This fun little video edit was put together by the very creative Debbie Saslaw, and is just what its title infers: a supercut of the phrase There’s No Time To Explain. If you have some video editing software and a favorite phrase you see in TV and movies all the time, you could build one of these yourself, and I know for myself it would be a good practice project to help me overcome my editing suites learning curve. I think the first thing I might learn is that this kind of project is a bit harder than it looks. Thanks to Laughing Squid for the heads up on this one.
In 1945 Arthur C. Clarke lost a billion dollars by inventing geosynchronous communication satellites, because there was no technology capable of launching them into orbit until the late 1950s, and nothing that could reach geosynchronous orbit until the 1960s. Interestingly enough, in 1964, the same year the very first live TV news stories made it across the Atlantic on those satellites to become part of regular TV News programs, Clarke predicted how the new technology would change the world… and his description is spot on for the way we communicate today. Some people really do seem to be living in the future.
If you are at work, don’t watch this video. I am pretty sure it isn’t safe for most work environments in most country’s, even if I can’t follow the lyrics well enough to tell what is actually going on. Another Rammstein wannabe band, Mundtot’s song Virus Mensch is from their first album: Spätsommer.
While this is a nice little astronomy video, it isn’t really about the stars at all. When you go to the 100,000 Stars web site the really interesting thing is the demonstration of WebGL. Currently WebGL is implemented by default in the latest release of Chrome, and it is available in Safari, Firefox, and Opera, but you have to turn it on to use it (get activation instructions). I am sure no one is going to be shocked or surprised that WebGL also requires a fairly robust and recent graphics card, and even with that you may need to grab the latest drivers for it. While this should work on most tablets, smart phone implementation is still problematic.
This tasty little video was created by Alyse Miller and Phillip SimonWhile they were attending the Ringling College of Art and Design working in the Computer Animation Program. It’s nice to know there continue to be original ideas constantly popping up in the independent animation field, and some talented people to execute them.
Sometimes, in the battle between life and death, the right choice is the wrong choice. Or so, at least, it would seem. This wonderful animation again has nothing actually resembling words, but it doesn’t need them. The video tells the story just fine all by itself.