For a teaser trailer with a guy dressed in a panda head, I actually thought this was extremely well done. interested to see it than Luc-Besson’s Lockout anyhow… ;-)
OK, sure… maintaining credible suspension of disbelief through an entire film of this would be beggaring belief, but still. You know what I’m saying.
A gorgeous trailer paying homage to David Attenborough’s final episode of Frozen Planet on the BBC. So. Great.
I really can’t express how much I’ve loved every second of Sir David’s BBC documentaries I’ve hoarded and been watching over the past few months. I’ve been watching them as I can get them and for sheer profound beauty, inspiration and sense of wonder I cannot think of anything that has affected me more on television. This is what TV was invented for.
This is made of pure awesome. JP Auclair street skiing segment. I love the parkour style (filmed in my old stomping grounds in BC!). I have to admit it’s made my feet even more itchy to get some snowboarding in. Back to Canada? Japan perhaps? It’s too long to wait till Southern Hemisphere winter here in Kangaland I think. (insert long wistful sigh of longing here). Vid starts slow, so for the tl;dr crowd, bounce to the 2:00 mark for the extreme awesome. HD and fullscreen, please.
Wow, this is amazing to watch. Timelapse of the creation of a cartoon mag post-apocalyptic cover art. I’m impressed. Sure, I’m futzing around with getting my drawring betterer more and more , but this is really aspirational. Awesome.
via Jilo Ody .
Wow. Totally epic and Matrix-esque scifi short. Brilliant. Very impressed.
via Geeks Are Sexy
Love this competition by architects and designers for housing solutions for surviving the Zombapocalypse. Cause let’s face it, design will probably be the thing that saves us when the undead rise (Ok, ingenuity then… or possibly the ability to outrun the shamblers… and katanas. Yeah… definitely katanas.).
Run by the visionary (and preparing early!) Architects Southwest amongst others. Inspired. Also, lurv the award names… Golden Shovel, Silver Machete etc…
With the #occupy movements still going strong around the world, I’ve found a lot of the arguments have become dogma and philosophy and split people along the lines of their beliefs about work and reward versus society. It’s gotten so bad I’ve actually heard some Gordon Gecko-esque “Greed is good” comments and had one person forward me an old Milton Friedman TV interview by Donahue spruiking greed and power.
There is now a wide body of literature, however, that states unequivocally that large income inequalities hurt societies. Great TEDTalk on the subject.
Not sure how the hell I missed this, but NPR, proprietors of such awesomeness as Ira Glass’ This American Life and other brain food, solicited their erudite and obviously attractive listenership for a top 100 works of scifi and fantasy books list. 5000 entries, 100 toppers.
NPR’s Top 100 SciFi and Fantasy Books
Besides the scary fact of how many of them I’ve read, I still though it was an interesting list especially in light of Neal Stephenson’s amazing article in World Policy on Innovation Starvation about how SF was failing the world now (but really a diatribe against loss of grit and big risk taking in doing Big Things™). Seriously, read it, it’s a fantastic article. Cause even though we’re living in the future, we don’t seem to be doing much about it.
OK, have to admit I thought this was pretty clever actually.
And, I’m probably not spending enough time on the internet when my Mom scoops me by sending me this. Thanks Mom!