GelSight

GelSight is an amazing 3D surface scanner that is cost effective and even can work as an analog tool.

DUBSTEP MIME

Hilarious photobooth videos of a guy making facial expressions to dubstep tracks.

Doctor P - Big Boss

Flux Pavillion - Bass Canon

Esoterra - Mozart

The mechanical mouth

This musical synth uses a physical model of the mouth and nasal cavity to generate singing tones.

Ferrofluid Sculptures

Animating ferrofluid with magnets looks a lot like cymatics animation with cornstarch and audio. This artist Sachiko Kodama (http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/spiral/) has taken ferrofluid and made some pretty amazing works of art.

Ferrofluid Animation

Cymatics Animation

Book Carvings [art]

Wonderful art made from carving up old books by Brian Dettmer.

http://briandettmer.com/

See the full gallery on Posterous

Electro magnet fun

Floating balls using a giant electro magnet.

F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance from Physalia Studio on Vimeo.

Vegan Black Metal Chef

Episode 1: Cooking instructions for Pad Tai

Everyday Looper iPhone App

This looper app, is one of my favorite. The waveforms are gesture areas, allowing you to preform many functions efficiently. In this way, the app is much more like an instrument than an app with a few discrete buttons crowded into a small space.

Get the app: http://www.itunes.com/app/EverydayLooper

Eggbot

Friend David Bliss, used the eggbot to make some really cool easter eggs...

Portlandia - Did you read?

Watching this, made me realize that I say "did you read...?" way too much.

3D Projections on Mobile Phone

Really well done projections on a mobile phone.

The Evolution of Mobile. This is the first small-scale projection mapping installation using a hand-held camera. From the Motorola brick through to the first text message and colour screen to GPS and Android. [Vodafone]

Sonar [procedural music video]

Elegant procedural animation.

Mexican Pointy Boots!

These boots are all the rage. I hope it's only a matter of time before people start dressing like Pigmies. Now that would be something.

Lovesick Teenagers [music video]

Great song that has a deep / 80's vintage quality.

Bear in Heaven : Lovesick Teenagers from SW Editorial on Vimeo.

How to have a rational discussion [infographic]

I wish that I could have rational discussions with religious people like my family, but I doubt that day will ever come. In the meantime, I hope this diagram enlightens emotionally driven people to realize that discussions are hard to have when rational discourse is absent.

[via Simoleon Sense]

We All Want to Be Young [movie]

The movie "We All Want to Be Young" is the outcome of several studies developed by BOX1824 in the past 5 years. BOX1824 is a Brazilian research company specialized in behavioral sciences and consumer trends.

We All Want to Be Young from box1824 on Vimeo.

Tron Lebowski

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

What is interaction design?

Simple illustration of what interaction design is by Bill Verplank.

Where your eyes look at film

Eye tracking mapped back to film illustrates where people look when watching video.

There Will Be Blood with gaze locations of 11 viewers from TheDIEMProject on Vimeo.

Tounge Twisted

CBS - Serene Branson's Word Salad Grammy Intro

Rainbow Graffiti Machine

A home built contraption that paints rainbows.

robo-rainbow from mudlevel on Vimeo.

HDR Chapel Video

HDR Photos are one thing, but HDR video is freaking awesome. It looks a lot like a video game, which makes sense, since video games need to be easy to see.

TheChapel. A short film. (HDR timelapse) from Patryk Kizny on Vimeo.

The Sitting Sport

Sporthocker is a ridiculous sport that involves performing tricks on a small stool...then you sit on it. I'm not shitting you either.

NYC Subway Sounds

This internet-instrument isn't very musical, but it's fun to watch.
Source at: http://www.mta.me

Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.

What is the internet? [1994]

Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric from a 1994 clip of The Today Show trying to figure out and explain what the Internet is.

Wacky music video [nsfw]

Music videos have been dead in my mind for a long time, but this video by Die Antwoord digs deep into demented waters in all the right ways. These raw and isolated musicians from Africa act like some odd prediction of the future as if we were still in the 80's. They are so real and so over the top that it's a rare treat like the beloved characters from the movies Off The Charts or American Movie.

Interview with the musicians (learn about what makes em tick)


Nice mix of an interview and music video


NSWF music video (nudity and spasms)

Music video by Die Antwoord performing Evil Boy. (C) 2010 Interscope Records

Kinect is from the 70's

I've been aware of technology like the Xbox Kinect from random people or schools like MIT for several years now, but I had no idea this stuff was accomplished in the 70's.

Experimental film and video artist Tom DeWitt created a system that features aspects of all of them. Pantomation let users interact in real-time with a digital environment and props. It was built using Apple IIe's, analog video gear, and lots of custom hacking and patching. He's currently working on a holographic 3D system that's similarly ahead of its time.

Bollywood is nuts! [trailer]

This is 10 minutes of total Bollywood insanity. It's like the Matrix, Terminator and Transformers combined. 6 minutes in gets out of control.

Psychedelic visuals

These wonderful videos of fractals remind me of what it's like to close my eyes while on acid. Amazing detail and dynamics in the motion and lighting.

Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.

The Formula from subBlue on Vimeo.

Tron Panel Discussion [Sound Design]

This video is a great panel discussion with the sound and music designers for the Tron Legacy film. It's really detailed and well produced in terms of seeing and hearing the sounds in full form. If you watch it, turn on HD and use some good headphones.

“TRON LEGACY” – Sound Panel from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

Our world destroyed by Pixels

This is a wonderfully done video that shows what it would be like if our world were turned into pixels. It gets really good about half way through when the bomb explodes.

PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE PRODUCTION on Vimeo.

What is wrong with education?!

A wonderful video that reminds me of why I disliked my public education.

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

More info: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com

Birthday Party Campaign

Hilarious example of a birthday party designed by advertisers.

Why lines move faster

Queuing lines and why some move faster than others.

Living with a shop-vac [video]

Funny video that is a little depressing because it's fairly true.

Match Burning [Extreme slowmo]

This wonderful video shows a match burning in extremely slow motion.