My friend, the brilliant designer Erick Wujcik, has sent me this link for the winner of the Shanghai Short Film Festival. Participants were given only two weeks to make a movie seven minutes long. Okay, there are problems with the ending, and some of the sound needs fixing. But given the constraints imposed on the […]

I’m reloading this installment of the Turkish trip because I found that one of the links— in fact the most crucial link— wasn’t working. So now, when you click to look at the Neolithic goddess, you’ll actually get a picture of the Neolithic goddess described in the text, and not something else. Frankly, you’ll just […]

Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works, which created such aircraft as the U-2, the SR-71, and the F-117 Stealth Fighter, has created yet another masterpiece. According to this article in New Scientist Tech, Lockheed-Martin’s new unmanned stealth vehicle Polecat was created largely with a CAD hooked up to a 3D printer— aka “3D rapid prototyping.” Nice hack! […]

The Video Fairy has just emptied her sack of goodies on the unsuspecting networked world. The National Film Board of Canada, which has been producing wonderful short films for something like 50 years, has made 50 of their animated films available for download on the internet. It’s not like any of us have any work […]