“The Princess Bride” Celebrates 25 Years
Happy 25th Anniversary to one of my favorite movies of all time… all time!
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Photography Themed Rube Goldberg
I’m a sucker for elaborate contraptions—especially ones that involve themes that are near and dear to my heart.
Enjoy!
Terminator 2 as Hand-Drawn Animation
Terminator 2 turns 20 on July 3rd, 2011. Twenty.
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iSleight of iHand
Great use of technology, timing, and sleight of hand, though I wouldn’t exactly label it as “magic.”
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“The Wall” Mariachi Style
Nice find, Tim!
Siftables
Imagine the letter blocks we used to play with as kids. Now imagine that these blocks are interactive computing devices that react to you and each other in a smart way. Now you’ve got a Siftable.
This is something that I would definitely buy for my kids. Think of the possibilities!
Thanks for the link, Mike!
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Musical Performance in the Information Age
When I think of the intersection between music and the internet, two projects immediately come to mind that succinctly represent that coupling. Here are their introductions followed by sample performances:
The Introductions
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra
YouTube was leveraged as a tool for auditions for this project. What I find neat about it is the accessibility that it allowed. Non-professional musicians from all over the world, who normally would never pursue anything this grand, were able to audition out of the comfort of their own home. After, what I imagine, was a lengthy discernment process, the lucky chosen performed in a concert in the Sydney Opera House (which of course, was live-streamed on the internet).
Eric Whitacre took this idea a step further and actually pieced together all of the audition videos to make a virtual choir. I can only imagine the thousands of hours of work that went into the mixing of this.
The Performances
What are the final products of such colossal endeavors? Here are two samples:
Arnold Schwarzenegger The Musical
Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan are brilliant musical comedic geniuses! Stop what you are doing right now and feast your eyes and ears upon the following Arnold Schwarzenegger movies reimagined as musicals!
I haven’t laughed this hard since I was a little girly man.
There’s also a Terminator 2 Musical and a Total Recall Musical. If you want more, definitely subscribe to their YouTube Channel.
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