4 posts tagged “video candy”
Slick time-lapse video of traffic flow in the Vietnamese capital city:
This reminds me of the time I went back to visit Metro Manila with my family in 1999. Nighttime traffic flow was much like this, except with twice as many jeepneys and four times the number of cars (daytime traffic, however, looked like this, basically a massive multiplayer game of Filipino Frogger). The first couple of nights left me terrified that we were going to be in some sort of horrible accident -- I think the traffic lights and lane markers were more of an afterthought than anything else -- but we emerged unscathed and breathless through every intersection and lane change.
The secret, it turned out, was to have an extremely heightened sense of awareness of all the other vehicles around you, to take the right of way as needed, but yield accordingly. The result was a pleasant and harmonious experience of flowing, like a current of water. Unsurprisingly, that realization made for much more exhilirating subsequent rides, all without incident.
Somehow I don't think this would work here in the States.
The last bit is the best. So damn funny [NSFW for language]. Happy Saturday.
Ah, rabbits. Here's a great video [Flash] from the Australian band TISM (This Is Serious Mum) called "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me." While the depressing title might sound like one that Dashboard Confessional would come up with, the song itself is pure unabashed pop rock: funny, upbeat and catchy as hell. The video, although simply animated with few colors, is creative and really well-done (especially with regard to facial expression and body language) and quite different from the usual crap being broadcast on your mainstream music television channels. A summary:
The video was chosen from a multitude of entrants in a competition. The winning entrant was a cartoon [by Bernard Derriman] featuring two rabbits, one a depressed singer and the other a masked keyboardist ... The number on each bunny's chest indicates the number of times it has had sex. The main bunny, commonly known as "The Sex Bunny" in Internet circles, has the number "1". Other bunnies of various ages and appearances are shown, some with surprisingly high numbers (in one version of the video, a jaded-looking male rabbit with a handlebar mustache claims an impressive 10,419). Despite the singer's lament, one bunny is shown who has had even less sex: the masked keyboardist, with a number of "0". [from Wikipedia]
Which got me to thinking a little. How differently would we treat each other if we had our own "numbers" prominently displayed on our chests (or floating above our heads)?
Alexandre Orion, a Brazilian photographer and graffiti artist, created a mural in a São Paulo city tunnel by wiping away soot and grime from its walls. As a commenter on Metafilter put it, it's a kind of "creative vandalism", but how many vandals do you know who actually make political/social statements without cans of Krylon?
In the video, cops show up to see what he's up to, and possibly (try to) write him a citation, but according to Orion, they let up.
When they had confirmed that I really was cleaning, they eased the authoritarian attitude and lowered their guns, a few smiled hesitantly, made a few remarks among themselves, and there were even a few words of support ... The skulls belong all to us. I wanted to bring a catacomb from the near future to the present, to show people that the tragedy of pollution is happening right now. I try to remind people of things they are trying to forget. [from Wired]
City officials, apparently at a loss as to how to nab him, ended up cleaning the soot off every tunnel in the city. Unfortunately the art was power-washed down the drains, but the statement had definitely been made.
