This is pretty interesting. This video showcases the evolution of visual effects in movies over the last 100+ years (starting in 1900). The movies showcased in this video include:
1900 – The Enchanted Drawing
1903 – The Great Train Robbery
1923 – The Ten Commandments (Silent)
1927 – Sunrise
1933 – King Kong
1939 – The Wizard of Oz
1940 – The [...]

What does 1500 hours of work and innumerable pieces of Lego get you?  I guess something like this!
“8 Bit Trip”, the brain-child of  Swedish comedy duo Rymdreglage is a mind-bending stop-motion video which uses Lego to pay homage to early video games such as Pac-Man, Pong, Mario, and Tetris…just to name a few.
The whole things [...]

Step 1 : Have an iPhone. Make sure you have OS 3.0
Step 2: Jailbreak iPhone  - Follow exact instructions here: http://iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4448
Step 3: Enter Cydia on the iPhone, go to manage, go to sources, click edit (top right), click add (top left) and type : http://cydia.hackulo.us/ (see screenshot) . Ignore Cydia’s silly warnings
Step 4: click search (bottom [...]

Vice recently did an amazing piece regarding one of the most interesting abandoned places I’ve ever heard of, ‘Battleship Island’ off the coast of Japan. According to the article, this island was once mined for coal and in it’s heyday so densely populated that there were 13,000 people per square kilometer. Once the coal industry [...]

I know there’s been a lull in posts, but there are LOTS COMING! In the meantime, feast your eyes on these videos from Lollapalooza:

Kaskade

Simian Mobile Disco (WTF @ Owl)

Animal Collective

Boys Noize has gone on the record on Twitter, announcing that their new album ‘Power’ will be released at the end of september. Awesome!

Ask anyone over the age of 10 what the Super Mario theme song sounds like and they will always be able to sing it back to you – complete with all the little bleeps and bloops.  If they are truly talented they might even be able to recite the sounds of other classic video games [...]

 
 
 
 
As you probably know if you read this blog, Mixmag releases a CD with every edition of it’s magazine, and for this June, they featured a great mix by Boys Noize. Best of all, it’s free! Check it out the tracklist and download link after the jump:

My friend Sean Cardinal and I have been working together trying to pump out some electronic music for a little while now. The whole project suddenly jumped leaps and bounds forward when we got our grubby paws on Apple Logic, which is, in my opinion, the best DAW out there. After a lot of painstaking [...]

Can’t wait for the new Girl Talk album? Well this will definitely tide you over.
“All About The Scrillions” is the debut album from LA duo and mashup masterminds, (not to mention ingeniously named) Super Mash Bros – and it’s an absolute rager.