Krog Street Tunnel

I think I edit video better than I talk to cameras.

This is a somewhat famous urban landmark in the city of Atlanta. The always changing Krog Street Tunnel that has been plastered and replastered with paint and graffiti and posters time and time again.

Music: Gagool by Keven McLeod - http://incompetech.com

What Video Games Do Behind Your Back

Why this is right up my alley.

Thundercats

I loved this show when I was a kid, heck I loved watching reruns when I was in high school. When an adult saw me watching it and asked me if I thought maybe I was a little old to be watching Thundercats I explained in a concise and eloquent manner how the show still had a lasting appeal for the teenage and early twenties crowd that stems from it's unique style, nostalgia factor, and slight counter culture edge that comes with the territory of being a budding young adult who says "Yeah, I like this cartoon."

Well okay, I actually just said "Uh, no." in a mildly sarcastic tone.

I know for some people it's appeal has faded with age. I heard someone say that they had re-watched some if it and their assessment was "Dude, it did not age well."

In this age where television media is more polished and refined than ever I feel that many people turn to older shows with modern day expectations and an unnecessarily cynical view point but for me it's the rough edges that contribute part of the charm. The ridiculous plots and goofy dialogue delight me almost as much as the animation, characters, and music. Lion-O's Shatneresque dialogue employed in intense situations tickles me every time and who wouldn't want to live near a civilization of robot teddy bears with a thriving agricultural industry?

For me this is one of those shows that can take me back to my childhood and while I may enjoy riffing on it I don't truly look upon it with a critical eye. I think sometimes you just have to enjoy things for what they are.

The Thundercats series review video below is by James Rolf of Angry Video Game Nerd fame so there is some crude language.

The Gerber Fit Pocket Knife - A Slipshod Review

Featuring Pop-Tarts®!

Professor Soap - Spirit Quest Journey

This is a great video for when I'm feeling stressed.
It's actually very calming listening to the pleasant tune and watching the march of the quirky and friendly looking monsters. A new monster appears each time a new instrument is added to the playful groove.

Spirit Quest Journey by Professor Soap.

Music and Animation by Ryan Mauskopf
www.ryanmauskopf.com

Super Mario RPG 'Rawest Forest' Japanese Rap Version

So . . .

A remix of a tune from Super Mario RPG.
Add Japanese rap.
Throw in a neat pixel animation video . . .

. . . and this is what you get:

Awesome!

From the video description:

To all NES Lovers! We are 'plugnet'.

We love computer game especially 'NES(Famicom)' and we also love to rap.
1 month ago we didn't have our crew name, but we dicided the name, 'plugnet'. The members are Yukkey(me), Forest(green man), and Mayumusi(blue man).
Anyway, we'll be happy if you enjoy this song.

Track by Moonbug(Novoiski & Nylonizm)
Lyric & Rap by plugnet
Mix & Movie by Merpaline(Yukkey and Mayumusi)

It's okay to not like things . . .

It's true.

Some footage from the Georgia Aquarium during a private event in November of 2010. Special thanks to my friends Raymond and Jandi and congratulations!

Coachelletta - Coachella Tilt Shifted

I'm a fan of well done tilt shift photography and videos. Tilt shifting leads to a whimsical effect where things appear to be in miniature and it looks wonderful here in this video created at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Coachelletta from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Via Gizmodo

Giant Muffin Brawlers - pixel art animation

Behold the Giant Muffin Brawlers!

From the video description:

"This was made for a college assignment in about 50 hours. We had to make a ~40 seconds video with the subject of our choice, using adobe After Effects. I made mine in pixel art because, heh its what I do...

After effects and pixel art dont really mix so well though, had quite a bit of problems with that. Like it doesnt seem to take indexed color images well for one, so I had to go through every animation frame and convert them individually every time I wanted to change a detail.
Also note that, made in after effect, this is not "pure" pixel art by any means: After effects does motion blurring and a lot of other things that I didnt have to do manually, and there's also a mix in resolutions there.

But I really like the result! It looks pretty darn neat I think!

Also, the main character of the video is a friend of mine, Michael Émond. He was originally going to work on the video with me, but we later decided to work on our own videos separately instead."

Cheetahmen 3D by coda

So what does it have to do with the Cheetahmen?
What does it have to do with 3D?

Who cares! It's a sweet 8-bit chiptune! :D


So what are you looking at in the video? Those are how the notes look in a tracker, a common type of computer program for writing chip music.

Check out coda's other work at 8bit Collective here's his profile page: Link
Download the tune for free here: Link

Blue Tooth Bear

I saw this on Gizmodo and after watching the video I realized that if I had to use one of these I'd never be able to take any phone call seriously again. Then again there's no doubt this would be a hit with kids so I'm surprised there aren't tons of them on the market already.

8-Bit Trip - Lego Music Video

Legos again so soon? Well after watching this video how could I not post it?

To say this is pretty cool would be one heck of an understatement.

First saw it on Gizmodo.

What kind of sadist uses a whip?

Simon Bellmont! That's what kind.

Absolutely hilarious Castlevania bit from Robot Chicken via Kotaku.

Nathan Fillion in "PG Porn"

Okay this is actually pretty funny (and no there is no actual porn, it's called PG for a reason). Basically it's a series of short videos that mock the absurd situations, bad acting, cinematography, and editing of stereotypical porn films. Besides having Nathan Fillion from Firefly in it perhaps the greatest thing about this video is the glorious star wipe featured within! They didn't just do a regular star wipe, oh no, even though that would have been enough. They did a star wipe into a four way split screen! And here I was thinking the only time I'd see Nathan Fillion in anything with a star wipe would be in a cheesy fan made Firefly music video.

PG PORN: Nailing Your Wife | Celebrities | SPIKE.com

My 2009 Trek Soho

Just a little video overview of my new bike. I did the video in one take so I wouldn't have to edit it so try and bear with all the "um"s as I try to think of what to say next during the recording. :P

Awesome Pixel Animation Video

Wooooow!

Rad pixel Art by Niina Koivusalo and Ville Konttinen. Sweet chip music and vocals by Leeni.

Be sure to check out Leeni's website too:
http://leeni.us/

Paul Robertson

Well considering all the attention I give to pixel art and especially my enthusiasm for strange and unique pixel art it occurred to me that it's a little strange that I haven't mentioned a towering giant in the world of strange and unique pixel art and animations; Paul Robertson. You see Paul Robertson is a highly talented artist and animator with a truly idiosyncratic style and eccentric tastes to say the least. His work tends to range from the absurd to utterly obscene.

I guess the main reason I haven't posted about is because most of what I have been posting have been recent discoveries for me (or recent creations). I first discovered Paul's work when I saw Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 sometime in 2006. I downloaded it from this site because someone somewhere on the internet had made such a big deal over how cool it was. I don't remember who but I certainly did remember the video. It was highly entertaining but also violent and grotesque as well with exploding zombies being dismembered by the hundreds in a black and white display of pixelated gore. Clearly meant to resemble and pay homage to video games the movie is full of humor and strange little details. Some of the more grotesque moments even made me feel a little uncomfortable (like should I be enjoying this?) and come to think of it now I doubt I'd seen anything quite like it before.

Scene from Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

I don't specifically remember when but quite some time passed before I knowingly ran into any more of Paul Robertson's work. When it did finally pop up again it was usually introduced on a blog or a forum as "something done by that guy who did the Pirate Baby Cabana Fight Thing". Eventually I went on to discover his other animations, illustrations, animated gifs, and even professional commercials that he worked on and most of it is outstanding work and, well, completely bizarre.

Paul Robertson's The Magic Touch

I could probably sit here and catalog Robertson's work for half the night from his insane pixel massacres such as the aforementioned Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 or his violent and outrageous masterpiece Kings of Power 4 Billion % (available for download here) to the more cool and quirky stuff like Do The Whirlwind and The Magic Touch (posted above) and more but I think I'll leave it to you to discover more if you're interested and you haven't already. Besides, I didn't set out to make a compendium of Paul Robertson's work with this post, I just wanted to highlight one of my favorite pixel artists and spotlight a little corner of his crazy world. :P

Paul Robertson's Live Journal
Paul Robertson's Deviant Art Profile
(these may contain offensive content)

Hexstatic - Ninja Tune

NIIIIIINNNNNJAAAAAAA!!!!!


This is an awesome music video by Hexstatic using video footage and audio samples from a 1987 film titled The Ninja Showdown. If you like this sort of thing and you haven't heard of Hexstatic before I highly recommend checking them out for their often quirky yet grooving funky electro sounds and interesting music videos.

As for the ninja movie itself? I haven't seen it but it looks too corny to be true. Surely one of those 'so bad it's good' gems? Who knows, I may have to look into it but here is the plot summary from IMDB:

"A ruthless gang of Ninja marauders, a kidnapped maiden and a young man seeking vengeance set the stage for "The Ninja Showdown." Warlord boss Jing and his evil band of Purple Ninjas are unstoppable-hihgly trained assassins who ravage a peaceful town. But when the outlaw Ninjas abduct his girl, a wrathful Tony unleashes a furious assault with the help of Ninja Master Gordon. Together, these two men lay waste to Jing's army in a shattering battle to secure their honor and rescue the town from the clutches of a greedy and oppressive tyrant."

Transforminators?

lol