Archive for August, 2008

City of God (Cidade de Deus)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

I watched City of God the other day and it is now one of my favorite movies of all time. It is so incredibly good in storytelling and in cinematography. It’s no wonder that the film has nearly 9 stars on IMDB, a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a user score of over [...]

Camouflage portraits by Liu Bolin

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Liu Bolin has an amazing series of photos that he takes of people camouflaged into their surroundings by use of body paint. The pictures are centered around China and shed some light on the aspect of being “merged” into a society where one no longer has to think to survive.
Take what you will from Liu [...]

“Good Morning” music video animated by Murakami

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

This will probably be taken down any second now because you’re supposed to pay $1.49 to buy the entire music video on iTunes (RIP-OFF), but here it is in all its full glory: The music video for “Good Morning” by Kanye West.
The video is directed and animated by well-known Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. LOVE IT!

Police bicycle patrol training is hilarious

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

ROFL. This is the type of training police must endure before they can go out into the field on a bicycle and protect the streets and its citizens.
INTENSE.

Yankees Stadium GigaPan panorama

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Want to see something awesome? Check out the panoramic view of Yankees Stadium on July 4th made with GigaPan technology.
GigaPan stitches together lots of detailed photographs and allows you to zoom in incredibly close to any particular object in the overall image with lots of detail. See the example above to see how great this [...]

Leftovers

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

This is who you’ll find if you search “Herman Yung” in Google and you get a result from Facebook. Wonderful, huh!
Church marketing sucks.
Sunday secrets!
Some cute photos of Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson at the David Letterman show.
How to mod your messenger bag to have an airplane seatbelt quick release. I have an airplane quick release seatbelt [...]

The WB returns…online!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

No, The CW isn’t going away. But The WB definitely is making a comeback online!
The Warner Bros. Television Group is reviving the TV channel “brand” and launching an online website where viewers (probably only in the US, I bet) can watch old WB shows like Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, What I Like About You, [...]