A fun musical from the team behind the excellent the excellent Fallout: Nuka Break film, designed to show off some low-budget gore effects.
Fluids The Musical, Blood, Vomit, Snot by Backyard FX / Indy Mogul
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Daily Archives: 1 September 2011
The evolution of the web
Here’s another infographic that looks pretty, but fails at conveying information in any useful way: The Evolution of the Web.
[…] To pay homage to the goodness of the web, we’ve put together an interactive infographic, built in HTML5, which details the evolution of major web technologies and browsers:
via Happy third birthday, Chrome! – googleblog.blogspot.com
I understand the timeline aspect, showing major revisions, but what are the coloured lines illustrating? According to the page:
The color bands in this visualization represent the interaction between web technologies and browsers, which brings to life the many powerful web apps that we use daily.
Which sounds a bit hand-wavy to me. Lets look at the interaction of JavaScript with web browsers in more detail, for example:
5 Second Films
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Professor Pigeon
Pigeons typically don’t get tenure. But his discourse on Proust is thrilling to behold.
5-Second Films was created by Brian “Boss Man” Firenzi in the Spring of 2005, after being disappointed by so many 5,400-second films. The rules are simple: 2 seconds of beginning titles, 5 seconds of film, 1 second of end titles. If you take umbrage with these 5sfs running at an actual length of 8 seconds, we can only assume you’re no fun at dinner parties.
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