h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://youtu.be/0wegvRGKHfk

anti-safety;

http://youtu.be/DZRmcKX85so

Last minute Xmas shopping ideas.

http://youtu.be/zSG2pD-2O2g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiCQBXj_Bz4

The Future is in Reach: https://leapmotion.com/

.....coming soon...

Leap Motion: http://leapmotion.com/

Not a cute cat or a lad falling off his skateboard. A DOG doing a backflip on a unicycle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TTJ4LtkJWA

PP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU

This is an amazing achievement - Toy Story, performed live action, with toys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G0j_Huv2Fg

Talking to Dolphins | Animal Superpowers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUgwMEPlC_E

A quite entertaining Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRs302Q1jkc

"History tends to be written by the winners, which explains all those empty pages in French history books"

Oh thank you swl. I am sitting here driving Mrs PP round the bend. She has no idea what I am laughing to the point of tears about.

PP.

Nice link. Very entertaining. That chap should be in panto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIshI_qxxew&feature=player_embedded

Japanese Binocular Football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rRK7vlBG8A&feature=youtu.be

Everybit as good as it sounds!



FB

Double vision!

Gotta love the Japanese ability to laugh
at clumsiness and dysfunction. It's a very
healthy primitive response the western whirled
has been suppressing with political correctness.

I wonder if there was anything to the fact that there
seemed to be twice as many teams as usual?
Red, yellow, green and blue uniforms.


~jwf~

http://vimeo.com/58411146

Sorry. Yet another Gangnam Style video. However, this one is a flip-book animated version.

But a brilliantly executed effort.

PP.

Well sorta wow.

I am no expert on the original, never having sat thru
the whole thing at one sitting, but my professional TV
producer eyeball tells me that they have captured it
frame by frame and done a reduction of detail and then
added an algorithmic skip-frame edit and some (but few)
pencil and colour-pencil overlays (easily done with a
graphics animation generator) and then squeezed the video
playback onto a RL stack of flipping blank pages.

There are some shifts in the centering of the image relative
to the way the flip book is handled. And I am as certain that
no one could have maintained an even flip flow to create an
almost seamless animation any more than anyone would have
bothered to render every character and movement by hand.

The positions and postures are so exactly like the real
footage it can only be a cartoonised version of real footage,
not unlike the AHA video in the 1980s "Take On Me".

http://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914

(It begins with pencil and charcoal still drawings but later
becomes real life footage as they run from the baddies. She
escapes into a waste basket where the crumpled newsprint
comic had been discarded and takes it home to her room where
the good cartoon biker pounds on a wall and breaks thru into
her reality.)

But, as you say, brilliantly executed.


~jwf~

>> Sorry. Yet another Gangnam Style video. However, this one is a flip-book animated version. <<

That guy is no "amateur" who made it. If it hasn't already gone viral it will.

But as a scientific rationalist why would people be fascinated by it - when you can go to the "real" video

Artist: Zut alors! It is the art
Scientific Rationalist: Go and watch the "real" video
Artist: Zut alors!

Wow. Artistic and amazingly fit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=waIuhfoTMv8&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3DwaIuhfoTMv8&has_verified=1