I’m watching Sigur Rós’ Heima right now — a documentary film about their free 2006 Iceland tour. It is a great DVD for everybody who likes Sigur Rós or Iceland.
Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and [...]
A Scanner Darkly — the movie adaption of Philip K. Dick’s great novel.
What does a scanner see? I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner … see into me — into us — clearly or darkly? (Bob Arctor, A Scanner Darkly)
Great dystopian novel and fantastic movie adoption. [...]
Read Article »There are some Sigur Rós videos available on their official website including the Heima trailers I’ve already mentioned.
One video I’m particularly fond of is Glósóli from the album Takk. (The video is available on the DVD part of the special edition Sæglópur EP.) I just love the concept of the video set in a [...]
Introducing a clean, non-permanent and — more than anything else — geeky way of tagging buildings, the Graffiti Research Lab presents a project named L.A.S.E.R. Tag.
Using a “blinds-your-eyes-forever”-grade laser, a bright beamer, a security camera and some open software (complete list and instructions) you can virtually tag any build you like (and can park your [...]
This is a follow-up to my previous post Even Our Sun is Tiny but this time a video (via digg) shows you how small we really are and which monstrously large objects are “floating” around in our galaxy.
A size comparison1 of the Sun to VV Cephei A (the supergiant of the binary star system VV [...]
A few things you would never know without the movies. Very true. (Thanks Anne-Marie)
tags: movie truths
By now you should have found out about the secrets of Diet Coke and Mentos. It was and still is all over the internet.
If you don’ know what I’m talking about take a first look at this: a basic reaction.
Now you’re ready to watch the fun clip at eepybird.com and see what happens when you [...]
Though I’ve never been a fan of Star Wars this is very amusing. The people at blinkenlights.nl still operate their ASCII art version of Star Wars after more than four and a half years. (Nearly an eternity for the internet.)
Start your favorite telnet client and connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl (use Apple’s Terminal.app, Microsoft’s cmd.exe and Linux [...]