Back at E3, Xbox promised us live TV, but was mum on details. Today, Microsoft is explaining how they’re going to make live TV a reality on your Xbox 360 this holiday season: with the help of almost 40 entertainment providers around the world. Read more »
Much has been written about Star Wars over the years. Now the making of documentary, filmumentary (?), by Jambedavdar is also finally online. Hosted at Youtube, the documentary consists of fourteen (14!) parts. You can thank me later for these awesome almost 140 minutes of your life you just enriched (or was it lost). Read more »
Social networking needs no shots in the arm, yet it received two this week anyway, courtesy of major endorsements from the White House and the Pope. The White House will be utilizing the social aspects of Twitter and YouTube in particular to complement the President’s State of the Union Address. Senior administrative officials in the Obama administration will field questions from Twitter users after the speech, while later in the week Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will also do a question and answer session on the microblogging giant. Read more »
I know the 8-bit craze is nothing new, but I just discovered several videos of Muse’s songs that have been converted into this format. Needless to say, I have been watching/listening the videos a lot since yesterday. (I am sure you know how much fun it can be to play around with music.) Muse may not be every geek’s choice when it comes to music, but this one has a thing for Matthew Bellamy and his gang. One, he does have a British accent (yeah, some are suckers for that). Two, he is not bad looking at all (ask Kate Hudson). Three, he is a musical genius! (Maybe I should 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 »
This train wreck defies explanation, but here’s what I can tell you: take the theme song to Star Trek: The Next Generation, and add a singing Trekkie, in uniform — with lyrics he wrote himself. His voice is actually pretty decent. Watch for the toy Enterprise cameo that’s oh-so-realistic. It’s because of people like this that geeks are such a clichéd punchline. I don’t know whether to laugh or cringe. Read more »
I can’t explain why this is so bizarrely funny. It just is. The video spends way too much time at the beginning watching an empty washing machine spin. It’s around the 50 second mark that the brick is finally tossed in, and that’s when the fun starts. Is watching a washing machine go bonkers funny or weird? Did you laugh or merely shrug? Read more »
Is this some kind of strange alien communication? An encrypted military message? No, this is what happens when you upload a video to YouTube, download it, and repeat… one thousand times. The miniscule degradation that occurs every time the video is repeatedly uploaded and compressed adds up over time and ultimately transforms the original creation into something that its creator has decided is a singular work of art. It took YouTube user “canzona” one full year to complete the upload/download process a thousand times over. The result is something bizarre, psychedelic, and fascinating. If it ain’t geeky, I don’t know what is. Read more »
Has it ever happened to you that you thought ‘Whoa this is actually cool but how can I admit that it is to anyone?’. Yes? Great, because I’m really struggling with split feelings for this one. The problem’s simple: it involves a man known from things such as this. Or this and more recently this even. Here at FG we prefer to remember him for his awesome in Knight Rider though. K.I.T.T.’s awesomeness we mean, pardon the lapsus linguae. If this were the early 80s, we would probably all want to look like this and things could always have been worse. So before you go ahead and judge me, keep Read more »
The hype always is about Quentin Tarantino but if you’re anything like me, you’ll definitely prefer the road-movie factor which Rodriguez brought to earlier Tarantino movies. Road-movie as in ‘less ridiculous violence just because my name is Tarantino and just because I can’. From Dusk Till Dawn minus the vampires. Both worked together regularly and I certainly am a bigger fan of the Mexican who filmed El Mariachi with only $7,000 before receiving funding for Desperados. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Tarantino but Rodriguez is the more mature director of both. Luckily they worked together regularly, even if on under-rated movies such as Four Rooms or over-hyped movies Read more »
