Watch as a brave voodoo doll tries to save its fellow voodoo dolls from harm. If you can, try and check out the high quality version to get a feel for some of the amazing detail work that went into this!
Enjoy a visually stunning 4 minutes created using Maya and After Effects.
Normally the news I hear coming out of Africa, especially in places like Rwanda has been terribly depressing, whether its being forgotten about by the western world, disease or ethnic strife.
This is a video (watch the HD version here) shining a light on some success stories coming out of Rwanda, highlighting the positive role women have played in the emergence of business (especially in coffee exports) after the horrific genocide that the country went through during the 1990’s.
I may be a bit late to the party, but I just started watching Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wine Library TV (subscribe here), sure I missed the first 450 episodes, but better late than never, right? My only excuse is that I really don’t like wine, but after seeing him interviewed on a recent episode of Internet Superstar (subscribe here or get the HD version), I realized how entertaining and smart he was and I knew that it didn’t matter what I thought about wine, I NEEDED to be watching his show.
Also, after deciding to write this up, I found that Gary made an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show, now she wasn’t as adventerous and crazy as Conan, but I have that clip below.
Last week, after watching Diggnation episode 146, I emailed Alex to help him out with a Simpsons reference that he couldn’t remember the origin of and during the next episode, I was surprised to hear that the viewer email they chose to read off on air was the one I sent in.
During some free time over at the Internet TV Revision3 studios, a wide array of nutty Rev3 employees teamed up to group lip dub/sync the INXS song Need You Tonight.
Lastly, we have Righteous Kill, which is only the 3rd movie starring both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro (Godfather II and Heat) and only the second with the two acting together on screen (Heat). I don’t know how good it will be, but just having the two on screen together gets me interested in seeing it (get the HD trailer here from Apple Trailers).
Thanks to The Digg Reel for promoting the film so I could find it. I wish I knew how to use programs like AutodeskMaya after watching this film, at least I’m not too lazy to watch the movie!
Back when the teaser came out I had high hopes for the new Get Smart movie and after seeing the new hd trailer that was released through Apple Trailers, I think I’m really going to enjoy this movie. It looks like a great combination of a funny movie and a film that is willing to make fun of itself as well.
It has been a while since I posted, so I figured I’d catch up on something I haven’t done in a while and what’s better than catching up with new movie trailers you might have missed?
The second trailer is the upcoming Stephen Chow film which he directs and stars in called CJ7. The film isn’t being released here in the US until March 7th, 2008, but if you visit China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand or Australia, then you probably know that it has already been released. This is a film about a father who wants to get his son a great toy, but can’t afford the latest toy, he stumbles upon a weird alien thing that ends up WAY cooler than the toy his son originally wanted. This is a movie that looks both like a wild and weird ride. Get the HD trailer here also from Apple. After seeing Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, I realize this is a movie I’m excited about.
There are a lot of media players on the market and I’ve tried a whole heck of a lot of them. There seem to be more media players than there are media formats… and there are a LOT of media formats.
The most well known all-in-one player is probably the VLC player. This is a great player for playing almost any audio or movie format you can think of, dvds, iso, divx, mp4, mp3, the list goes on and on and you can also use this player for transcoding these files into one of the other formats as well. This program works with pretty much any system, Windows, Mac, Linux, BeOS and BSD!
There are some people who do not like this player. For those of you who fall into this category who run Windows, you might want to try GOM player. I tried it 2+ years ago and enjoyed using it, it looks nicer than VLC, but since I hadn’t really had any problems with VLC, I didn’t really need GOM player, especially since VLC handled dvd playback better.
I heard a few of my favorite podcasts (Tekzilla and Windows Weekly) talk about GOM player today though, so that reminded me about this player and now that there is a lot more HD content available compared to 2 years ago, it’s important to note that GOM player seems to handle HD files a bit better than VLC (at least on my humble XPlaptop).
If you love your technology (laptop, iPod, iPhone, Moto Razr and more devices as time goes on) but you’re bored with how plain it looks, maybe you want to cover up those annoying scratches, you just want to make it cooler looking or much prettier. Go over to Gelaskins and see if you like their designs. The company uses 3M technology to make sure that these skins don’t leave any residue on your device when/if you decide to change skins. Prices are ~$15 for phone/mp3 player skins and ~$30 for laptop skins.
Woody Allen seems to be making a different style of movies lately. He made Match Point back in 2005, which was an extremely well made romantic drama, but very different from the types of movies that made him famous (like Annie Hall and Manhattan).
Now that his latest movie, Cassandra’s Dream, is going out on limited release this Friday, January 18th I wanted to bring some attention to the film. I know I’ll be seeing the film here in NYC, if not on opening night, maybe this weekend. This film looks to be a tightly made, hard nosed, murder mystery, but the film looks to be following the killers instead of what most films do: follow the people tracking down the killers. The movie stars Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson (an actor who is becoming one of my favorite actors, by picking some really memorable roles).
Do you still use an inkjet printer at home or at the office? I know I do, but I find that I use my home printer quite sparingly. The problem is that the ink can dry out, usually from lack of use. I know I’m not the only person who has printed a document (even after installing a brand new ink cartridge), only to have an individual one of the colors not print correctly.
Well, Tekzilla has a few great tips for those who share this problem even after attempting to clean the print heads a few times using the software print utility. Check it out here.
It turns almost any kind of internal hard drive (SATA, 2.5″ IDE laptop and 3.5″ internal drives) into an external usb 2.0 hd. I have a handful of older IDE hard drives currently sitting in a drawer and have been too lazy/cheap to buy a cheap looking hd enclosure, nas storage device or external usb hds. Now I’ll be able to use these as multiple backup destinations.
Apricorn is also offering a $10 rebate for those who buy this throughout the month of January 2008, bringing the price to just below $30 after all is said and done, which is quite a good deal.
Here’s the trailer for the new Will Smith movie, Hancock, instead of being the reluctant last man on Earth, he’s the reluctant super human with super powers.
The movie has some big shoes to fill though, the original TV show starring Don Adams was insanely funny and the show was also remade and reimagined in the early 1980’s as one of my favorite cartoons, Inspector Gadget, which incidentally was also voiced by Don Adams as well.
You can watch those original opening themes below for these two Don Adams classics below.
Nintendo has in the past tried to skew toward the young children/family games market and the Wii isn’t all that different from this model. Nintendo has tried to expand to bring in the more casual gamers with the Wii by focusing more on making games that are FUN, instead of creating HD games with amazing graphics (which is the market both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3).
This was a great marketing ploy to get men (some women too, but probably mostly men) onto the Nuts site. Thanks to Diggnation for uncovering (sure, pun intended) these clips on their latest episode.
The highly anticipated film by J.J. Abrams, which was initially only known as 1-18-08, has released a far more extensive trailer and we now know the film is titled Cloverfield. It looks (from all the gunfire and shadow shots) and sounds like some combination of monsters, both Godzilla big and Alien small (and hungry) has attacked New York City.
Take some time and get a looksy at the HD trailer from Apple trailers by clicking here. or just watch it from youtubeabove.
Now that some more extensive trailers have hit the market, it looks like I am Legend is a much different movie than just Will Smith as the last man left on Earth, now it looks like he has to battle/solve the mystery of the monster problem he seems to have at night. I am especially excited to find out that this will also be released in IMAX! That’s definately how I will be seeing this film.
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