From the Swedish movie Farsan (trailer).
[via:Jean Nygård]
New Beavis and Butt-head episodes in production?
Beavis and Butt-Head and it’s spin-off Daria are great sources for therapeutical insight and self identification for anyone who didn’t particularly enjoy growing up in a typical kindergarten-for-teens kind of high school setting.
B&BH creator Mike Judge later did a name for himself with cult movies Office Space and Idiocracy. Youtube#.
[via:Adam Lisagor]
Youtube launches support for 4K video resolution
Google is obviously building infrastructure for some kind of major, commercial video distribution project. But they’re also preparing themselves for a not so distant future when normal people might have enormous, wall sized-screens at home.
This is not crazy talk without any real application within the lives of normal people. For instance: Any kind of convincing telepresence must be based on video quality much higher than 1080p. Ask yourself what it’d take to make you feel not so much out of place when attending some kind of party by appearing and watching others in life-size on a wall.
I’m just saying. People will want this kind of equipment.
Rick K. and the Allnighters – Sharp Dressed Man (live)
The drumming gets insane after 2:20. Band site here.
[via:zefrank]
Boing Boing noticed the Finnish record industry’s regrettable new anti-piracy mascot. It’s so bad I’m posting it now only because Doctorow found it funny.
[via:Setok]
“Google, Mozilla and Opera announced a new open video format today called WebM. As part of the WebM project, Google is is freely licensing the VP8 compression technology. This new open video format will use a modified Matroska video container (.webm). WebM format support is available today in Firefox, Chromium, and Opera development builds. All videos that are 720p or larger, uploaded to YouTube after May 19th, will be be encoded in WebM.”
WebM uses the open Ogg Vorbis sound codec.
[via:Jani Uusitalo]
Creepy Robots – It’s only a matter of time before one of these kills somebody
[via:Waxy]
Illegal Drugs brought to you by rEdandBLUEandgrEen
[via:zefrank]
“The Known Universe # takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe”.
[via:Chris Helenius]
Detailed explanation of a plausible post-saving-princess scenario. Animation by Studio Joho.
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
EDIT 2010-04-24: Original video deleted, here’s another copy.
Live at BDO ’10.