Category Archives: Culture

Little Red Riding Hood For Engineers

Produced as part of a school assignment by graphic design student Tomas Nilsson, this video is meant to be a blueprint to the tale of the Little Red Riding Hood rather than the actual story. [Tomas Nilsson]



Steve Wozniak – Dancing with the Stars: Week 2 and 3

We’ve shown you Woz on his disastrous first week on Dancing with the Stars, now here’s Steve on his second and third week, dancing the Quick Step and the Samba respectively. The Quick Step The Samba & The Worm

Khoda: A 5-Minute Short Made From 6,000 Paintings

Produced by Reza Dolatabadi as a graduate film project, Khoda took over two years to complete and was made using 6,000 different paintings shown at 20 frames per second. What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings […]



No more geeks in fifty years?

By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Richard Demming wrote a short story called “The Shape of Things That Came” back in 1950.  The story, set in 1900, is about a writer who has traveled forward in time to 1950 and back again.  He tries to publish a story about the future technologies he has […]

In Search of Airness: Video of the Austin Air Guitar Preliminaries

Enjoy this brief glimpse into the world of competitive air guitar. Filmed by us last Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz Theatre in Austin, Texas, these guys are just the preliminary qualifiers for the international air guitar championship. Relive the only good part of the 1980s that’s still good today as the long hair flies. […]

2009 Hugo Award Nominations

By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] There are two major literary awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre–the Nebulas, given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the Hugos, voted on by the members of Worldcon (which will be held this August in Montreal). The Hugo nominees were announced yesterday, and […]

Feature: The Diet Coke & Mentos Saga of the EepyBirds

Two of my favorite people to interview – ever- are Fritz Grobe and Stephen Yoltz of Eepybird.com, a performance troupe based in Maine. If you’re anything like 40 million other people in the world, you know these guys from “The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments” – a recreation of the Bellagio Fountains using nothing but […]