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Alex Roman created this wonderful, completely animated film named The Third & The Seventh. This is truly a piece of art.
After watching this I wonder when an average computer will be able to render pictures and animations as realistic as these in real time.
Watch the film in HD or take a look at some stills [...]

Forever’s Not so Long is a fantastic short movie about a hopeless situation starring Garrett Murray. I can’t tell more without a spoiler, so just watch this 13 minute masterpiece.

If you have an iPhone and a Twitter account or a website be sure to check out Ego, also by Garrett Murray.

This reading lamp by the four French designers Jun Yasumoto, Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck is pure genius: it goes dark as soon as you put you book on it after reading.

(via Core77)

What a great place to work at!

via Boing Boing Gadgets

A beautiful animated, interactive music video. Pintando una Canción.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.
Anybody who’s interested in design and fonts should definitely watch this documentary. Really interesting and great for understanding the roots of many designs we now see in our daily lives. helveticafilm.com

Here are some great tanks with fantastic plant placement. Makes you want to call one your own (again).

keming. noun. The result of improper kerning.

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. [...]

Visiting Iceland this summer was wonderful. Seeing the impressive landscape lets you understand the origins of Sigur Rós’s music. Listening to their music while driving on Icelandic roads is just perfect.
On November 5th Sigur Rós is planning to release the documentary Heima (at home) about their 2006 tour on Iceland. Watching the trailer makes me [...]

Spacializer is a flash animation of slowly moving clouds of different colors by Sébastien Chevrel, an artist, designer and programmer focusing on interactive media.
The animation itself creates a faint background noise when left alone. Moving your mouse cursor above different colors and the spots where different colors mix results in changing sounds all very spherical. [...]

Found via digg because of its 3D menu Screenvader’s flash-based site had a lot more to offer: Interactive graphics and random audiovisual animations using vector graphics, images and short video sequences of Looping Housewife’s Duties. If you thought The Ring’s video sequence was scary take a look at Easy to Open; fullscreen, in the dark, [...]

Retrofuturo — or IL FUTURO VISTO DAL PASSATO as Fabio Feminò puts it — is a 35 page series of mostly pictures and magazine covers from the past (up to 80 years old) showing how the people living then thought our world would look like today.
It includes classics like flying cars, enormous cities, moon bases, [...]

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 [...]

Take a look at this wonderful collection of photos from 1929 taken in Germany. The atmosphere is very quiet and peaceful. It looks like a place you wouldn’t deny holidays from the city life at — if there wasn’t the problem of the almost 80 years passed since then.
All pictures are taken from a book [...]

Simon Dale built a truly amazing Low Impact Woodland Home for his family which is dug into the hillside. The building process took nearly 1500 man hours and cost only £3000. The main tools used are a chainsaw, a hammer and a one inch chisel.
The used materials are mainly natural and the house has a [...]

This Ministry of Transportation was shot in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi by Geert Joiris.
[It] brings out the conflict between a symbol of progress and its current state of decay.
(via we make money not art)
tags: Geert Joiris, Georgia, Ministry of Transportation, Tbilisi

Kiwi! by Dony Permedi.
tags: animation, cliff, Dony Permedi, flying, Kiwi, short animation

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 [...]

The Rubik’s Cube always fascinated me. Maybe because I don’t have the patience to twist a stupid cube all the time until the colors match… Now Boing Boing writes about this pixel-art Super Mario…
[...] made from cunningly twisted Rubik’s Cubes, arranged and stacked by Invader, the legendary public artist.
I should try to twist the old [...]