Archive for January, 2011
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Star Wars Characters Meet The Wild West

Star Wars has always been a mix of ideas, with Lucas especially drawing upon Japanese samurai films (such as Akira Kurosawa’s) and westerns, turning them into a science-fiction epic.

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Fighting Fire With (Artistic) Fire

My “topic de obsession” for the week is art, in all its wonderful shapes, designs and interpretations. Now, at first glance, the building pictured below seems to be burning. If you watch the video clip, nothing seems out of the ordinary, besides a raging fire consuming a run-down four storey.

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Super Mario 64 Beaten in 5 Minutes

It’s-a me, Mario! Super Mario 64 is truly a classic, appearing regularly in top-10 lists of favorite games. It stands up remarkably well for one of the first 3-dimensional platforms, with just a few control quirks and some annoying camera angles to deal with.

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Make Your Final Journey in Style with Cruisin Caskets

A designer coffin would make someone a bit too sadist but considering the fact that – death is an inevitable truth, it is not a bad idea. What has begun has to come to an end and the sooner we accept it the better prepared we are for the same. …

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Grand Theft Auto 4 Turns Machinima

Machinima to many is a hobby and a way to showcase creativity to a larger online audience. For those readers who don’t know what a Machinima is, it is the completed animated form of a movie that takes real time graphics normally used in a video game that has been …

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Ping Pong Paddle Wielding Robots Are Born

By 2011, I expected a lot out of my future as a child. I expected a stable economy, deep space exploration, contact with extraterrestrial aliens, and flying cars. Unfortunately, none of those beloved and adolescent dreams have become a reality. There is no Enterprise scouting the galaxies and where we’re …

Larsen's Flip Phone

Kristian Ulrich Redefines the “Flip” Phone

Designer Kristian Ulrich Larsen has reinvented the flip phone with this green screen masterpiece, known as the Flip. The concept phone debuted on Larsen’s Vimeo page last month with photos and video CGI of a dual-display smart phone featuring an Android interface and eye-popping drag and drop abilities.

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13 Amazing Liquor Dispensers

A party without a bartender is like a talk show without a host. A bartender is a must for any type of party which serves liquors on the house.

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Quench Your Nostalgia With the Mini MAME Arcade Cabinet

Ever feel sick for those cheesy old arcade games from the eighties and early nineties? Have no fear! With the Mini MAME Portable Arcade Cabinet, you can relive the days you were just a wee lad spending all of your allowance on Pac-Man and Donkey Kong!

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Flash Lighting Crystal Cube Puzzle

While I have never been that much of a puzzle fan, I don’t think there is much question that there is a demand for puzzles out there on the market.