OFFF Opening Credits

The OFFF Festival ran in New York City Nov 2-4

Milestones in Flight History

Chase plane view of pilot-induced oscillation, footage from 1978 at the Dryden Flight Research Center

The Church of the Future

by Javier Morales and John Michael Boling via 53 o's

World's Largest Moose

A giant moose has supposedly been "born" on Mt. Vithatten in northern Sweden. Actually, it is a large hallow structure that contains a gallery, restaurant, and concert hall, built to increase tourism and provide jobs. Take the virtual tour!

Chocolade Haas

Chocolate Bunny by Sander Plug.

Orbital Debris

A satellite animation of orbital debris by the Aero Space Corporation. "Orbital debris generally refers to material that is on orbit as the result of space missions, but is no longer serving any function."

28 Years in the Implicate Order

28 red balls bouncing in a parking lot. Link.

Time Lapse of Plants

Wisconsin Fast Plants.

David Byrne Bike Cam

Through Times Square, NYC.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Sugar Batteries

A look at powering gadgets with sugar.

Garage at Dusk

Not letting a garage impede the gorgeous view, it seems as though this person is projecting an image of the blocked view onto the white surface.

Tennis Shoe

And the molecules it's made of.

3D Starry Night

A 3D rendering of Monet's "Starry Night".

None Shall Pass

A collage music video.

Night Vision

A slow motion music video for some great beats.

Fallingwater Animation

A beautiful movie featuring the famous Frank Lloyd Wright building Fallingwater.

Man Walking on Walls from Projector

Projection of walking man from car in Florence.

Aircondition Music Video

Aircondition by Oliver Laric. 2005/2006. After FX with reverse-time trails.

Awesomecon '07

This is pretty awesome, but you can imagine a really awesome awesomecon that would actually be truely awesome.

Terrance Eats Knowledge

Terrence was a clever kid who ate facts for dinner. By Chris Walker.

Music Video: Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

Super clever fun music video for Justice's club ditty D.A.N.C.E. (Did I just use "super clever fun" and "ditty" in the same sentence? eh.)

Friction Harp

Relaxed friction solo.

Relocating

The story of a young man in new york city doing everything he can to take things from one location and put them in another.

Platform : The stop motion of a white box

A white box makes its way around.

Ordinary Kids Sound FX Reel

This design firm seems passionate about sound effects.

II Galeone

Ronin's video for the track, II Galeone, taken from the album "Lemming" (Ghost Records/2007). The video was directed by Ericailcane.

Brook Benton on Father Time

Fender Bender on the Street Corner

Clever music video animation.

Lazy Riders

Long form escalator commerical for a heathclub.

Robert Dinero in Martin Scorsese's Sesame Streets

Sesame Street will never be the same after this mashup trailor.

New Music Video with Jose Gonzalez

This short design on nature directed by Robert Seidel sounds a bit like a contemporary Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Music by Jose Gonzalez.

Fashion Zombies

Early 80's punk chic geek music video circa 2005.

Burining Saffari

A tourist vacation gone bad.

Clip Art Animation

Oliver Laric loops 787 clip art icons in 1:05 rounds.

Motion Celing

Light fixtures that move as your walk. Sensors on the ceiling detect and respond to human activity.

Humans on Earth

This is what humans are doing to the Earth, but what's next? By Three Legged Legs. (Thanks, Andre!)

Tyger

Think William Blake: "Tyger, Tyger burning bright, in the forest of the night" Tyger. A short film directed by Guilherme Marcondes.

Tango Clear Sony Bravia Remake

This is a spoof by Chi on the Sony Bravia ad for Tango Clear, a fruit drink in the UK. (Thanks, Enoch and Howard!)

Pink Holding Ground

Things are not always as they seem. Or are they as they seem? EIther way, this work for Adidas is very beautiful and very high quality large for an internet video. H.264 settings at 720x540. It looks like it took ALOT of people to create this production (I counted more than 50 people plus additional organizations). Via Waxy.

Tootsie Pop Owl

How many licks does it take to get the center of a Tootsie Blow Pop? I don't remember it taking this many. By Jacob Drake.

The Sad Little Stars

Dont Fuck With Love, is actually a beautiful song by The Sad Little Stars with a clever and creative video doing the rounds on a festival circuit.

Hele-Shaw Ferrohydrodynamics for Rotating

"A fluorocarbon-based ferrofluid, with about 400-G saturation magnetization and low field magnetic susceptibility of 3, is placed within a glass Hele-Shaw cell of 1.1-mm gap. " See Scitation for more information.

Tabletop Joe

Stop-motion animation for Tom Waits by Corduroyroads via Screenhead.

The Music Keeps on Playin'

Look out ya'll, it's the cops and they have come to bust up the music. They can take all the records but the music keeps on playin.

Dirty Hands: The Art and Life of David Choe

David Choe is an extremist painter, reckless thief and property destroyer.

The Ice Age

If you drink beer, you may not evolve properly. Better to drink Milk.

The Electric Company

An entire generation in a single flash. This is a trailer for a The Elctric Company DVD set.

Jan Pehechaan Ho

A swinging masquerade night club shake at the Silver Jubilee with Ted Lyons and the Cubs.

Street Gum Art

Intersting story of an artist who paints the gum on sidewalks via Eyebeam.

Frank Zappa on Crossfire, 1986

This video was extra popular last summer and worth watching again - a must-see for anyone interested in censorship. Tom Braden, Robert Novak, John Lofton. Novak wanted to censor music. Zappa: "We are talking about words here."

Persephone’s Bees’ Nice Day

I'll take it anyway, it's a nice day, I don't care what they say. Music video with Angelina Moysov by Chris Hopewell and Collision Films via Screenhead.

RIBA

Beautiful annimation of a cat and a fish and some other French things, via Le Building.

Panasonic Commercials

A series of interesting and well done Panasonic commercials:1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Exciting Ping Pong Match

Great ping pong players match up.

Noam Chomsky / Manufacturing Consent

Great little work/documentary on Noam Chomskey by necessary illusions. Noam Chomskey and the media. See also, Distorted Morality.

Yet Another Transformer Video

Red Chevy transforms into 2-legged monster (test). Note that the man who is pasted in is looking too high. Redo.

Nintendo Introduces Tetris

A first Testris commercial. From, Gaming Age.

Watch the Skies

Oh yes! The Apple air port is landing! Neat advertisement for Apple airport.

Game:On Mashima

By Ethan Vogt, Game On: Furnace Media Group. Voted "Best Picture" in the 2005 Machinima Film Festival. Game engine used: Unreal Tournament 2004. 9 min.

Time Lapse of King Kong Premiere

Recorded from a webcam in Wellington, New Zealand.

Big Screen News Mashup

On time dance music made from Fox News reports.

The Great Intoxication by David Byrne

Nice combination of styles. Tosca accompanies. See more videos from Bryne's site.

Time Machine Scene

Via Airraid Sirens, ". . .a clip from "The Time Machine" featuring the sounds of a Carters siren, and a cameo shot of the Federal Model 5 housing."

A quoi ca Sert L'amour?

A short music video by Louis Clinchy at Cube. "A quoi ca sert Lamour?". [Edith Piaf et Theo Sarapo].

For Once in My Life

Stevie Wonder Circa 1968: "For once in my life I have someone who needs me" (via).

Hair-Sized Robot

A remote control robot only 250microns long x 60microns wide.

I Wanna Love You Tender

By Armi and Danny: You love me, you wanna love me tender, how can I be sure your're no pretender.

Dodge Charger 500

It's the new Charge Doger, eh, Dodge Charger 500, circa 1970.

Roller Ramp Skater

A triple back flip jump, no less (via).

Blaster Vs. Saber

In this case the Saber seems to win out, but I think I would rather have the Blaster (via).

Umbrella Puppet

Very expressive, this urban friendly umbrella is also very fexible (via).

Quechua

A commercial for a tent!

Pupazzi de pacotille

Rue d' la gouaille. Music video. Clever French.

The Catalogue

A scary state of affairs for surveillance and privacy in this artistically rendered case. By Chris Oakley.

Nakd [sic] Box

Self-replicating boxes building boxes of boxes take over a world of boxes. (via)

Senator Uses Body Language to Determine Truth

Republican Senator Dr. Tom Coburn of Maryland claims that his expertise in body language is used to tell if others are lying, a method he used in John Roberts' confirmation hearings.

Army Dreamers

Music video by Kate Bush.

Powers of 10

The classic "Powers of 10" by Charles and Ray Eames (Thanks, Schlomo!). Warning, may cause existential damage.

Ancient Commodore 64 Factory

Commodore 64 home computers were were one of the most popular of the first home computers.

Stay in the Shade

If you like Jack Johnson or Nick Drake, here is your new man: José González. Music streams. Album.

Sony-Bravia Bouncing Balls

Who cares that it's calling attention to a TV set, this Sony advertisement is absolutely wonderful in-and-of-itself. It's likely you already knew about the commercial or have even seen some of the 250,000 bouncy balls months ago, but it was just released this week. Behind the scene interviews. The I-feel-like-I'm-floating-and-everything-is-calm-and-serence music is "heartbeats" by José González.

At the Bottom of Everything

An emotional whirlwind. Short/music video.

Annai

From Jonathan Klassen: "Everything is hand drawn and animated. We coloured the animation digitally, and the backgrounds are a mix of traditional and digital. I played the recorder for the soundtrack, and the jazz music near the middle is from Louis Armstrong's 'Jeepers Creepers'. "

winnebago commercial outtakes

This guy needs to take a yoga class. Actually, he might just need surgery. I wonder if this was real. It looks real.

# Joy

Yuki Japanese Music Video

How To Eat Sushi

This is a seriously silly Japanese trainer on how to behave at a sushi bar.

Wamono Music Video

This Japanese instrumental DJ mix video exhibits an extremely creative visual design that I am very unfamiliar with, but really like. From Link Filter.

4 Charlie Chaplin Shorts

The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street and The Immigrant, presented with music and sound effects in the Public Domain. 1917. From The Archive.

Jack Benny : Visual Radio

Jack Benny at camp Haan California.

Good Times, 1979

You didn't have to be there to know that there is some very serious late-era disco action going on in this video. "Good Times", the first single from CHIC's album, "Risque", was certified gold only three weeks after release in June, 1979. The song was inducted into the "Dance Music Hall Of Fame", last month in September, 2005. More info and videos on CHIC at Chic Tribute.

Alternate Titanic Trailer

In the wake of popularity from the newfound love of remixing movie trailers (see the shining remix), this alternative version of the classic blockbuster love story, "The Titanic", portrays a horror story that likely would not have done quite as well at the box office. Check out the P.S.260 kids for more like fun (neat website too). Additional info, interview, etc. at Tattered Coat.

Yoda Don't Say Nuthin

Yoda raps, while storm troopers sway.

Dirty Mac

John Lennon's band: Dirty Mac. Featuring Lennon, Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix), Eric Clapton and Keith Richards with Yoko Ono on performance art. Lennon intros with Mick Jagger. Serious history in a small room.

Netherlands vs. Iran Robocup

Robot soccer/football match. In-depth coverage.

ASCII Aquarium

Asciiquarium is a single perl script, so all you have to do is make sure it's executable and put it somewhere convenient, like /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/games. Download the script here to make your own tank.

Aber nicht nur Geeks leben im Terminal, sondern auch Fische. Man muß sie nur heraus lassen. Genau das macht »Asciiquarium«. Es benötigt das Perl-Modul »Term::Animation«, dass man sich leicht in der CPAN-Shell besorgen kann. mir.aculo.us (dem auch das via gebührt) hat für jene, die sich die Mühsal des Installierens ersparen möchten, ein Quicktime-Video mit dem Asciiquarium in Aktion (via).

Prince, it was

Prince at age 19 in 1990 on American Bandstand. I like how they don't try to hide the lip-syncing by doing fade-outs. See the unusual interview in the middle of the two songs.

Subterranean Home Sick Blues

Bob Dylan video with interview cut-in. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Shining Remix Trailer

Makes the Shining seem like a light-hearted family movie (via).

Edinburgh's Calton Hill

Beautiful Quicktime VR of Castle from Andy Carvin. Use your mouse and the shift and control keys to navigate within this video.

Starbucks Addicts in the Morning

What are the long term effects of a double mocha almond venti frappuccino with chi-espresso shots mixed in every morning for one year?

Truth Happens by Red Hat

Long form commercial for Linux Red Hat chronicling major historical figures with false prophecies. More Red hat videos.

Extreme Archer

Here is a list of Tyler Brenner's current equipment setup: Hoyt 2005 Matrix Riser, Hoyt G3 68” limbs, marked 42 lbs, drawing 47 lbs, Sure-loc Quest-X sight, Beiter arrow rest, Beiter cushion plunger (short), Shibuya Sidekick Side Rods (11 inches), Beiter Centralizer stabilizer (37 inches), Beiter 4” Stabilizer Extension, Easton 410 X10 Carbon/Aluminum arrows, Beiter In-Out Nocks (large groove), Spin Wing Elites (1 3/4”), Winners Choice BCY 8125 strings, Cavalier Elite Finger Tab, Alpen 788 20-60x80 Waterproof Spotting Scope, Alpen 493 8x42 Apex Waterproof Binoculars, Manfrotto 3130 Tripod, SKB double-bow Bowcase. More videos.

Earth Room Hacked

How did these people get away with this stunt? The Earth Room is off-limits physically and no photographs are to be taken. We covered the gallery the best we could by super imposing a postcard onto a the green screen here.

Bean Self Portrait

Trey Bean took a picture every day this year from May 14th thu September 3rd. Here he is in a few seconds.

Motorcycle into Van

Unlikely.

Back Street Burger King Boys

Not exactly the Pepsi Generation but rather, the Burger King Generation? The Back Street Boys do a commercial for a life time supply of whoppers. I can't help believe that they really did get that as part of the deal. (via).

南極のオーロラ

The South Pole Aurora: これこれ、こういうのリアルタイムで見たい。人工衛星データ & PS3の分散処理とかでできないかなー. My t/rusty translator returns the following: "This this, you saw in such real time to be. The satellite data & the distributed processing of PS3 with the kana which it is not possible". Not sure what to make of the "not possible" part of the translation. The video is on NASA's site, which would suggest it's either very real or a simulation of a potential problem. Any English speaking astrophysicists or research agents out there?

The Beauty of Sorting

Camus would shun it as absurd but this is a late night party for some people. Put together with footage from the early 1980's, I would 'reckon the dress was casual: pocket protectors and T.I. calculators. Sort of. From The University of Toronto.

T-Shirt Folding Gets Funding

Looks like someone went pro with the famous T-shirt folding trick.

No Linkbacks

Talk to Your Kids About Blogging. Poor Kate learns the hard way. [*note: I wish I could give a linkback to the creator of this video but it is on blip-tv and is not searchable. Anyone know the source of the creator? **update: Found 'em: Video by Dorrian (via)

Fabulous Secret Powers

Funny mashup of a gay He-man from Heman and Masters of the Universe and music from 4 non blondes created by Adam at Slack Circus.

Zelda: Twilight Princess

Video Game Trailor for the movie-like Nintendo game, The Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess. My they have taken the series a long way since the original version back in 1991.

Nike Shox

Grasshopper beats Nike shoes. This is another example of how the shoe itself is less important than the clever animation.

Pearl The Nursebot

"NurseBot is an autonomous mobile robot that 'lives' in a private home of a chronically ill elderly person. The robot provides a research platform to test out a range of ideas for assisting elderly people, such as: What would you like to have a robot help out with around the house? . . .Some observers noted that having a more expressive countenance seems to be an advantage, but if the robot becomes 'too humanlike, it can creep people out.'
The question of 'how human should a robot look' has great implications on how effective and accepted robotic assistants can be.' (via)

Sunra Pink Elephants On Parade

Mashup of Pink Elephants On Parade with Dumbo and music by Sun Ra. (via)