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Parallax Looks Mind Blowing-With Portals

Zeon Santos — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:47:51 +0000

With a monochrome color palette and mind bending portal physics, the indie game Parallax is set to blow away gamers when it comes out early 2012.

And, as amazing as this game looks, it was developed by only 2 people, Zi Ye and Jesse Burstyn, and is slated to be completed in less than one year! Check out the trailer and see if your brain can handle the world of Parallax.

–via Ars Technica

Sausage Fest Is Over-The-Top Food Fun

Zeon Santos — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:38:46 +0000

(YouTube Link)

The guys from Epic Meal Time are blowing up YouTube with their crazy food-centric comedy videos, recipes seemingly created by Paula Dean while she was on acid, and devil may care attitudes that make them a big hit with the ladies. Every recipe these guys dream up starts with trays full of bacon, and become more and more insane as another ingredient is added. This edition, entitled Sausage Fest, shows you how to make sausage out of big macs and beef sandwiches, among other crazy combinations of (often fried) food which have never been stuffed in a sausage casing before. Let Epic Meal Time show you why things get strange in the kitchen when you’re cooking drunk.

OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass Video

Johnny Cat — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:29:52 +0000

In this Open Letter “To the people of the world,” the band OK Go laments the state of labels controlling the embedding of videos. The band has been on the cutting edge of independently making their own videos, with often amazing Internet response. ”Here It Goes Again” (You know, the treadmill video) is consistently one of the most watched videos on YouTube, however all YouTube OK Go videos are coded with embedding disabled, as per their label. Here, they perform their song “This Too Shall Pass” live on location, with a little help from the Notre Dame Marching Band.

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.

So what’s there to do? On the macro level, well, who the hell knows? There are a lot of interesting ideas out there, but this is not the place to get into them. As for our specific roadblock with the video embedding, the obvious solution is for YouTube to work out its software so it allow labels to monetize their videos, wherever on the Internet or the globe they’re being accessed.

In the meantime, the only thing OK Go can do is to upload our videos to sites that allow for embedding…We do that already, but it stings a little. Not only does it cannibalize our own numbers (it tends to do our business more good to get 40 million hits on one site than 1 million hits on 40 sites), but, as you can imagine, we feel a lot of allegiance to the fine people at YouTube. They’ve been good to us, and what they want is what we want: lots of people to see our videos. When push comes to shove, however, we like our fans more, which is why you can take the code at the bottom of this email and embed the “This Too Shall Pass” video all over the Internet.

Link

When Star Wars Attacks

Johnny Cat — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:29:38 +0000

(YouTube Link)

Check out this excellent quick flick put together by Lamb Productions.

My friends and I were bored one day during Christmas Break and decided to make a quick movie. We shot this in 30 minutes and only used 8 minutes of tape. I then proceeded to spend 3 and a half weeks putting in the visuals for the film. Special thanks to the Action Essentials 2 kit from Videocopilot.net, and Jason Lee for his Enterprise model.

via Bits and Pieces

New Independent Watches from Tokyoflash are GORGEOUS!

Alex — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:02:28 +0000

As you all know, I’m a big fan of Tokyoflash and their nigh-unreadable watches (unless you’re a major geek and can count in binary in your sleep, of course). So it’s with great pleasure for me to tell you that Tokyoflash is featuring some new watch designs from Independent (very limited quantity). They told me that these designs are some of the best they’ve ever seen in terms of quality and originality – and it definitely shows. These watches are gorgeous!

Link – Thanks Paul Cooper! (Y’know, it’s time we run a Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt again on Neatorama, don’t you guys think?)

Award Winning Short Film “Shadows”

Queuebot — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:14:15 +0000

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Check out this award winning short film (it’s only 3 minutes long). It’s a nice shoutout to the gothic horror films of the 20s and 30s. Simple but effective.

Plot Synopsis:

A leasing agent prepares an apartment with a mysterious past for an
afternoon viewing. While awaiting the arrival of the prospective client
the leasing agent learns that she’s not alone in the apartment.

– via fightingowlfilms

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