From: Videos By Bevans on Sunday, April 06, 2008

I don't even need to say anything here, do I?

EDIT: I didn't know it, but they also made 2 more of these things. The second one, Samural Hotel, is also pretty funny. The third one, Samurai Night Fever, is awful. Oh well. Here they both are:

From: Entertainment, Videos By Bevans on Friday, April 04, 2008

Now to put on my "pansy" hat. Yes, I'm a cat person. If you don't already know, I have a cat named Hunter. He's a crazy, curious, adorable little fuzzball. You can see some pictures here.

Anyway, here are a couple very clever little cartoon shorts that will probably be hilarious to cat-lovers, and probably won't appeal to others. Like you dog people. Weirdos.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q

From: Design, Technology, Videos By Bevans on Tuesday, September 04, 2007

It's hard to explain this video, so I recommend just watching it (it starts out kinda dry, but it's worth sticking to it).

Basically, it's an experiment in dynamic image resizing, but instead of stretching/squashing or cropping, this tool takes out unimportant elements while keeping important ones (like people), or stretches elements that can be stretched while keeping other perspectives equal. If that makes ANY sense...

Just watch the damn video.

From: Science, Videos By Bevans on Tuesday, September 04, 2007

This video shows 3 different experiments that scientists conducted in zero gravity, presumably on the ISS. They're really quite amazing, especially the last one.

From: Design, Technology, Videos By Bevans on Monday, August 06, 2007

Have you seen the latest thing that Microsoft is working on? It seems to be a sort of photo browser, except that instead of being given a list if images, it sets them up in a 3D arena, facing the direction that they're taken in. With enough photos, it almost seems like you're seeing the subjects in 3D. It's really hard to explain, so I recommend just checking it out.

http://media.labs.live.com/photosynth/NASA/default.htm

Just imagine what would happen if people from all over the world submitted their photos to this project: you could browse the whole world in pseudo-3D.

From: Videos By Bevans on Tuesday, July 31, 2007

This is the funniest thing I've seen all week. I don't want to spoil anything, and most people won't even read this paragraph anyway.



EDIT: Found another one.



If you don't see the video (like if you're seeing this on Facebook or the RSS feed) you'll have to click the title of this post, or the link on the bottom of this post (which you won't see on the web site itself).

From: Design, Music, Technology, Videos By Bevans on Friday, June 22, 2007

It's not an understatement for me to say that this is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time. This is a Tesla coil (like one of those big metal balls that makes your hair stick up) that is being manipulated to produce crackling lightning at different pitches, resulting in actual music.

This first video is the most impressive light show, and features a few familiar songs. The second is TWO coils, doing an impressive rendition of the 1812 Overture.