A Scanner Darkly

Phillip K. Dick's story 'A Scanner Darkly' is a story about drug adiction. For the moment it can be found at Peek Vids in three parts (here, here and here). It is well worth watching, especially if you've seen some of Richard Linklater's other work (such as Waking Life).

Warning, it won't be up there for long, I suspect, so if you want to watch it do so quickly.

Some stuff from Don Hertzfeldt

Okay, this guy's just odd. Look at his submission to the family learning channel, after he was commisioned by them! And what about his two dimensional interpretation of the third dimension?

That second one kinda reminds me of Imagining the Tenth Dimension.

Eye Popping

Whoa, this is original! Nice stuff and worth a watch. This is what animation is all about, really.

EDIT: Hey, i didn't even realise it's for the new Ipod ripoff by microsoft. Still a good animation, though.

First computer

So you thought computers were invented in the 20th century, did you? Well, you're wrong. The first one was built quite a bit earlier.

Mooched

I have successfully used book mooch for the first time and actually got a book out of it. We're using it as a great way to get rid of some books that we really don't want anymore, but don't just want to throw away. You get 'points' for sending books to people and you can use those, in turn, to get books for yourself. I picked up 'Alice in Wonderland' which I had never read before.

(Click on this link to download the full text in pdf format from project Guttenberg)

From LA to New York

Yes, it's another one of those time laps videos. I'm not convinced it's set to the same time laps the entire trip, though...

Movies!

I've got to push Peek Vid again, becuase they've got a great collection of stuff. Their comic side is great and they've even got full fledged movies. Unfortunately (due to it being illegal to put full length movies on the internet for free) many links don't work, but still worth a try!

Time article about YouTube

Sometimes the old media still has something interesting to say.

Cyber Nation

New game about running your own little nation (you get to decide everything from government type to religion). No pictures, no movies but hey, at least it's multiplayer! I've started my own little African nation called Darka (so you better be my friend, you hear!)

The God who wasn't there

A one hour documentary about Jesus. I guess the title kinda gives away the leaning of the documentary, aye?

I watched the entire thing and I do have to say it's left me with a feeling of dread.

An artistic impression of child labour

Adam Brandejs has made this rather shocking piece on child labour. Thanks to Banana for bringing this post to my attention.

Sign Language Phone

Here's a prototype for a new phone, one that doesn't need buttons but instead understands sign language. Cool concept.

Proxy Surfing

Now here's something truly useful. For those of you accessing the internet from countries that want to control what you access on the internet, here is a list of proxies that you can use to still access those sites. Viva La Resistance!

Free TV content

This site has quite a collection of full length movies, tv serials and a whole lot more. I'm quite impressed. I'll come back to it when I've found some shows really worth seeing.

Vancouver Film School

The Vancouver Film School has placed some of their content on Youtube under one heading and in one place. Sweet!

Apparently Neill Blomkamp (the guy that had been tapped to direct Halo, based on this short film) went there. That's a good thing.

Total Recal

No, not the movie, the possibility. It gives a completely new definition to such things as 'identity theft' doesn't it? Still, I'd be game.

Breath Me (Sai)

Another great music clip idea. I guess art really does beget art.

Kinda reminds me of this short film.

Full Metal Jacket

I wonder if this is the future? Just download a movie from the internet and watch it at home. Well, this one's already here now, so enjoy (yes, it's the full movie, no the quality isn't all that great, but what do you expect. At least it's Stanley Kubrik!)

I'm already torn

Here's a new version of 'I'm already torn'. This guy is incredibly funny, this is a must watch if you're looking for a laugh and I don't normally put comedy up here, so go figure.

7:35 in the morning

I think this is Spanish (don't worry, there is subtitles) and I'm quite convinced it's weird.

Star Guitar (Chemical Brothers)

Another great music clip (remembered this time, not stolen). You might not get it immediately, but I guarantee that you'll be amazed when you do... If you need a hint, see if the music and the scenery might not, well, have something to do with one another. Yeah, that's a pretty big hint and it's a pretty damned good clip too!

Remind Me

Here's a cool music clip that I nicked from flabber.nl (for those of you that can't speak dutch). Do I feel guilty about it? Well, I probably wouldn't have linked to them if I didn't.

Disturbing

I wasn't aware that toys could be this... disturbing. I don't really know what else to say.

Quotes

"War never really decides who is right, only who is left"

-unknown

"A religious war is like people fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend"

-unknown

"An intelligent man can get himself out of problems that a wise man would never have let himself get into"

-unknown

If anybody can tell me where these quotes come from I would be much obliged. They are good, though.

Animating

Blender is a free source program that is being used to create some very interesting animations. The best one I've seen is definetely The Elephant's dream (warning, the file is huge and will take a long time to load, so go have dinner or something). Others have used it to, so here's a series of wierd stories told using this software (this file is much smaller).