Watch the film in HD or take a look at some stills below.

All images are © Alex Roman and from his animated film The Third & The Seventh

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

(via Core77)

via Boing Boing Gadgets

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

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. Be sure to read and watch this semi-autobiographical story P. K. Dick wrote in 1977 about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did as he later puts it and make up your own mind.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13, Verses 9-12, King James Version)

Related links:

• Philip K. Dick’s official site
• official novel site
• Warner Idependent Pictures’ official movie site

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 want to return to Iceland immediately. It is said that everybody who grew up in Iceland and later left will return someday. It must be true since I — an Iceland tourist — want to return there so badly.

Heima trailer via Boing Boing

A second trailer for Heima is available as a Quicktime stream.

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. Great for the intro to your next sci-fi flick.

Spacializer (The flash source code is available.)

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, loud.

Those animations are part of the website. For you download pleasure I urge you to download Variasound (left part of the site, first line, item on the left; Mac and Windows). It’s a truly amazing … well, thingy. This post’s title says everything. Hard to describe, fun to use.

Variasound looks great, has four different color and sound themes and lets you interact with many great samples and loops. The author describes Variasound as follows:

This application composes [...] evolving music and proposes various combinations. With the keyboard the user can participate [...]

Saving you a few minutes of figuring how it works, here is a list of the keyboard controls:

• Space stops all playing samples and loops (fades them out) and changes the theme.
• 0 activates the random mode which starts and stops different loops every few seconds. Useful to create background music.
• 1 to 8 start and stop the loops for Rythmiques, Instruments, Ambiances and Nappes.
• 9 inverts your loop selection.
• A to Z play 26 different samples on demand.

When you’ve finished playing around with the different themes and loops just turn on the random mode (0) and try to find matching samples to the randomly created music. Also nice is to synchronize turning loops (especially Rythmiques) on and off to your randomly inserted A to Z samples.

Enjoy your “homemade” chill out sounds. Be the DJ you’ve never been! ;-)

Go to Screenvader’s site to download Variasound.

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, laser beams and all those good things. Until now I haven’t had the time to read the whole (Google-translated) article but the text looks interesting as it provides a lot of details about the pictures shown.

Read the article translated by Google (Italian original)

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 van in front of).

This is a brilliant example of what can be achieved using (sort of) standard equipment, creativity and some clever software. The video below shows the best parts of the Amsterdam event. Even cops joined the show and had their fun using the L.A.S.E.R. tagger. And the best part: you cannot be busted for this (except for using a laser this strong).

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 compost toilet, solar panels, a naturaly cooled fridge and fresh spring water that goes into the home without the need for a pump. These features reflect the maximum regard for the environment Simon had in mind before and while building the house.

Take a look at the plans and a gallery of the whole building process.

(via Make)

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)

Kiwi! by Dony Permedi.

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 mix 200 liters of Diet Coke, over 500 Mentos mints and a bit of performance art. Be sure to wear your lab coat!

Watch the clip and read how it works.

[...] made from cunningly twisted Rubik’s Cubes, arranged and stacked by Invader, the legendary public artist.

I should try to twist the old and colorful Apple logo out of those cubes one day.

Pixel-art Mario made from stacked Rubik’s Cubes via Boing Boing