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A boy learns to play the piano.

The External World from David OReilly

World premiere at the 67th Venice Film Festival
US premiere at Sundance 2011

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Crime doesn’t take a vacation. But we do.

Motion silences awareness of color changes from Jordan Suchow on Vimeo.

Instructions: Keep your eyes fixed on the small white mark in the center. At first, the ring is stationary and it’s easy to tell that the dots are changing. A few seconds later, the ring begins to rotate and the dots suddenly appear to stop changing.

But play the movie again, this time looking directly at one of the dots and following it as the ring rotates. You will see that, in fact, the dots had been changing the whole time, even during the rotation—you just didn’t notice it. This failure to detect that moving objects are changing is silencing.

The full set of demos, and a reprint of the paper, is available at visionlab.harvard.edu/​silencing/​

A Rube Goldberg machine built in Minecraft.

Save file available here. It uses World 5.

If you want the machine to run correct you must manually reset three water switches and one lava switch before turning it on. A tutorial on how to do this can be found here. Each switch should be marked with a sign nearby.

Customized Painterly Pack has been used as the texture pack.

Credits go to /r/minecraft for some of the machines and for Luke Plunkett who is the author

A LEGO gory stop-motion vid inspired by the top-selling videogame Call of Duty Black Ops

By Keshen8

The Game Station presents an epic gangland tale of betrayal and violence in this mock trailer for THE BROTHERS MARIO.

Directed by THE COUNTRY CLUB (Nathan Kitada & Aaron T. Umetani)
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Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a method for creating 3D models of pretty much anything in pretty much no time.

Using a sexy algorithm and the millions of photographs available from Flickr, the team can create a sophisticated three-dimensional model on a single personal computer in under a day.

Interesting concept video:

Sadly FIFA has rejected it… for now

“Zombis” is the Spanish transliteration of the English original word “Zombies”, and it is the title of a serie of 9 Spanish humoristic webisodes, too.

Here is the first one with English subs: