If you missed the locally produced Just For Laughs Gags Asia which airs on MediaCorp Channel 5 every Tuesday night, don't worry, you can still watch the episodes on YouTube thanks to a guy who recorded them when they aired on TV.
Go download Live Movies : A Field Guide to New Media for the Performing Arts (in PDF), a free 252-page ebook of theory, history, and case-studies. It is useful for any university student who is writing essays about the blending of staged performance and interactive new media.
The Virtual Piano is an online piano that you can play using your mouse or keystrokes on your computer keyboard. You can play chords and melodies on it. It also shows you how to play the piano as you play.
Ryan built an iPhone inspired touch screen into the wall of his kitchen because his wife has been bugging him to put a computer in the kitchen so that she can manage her recipes, shopping lists, to do lists and access the internet.
Batman: The Musical is a rock opera featuring songs by longtime Meat Loaf songwriter Jim Steinman and scriptwriter David Ive, and possibly going to be directed by Tim Burton himself, but unfortunately it got canceled. You can still listen to some of the songs from the musical here.
These made to order Brain Bowls are a must for zombie fans! The slipcast porcelain bowl is covered with juicy brain texture and is lined with a lovely blood red color. Great for serving cereal or eating brain, what else!
In his new book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction, Toy designer John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for each project, including materials and ammo lists, clear diagrams, and construction tips, for mayhem-loving MacGyvers. Here's his guide to building a lethal crossbow using pencils, rubber bands, some masking tape and a pen.
Fun Star Wars playset from Play-Doh features R2-D2 figure with special tools that make lightsabers, jets that shoot Play-Doh out his sides, stamps on his feet to make C-3PO, Ahsoka, Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. In total, there are six toys and three 2-ounce cans of Play-Doh modeling compound to play with.
Dude coated a thin plywood box with self-hardening clay, carved various glyphs and designs into it, then threw in his Xbox 360, and embellished it until it more than resembled the All Spark, the magical cube-shaped artifact from Transformers that brings mechanical and electronic objects to life.
BookBook is a one-of-a-kind, hardback leather case designed exclusively for MacBook and MacBook Pro. It creates a hardback book structure that safeguards your MacBook like few other cases can. And it's the perfect disguise. No one will ever see your MacBook, even when it’s right under their nose.
I'm a big Playstation 3 fan so I'm totally impressed with what this guy did. He made a device that looks like an oversized wireless PS3 controller but is fitted with a display! Ok, he didn't really fit the entire PS3 into the device but it's still damn cool. Now you can play your PS3 without a TV!
Need a cool avatar for your Twitter account? Check out Ape Lad's Twitter Avatars set on Flickr which are based on the outline of the Twitter bird. All his avatars are free for you to use. I like his Yoda, Ponyo and Wolverine avatars.
This is a 320 GB external hard drive fabricated from Star Wars: A New Hope VHS tape. It contains a Samsung 2.5” hard drive in 500GB or 640GB. The drive is also available in just about any VHS tape and cover you can imagine.
Katie just did 25 sketch cards for TOPPS' new Star Wars set. I love her artwork.They are so awesomely adorable! She also just wrapped up production on the first season of Starwars.com Clone Wars webcomics.
JAL will begin operating a Boeing 777-300 decorated with large colorful images of Doraemon characters on domestic routes beginning in mid-February. Called the Doraemon Jet, it is the result of a joint effort between JAL and the creators of the Doraemon movies to promote this year’s annual Doraemon film.
You've probably seen the Star Wars hoodies designed by Marc Ecko in an old post. They are cool alright but this one by Frosti is cooler. It's the R2D2 hoodie! Frosti says that words cannot describe the awesomeness of this hoodie. She's right! I'm so going to buy this.
A major blockbuster movie like Avatar wouldn’t be complete without the Lego fan community cranking out creations inspired by the film so here's the Lego Avatar Flickr group. This one is a battle vignette with Navi, Ikran, AMP Suit and Samson.
The Sake Bomb by Alexander Purcell consists of a sea mine-like object with spikes designed to hold sake cups. The inspiration is a juxtaposition of the Fugu Fish (Blowfish), the most opulent of sashimi cuts and a WW II sea mine.
Dude turns the Ivar side unit from Ikea into rails for his camera. He says: "A few days ago, I found out that the Ivar wooden ladder was perfect to use it as rails for my cinema dolly! I can now make some nice sequence shots with this 18€ accessory from Ikea."
Scans of the traditional Chinese edition of Chris Ware's graphic book, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. The widely-acclaimed graphic novel is about Jimmy who attempts to escape his unhappiness via an active imagination that gets him into awkward situations. Many of its pages are devoid of text and some contain complex iconic diagrams.
Follow Wall-E and his adventures throughout the year in Brian's Wall-E 365: What's he up to? photoset on Flickr. Brian writes: "I'm just finishing up a year of photos for a 365 project and about to endeavour on another. This will incorporate Wall-E into our lives in everyday situations that only he could make a bit more comical."
The Sega Indoor Fireworks Projector is the world’s first indoor firework projector. It has six lenses, internal speakers and nine interchangeable image discs that beam realistic virtual firework displays across walls and ceilings, and blast out explosive sound effects.
