Lespants recently asked me if I’d like to collaborate on a “How To” video for the Emerging Filmmaker Program at Howcast.com. I was kinda blah about it at first- until he suggested putting my new After Effects skills to work. Seeking any opportunity to use my favorite game for good, I jumped on [more…]
YeeeeeeeAAAAAHHHHH! WHOaaaaaaAAAA. This is some mindless fun! It’s The Diamond Dave Soundboard. String together the isolated vocal’s from Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With The Devil” and finally once and for all admit that David Lee Roth WAS Van Halen.
http://www.thetyser.com/
I woke up this morning to a really fun email from my friend Dennis out in Portland. He stumbled onto this site called www.xtranormal.com. xtranormal is a sophisticated (I think) web application that allows you to create simple animations by just typing in text. No animation experience required. If you can [more…]
So I see today that I’ve added my 300th friend on Facebook. This feels great! I feel so popular. I had no idea I had 300 friends. There might even be a BFF in there! Even though I doubt they are all expecting gifts this year, I feel oddly compelled [more…]
Never mind the awesome name. FACEinHOLE is just super-fun. It lets you put your mug into hundreds of different templates. You wanna be 50 Cent. You can be 50 Cent. Works best with a webcam/iSight. Enjoy.
www.faceinhole.com
This has been around for a few months now. Though I only found out about it the other day, everyone I talk to seems to already know about it. Is webcam streaming coming back? This was cool in like ‘98. I guess it depends on the subject matter. Puppies always [more…]
I had a lot of fun with this. This is an interactive web movie about zombies where YOU make the decisions. It’s a Choose your Own Adventure! Your mission is to survive the outbreak. This also proves conclusively that if we were ever involved in a zombie infestation, you need to get [more…]
I finally got around to watching it. Listen to Sarah Silverman Jews. Go to Florida. Convince your grandparents to vote Obama. This really is important.
http://www.thegreatschlep.com/
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Sometimes you just have time for links. I promise these are two very good ones though. Both are music oriented but that’s where the similarities stop. The first one is an amazing motion graphics piece by Ryan Cashman. He uses light to create a surreal avatar of a piano player in [more…]
I thought this was pretty neat. Some of you probably know what the Internet Archive is. It’s an incredible website that… archives the internet. They have a feature called the Wayback Machine that lets you go back to specific times in the past to see what websites looked like. Check out Yahoo! [more…]
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