Category Archives: Video

Reactable vs. the Poly.Touch

I followed a few links from the comments on a post about the Poly.Touch found on NotCot today, and wound up looking at this instead: the Reactable. Watch it in action: Apparently it’s not exactly new (posted October 25, 2006!), but it’s new to me!
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Skeleton Boy Video Made Me Smile

I really really want to recreate this video at home, but I think I would be in a ton of trouble: Friendly Fires ‘Skeleton Boy’ by Clemens Habicht from Nexus Productions on Vimeo.
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“Animal Superpowers” Educational Toys for Kids. I want.

Via GOOD
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Music Animation Machine

Watching this visualization of a piano piece has me just a mesmerized as watching the internal workings of an old music box. It’s a demonstration of a piece of software called Music Animation Machine. It’s the same concept, but with a longer piece and the addition of color:
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Fun 3D Animations Done on Turntables

Pretty self explanatory, but very neat stuff. Found it here on Neatorama, where else?
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Radiohead’s “Nude (Big Ideas)” on Old Computer Equipment

You’ve probably all heard about Radiohead’s little game of letting anyone remix their single, “Nude”, but this one takes it to a whole other level. James Houston played forced the tracks out of old and abused computer equipment (or at least sampled them). He had this to say about the idea: This was quite a difficult task [...]
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Printing Is Alive

Print may be dead, but printing isn’t. Pazazz hopped on the viral bandwagon with this Dave Attell style rant: Funny. And true. But mostly funny.
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“Fully Flared” Intro Squence (Lakai Skate movie)

Apparently this is the intro sequence to a Lakai Footwear skate movie titled Fully Flared. Very well done. Be sure to stick around long enough to catch the finale: EDIT: Lakai had the video taken down. I guess they hate free publicity? DailyMotion still has it up though. This just in: Saw on some other posts that [...]
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3 Unlikely Drum Machines

What do soup cans, gum balls, and eggs have in common? Well, besides being round, they’ve all been used to trigger programmable drum machines: The Drum Buddy Triggered by light shining through holes in a large aluminum can. Bubblegum Sequencer Triggered by colored gum balls placed on a grid. “Almost Certified” Cumputer sequencer triggers hammers that hit various sized eggs… for [...]
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Funny (70s?) Moog Ad featuring Edd Kalehoff

You’ll never guess what this is an ad for. Stick with it for the last 10 seconds: You couldn’t ask for a better tagline too!
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