Electrically Stimulated Face...Techno Dance

Based on the Duchenne study about facial expression, in which people's faces were electronically stimulated to simulate different facial expressions, a Japanese team automated the process. They then set it to music...for the sake of science, I assume.

Japanese artist Daito Manabe created this video and more of his work can be found here.

Flashblock: My apologies

So, the last few posts have all had videos in them...this will slow down everything you have by just opening the damn page. Here's my gift to you.



If you don't have this add-on already, get it. It's available for FireFox (of course) and I hear that there is one for Chrome. It prevents flash things from loading on the pages that you load. In their place, there is a play button. If you push this button, those items will load. So, instead of having these things slow down your computer by instantly loading, you get to pick and choose what will load. It's great. Do it! Download it!

MORTAL KOMBAT: Before I fall behind on this one...

Everyone has been talking about this (because it's awesome) and I didn't want too much time to pass before I put it up here. It's pretty cool and it hopefully it does get made into a movie. As you've all heard, it's a pitch for a movie. Watch it and tell someone important that this needs to get made... On a different note, thought I would mention that it's kinda NSFW...but it's only like 8 minutes on YouTube...so, whatever. Watch it!

Cat Piano...A Shangri la of Awesomeness

Cat Piano is an awesome short animated film. It was voted one of the top 10 shorts of 2009. A well deserved honor. Definitely entertaining to hear and beautiful to watch. It feels like a very hip Christopher Walken is reading a poem to you...about cats. However, it's more awesome because you get Nick Cave, the Australian singer, narrating a film noir tale about cats. Also, you can find the poem here and watch the short film below.

2 Batman Shorts

These are live-action shorts made of Batman. Both deal with the metal illness aspect of Batman/Gotham pretty well. However, one is more visually appealing.

Ashes to Ashes

This is the more visually appealing one. I should note that it is NSFW and French. Here is what their site has to say about it

Ashes to Ashes is an unofficial short film shot in 13 days and postproduced in France between 2006 and 2008. This fan film is based on the Batman character created by Bob Kane and on the graphical universe of Franck Miller’s Sin City. Original screenplay by Samuel Bodin and directed by Julien Mokrani & Samuel Bodin.

City of Scars
I can't find as much information on it.

When the Joker escapes from Arkham and murders the parents of a young boy, Batman recalls the pain of losing his own parents as a child. He is pushed past his limits to the point where his focus becomes revenge on all who stand in his way, including many of Gotham’s underworld. Finally, Batman is forced to look at the psychological profile of his own mind and except the consequences of his life to find resolve.

Written and directed by Aaron Schoenke, the short was filmed with High Definition cameras over 21 days with a budget of only $27,000.

Pandemic 2: End the world...again...

Since I mentioned it in a previous post, I figured that I should also include Pandemic 2 on this site. It's another end-the-world game- great for when you are angry at the world. You pick a disease, develop it, and let it spread around the world and kill everyone (the goal). The game is reviewed well in this other blog. It's interesting to mention that the game is notorious for how hard it is to infect every single country...especially Madagascar, which has led to it's own meme. Check out the game below...personally, I've only succeeded twice.

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Cool Flash Game, Bro

Infectionator is very cool flash game about zombies. In this game, you spread your disease and make zombies. Eventually, you go and destroy all the world with your zombie disease. It's sorta like Pandemic 2, only with more action. For example, you can call up zombie characters like...MJ. Here's their description of the game:

Zombie infections madness, turn people into zombies in 60 seconds, upgrade your zombies to more powerful ones, get the highest score by destroying and infecting the town

Instructions: Use mouse to infect, throw grenades, and call up other zombies.

Try it!

Infectonator

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