Strider's Sci-Fi

After watching yesterday’s video I explored a bit more, and somebody is actually compiling the best, or at least strangest, commercials from Japan each week or 3. These include some serious genre references and products along side the merely wacked out, and I enjoyed them too much to keep them to myself. I particularly enjoyed [...]

I love the amazing array of genre coming out of Japan, but some of their output is strange. I THINK this may be a recruiting video for McDonald’s street theater staff in Tokyo (why don’t we have that here?), but it could also be a girl with Hypno Toad genes creating her own cadre of [...]

These guys have way too much fun with high speed cameras and then post the results for the world to watch, although in this instance they should have thought a bit more about the effect exploding paint might have on a camera held a bit too close. Calling themselves the Slo Mo Guys I think [...]

This week Oblivion hits the big screen, with Tom Cruse returning to the abandoned Earth to extract resources. While there he discovers things that make him think he has been lied to about what is really going on, and who the war over the Earth was with. If you would prefer something a bit more [...]

I would have loved a copy of this game if it had only existed, but this very funny video was put together by the folks at Collage Humor. The site has a large number of highly skilled contributors with a range of different talents, so you can find all kinds of amusing content there.

There are a number of new movies this week, of which Tai Chi Zero is the top of the list for me, being a Steampunk Kung-Fu action comedy. How could I possibly resist that combination? If you are looking for something a bit more serious, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai from the creator of 13 [...]

I enjoyed the first video, so thought I would share another one here. This time it is the Best Of Just For Laughs Gags – Funniest Twilight Zone for 2012. These do fall into the category of silly fun.

Happy Halloween, Gangnam Style! Psy is out there, and so are many of the folks who have reacted to this song. Next year you should pick a hot song and program your local electrical grid to do this kind of thing to it.

It isn’t James White, but it is funny and entertaining. Space Hospital has simple animations in a low budget format, but somehow I seem to keep watching them, so I thought I should post in case you liked them too.

A Tesla Coil is a transformer that is able to generating extremely large voltages, which allows it to throw huge but extremely short-live sparks. So what looks like one long spark is actually a bunch of sparks each second. As any musician with a scientific background will tell you, a given tone is a given [...]