How The Game Is Played

A few of my favorite things.

Some people collect coins, some people collect stamps.

I collect video. I have a pretty good sized DVD collection and a list of my favorite media clips on the web. I thought I'd share the latter.

First up is a peice of Machinema. Machinema are video production peices done by capturing and editing video from game engines. Their production can be as complex and involved as a "live" movie, but all the actors, sets and cameras are virtual. Sort of found-art meets video production.

Here's my personal favorite, the video is all captured from from Star Wars Galaxies and yes you really CAN make your character do everything shown here, Though not quite as smoothly edited together as the artist here did: :)

http://www.lucasfiles.com/?s=&action=file&id=676

Next is something from the same twisted Britt who brought us those singing rats that were in that Quiznos ad. Its my ultimate proof that you can write a folk-song about anything:

http://www.rathergood.com/fishy/

Outside of the Quzinos ads, he's probably most famous for this video. A great example of the humor of juxtaposing incongrous elements. Its a bit hard to find as its a copyright violation and he no longer has it on his own site, but just for you folks I found a mirror :)

http://users.wolfcrews.com/toys/vikings/

Finally, I saved the best for the last. This is not a produced piece. Its quite real. An amazing news report that has been saved for posterirty on the net. Its sort of like watching the governmental version of a train-wreck happen in slow motion. The comic timing is just about perfect. Watch it all the way through and I promise you'll laugh til your sides hurt.

The Famous Exploding Whale:

http://www.perp.com/whale/video.html

Posted at 10:43PM Apr 27, 2005 by gameguy in General  |  Comments[0]