I’m fairly entranced by this just-released video, and I daresay you will be, too. Here’s a description of it, apparently issued by NASA themselves (although I’m unable to source it): NASA dreams big science. The Space Shuttles may be gathering dust, but we’re not staying on Earth! In this awesome new short, NASA presents the…
Tag: short films
Video: “Outer Space” (with images from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions)
There’s something exquisite about this. Creator: Sander van den Berg Description: “The footage in this video is derived from image sequences from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. I downloaden a large amount of raw images to create the video.” Music: “That Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra
“Solipsist”: A surreal short film that’s “a meditative and hypnotic experience for dreamers”
SOLIPSIST from Andrew Huang on Vimeo. As I type these words, I’m still in a daze from this short experimental film, and I invite you, too, to come and have your mind turned inside-out. Anything I could say by way of introduction or explanation would only be a hindrance, so I’ll just leave off talking…
Gamma (short SF/dystopian film)
GAMMA from Factory Fifteen on Vimeo. (Be sure to expand the frame and watch this film in full-screen mode. It looks simply amazing. Many thanks to Jesús Olmo for bringing it to my attention. -Matt) SYNOPSIS: In a post-nuclear future, when the earth is riddled with radiation, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the…
Utopia or dystopia? Corning’s viral video “A Day Made of Glass” envisions “a shift in the way we will communicate and use technology”
Ironically, just as I’m preparing to abandon Facebook within the next week or so, my horror author colleague Ted Grau has used FB to share one of the more fascinating items that I’ve encountered for quite some time. It’s a five-minute video titled “A Day Made of Glass,” and it represents Corning’s vision of a…
The Tragic Tale of the Rocket Maker
[For best effect, scroll to the bottom, start the YouTube video to playing, turn up your speakers, and then return to the top and read straight through. Then replay the YouTube piece and watch the video.] When the history of the American space program is finally written, no figure will stand out quite like John…
Heaven of the Mind
Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our…
BP Spills Coffee
I’ll present this without comment, since it speaks for itself. But I will mention that I almost broke a rib laughing.
Funniest thing I’ve ever seen: Funny or Die’s “The Ralph Macchio Story”
Oh. My. God. Words can’t capture the wondrous awesomeness of this thing. Especially for somebody like me, who came of age in the 1980s, watched Eight Is Enough, was weaned on the likes of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire, and flipped over the original The Karate Kid. Ralph Macchio playing himself at 48,…
There are no words
I mean that both literally and figuratively, the former because the “lyrics” to this song consist mostly of jolly, wordless vocalizing, and the latter because . . . well, just have a look. I’m speechless and giddy all at once, and also strangely aroused and disturbed by delirious visions of a reality I’m not sure…