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Pareidolia
“Driessens & Verstappen are fascinated by the idea that all the faces of all the people who have ever lived and will ever live, may be found within the enormous quantity of grains of sand existing on earth”.
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Winamp Skin Museum
It’s Rain in Games
Thirty minutes of rain from thirty games. Headphones recommended.
GayBlade
GayBlade is one of the first commercially-sold LGTBQ-themed video games, a role-playing romp for Windows and Macintosh occasionally referred to as “Dungeons and Drag Queens”. Once thought to have been lost, the game’s software was recently discovered and preserved – and is now available in the Internet Archive.
The First Webcam
“The first webcam ever was invented by lazy students at Cambridge University who didn’t want to waste a trip to the nearby coffee pot if it was going to be empty when they got there.”
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Reading the Media
Founded by a collective of radical media makers in 1981, Paper Tiger Television pioneered edutainment. Broadcast on public access television, the collective took a grassroots, DIY approach to media production that showcased how television was made through television, while critiquing corporate media and attempting to build a more equitable form of moving image. As one of the founders put it: “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.”
Feels Good Man
Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original
In the 1920s, Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the scholar of art and culture, created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne tracing recurring visual themes, gestures and patterns across time, from antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond to contemporary culture. At HKW all 63 panels of the Atlas will be reconstituted for the first time from Warburg’s original, partly multi-colored images.
John Was Trying To Contact Aliens
John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space.
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens | Official Trailer | Netflix
Very Slow Movie Player
Bryan Boyer has built a device he calls a VSMP (Very Slow Movie Player). It’s an e-paper display that shows a movie not at 24 frames/sec but at 24 frames per hour.
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Shooting Masks onto People’s Faces
Dedicated to all the “maskholes” out there…
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Man walks around like he’s in a video game
“In this video, @KaoruGans0 walks around Shibuya like a character from a video game: stilted and repetetive pacing; sliding oddly along walls; and interacting robotically with landmarks, conspiciously obvious items and other people.”
渋谷でゲームあるある再現してみた pic.twitter.com/dk5KH6kUgM
— がんそ【駒沢アイソレーション】 (@KaoruGans0) August 5, 2020
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Nostalgy stuff
Cassette Pencil Sharpener – Concept by Shane Chen
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Theirtube
WindowSwap
Open a new window somewhere in the world. Simple, amazing project.
Real Life Time Machine
Man wears cameras for an entire year in order to revisit any past moment in VR. Not exactly a time machine, but close enough.
The Clay Man
In this footage, artist William Cobbing wears a giant ball of clay on his head. He slices off layers with a wire to reveal a gooey, dripping face.
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Lizards
This video series by Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, made while self-isolating because of COVID-19, is amazing. Be sure to check the other episodes too.
Using Red Dead Redemption 2 to hold conference calls
“Zoom sucks, we started having editorial meetings in Red Dead Redemption instead. It’s nice to sit at the campfire and discuss projects, with the wolves howling out in the night”.