Believe it or not, this is a trailer for a video game, not a movie. It’s a cinematic look into the fifth installment of the Ghost Recon series called Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Invisibility, check. Mini combat drones, check. Shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, check. I’m hooked. It releases later this year on all major platforms.
Category Archives: Video
Best video game Easter Egg ever
Found in newly released Just Cause 2.
[Thanks, Steve D.]
Trailer: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
The Internet is ablaze with excitement over the debut trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Comic book fans especially are drooling over this graphic novel adaptation for film. Scott Pilgrim is a comic book series authored and illustrated by Bryan Lee O’Malley and published by Oni Press. The first volume was released in 2004 and the fifth and final volume, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, will release later this year alongside the movie. The series follows “23-year-old Canadian Scott Pilgrim, a slacker, hero, and part-time bassist who is living in Toronto and plays bass guitar in the band “Sex Bob-Omb.” He falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona V. Flowers, but must defeat her seven “evil exes” in order to date her.” And that is exactly what the movie is about. The trailer begins with the question: “Have you ever met someone you love so much it hurts?” Then it introduces Scott Pilgram (Michael Cera), his crush Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and the seven evil exes who include a telepath (Brandon Routh), a skateboarder with a powerful punch (Chris Evans), and Flower’s former college roommate (Mae Whitman). There’s plenty of comic book combat for everyone.
Directed by Edgar Wright (Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), Scott Pilgrim vs. The World hits theatres August 13.
[Via TrailerAddict; MTV News; Wiki]
‘Evil Dead’ claymation tells the bloody tale in 60 seconds
Created by Lee Hardcastle, a finalist in the Done in 60 Seconds Jameson Empire Awards 2010.
[Via Likecool]
FoD: Ty Burrell is “The Rant Writer”
It’s Modern Family‘s Ty FREAKIN Burrell. Just watch it.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 is on the way, new Content-Aware feature works like magic
Photoshop Labs is showing off a magical new tool called Content-Aware. What it allows you to do is add, remove, move, or repair image elements in an extremely easy and fool-proof way. Up to this point, one way to clean up images by removing certain elements from it was to use to the Healing tool. Editing images this way can be nerve-racking, tedious, and time-consuming. Content Aware does away with all that. Watch the video above to witness the magic. The Photoshopper starts out with small edits, like removing lens flairs and tiny trees from an image. Then he moves onto bigger things like adding desert to a road and filling out a panoramic image with the click of a button. Very impressive stuff. Adobe Photoshop CS5 releases on April 12, and Adobe promises this feature in a “future version of Photoshop.” (Whether that means it will be included in CS5 or in an update has not been addressed.)
Music video: Kid Cudi – “Soundtrack 2 My Life”
And it’s finally here. The music video for arguably the most popular single off Kid Cudi’s debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day. It’s not a music video in the traditional sense. Rather than have Cudi sing throughout the video, director Jason Goldwatch and Decon Creative Group decided to splice together months of tour footage. In a way “Soundtrack 2 My Life” gives us a look into the crazy life that is touring for Kid Cudi and it’s definitely a fun ride. The tour footage used in this music video is part of a larger project that Cudder, Goldwatch, and Decon are putting together for fans. We can all look forward to that. And Cudder.
[Via DatNewCudi]
Music video: Chip tha Ripper – “Like That”
Chip tha Ripper is an up and coming rapper who’s been featured on songs like Kid Cudi’s “Hyyer” (from Man on the Moon: The End of Day) and Big Sean’s “Okay” (from his upcoming debut album Finally Famous). Like what you hear? Chip’s got three mixtapes out now; download his latest one titled The Cleveland Show, here.
Trailer: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package
The first piece of downloadbale content for the world’s best-selling video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will ship in the form of a map pack. It will include 5 maps–three new ones (Bailout, Storm, and Salvage) and two old ones from the original CoD: MW (Crash and Overgrown). The DLC will hit the Xbox 360 first on March 30 for a whopping $15 and will appear on the PSN and PCs later this year. But you know all this already! Check out the brand new teaser trailer for “Stimulus Package” above.
[Via Gametrailers]
Navigating a 13.3 gigapixel image, Minority Report style
Students at the University of Tromso in Norway have put together a ginormous interactive display wall. The 22-megapixel display utilizes 28 projectors to spit out a resolution of 7,168 x 3,072. It’s multitouch capabilities allow users to interact with the wall in a myriad of ways, Tom Cruise-style; gestures include hand swipes for panning and snapping fingers for zooming in. And all of this can be down without actually touching the wall. But how is that possible? A number of floor-mounted cameras pick up your gestures in 1D and a 30 node computer setup manages to group together the various perspectives to determine 2D location. In the demo video above, the wall outputs a 13.3 gigapixel highly detailed image of Trosmo. Check it out and be blown away be its awesome power.
[Via University of Trosmo; Engadget]
Interacting with a flexible display
Impress flexible display, designed by Silke Hilsing.
German designer Silke Hilsing created an interactive “flexible” display using Arduino and sensors. How does it work? Simple really: Sensors are sandwiched in-between layers of foam; when you touch the foam surface this triggers the sensors to turn on and communicate with an overhead projector which displays a beam of lights onto the surface from above. The surface can “feel” the level of intensity as you push down on it with your hand; the harder you push, more information (colors, light, text) is displayed. The motivation behind this concept? “…to remove the technical stiffness from touch screens, bring the technology closer to the user by making it more human.” Interesting…
[Via DesignBoom; Gizmodo; SilkeHilsing]
“Telephone” parody featuring faux Lady Gaga & Beyonce
From the brilliantly funny minds behind the Ke$ha “Tik Tok” parody comes this raunchy parody of Lady Gaga’s latest music video “Telephone” that we all knew was coming. Enjoy.