Just received our stuff from the Travel People for our trip to Japan. Hotel vouchers, JR passes and all kind of other stuff including a little mini travel book with everything we need to now about our trip! It even has our names on the front cover! How cool is that?! Way cool if you ask me (yes I'm easily pleased LOL)! Still glad that I bought that ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in awhile. Le Sigh....just been either too busy (the Hive has moved! AND A-Kon was great!!!) or too tired (re:lazy, LOL) I have come across a few amazing vids lately but not nearly as much as I usually do.  Must be the Summer/Holiday vacations! I won't be taking one myself this year as the youngest has started to book our Japan ( Read more... )

Just had to post this. The song "Going Back" by Vital  is great, too!
http://keithloutit.com/playvid.php?t=p&id=290

See more of Keith Loutit’s tilt-shift art at Small Worlds, an ongoing exhibition at the Customs House in Sydney, Australia featuring stills and film from his short films Bathtub and Small Worlds.

Binboa Vodka Animation

A fantastic stop-motion animation created by 41? 29! for Binboa Vodka from Turkey. It uses 550 bottles with hand-drawn artwork for the animation and 5000 photos which were taken in over 100 hours of shooting.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Not a video but never-before-seen photographs from Life magazine: "The Day Einstein Died".   Photojournalist Ralph ( Read more... )

A short film: Galileo
Created with Adobe’s Creative Suite, Ghislain Avrillon’s Galileo is fantastically analog in style for such a digital piece; it was traditionally animated frame-by-frame using Flash.  --from The Awsomer

http://vimeo.com/8076404

This is absolutely incredible!  Go watch!

Hmmm...since I'm here....

NSFW: winner of SIGGRAPH’s Best ( Read more... )

post this video of Nickel Creek's The Lighhouse's Tale done in ASL. As many know, at The Hive, one of the things we specialize in is making dictionaries, software and what have you for ASL, so I found this video particularily interesting ( Read more... )

...with these new trailers for The Secret World! They are great. I really love the texturing for the characters and the animation is so cool! I've included the vid's themselves right here on the page. Wish I could make them a little smaller for you.

Anyway....enjoy....

First up Vid:
After a hard day, all she wants is a milkshake....



Video Games | The ( Read more... )

...I'm telling ya!

First up....Live Action: Halo ODST. It kicks some serious butt and makes me despondent over the limbo status of the movie. Love the background music used in the clip by the way.

The Defendor trailer starring Woody Harrleson. It's about a regular Joe who believes he’s a superhero and his attempts to bring down Captain Industry, a ( Read more... )

ALL the Steampunk stuff! Some quick links...

Gameplay: Machinarium -  More gameplan stuff. Cute.

Video: A Gentleman's Duel - I suggest watching it in HD. Not so blurry.

Art: Machine Lights -  Check out some of the other lamps on the site. Pretty cool.

Gameplay: Epic Mickey - It’s been rumored that Disney is working on a steampunk game. This first peek ( Read more... )

Videos!

The first is from a really cool pc game. I LOVE the art work on this one. View the trailer for Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and you'll see what I mean. Got great music, too.

And now a music video. It's an ad for PEN Cameras but I think they did a great job. View it hereI've never been a big fan of the anime Evangelion. The storyline ( Read more... )