Empathy vs. education?
Posted by Spike Matthews on Saturday, August 21, 2010

There are secret societies who would wish to effect a change in the way things are, true. Some are so secret it’s debatable whether they exist outside the minds of paranoids.
The RSA is a society which isn’t so much secret as criminally undervalued. However, they would like to see a change or two in the way we live our lives and run the world.
It’s no secret there are things we HAVE to change if we want the human race to survive past the next few hundred years or so. The questions are basically down to two.

“What do we need to do?”
“How can we get people to do it?”

The RSA* has been around for roughly 250 years, trying to identify these key points. More lately, it’s been joined by the TED talks and other such thinktanks. However, I think the RSA has hit upon a great way of putting their ideas across. Think big and draw quickly…

*Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Now you know why they never use anything but the initials…

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A beautiful life
Posted by Spike Matthews on Sunday, August 15, 2010

I found this a long time ago via Stumbleupon and only just got around to watching it.
Forget Avatar, this is the animated film of life on an alien planet you need to watch.

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Major Lazer – Keep it Going Louder
Posted by Chris on Friday, July 30, 2010

It’s not quite as good as the first Major Lazer video I posted, but it will still make your jaw drop because of its bizarreness.

Directed by Eric Wareheim

Edited and Animation by Fatalfarm

Art by Kevin O’Neill

Produced by Clark Reinking and Dave Kneebone

Styling by Amanny Ahmad

Makeup by Tara Loren

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Nasty Habits
Posted by Chris on Thursday, July 29, 2010

It’s like when kids swear, you can’t help but laugh at nuns behaving out of character. Even cartoon nuns.

It’s even cooler because Sister Anne is voiced by Katherine Parkinson from The IT Crowd.

via Lineboil

Check out another webisode here.

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In Case You Missed It: Cows & Cows & Cows
Posted by Chris on Monday, July 26, 2010

I don’t like milk. It tastes like it was meant for, I don’t know, baby cows maybe. So, I can only assume that this video is the result of drinking too much of that stuff.

via Daily What

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iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo
Posted by Chris on Sunday, July 11, 2010

So everybody I know sent me this video, except for you. It was inspiring actually. I haven’t blogged in a while so it was nice to still receive suggestions like this one. I figured you guys got smart and ran away and stopped coming here. Though, Spike has been blogging like a madman.

I was just trying to remember the name of this site where you can create animations with only dialogue and then y’all send this to me. Thanks.

via Everybody

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Um… what?
Posted by Spike Matthews on Sunday, July 4, 2010

Just that. I have no words to describe this apart from “What the ffffuuuu…?”

Click on the pic to go to one of the most truly bizarre and surreal experiences ever. Part Monty Python, part Lewis Carroll and all LSD trip, this seems to be something of a showpiece for a couple of people by the name of Bubbly Numbers who create interactive graphics and websites. When you’ve finished with the Book of Numbers, why not fry your grains the rest of the way and visit their home page HERE? It’s well worth a visit, if you like to mess with reality. Like I do.

Via Stumbleupon.

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