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Last week, Sundance

Due to a trip last week for work to sunny Ingerlund, the activity on this web has been close to the English temperature.

I’m back now and have an enormous list of “starred items” in my G-reader. Just that I was not here, does not mean anything interesting happened… ainnit?

 

To start, a couple of the movies that are being presented on this years Sundance festival. Thanks to the people of io9.com who pointed this out.

(The event, I mean. Here in Europe there is not a lot of noise around Sundance at all).

 

Another Earth

I have to admit that the trailer does not really look too appealing, but I really like the concept.

How would you and the rest of the people react when another earth shows in the sky?

The reviews leave the movie a bit bad though. Too long, dramatic and focussing on the family drama instead of the effects of discovering Earth 2.

 

 

Perfect Sense

A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. I have seen the trailer. I am not sure if it does the movie any credit. It looks a bit boring, but the overall critics have been quite enthusiastic.

 

Eva Green in a lab-coat is definitively a plus.



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Distractions

From where I am sitting, I can see at least 10 colleagues being very busy… Playing either chess, or online monopoly. The work I am doing now is basically finishing stuff that I had lying around for ages. This is the perfect period for that.

There are some moments of distraction though… required distraction. Here is a small portion of today’s most interesting “busy” places:

Editing the dead:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09lBrJq4yw

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Since last year has been a bit “the rise of the zombies” with the success of the Walking Dead, this is a quite entertaining and themed end-of-the-year distraction.

#BurtonStory: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23BurtonStory / http://www.burtonstory.com

Stainboy

It all started with a single tweet: “Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor”. After that, the story is invented and co-written by manny people on twitter, which resulted in this weird but funny story.

Happy Newyear!



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Colour Chart from an Image

this is a new tool I found online. For people that have a hard time putting together their colour schemes, here is Kuler, from Adobe.

 

At Kuler, aside from quite some nice colour swatches, you can compose a colour cart either from a start colour, or from a source image.

 

An example:

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Have a play yourself: http://kuler.adobe.com For future reference, you can find this link in the Links block, bottom right of the homepage.



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Arcade Fire + Google (Chrome) = nice HTML 5 Demo

The wilderness Downtown. This is one of the latest examples in the Google Chrome HTML5 Experiments site.

 

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As they explain the “experience”:

“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.”

 

And to be honest, it is looking very closely like what a browser-based music-video should look like. I think….

 

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire/



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