Creating a 360-degree interactive panorama of your next party, big game, or messy bedroom is now a simple feat, and all you need to have is an iPhone. Released recently by Occipital, 360Panorama only requires that you slowly spin in a circle while capturing the world around you. The app then weaves the images together and best of all, lets you navigate it from the phone, or later on the web. They’ve even added a feature that uses the phone’s built-in gyroscope to navigate the image by spinning around, just as if you were still at the scene of the shoot. [Read more...]
Ghostbusters Trailer Mixed with the Inception Score
What do you get when you combine the tension-filled score of the movie Inception with the visuals from the classic comedy Ghostbusters? It seems something far more serious and scary. This video demonstrates just how influential a soundtrack is in guiding the overall feel of a movie. [Read more...]
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Gary Busey Visits Point Break Live!
In case you haven’t heard, Point Break Live! is the most tubular, radical show in town… it tells the story of former college football star turned FBI agent, Johnny Utah, in pursuit of bank robbing, skydiving, bare hand fighting, adrenaline junkie, Zen Master Bodhi Sattva… almost like the 1991 movie Point Break… hm…
As if that wasn’t radical enough, at each show a member of the audience is picked to play the lead roll of Johnny Utah. The original film starred Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, and Gary Busey and as the clip below shows, Gary Busey made an out-of-the-audience guest appearance at the live show. It was a night to remember.
New Kevin Rose Podcast: Foundation
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com and host of the popular web show Diggnation, has just launched a new podcast and newsletter: Foundation. Billed as a monthly private email newsletter, it will feature video interviews, product reviews, rants, and early access to pre-launched websites, while promising to be a high quality source for all things Internet.
In this first episode, Rose interviews Jack Dorsey, creator, co-founder, and chairman of Twitter, as well as CEO of Square. They talk about decision making, entrepreneurship and the journey Jack took that led to the creation of Twitter and Square.
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Turkish Love and War: Blissful Animation
Covering 294 walls in 4 cities while traveling 2930 kilometers, the Turkish electronic group Sokak Savasa Karsi, cuts out a street based animation against terror and war. To create the animation, figures of soldiers were cut out of ordinary pieces of newspaper and attached to walls around the four cities. Then capturing each soldier individually, they were animated for a blissful, loving finish. [Read more...]
The Making of Tron: Legacy
If you’ve ever wanted to own a Light Cycle, this clip will show you how they’re made! Bringing you behind the scenes images from the completely action packed Tron: Legacy, this short brings to light the many layers of creativity beneath the digital world of the “grid.” [Read more...]
Kowloon Walled City: Pictures and Cross Section
At one time, one of the most densely populated areas on Earth, Kowloon, was a walled city within Hong Kong. It was unregulated by the then-ruling British authorities, who reluctantly allowed it as the only Chinese settlement. It was a no man’s land because of this; run by the Chinese mafia and filled with brothels, sweat shops, illegal hospitals, and trashy eateries. [Read more...]
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Old School Snowboarding Ads from 78 to 92
Today we take a trip down memory mountain, looking at some of the iconic snowboard ads that put the sport on the map. Snowboarding hasn’t always been the popular ride of the slopes that it is today; not long ago, some of us might remember, it was actually shunned by most of the ski parks. Boarders would literally have to hike to the top of a slope or get a snowmobile ride just to cut a line through some powder.
So give thanks for the pioneers of snowboarding and board on! [Read more...]
War: Business as Usual
The crew over at The Vice Guide to Everything hit up a trade show in Amman Jordan… no, not featuring comic books or new futuristic cars… but guns, missiles, bombs, and armored cars. Men in suits hock the latest in high tech weaponry to members of the military from all around the world. People are cordial, then head home to get back to fighting one another. Welcome to The Business of War.
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Capturing Fashion on the Street: The Sartorialist
Scott Schuman leads a visual life. He runs the immensely popular fashion commentary blog, The Sartorialist, out of his home in New York City. This inspiring and beautifully filmed documentary reveals the process and inspiration behind The Sartorialist, following Schuman on the streets of NYC capturing his daily fashion muses. [Read more...]