Watching Kindergarten Cop and playing with www.yooouuutuuube.com = What I have been doing instead.

yooouuutuuube Lets you watch a youtube video cascading frame by frame on a matrix of screens where you can choose the resolution (…just look). If you can find the right video its quite trippy. The best videos I found were ones with lots of moving on screen, lots of colour or lots of cuts.

I tried a bunch of videos that I thought might be made super awesome through yooouuutuuubification like the gondry directed Chemical Brothers videos (Let Forever Be, Star Guitar) which were awesome, but lacked the colour I craved. So go out and find some crazy videos people and suggest me something.

Click on the screen grabs to watch a couple that worked well (btw the website seems to only work in internet explorer for me)

The music video for Fat Boy Slim’s right here right now seemed appropriate:

here is a clip of a pretty cool song composed mostly from sounds recorded from the Disney Alice in Wonderland:

This page has scans from “Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Poe, illustrated by Harry Clarke (Ireland, 1889 – 1931).”

All of it is complete awesome, but i love his black and whites in the Poe series.

go to the website or click on the pics for the much larger versions. seriously. do it. the details are amazing on the B&Ws

it says Harrison was highest ranked (116th) in the 1880s – this is as early as it goes. After a sharp resurgence around the 70s and 80s (probably due to the awesomness of Harrison Ford) the name is ranked 219th for babies in 2008.

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any ways. Luke (the bear) Kidd ["no way man. why don't YOU luke the bear!?"] suggests the following video.            ^^if you can find the joke in that I owe you a dollar

Watch indie rock band Wintergreen as they follow step-by-step instructions to synthesize drugs from common household items. Watch as they cook up Dextropolamine 22-B (aka Egyptian Meth), Pentocyclene (“Hillbilly Qualudes”) and much more.

Never one to ruin a joke whose punchline is the emergency room – I’ll just say this: Don’t try it. (but if you do. please film it)

(Check the right side panel on each article’s page for the video versions.)

a five-part series of video essays analyzing the key influences on Wes Anderson’s style… Part 1 covers Bill Melendez, Orson Welles, and François Truffaut… Part 2 covers Martin Scorsese, Richard Lester, and Mike Nichols. Part 3 covers Hal Ashby. Part 4 covers J.D. Salinger. Part 5 is an annotated version of the prologue to The Royal Tenenbaums.

It is a shame that the some of the parts examine some of Anderson’s influences too quickly, as i found to be the case with the examination of French New Wave in part one. I bring this up having watched Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou about a month or two ago and thinking that Godard’s use of colours and visual aesthetics would most definetly have been a significant influence on Anderson.But over all the videos are very well put together and offer a great insight into Wes’ mind and work.

All of these are fairly long (rendez-vous is shortest at over 8 mins) but strangely mesmerizing. I would not/could not watch more than one in a row, it is best to space the viewings apart.

If you are only going to watch one video and you haven’t seen it, watch the last video!

First we have a lovely video of a tram ride through Barcelona from 1908.

Second is this video clip of a motorcyclist weaving his/her way through heavy traffic on a japanese highway.

and lastly (my favorite) from 1976 the fairly famous clip C’était un rendez-vous. “The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning (05:30hrs), accompanied by sounds of a high-reving engine, gear changes and squealing tires.” It is beautiful.

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

“Mission 1: Get from the Northeast to the Southwest Corner of Washington Square Park / time: 42 minutes / number of people who intervened: 29″

After the jump is a map of the robot’s path

[via NotCot]

Click the image for a larger view

So here is a small list of recent(ish) lists:

• 10 Most Controversial Sex Scenes.

• 10 Greatest Mall Set Action Scenes.

• 5 Least Convincing Scenes in Sports movies.

• 25 great albums that work best when listened to from start to finish.

• 5 Tips For Surviving The Worldwide Economic Collapse I Picked Up Rewatching The Road Warrior.

• 6 Movie Remakes That Missed the Point.

• 6 Evil Henchmen Who Sucked at Their Jobs.

• 20 shots to be henceforth retired from film vocabulary.