Festo is so cool: A robot that flies like a bird [11/12/2011]

Yay! A Pinker RSA Video: Language as a Window into Human Nature [2/22/2011]

Click here for my post about The Stuff of Thought, the book this video was referencing.

The Secret Powers of Time [10/13/2010]

I found this RSA Animate video interesting.

Jesse Schell's Visions of the Gamepocalypse [8/30/2010]

more on commercials: a freaky one angers me, and a cool one inspires me [4/21/2010]

I don't like it when commercials are scary or disturbing. It doesn't make me want to buy anything. Instead I get an aversion to the product that I may have been ambivalent towards prior to the ad. This is like anti-marketing, and it upsets me. Why would you pay money to make me scared, when your product isn't supposed to be scary?

I get that it's trendy to break rules and all, but, this MFS commercial goes too far for me: http://annex.mfs.com/subs/video/commercial_internal/popup2.html Who decided it was acceptable to mess with people's eyes and make them look like aliens? Am I the only one who thinks this is very creepy?

I've always liked the Absolut magazine ads. This new commercial of theirs continues the tradition of promoting art and creativity.

Check out this kinetic sculpture by Arthur Ganson [4/06/2010]

hypno owl eyes [8/27/2008]

check out my cool new music box:

in case you missed Colbert's Hoffman memorial [5/17/2008]

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Worshiping Tigers? [9/04/2007]

Guilherme Marcondes is awesome. If you haven't already seen his Tyger video, you must watch it:

those bent image lab guys are pretty good [9/02/2007]

Last weekend I was watching some animated shorts on Zune-Arts. Saw this cool music video:

So, I looked up the production company Bent Image Labs. A guy named Rob Shaw did the Zune one. And then I watched this Lux commercial by Shel White. Usually, commercials greatly annoy me, or look cool, or amuse me. However, this is the first time I can remember actually being curious about a product after seeing a commercial.

Worshiping Elephants? [8/29/2007]

Does anyone out there want to explain to me the basics of Ganesh? Of all the religions I've read about I know the least about Hinduism. I've tried reading the upanishads and the english translation seemed like another language. I just didn't understand. But lately I've noticed elephants showing up in the background.

First there was this Skippy commercial. How could I not notice Rastafarian elephants?

And then there was the Diane Rehm discussion of this book about elephant communication research. They send seismic messages to each other. I was impressed and took note.

Then I ran across the Howard Hollis website and found his crazy section on Wrong Dimension toys which included a Fischer Price Ganesh with a funny fake history.

So randomly I wonder what Ganesh is all about.
I wonder about worshiping elephants.