I remember going berzerker as a kid over Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out. A few friends would run home after school, dust off the NES cartridge and start playing. At the time this game was so hard. You couldn’t just punch like a mad man you had to find out all the tricks for beating each character. Your trainer Doc, would give you advice that made absolutely no sense. You would basically just have to figure out the combinations by trial and error.

I found this video online today… looks like the game came out already, so I need to head to the store!

Check out the awesome videos that Nintendo created for the game on there site: www.punchout.com

Can someone please explain to me why the Japanese make everything weird awesome? I mean seriously, I need to move there. This Japanese instructional video tells you what to say when your stomach hurts. Warning: This video get 10X better when listening to it at full volume.

Hate water? Oasis, a beverage “for people who don’t like water.”

Funny show that I stumbled upon called, Party Down. Thing is funny. Rob Thomas, creator of Veronica Mars, is behind it along with Paul Rudd and a few others. Follow a crew of has-been/never-been/wannabe actors who make up a catering company from event to event. Plus, Jane Lynch is in it. C’mon.

It airs on Starz, but you can watch it on Netflix Instant Play (awesome). There are 8 episodes already available so far. Just in case you get into it.

And I can already tell the week wont be much better.

Weekend:

Weekday:

I remember having a Disneyland pass and going on this ride just to get out of the hot California sun. If you went to Disneyland in the mid 80’s then you will be walking down memory lane with the next two videos.

Also, check out the making of Captain Eo after the jump

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I love this video, Pac-man running around causing mayhem in France. Somehow I can picture this becoming a whateves challenge.

French Pac-Man video

This video made me tear up this morning.

Recently, I had the pleasure of going to the LA premiere of CORALINE. Lemme tell you, it is a visual extravaganza – eye candy in your face. Neil Gaimon, author of the original story said that after his first draft, he sent it to Henry Selick because he had to get it to the director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and he knew that because he actually read the credits. They partnered with LAIKA, a stop-start animation studio in Portland so it was made outside outside of the studio system – you can tell they were able to make the movie they wanted – “out of lo-fi technology that is almost as old as filmmaking itself.”

The entire thing is hand made – in a 4-inch cat, you will have about 100 parts.   All of it has the creepy aesthetics that made Nightmare wonderful, Elfman didn’t do the soundtrack, but the score almost sounds as if Joanna Newsome composed it in the circus.  They Might Be Giants have a song in it and considering I am a giant nerd, my head nearly exploded. YOh and Um. It’s in 3-D.

Yeah. Stop-Start Animation in 3-D bitches.

GO SEE IT. GO SEE IT THIS WEEKEND. ON A BIG SCREEN. IN 3-D.

P.S. The Mouse Circus nearly blew my mind.

At CNN.com they have compiled thousands of photos during Obamas Presidential Inauguration and titled them The Moment. Photos were submitted by anyone that attended the Inauguration. Then the compiled photos are layered on top of each other to create a 3D space from the otherwise 2D photos. Basically, It’s a panorama using thousands of submitted images from the people who attended.

CNN has been doing some cool interactive things with their displays/computer monitors. Most of them use a major event to showcase them. Example: the 2008 Election and here in the Presidential Inauguration.

Its pretty cool to click around the audience and see who attended along with seeing Obama, his family and the people around him during The Moment. I found a few actors and senators that were sitting right behind Obama as he was sworn in.

You will need to install a plug in called Silverlight to make it work and be able to interact, but that is it. Super easy and most of the photos are pretty good quality.

Check it out: The Moment

its been 25 years since the debut of the apple mac. needless to say i am a huge fan of apple products. i use them every day to get my job done and i appreciate the fit and finish and the extreme attention to detail they offer. my family actually had one of these original mac and i have very fond memories of it and apps like chopper command and mac paint. watching this video of the release of the mac its funny to see how far computers have come. check it out and watch people go apeshit over the silliest things. imagine if that audience saw an iphone back then. that shit would be mind melting.
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While I know its the hip thing to claim love for the Golden Girls, but I honestly can’t figure out the recipe that made me watch countless episodes as a child. Check out this video from Pistol Youth’s  In My Eyes directed by Isaac Rentz.

It give the girls a cultural love the same way Weezer gave props to Happy Days.

Better quality version here.

And if you think that’s embarrassing, check out his big exit after the jump…

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this is a few days old but heck we just got whateves back on line so i thought i would share it. the place i work at made this and its been blowing up on the interwebs i have never been so proud of an employer. check our site for some “out takes”.

This is my last few days of Christmas vacation. Monday is back to work. It’s been a nice week and a half of no technology. I found this Mario video while re-acclimating myself with my computer. Ahh if vacation could never end.