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Obama / Bollywood style
posted by reed 5 months ago • 145 views
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Arctic vs. Antarctic
posted by reed 5 months ago • 208 views
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Need some help keeping the arctic and antarctic straight? This little song might help. (It's from 321-Contact!)

The Bead Game by Ishu Patel (1977)
posted by reed 5 months 1 week ago • 210 views
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Beautifully simple and fluid stop motion animation. The title may be a reference to "The Glass Bead Game" by Herman Hesse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game).

Expendable
posted by reed 5 months 1 week ago • 73 views
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They may wear jumpsuits with skull logos on them, and they may carry assault rifles, but really they're ordinary guys just like you and me — concerned about health insurance, pension plans, and making... more inside

The Dumb Man - Second Life Machinima
posted by reed 5 months 2 weeks ago • 92 views
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A creative and extremely well made short, made almost entirely within Second Life (minimal post-processing). See more from this artist here: http://www.youtube.com/tracechops

Cute ad - girl builds rocket to visit Santa Claus
posted by reed 7 months ago • 270 views
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Little girl's hard work pays off and dream comes true. Advertisement for JC Penney.

3D Mailbox - People on a beach are your email messages...?
posted by reed 7 months 3 weeks ago • 83 views
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This makes slightly less sense than the other one at http://www.3dmailbox.com. I guess the people on the beach are your email messages? And there are sharks? ...

3D Mailbox - email messages are airplanes landing at LAX...
posted by reed 7 months 3 weeks ago • 94 views
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Found at 3dmailbox.com. At least the airport metaphor makes more sense than their other program, which is a beach.

Animated explanation of a "sugar battery"
posted by reed 7 months 4 weeks ago • 105 views
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Brief but cool animated explanation of an experimental kind of battery powered by sugar.

Edison Cylinder Phonograph playing "I'm On My Way To Reno"
posted by reed 8 months 4 weeks ago • 80 views
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An original Edison cylinder phonograph (the recording track spirals around the cylinder, rather than a disc) plays an amusing little song.

Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello is The Pied Piper of Hutzovina
posted by reed 9 months ago • 363 views
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This is a trailer/preview for The Pied Piper of Hutzovina, a film documenting musician Eugene Hutz of the "gypsy-punk" band Gogol Bordello as he takes a trip to his family's homeland of Ukraine, and tries... more inside

Big Bunny
posted by reed 10 months 1 week ago • 350 views
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The theme song from Amy Winrey's old Big Bunny flash animations. It is really quite catchy. More of Amy Winfrey's stuff is at big-bunny.com, makingfiends.com, muffinfilms.com. See all 7 of the Big... more inside

SIGGRAPH 2007 Film Festival Trailer
posted by reed 1 year 1 week ago • 33 views
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SIGGRAPH is the yearly computer graphics conference, combining both computer graphics research, industry, and art. Each conference contains a CG film festival.

Manu Chao, Desparacido
posted by reed 1 year 4 weeks ago • 216 views
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I really like Manu Chao's videos. His music is, of course, great.

Corporal Dan in "Revelations"
posted by reed 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 30 views
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This is one of the first videos I ever saw on the internet, as a little RealVideo clip back in 99 or so. It's funny and brilliant lego stop motion animation. The voice acting is awesome.