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The Maker

In the follow-up up to Zero, director Christopher Kezelos once again uses stop-motion to great effect in this touching and poignant short film.

The Maker opens up in the workshop of a strange little buck-toothed creature. Time is fleeting and this creature, a maker, has a precious few moments to create something beautiful…

The Maker is an international collaboration that’s been shown at numerous film festivals around the world and garnered much-deserved awards. For more information about it visit www.themakerfilm.com.

[via Boing Boing]

Tags creation, cycle, love, stop motion, The Maker, time

Awesomeness Cartoons & Comics

Skottie Young’s Superhero Babies

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Post date October 12, 2012
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If you liked the Game of Thrones sigils or Brandon Peat’s A to Z of Star Wars, you won’t be able to resist the super cute artworks by Skottie Young.

The illustrator and cartoonist re-imagines Marvel super heroes as boisterous babies, from baby Hulk smashing his toys to the potty-mouthed Deadpool, to an epic confrontation between the A-Babies and the X-Babies. Have a look at Young’s baby variant comic book covers after the jump.

Tags A-Babies, Avengers, babies, Marvel, super heroes, superheroes, X-Babies, x-men

Arty Awesomeness Cautionary Tales Entertainment Featured Movies Video Clips

This is Your Future

This is the future, according to the movies. In an effort similar to the infographic, YouTube user Eclectic Method stitches together scenes from your favourite sci-fi films to create a supercut of what our future might look like, from shining examples of human ingenuity to the dire effects of global warming, precognitive cops to rogue androids, to hoverboards and futuristic high-tops.

It’s a utopian dream, a dystopian nightmare, and everything in between. Have a look at The Future below.

[Live for Films]

Tags Eclectic Method, film, Movies, prediction, supercut, The Future

Awesomeness Featured Science & Technology Video Clips

Nocturnal Views From the ISS

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Post date October 8, 2012
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Astronauts like Don Pettit see the most fabulous things from the viewports of the International Space Station. This little fly-by video shows a compilation of views from the ISS as it orbits the Earth at night. NASA scientist Dr. Justin Wilkinson serves as our soothing tour guide while the ISS zips over the nocturnal landscapes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObnEpRccHM

[via Huffington Post]

Tags aurora borealis, Black, dark, earth, International Space Station, ISS, Justin Wilkinson, NASA, night, nocturnal, time-lapse

Arty Awesomeness Entertainment Video Clips

The Life of Flowers

Vladimir Vorobyov created a mesmerizing time-lapse video of a myriad of flowering plants as they begin to bloom. It’s an explosion of colour timed to a very enthusiastic composition, Happy-go-lucky, by Patrick Hawes. It’s sure to put a smile on your face. It did mine, but maybe I’m easily amused. Check out The Life of Flowers below.

[via Vimeo]

Tags bloom, blossom, flowers, life of flowers, time-lapse, Vladimir Vorobyov

Arty Awesomeness Entertainment Featured Music Video Clips

HP Scanjet Sings “Somebody That I Used to Know” in This Old School Computer Remix

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Post date October 1, 2012
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There are many many covers and parodies of Gotye’s unavoidable track “Somebody That I Used to Know”, so much so that the singer himself created a supercut, stitching together over 100 YouTube fan clips.

It would have been the cover to end all covers had it not been for YouTube user bd594 who recreates the song using an unlikely band of musicians. Watch as a troupe of hard drives and oscilloscopes provides the bassline and an HP Scanjet 3C stands in for the vocalists in this old school computer remix of “Somebody That I Used to Know”.

[via @nxtrms]

Tags cover, electronic, Gotye, parody, remix, Somebody That I Used to Know

Featured Game Reviews

We Review: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

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Post date October 1, 2012
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Transformers: War for Cybertron was surprisingly good. It bucked the trend that movie tie-in games were invariably crap. That’s because it wasn’t a tie-in at all. Developers High Moon Studios based their 2010 big bot adventure on the home world of Cybertron where the Autobots and Decepticons were in the midst of a civil war. The two leaders are polar opposites, the optimist prime versus the negatron you could say, but their actions together brought about big trouble to Cybertron.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron follows on from the events of previous title, where the Autobots are desperate to find a way off the dying planet. Optimus has commissioned the creation of a giant lifeboat upon which he and the remaining Autobots would evacuate. The Decepticons not only want to disrupt the Autobots but have some other plans in the making. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron tells the stories around this desperate tug-of-war contest. See how it unfolds after the jump.

Tags civil war, Cybertron, epic war, High Moon Studios, Megatron, Optimus Prime, robots, third-person shooter, transformers, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Arty Cautionary Tales Featured Weirdness

Drug-Induced Self-Portraits by Bryan Lewis Saunders

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Post date September 30, 2012
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Some of us are fairly aware how drugs can alter our perception of the world. Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders took this to the extreme in an experiment where he ingested a different drug every day and then drew a picture of himself.

Since 1995 Saunders has been drawing daily self-portraits but it wasn’t until 2001 when he introduced drugs into his system and his art. He believes the 45-day experiment may have caused some slight brain damage and that the drugs made him look really ugly. From the colourful childish influences of marijuana to the calming effects of Ambien to monstrous world of bath salts, have a look at how the different chemicals in the drugs altered Saunders’ perception of self.

Tags altered state, Bryan Lewis Saunders, drugs, perception, self-portraits, weird

Awesomeness Entertainment Mindlessness Video Clips

Gallagher Smash!

American comedian Gallagher has a penchant for glitter and destruction. Shot on a Phantom Miro and set to the tune of Bijoux by Caribou, the super slow-motion video shows Gallagher doing what he does (second) best — smashing watermelons with his trademark wooden mallet, the Sledge-O-Matic. Beware though, seeing a topless 66-year-old wielding a fiery mallet cannot be easily unseen.

The video was shot by the creatives at Fiction.

[via Gizmodo]

Tags Gallagher, Phantom, Phantom Miro, Sledge-O-Matic, slow motion, smash, super slow motion, watermelons

Featured Game Reviews

We Review: Darksiders 2

I loved the first Darksiders. From the whodunnit storyline, to the dungeon crawling, to the hacks and slashes, the experience was surprising as it was thrilling. I am a man of simple needs and when I heard that a sequel was in development, I would have been extremely happy to play one with mechanics similar to the first, just with a different character. But without change there is no progress as some people would say. And in Darksiders 2, Vigil Games were not horsing around when they added wholly new gameplay elements to the mix. Do these new elements dilute the experience? Do they welcome new types of players to the game but alienate others? Does bigger mean it’s better? Let’s dance with Death and find out.

Tags action-adventure, Darksiders, Darksiders 2, death, dungeons, fantasy, gothic, hack and slash, Joe Mad, Joe Madureira, platforming, puzzle games, RPG, war