Could anyone have predicted the crazy popular yet bizarre phenomenon of Planking? But look out, Planking. There’s a new player in town with a splash of geekiness that makes your horizontal lying-down look like the kiddie ride at a department store. And it takes its inspiration from one very popular Dark Knight. Read more »
If I wasn’t already married to the most wonderful woman in the universe, I would want this 9-minute short film to bear my children. I’m not kidding. Read more »
I love this video. It’s all that and more. YouTuber “xpantherx” edited together all of E3 2011‘s craziest, goofiest, most cringe-inducing moments, and boiled them down to three minutes and forty-four seconds of glory. Read more »
You know how you wish you could unsee and unhear that godawful Rebecca Black music video “Friday”? There’s not much I can do to help you with that, but some cheeky Star Wars fans got together and gave the song a geek-filled redemption. The result: Princess Leia’s “Primeday.” Filmed in the same style and using the tune of the original song, “Primeday” — which is an actual day of the week during the Empire’s reign, apparently — finds Leia belting out brilliant lyrics like, “Solo in the front seat / Luke is in the back seat / Gotta make my mind up / Which one is my mate?” What can Read more »
You don’t get much better than Pixar Animation Studios when it comes to tugging at the heartstrings, and here’s a 5.5 minute video to prove it. The fan-made compilation brings together the most memorable and powerful moments from 25 years of Pixar’s filmmaking, including both its big-screen blockbusters and all those wonderful short films. Read more »
The most blissful minute-and-a-half you’ll experience all day is just ahead. It sets a new standard in awesome. Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be Mario in Super Mario Bros.? To run through his side-scrolling world from a first-person perspective, jumping over the pipes and bricks, and living inside Mario’s hyper-realistic, brightly-colored life? Brandon Laatsch, of the podcast Face Rocker, is the talented animator who created — from scratch — this amazing look inside the classic Nintendo game. He used rendering and animation software including 3dsMax, FumeFX, and After Effects to bring it to life. It reportedly took more than sixty hours across three weeks to Read more »
I don’t usually dig math. I’m a writer; words are my thing. But never before have I seen math translated into such exquisite art. A musician named Michael John Blake has taken the holy grail of mathematics — Pi — and transformed it into music. He stresses that his song is an artistic interpretation, not an exact, scientific rendering. Proceeding from the notion that numbers can be represented by musical notes on a piano, Blake used 31 decimal points of Pi to make a complex melody that I’d call beautiful and even joyous. I’d love to know how long it took him to create this. In the above video, watch as Blake Read more »
Made as part of a contest for Aint it Cool News’ Butt-Numb-A-Thon 12, Benni Diez of Cologne, Germany created this bad boy. This was the winning entry in the contest, and Diez claims it took only two days to create. The video features the famously climactic scene in James Cameron’s Aliens, edited with new effects to look like it’s taking place in the world of Tron, aka “the Grid.” Hit the link above to see eight more “TRONitized” movie clips. On a side note… Have you tired of all the Tron stuff yet? Are we nearing overload, or do you say, “Keep it coming!”? Read more »
Picture this: you’re from a future when time travel is possible, and you decide — just for kicks — to go back to the Hollywood premiere of a Charlie Chaplin movie in the roaring 20s. You even dress the part, to blend in. But you hit a snag when you accidentally wind up being filmed as part of coverage of the enormous crowd attending the event. And to make matters worse, the cameras just happen to be on you while you’re talking on your cell phone. That’s the claim of Irish filmmaker George Clarke, who discovered a mysterious woman who appears to be talking on a cell phone while attending Read more »
I have no idea why a bunch of people would spend so much time and energy creating something like this. I also know that I certainly would never have the patience to plan this sort of thing out and pull it all together. But all that matters is that somebody — the NOTsoNOISY crew — did bring 111 individuals together at a movie theater and got them to move from seat to seat for four hours in order to grace YouTube with this utterly brilliant video. Human Pac-Man is actually the fifth video in a series of “human video game performances” that these guys did. After the jump, I’ve embedded Read more »
