You’ve likely seen the spinning dancer illusion, which tricks the brain into believing the dancer is spinning either way without actually changing rotation. Now, this new animation by psychophysiologist Marcel de Heer shows that a single moving image can appear to move in three different ways. It’s a little psychedelic, but strong visual contrast is […]
FinalCutKing caught some kittens just playing around with their lightsabers like that’s ok. I say we demote them back to Padawans. (Does it work that way? Fill me in, Geeks.) [neatorama]
NPR requested from NASA this 1980s-era video with commentary by astronauts of various missions. The footage, which we edited, arrived on VHS. We don’t know much about it, except that it’s playful in tone, so we decided to have some fun with it, too. Here’s an “instructional video” on survival in space, in case we […]
2 beers and 327 Post-It Notes later, Scott of 327 Pixels Blog has got himself this fabulous Post-It Notes Megaman! [Source]
There’s a reason Black Milk Clothing is a go-to source for the geeky fashion-forward. Their R2D2 swimsuit is still makings its rounds on the Internets despite having been discontinued forever ago, and items like the Mountains of Mars printed leggings keep upping the awesomeness ante. This swimsuit isn’t yet available, but you can bet it’ll run […]
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Marius Herzog–a Nuremburg-based filmmaker–directed, wrote and animated this great short, “The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus,” for his senior project at the Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule – University Of Applied Sciences. The challenge of this movie was to reproduce the entire production process of an animated 3D shortfilm by myself including story development, concept design, modelling, rigging, directing, […]
You’d better hurry if you’re aiming to take some sort of geeky-proposal prize; the stakes get higher every week. A companion cube ringbox is so two months ago, and even Sir. Mr. Capt. Picard himself might have a bit of run going for his money in this arena–Gary Hudston is the standing Grand Wizard of […]
I was going to make a joke about those luckless redshirts, then I saw this tee’s description” This poor red shirted bastard had no idea what he was beaming into. Apparently into a massive uppercut. We’ll just pretend I made that up myself. It’s a good design, and a better joke. Here’s a closer look: […]
Oh, the Internet. Launching the careers of countless throw-backs in spandex unitards since like 2010. [Obvious Winner]