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AQ_PUNCHES from John Wiseman on Vimeo.

This one is definitely worth a look. This isn’t computer graphics, its as real as it gets. Apparently its an exhibit at BMW’s museum in Munich. As you can imagine, its obviously computer controlled, most likely hundreds of motors reeling up string that suspends these balls in space. With some advanced animation and programming you can see how cool of an effect it creates.

The BMW Museum itself is a work of art. Created in the shape of a BMW logo there’s no doubt what you’re looking at is a BMW facility.

Slow Motion Baby Laugh

NASA’s old service tower building, which wheels right up to rockets while on the launch pad, has had a good life, but now its time to embrace change at NASA and make room for improvements. Out with the old and in with the new.

It’s a shame it didn’t melt into a pile of rubble like we’re used to seeing with these sort of implosions but this service tower isn’t your average low-income housing building.

There’s something about this that makes me crack up. I think the slow-mo helps to accentuate the rhythmic ho dialect and steady head bob.

This commercial is astounding. It seems like nothing special at first because nearly every car commercial aired is either completely or mostly computer generated.

What makes this ad special is that BMW sent out several engine blocks to the ad agency known as IdeaCity. After months of testing and rigging both light holes and camera mounts within the engine IdeaCity shot the footage you see above at 10,000 frames per second. This commercial has zero CGI.

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This academy award winning short film was created by three germans. Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, and Heidi Wittlinger created this animated piece from the rocks perspective. With a unique perspective of time, the story follows two rock people as they watch humans come and go.

Slime molds are one of those oddballs in nature. Originally classified as a fungus, they have recently been found to be entirely different. Slime mold is in essence single-celled bacteria that forms a mass because of how fast they reproduce. Naturally they grow more where there is food and die off where they’ve exhausted their resources. The resulting effect is a creeping goo that seems to think as a whole.

The imagery is spectacular. The new Planet Earth series of nature documentaries took some incredible time-lapse shots of slime mold in action. I’m pretty sure this is the segment from that documentary with some bizarro techno overtop, but I might be wrong about that.

I absolutely love time-lapse videos of organic processes. This one is of a head of lettuce tossed into a cricket cage. 40,000 crickets can do some damage. The video’s description says the whole thing took less than an hour. I’ll have to post about slime mold sometime soon.

…don’t hit jumps on your dirtbike.

I’m impressed he finished his segment, what a PRO.