Posted on Nov 30, 2009

Lego + The Matrix = WIN

What? TWO posts containing cool videos during the course of one evening?! The human mind simply cannot handle such an entertainment overload! Well, you can at least try. Two guys have recreated part of ‘The Matrix’ using Lego and still photography to produce a stop-motion animation of the ‘bullet time’ scene that was broke new ground in visual effects. It is sodding superb. Here is the animation:

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And here is the animation running alongside the original scene:

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Head over to Lego Matrix to find out more about how they produced the animation.

Posted on Nov 30, 2009

Amazing short film

I came across this short film thanks to Sci-Fi Wire, and am absolutely blown away by the quality of it. Big frakkin’ robots attacking a city, with brilliant camera work & editing as well as outstanding special effects.

The director of commercials in his native Uruguay, Fede Alvarez has now received the green light from a production company to turn this short film into a full-length feature. That, ladies and gentlemen is the ‘Holy Grail’ of independent film-making.

Watch this in high quality and full screen modes, I beg you.

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Posted on Nov 27, 2009

Review: Paranormal Activity

Yesterday evening, Mr & Mrs Stevens and I ventured to the cinema to see the much hyped ‘Paranormal Activity’, a film that has been on my radar for some time. Writing a review with a hangover is perhaps not the best idea, but as I have an hour to kill… Continue Reading

Posted on Nov 24, 2009

The Ultimate Rick Roll

One of the phenomenons of the last twelve months on the Interwebs has been the craze of people ‘rick rolling’ one another, that is, to trick one or more people into listening to or viewing Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hit from the eighties.

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Posted on Nov 23, 2009

2012 (not the film): End of the world?

I’ve just come across an interesting graphic that was originally posted by Information is Beautiful that I found on Derren Brown’s blog. It makes for fascinating viewing if you’re even remotely interested in whether or not the Mayans prediction that the apocalypse is coming in 2012 has any credibility, or not. Warning, long graphic is loooooonnnng.

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