Dans la tête (In the Head) is a short animated film created by the students of the ESMA School of Arts in France. The students used
The story of the film tells of Betrand Antoine, a rather simple-minded young man, who leaves his girlfriend to enlist in the army. Sadly, Betrand dies in action on the battlefield, but manages to land outside the pearly gates of heaven. Unfortunately, he is denied entry into heaven, as he is yet to complete a certain task. Betrand is sent back to Earth to finish the task (and then die), but things do not go exactly as planned.
You will have to watch the video to find out more.
Note: The video has quite a bit of violence and gore, so be warned.
Artist Lawrence Yang uses a combination of ink, marker and watercolors to create some surreally-beautiful artworks. Yang’s influences range from traditional Chinese paintings to street graffiti art. Huge, fearsome figures dominate his paintings, but appearances can be deceptive.
Starkly silhouetted figures set against intense background washes work to create an atmosphere of wistfulness and reflection. As the figures meet in each scene, something is gained and something is lost.
The artist has an upcoming solo show in December, titled “sideshow”, at the Given art boutique in San Francisco, CA. Interestingly, the boutique is located at 575 Castro Street, the historic address of the camera store of Harvey Milk. Given was closed for six weeks to shoot the Gus Van Sant’s biopic based on Harvey, “Milk”, at the same location.
The futuristic-looking Europa steel sofa from DRAENERT Studio looks extremely uncomfortable - and probably is, too. The sofa was designed by English steel artist Ron Arad.
Snip from the site:
A horizontally divided and then deformed truncated cone serves as the base of seat and back. This sofa, 218 cm long, made of a chrome -nickel-steel sheet that is only 1 mm in thickness is made stable by closing all over the open edges of cut.
Apparently, the next edition of the Macbook has a great new feature. An inbuilt printer !
Yeah, it’s fake. But just imagine for a second if Apple could actually build one. They would have to probably call in the army to control the huge crowds of impatient fanboys rioting outside the Apple Stores.
I just love the stark simplicity and elegance of the ‘Dune’ serving plate from OVO. The plate is actually made from Corian, a type of synthetic polymer created by DuPont.
I really don’t have a lot of great memories about the 90s. They just flew by in a blur for me. I do remember, however, having spent hundreds of pleasurable hours playing Doom, its sequels and other clones from id Software.
The game had great graphics (for its time), big, scary monsters and a soundtrack which burned itself into my brain. Each session of playing Doom would leave me exhausted, not just because of the intense gameplay, but also because of the nausea brought about by extreme motion sickness. Still, I loved playing the game, and it remains one of my favorite games, ever.
You can now play the first episode of the game right inside your browser, all thanks to Michael Welsh, a programmer at Newgrounds. Michael ported the game into Flash using Adobe’s Alchemy software.
I must warn you, though, that the game only has keyboard controls and no music. You may also need to install Flash Player 10. On the upside, the game is is still fun to play and even has working cheat codes.
Watch a short, inspiring documentary about the Ubuntu B-Boys, a motley crew of talented breakdancers from South Africa.
Coming from some of the poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods in the country, the boys have managed to battle their frustration and anger by seeking solace in breakdancing. The group won the first prize at the “B-Boy World Cup” in 2006.
The film was made for the Discovery Channel by Fly On The Wall Productions, a film making collective from South Africa.
