Archives | November 2004

The link below is a WM video documenting a paper illusionary affect of a dragon that seems to follow the camera around with its head. That's the best description I can write for this one. Can you see the strange way the dragon's head is folded? The dragon was designed by Jerry Andrus, and he calls it 'Eye-Foolery'. via [ Waxy ]

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Mark Osborne's Academdy Award nominated short, "More"

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A better than average conspiracy site, and it's opening remarks made me feel as though it were a worthwhile link ... Channel 51 goes benearth the veil to reveal conspiracy, secret knoweldge, government cover-ups, and paranormal activity.

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"Copenhagen — A massive blaze at a fireworks factory in western Denmark, left a 33-year-old firefighter dead and destroyed at least 20 homes. Hundreds of firefighters fought the huge blaze at the N.P. Johnsens fireworks factory in western Denmark, 125 miles from the Danish capital." I looked around for some video of the Danish fireworks factory exploding, and coudn't find anything. I imagine one of the news organizations bought up the amateur home video and so its not widely available now. But you can watch home video of some other fireworks factory blowing up via windows media here . . .

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EVIL/LIVE is an edit of the First Presidential Debate, replacing John Kerry by a mirrored image of George W. Bush, who is listening to and debating with himself. This is a worth a watch, a video editing politcal commentary stroke of genuis. Quicktime Movie Small Version (170 MB) Quicktime Movie Large Version (635 MB)

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I've been a fan of the documentary film showcase 'Point of View' on PBS for a couple of years now. I was just checking out their site on PBS to see if they were starting to make any of the shows available via streaming media. Unfortunately, they are not (however, you can order them) but I was pleasently suprised & enchanted to stumble across a web-only multimedia series by the same production team, called Borders . Without a doubt, work a look. Kind of a multimedia mish mash of Flash, HTML, audio, video and slide show graphics, but well executed. Designed and deployed by a web design firm in Santa...

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a PBS/Washington Post joint documentary that aired earlier this week is now online. It is the inside story of Rumsfeld's battle to assert civil control over the military. [ via metafilter ] Stream the full program online (looks like the Real Player version is forthcoming, the Windows Media stream is up) or via bittorent.

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"I'm interested in human culture, what we do, where we have been, what we have left behind, what we have learned or not learned from past experiences. Ruins are a window into human histories, they tell the stories of the past through the stark presence of objects and architectures. Ruins capture the imagination with their ability to tell stories about our past. " Hi Context Low context

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