Being able to make a paper crane was the best I could do when it came to origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.
Kamiya Satoshi takes origami to the highest level. Just have a look at the amazing creatures he creates out of a single piece of paper…
Here’s another 3D animation from Futurikon (Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo).
I’m sure the creators found some inspiration from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace for this clip.
The distinctive turbine engine rumble and the cheeky attitude towards the flies, is very reminiscent of Anarkin’s podracing exploits on the Tatooine.
Podracing - bug style!
I came across this 3D animation from a French series created by Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo at Futurikon.
Vibrant live-action backgrounds with offbeat storylines involving quirky characters, makes each film a joy to watch.
The short film in this post is about a snail with a dream…
Do snails dream of electric cars?
Have you ever seen the film Pulp Fiction? Found it hard to follow the plot? Still clueless as to what the movie was about? Maybe this short clip might help clear things up…
Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies. Angry Alien Productions.
…or maybe not. 
I had to post this spectacular photo of the Space Shuttle Discovery streaking across the sky over Daytona Beach last Saturday. The location was about 80km north of the Kennedy Space Center. Amazing colours. Surreal imagery.
Photo: Daytona Beach News-Journal, Nigel Cook/AP
Here’s a short animation by Dony Permedi. Simple plot, but touching message: “Follow your dreams, even if it kills you”, or “Things to do before I die”…
…or “Must remember to wear parachute when base jumping”.
This is an inspirational clip I found recently. It reminds me of those little “how to live” handbooks that was quite popular a few years back. Pretty cool, even though it is an ad for sunscreen.
It seems that the original film containing the first moments Mankind stepped on the Moon has gone missing from NASA’s Goddard Space Centre in Maryland. Also among tapes feared missing are the original recordings of the other five Apollo moon landings.
I used to believe the U.S. sent the first Man to the moon on July 16, 1969. But it wasn’t until recently that I first began to have my doubts. So what caused me to question one of Man’s greatest technological endeavours?
The fact that it is the year 2006 and the Space Shuttle is still having hiccups getting off the ground! Yet, men walked, jumped, took snap shots, and played golf there 37 years ago! That’s a long time to improve on the proven technology they had.
NASA is still having problems with O-ring designs and bits of falling foam damaging the shuttle during lift-off. If current space technology is so failure prone, why not just go back to that awesome technology of yesteryear?
John F. Kennedy made a speech to Congress on May 25, 1961 expressing his concern about the Soviet’s technological advances. He challenged the nation to put a man on the moon within the decade. They pulled it off in 8 years…
…37 years later with vastly improved computing power, superior avionics, improvements in materials technology, huge advances in science and a shitload of funding, the space shuttle is spending more time on the launch pad than in space.
So, it was upon reading this news of the original moon landing films gone missing that I had to chuckle. I mean, how hard could it be to fake a moon landing?
Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a great sci-fi film. It was shot in 1968. Change a few props, add some dirt and rocks. “Hey, presto!”, one authentic moonscape. People will believe anything. You don’t have to think back far to remember the last time we were all duped.
And now all the film recordings of that historical moment has gotten itself lost. We will never know their authenticity now! I guess we’ll just have to take their word on the matter…bahahaha!
Update 30/08/2009: Following the recent 40th anniversary of the “moon landings”, this week the Dutch government have discovered the “moon rock” a U.S. envoy gifted in 1969, is actually a piece of ordinary petrified wood. [Read more…]
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