5.02.2010 10:17 pm / Matthew Gipp
Werner Herzog Reads 'Where's Waldo'
Not really. But still.
5.02.2010 10:17 pm / Matthew Gipp
Not really. But still.
4.29.2010 6:47 am / Matthew Gipp
An eight-minute video that goes about proving—and does so in an extremely compelling, entirely unscientific way—that we’re all pretty apelike.
3.28.2010 12:41 pm / Matthew Gipp
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3.12.2010 7:46 am / Matthew Gipp
Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ‘traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it.‘
No, your eyes do not deceive you. Werner Herzog.
via Ebert
3.02.2010 6:58 am / Matthew Gipp
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2.05.2010 11:37 pm / Sam Carlson
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12.10.2009 7:40 am / Matthew Gipp
With regards to the Norwegian Sky Spiral: NASA guy Tony Phillips—who runs spaceweather.com—postulates that it was a rocket engine from a secret Russian missile test spinning out of control. (via Wired)
Phillips put together a video explanation. A very convenient video explanation. . .
Here’s a video of the actual event that was uploaded by a Norwegian newspaper.
12.09.2009 10:34 pm / Matthew Gipp
You’ll recognize the following six films: 9, District 9, Napoleon Dynamite, The Evil Dead, Bottle Rocket and Boogie Nights.
You may not know, however, that they were all originally filmed as shorts by amateur filmmakers—all of whom began their professional careers by turning the short films in question into features.
Check out the roundup—with embedded YouTube videos—on Mental_Floss.
11.30.2009 7:50 am / Matthew Gipp
Anybody who is familiar with NFL Films knows the only thing greater than the gripping narrativization is the gratuitous slow-mo footage
In that spirit, here’s Detroit’s Matthew Stafford digging his team into a hole against Cleveland, injuring his shoulder, eluding team trainers to get back on the field and, finally, throwing the game-clinching touchdown at the last second. It’s better than the movies.
11.30.2009 6:57 am / Matthew Gipp
Cargo rockets, auto-driving cars, color-coded freeway lanes, never walking anywhere: Magic Highway USA (or, the future of American infrastructure as imagined by Disney in 1958).
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