Cardboard Warfare is like Light Warfare, but replace the light painting with cardboard and lots of post-edits with After Effects and Photoshop. 427 manual frames to rotoscope, 59 layers of sound effects, and 254 program crashes later, this work of art was completed. Very impressive.
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Pee-wee & the Playhouse Gang are coming to Broadway this fall
Hot off his uber-successful comeback stage show at LA’s Club Nokia venue, Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) is ready to bring his nostolgic magic to Broadway. “The Pee-wee Herman Show” will play at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City and will have a six-week run. The show will feature many members of Pee-wee’s Playhouse Gang including Miss Yvonne, Mailman Mike, Cowboy Curtis, Jambi the Genie, Pterri, Conky, and Chairry. Alex Timbers, the director of the LA show, will return to helm the Broadway spectacle. Enter the mailing list for advanced tickets here!
A flight from Sydney to Los Angeles…
Travel site Kayak.com is offering what at first glance looks like standard one-way flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California. If you are a Lost fan those particular locations should ring a bell. If you look further into the flight details, more Lost clues come to the surface. The airline? Oceanic Airlines. Take-off date? September 22. Airfare? $4,815.16. Taxes and fees? $23.42. Flight duration? 10 hours, 8 minutes. Clearly the site is playing with the Lost numbers that are key to the show’s mythology: 4 8 15 15 23 42 and 108, as well as other show factoids: The Losties crashed on September 22, 2004, on an Oceanic Airlines flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. So what’s really going on here?
Obviously the people at Kayak.com are Lost fans and couldn’t resist the urge to offer up this flight in anticipation of the final season. When you actually go to buy a ticket for this flight, the site redirects you to the Lostpedia website, specifically to the Oceanic Flight 815 page. After some digging, Slashfilm traced it all back to BoingBoing and the Twitter account of a staff writer. When asked about this easter egg, a Kayak PR rep responded “It’s a mystery,” with a smiley face emoticon.
BBC’s ‘Life’ captures nature like you’ve never seen it before
Using camera techniques like time lapse and shooting at 2000 FPS, a documentary film crew captured all kinds of animals and plants in ways you’ve likely never seen before. In fact, they managed to shoot the growth of plants and actions of animals for the very first time on camera. Embedded above is a two minute preview. Life is an 11-part series that premiere on Discovery March 21 at 8PM.
[Via Gizmodo]