AKIRA - The American Re-Make

posted by Jaitu at 08:20

Harry Partridge, an animator from Swindon, has been thinking about the classic anime AKIRA and how it would be different if had been made for an American audience.

Via: Laughing Squid/

More Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse

posted by Jaitu at 21:04

Another superb piece of time-lapse photography using tilt-shift lenses. Keith Loutit has been to a monster truck show and shot some great footage of the enormous 'toy' cars in action.

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Google Hosts LIFE Photo Archive

posted by Jaitu at 07:53

Google is hosting the photographic archive of LIFE Magazine. The collection includes photographs and etchings dating back as far as the 1750's. The archive is still being populated and once complete should hold in the region of 20 million images. It is fully searchable (naturally, this *is* Google) and each entry has it's own page with additional information. It's an enormous and diverse collection of images and most of them at reasonably high resolutions too.

Go take a look: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Real World Guitar Hero On A Bike

posted by Jaitu at 07:46

Okay the title may be a little misleading as there is no-one actually playing Guitar Hero in this clip. Instead you have a guy riding his bike along a route that has been marked out with the fret board arrangement for "Prisoner Of Society" by The Living End as you would see find it on Guitar Hero with the difficulty set to hard.
Along with the incidental details, like the occasional pyrotechnic, one easily missed but excellent detail is the LED strip across the handle bars that flash in the correct sequence and in time with the floor markings.

Originally seen on : laughingsquid.com