solar-Powered Bikini: Because Why Not?
New York-based designer Andrew Schneider spends about 80 hours each week stitching photovoltaic mini-panels into bikini forms with conductive thread. If you think you’d like an iKini (that’s right–an iKini), be prepared to drop about $200 for the custom-fitted swimsuit. Each suit comes equipped with four hidden pockets for carrying anything from a cell phone to […]