Jul 04

Plurabelle – Our Fires

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Plurabelle – Our Fires (edit by Mattis Dovier) http://stellarkinematics.bandcamp.com/track/b3-our-fires Drawings, animation and editing by Mattis Dovier Music by Plurabelle ’Our Fires’ from Phantom Pyramid LP out on june 16th on Stellar Kinematics. Digital LP and/or Vinyl LP Limited to 300 copies : http://stellarkinematics.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-pyramid Produced by Stellar Kinematics : http://www.stellarkinematics.com/ Premiered on Vice/Noisey : In addition to pixel art and frame by frame animation, graphics in this video are based on various influences. The main ones arise from the underground manga, especially Maruo Suehiro’s “ero-guro” or erotic-grotesque style (to name one), that mixes both horror and erotic genres. Human passions such as love and violence become exacerbated to their climax, making the man look like a crazy and decadent animal, the whole thing taking the form of a macabre poetry. Adolescence, embodied by the mutation into a monstrous beast, is a tribute to B-movies, drawing references from John Carpenter’s or illustrator Charles Burns’ universes. Symbolism in the transition into adulthood is seen as a rite of passage, requiring the death of a human being and the birth of another. The hauting mystical song immerses us inexorably into the intricacies of this transformation you can’t avoid, whatever you do. ——————— Outre le pixel art et l’animation image par image, l’univers graphique de la vidéo est basé sur diverses influences. Les principales sont issues du manga underground, et plus particulièrement du genre “ero-guro” ou érotique-grotesque de Suehiro Maruo (pour n’en citer qu’un) qui mêle horreur et érotisme. Les passions humaines telles que l’amour et la violence se voient exacerbées jusqu’à leur paroxysme, montrant l’homme comme un animal fou et décadent le tout sous la forme d’une poésie macabre. L’adolescence représentée par la mutation en un être monstrueux rend ici hommage aux films de série B, notamment en s’inspirant de références issues de l’univers de John Carpenter ou de l’illustrateur Charles Burns. La symbolique du passage à l’âge adulte est vécue comme un rite initiatique, nécessitant la mort d’un être et la naissance d’un autre. La chanson, à la fois lancinante et mystique, nous plonge inexorablement dans les méandres de cette transformation qui sera quoi que l’on fasse, inévitable.

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Jul 04

POLYPTYCH making of

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Written & directed by damien vignaux dop : philip reinhold making of : elizabeth crawford styling : sophia schwan make-up : anna czylinsky & natalia soboleva models : alexandra, alicia, inna, julia, katerina, lena, leyla, luja, pepa, sarah & sophie @ m4 models produced with the help of doity & m4 production assistant : jaq szymczak Styling includes pieces by : Antonia Goy Agata Bielen Bjørg Deepmello Degenerotika Helmut Lang via theOutnet Hervé Léger via theOutnet Isabell de Hillerin Julia Birkenstock Luxaa Maria Black Marina Hoermanseder Martin Niklas Wieser Michael Sontag Minimarket Moxham Oscar de la Renta via theOutnet Vibe Harsløf Vladimir Karaleev

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Jul 04

Mother

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Designed and Directed by Fabrice Le Nezet Character Animation: Benjamin Mousquet Sound: Raphael Azel Martinez

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Jul 04

Top 10 Party Tricks for 2014 – YouTube Mega-Collaboration

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The biggest life hackers on YouTube join forces, to bring you 10 insane party tricks for 2014.

See the full playlist: http://bit.ly/MegaCollabPlaylist
More links down below ↓↓

All these YouTubers posted videos on their channels as well. Check out their original videos below;

Brusspup: http://bit.ly/Brusspup_GlowingIceCubes
Kipkay: http://bit.ly/Kipkay_StarSpangledHammock
Night Hawk In Light: http://bit.ly/NHIL_GiantBubbles
Steve Spangler: http://bit.ly/SteveSpangler_ScienceTricks
NurdRage: http://bit.ly/NurdRage_ChemicalBBQ
Scam School: http://bit.ly/ScamSchool_DrinkTricks
Household Hacker: http://bit.ly/HHH_TerracottaGrill
Grant Thompson: http://bit.ly/DragonSmokeSnack

Find me on FB: https://www.facebook.com/thekingofrandomfanpage

In this video you’ll see how to;

– Make ice cubes that glow in the dark
– Turn a few rolls of duct tape into a themed hammock
– Make bubbles the size of your car
– Serve 6 soda drinks in an instant
– Start a BBQ with chemistry
– Prank someone with a foaming toast
– Super cool your drinks so they freeze instantly when opened
– BBQ your dinner with an improvised terra-cotta grill
– Turn a trash can into a rocket
– Make snacks that get your guests smoking like dragons

Music: “Soul Switch” by Brusspup
Get it here: http://bit.ly/SoulSwitch_Brusspup

WARNING: These are things you COULD do at home, but that doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Each demonstration was performed by an expert, with safety precautions in place. These projects and results are portrayals of our own personal experiences. Your results may vary depending on your location, experience, and modifications to project ideas. There are risks associated with some of these projects that require adult supervision, and some that require expert assistance. Use of this video content is at your own risk. Better yet, just watch the video again and enjoy the experience from the safety of your desk 🙂

Project inspiration: This was an original idea, and I’m not sure anything quite like this has been done on YouTube before? Maybe it has, maybe it hasn’t .. but I thought it would be really cool to put out a video for 4th of July showcasing some insane tricks for summer parties. Then I imagined how awesome it would be if some of my favorite YouTubers got involved.

This was a challenging and exhilarating video to put together. It is the culmination of months of creative effort, and managing hundreds of little details to come together just in the nick of time. I’m really happy with how this turned out, and so excited at all my YouTube friends that accepted the challenge and came together to make this happen.

Each person involved made a separate video that they’ve posted on their channel. I’ve collected all of these videos into a playlist that you can see here: http://bit.ly/MegaCollabPlaylist

These are my favorite YouTubers. The ones I never miss seeing a video from, so if you like my videos, I’d like to recommend each of them for your consideration. 😀

Sharing this video is the highest compliment. Thank you!

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Jul 04

Mike Edel's The Closer

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Mike Edel’s The Closer Created by: Mike Edel, Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, Henrique Barone, Thanat Sattavorn, Cesar Martinez, Breno Licursi Funded by: Public Records and Telus Get ‘The Closer’ on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/kr8sb7d Get ‘The Closer’ + Mike Edel’s entire discography on Noisetrade: http://tinyurl.com/myrza9r In Alberta, on the plains north of Calgary, the winters are long and cold they bite with big white teeth. These rural, simple and hardworking people sit patiently by their fires and wait for summer, a summer that is always short and hot. When I was 6, I would jump into the backseat of my dad’s pickup truck as he would drive my brother, Jamie, all over the country to his baseball games. I loved baseball. I loved baseball almost as much as them. I would stand beside my friend Ryan and we would watch the game and watch our brothers and look through the chain link fence with our young keen eyes. We saw the balls, the strikes, the out’s and the coach’s walk to mound; but what we waited for was the foul balls. If a foul ball flew over the fence, Ryan and I would sprint like outfielders to track it down in a race that was always even because we both got our fair share of foul balls as far as I can remember. With the ball in one of our gloves, we would saunter over to a little white shack that always needed a paint job and the old Mrs. Claus looking lady at the concession stand would hold out her big soft hand and we place the ball into it like we were at a carnival. With her other hand she handed us a quarter. We would hand it straight back to her for 2 licorice’s and chew them all the way back to the chain link fence. I loved baseball. My dad also loved baseball. He would be the guy that sat on the bleachers holding one of those baseball scorebooks, the one with the coils all down one side and with a thousand little baseball diamond pictures inside where he would translate the game into this picture language. He must be really good at remember pictures because he would keep the score in this book game after game, and there were lots of them, and now at 67 years old he still remembers all these plays in the baseball game. My brother hit a triple down the right field line to drive in 3 with the bases loaded in Oyen to win a Provincial game. Another time, with runners on first and second Jamie caught a line drive, stepped on second and overthrew the neighbor kid (Shawn Gorr) at first only to cover the bag and get all 3 outs by himself. My dad remembers this. I wrote a song called The Closer. It’s a story about a pitcher in a small town, a lot like the one I grew up in, who is pitching a perfect game into the 9th inning. But his mom runs onto the mound and tells him that he needs to leave the game because his dad has had a farming accident. So the coach brings in the closer with a 2-0 lead in the 9th inning. He gives up a walk. Then a single. Then a home-run. They lose the game 3-2 in the 9th. I think that sometimes we think that these small moments in small towns don’t matter, but the truth is that they do. The baseball diamonds, and the hockey rinks and the community centers are the theaters where life takes place for these people. They are the stages that hold the metaphors for the joys and the tragedy’s of simple life. Everybody comes in the heat of a short summer and sits there, cheering and groaning and feeling joy and heartbreak together. And they all love baseball. www.mikeedel.com instagram.com/mikeedel twitter.com/mikeedelmusic facebook.com/thelastofourmountains www.jrcanest.co www.henriquebarone.com behance.net/eldiablo www.armmotion.com instagram.com/brnemo

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Jul 04

FOURSTAR CROCODILE DONE DEAL

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Fourstar’s Tour of Australia, 2014

Featuring Eric Koston, Cory Kennedy, Tony Trujillo, Ishod Wair, Shane O’Neill, Tyler Bledsoe, Brian Anderson, Mike Carroll, Andrew Brophy, Sean Malto, Max Schaaf & Rick Howard

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Jul 03

Crytek’s Cinebox – an update

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Jul 03

Sniper Systems & Solutions has been awarded as the top M & E Partner for Autodesk India for FY-14

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About this accomplishment, C. Purusothaman, Head M&E of Sniper, says, “We thank all our Clients who have been our well wishers and have enabled Sniper to grow to such heights and standards.”

“We have crossed 10 years of providing IT solutions to our clients from various market verticals, M&E has always been our fort and we have accumulated very strong domain knowledge of this industry. Awards like these are a boost to our passionate, dedicated and hard working Team; I congratulate the entire Sniper Team.”

Adds more,” We will always stay focused in delivering best of quality products, services and support to all our clients. Our Endeavour is to provide cutting edge technology to our clients in Media & Entertainment Industry with best of class service and support that is of global standards and at affordable cost. We are working in close quarters with all major Broadcast, Animation, VFX and Post houses as their trusted Technology partners and advisors. We have specialized in providing End to End solutions in M&E.”

On managing to retain the top position in the M & E space and attributing the consecutive success, C. Purusothaman says, “Our client centric business values are the core reason. We at Sniper Provide a comprehensive solution to the end user right through the pre-sales activities followed by timely after sales support, continuous training and effective communication, of not only products but also market intelligence, thus ensuring customer loyalty and increased market share.”

“We have also managed to change with the changing industry needs; we are strategic and authorized partners for major hardware and software brands that provide products and solutions to the M&E industry. We have also tie ups with a lot of interesting and useful software’s and plug-in that goes hand in hand with Autodesk and other M&E software’s”.

We understand the challenges faced by our clients in turbulent global economic conditions their projects are getting complicated, time lines squeezed and they operate with wafer thin margins. We as their trusted technology advisors ensure to leverage every bit of our accumulated knowledge and skill set to keep our clients competitive in the global market; this helps us go a long way in retaining client satisfaction and confidence.

We have clocked close to $ 4 million this year in M&E industry which is close to 30% growth YOY, concludes, C. Purusothaman.

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Jul 03

iTunes cages all ‘Pokemon’ under one roof

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The Pokemon Company International has announced that iTunes is providing fans of the collectible pocket monsters a one-stop content destination at iTunes.com/Pokemon. Animated TV episodes and specials, official apps (like Pokemon TV and Pokedex for iOS), and video game soundtracks are all available for download right away.

To celebrate the launch, episodes from the latest TV series season, Pokemon the Series: XY, and the four-part Pokemon Origins special are also available. Episodes of this season are currently available on iTunes in US, Canada, Australia, UK, France and Germany. In US, Canada and Australia, new episodes will be added to the destination page on a weekly basis.

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Jul 03

‘Beyond the Boundary’ feature film set for a Spring 2015 release

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The official website for Kyoto Animation‘s Beyond the Boundary (Kyōkai no Kanata) anime series announced on Wednesday that the series will get an anime film in spring 2015. The same announcement was made in the seventh Blu-ray Disc volume of the television series as well.

The dark fantasy follows a high school second-year student named Akihito Kanbara (KENN). Although the boy appears human, he is half Yōmu and invulnerable to wounds because he can heal quickly. One day, Akihito meets first-year student Mirai Kuriyama (Risa Taneda) when it seems she is about to jump from the school rooftop. Mirai is isolated because of her ability to manipulate blood, which is unique even among the Under World Warriors. Disturbing events begin to unfold after Akihito saves Mirai.

The television anime premiered in Japan in October and Crunchyroll streamed the anime into several countries as it aired. Sentai Filmworks also announced in October that it licensed the anime for North America.

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