This seems like something Nintendo should have come up with but Petri Purho of Klooni Games from Finland came up with an interesting game. You solve puzzles by drawing shapes on a screen. The goal is to get the ball to touch the star but the twist is the shapes you draw are affected by physics like gravity and collisions. Draw a fully enclosed shape and it will drop and bump into other shapes on the screen. The video below gives you a better idea of how it works.

Klooni Games is an experimental game play project where every month Petri comes up with some kind of experimental game. This is a great project to build fresh life in to the gaming world which has a habit of copycatting succesful titles instead of innovating.

Hopefully we will see more exciting things Petri comes up with in March, which just happens to be tomorrow.

Here is a funny video from Matthew Vescovo of instructoart.com. If it seems slightly familiar, Matthew did several station ID’s for MTV like The Life & Death of Bling Bling and Gay. Straight.

For some reason this video makes me cackle out loud. The cat’s expression is priceless.

Bet you have never seen a jelly donut rap before.

“…you step up and try to waste me, man you just got your ass wasted by a pastry…”

Download: http://www.illbilly.com/Videos/Jelly_D/Jelly_D.mov

A couple of days ago I saw a story on Digg featuring the introduction to Lakai Fully Flared.

As you can see it is compelling even to the non-skateboarding crowd and it got me thinking about all of the skateboard videos I used to watch. As an aspiring skateboard editor for most of my high school days, I studied a lot of skateboard videos and below are some of the most memorable parts.

Invisible Skateboarding

This part from the Girl video YEAH RIGHT! has caught a lot of interest because of how well the effect was done. The skaters used pure green boards and the camera had to do two exact passes in order to cleanly composite the two shots together sans wooden planks with wheels.

Ali Boulala from Flip’s Sorry

They say Alli is drunk more often than he is sober. After watching the things he throws himself into without a second thought you would probably agree. You certainly would need to be thoroughly hammered to attempt the 25 stair ollie at the end of his part in Sorry!. Makes you wonder just how his feet are still attached to his legs.

Bails From Toy Machine’s Welcome To Hell

This video is a classic. It came out in 1996 which is when I started skateboarding and there hasn’t been a fall section since that even come closes to this montage of cringe-inducing bails.

Jeremy Klein and Heath Kirchart from Birdhouse’s The End

These guys come up with crazy ideas and then go out and do them. Case in point is the clip below featuring the two using large signs and gas pumps as obstacles, all to the tune of “Under Pressure” by Queen.

Danny Way’s Mega Ramp from The DC Video

Tony Hawk might be the most popular skateboarder due to landing the 900 at the 1999 summer X-Games but Danny Way is known for jumping ramps that look like they came straight out of a Tony Hawk Pro Skater videogame. On June 12th, 2003, this guy broke two records in one run: the longest distance jump at 75 feet and the highest air at 23.5 feet. Lucky for us the cameras were rolling.

Rodney Mullen From Plan B’s Second Hand Smoke

Rodney Mullen is considered one of the most influential freestyle skaters in the history of the sport. Way back in 1994 he was pushing the creativity of skateboarding to the limits by doing things with his board that no one imagined as well as proving it was physically possible. Just look at all of the tricks he is credited with inventing. His part in Plan B’s Second Hand Smoke is considered a major influence to up and coming pros who would carry skateboarding to where it is today.

Note: The first half is from Second Hand Smoke while the second half is from Plan B’s Virtual Reality.

So there you have it, some of the most memorable moments in skateboard videos according to me. Do you agree? Disagree? Sound off in the comments!

The people behind Revision3.com’s new look took a step into the limelight for the latest episode of the Revision3 Gazette.

Stephanie Chu, Mark Rebec and Ron Richards are the dedicated web team at Revision3 who have been laboring for months to bring the new Revision3.com to life and took some time out of their busy schedules to share with the Revision3 audience the answers to many burning questions.

They didn’t answer any of my burning questions as the three sat in front of a greenscreen with the new website scrolling in the background. If you agree with me that the new look is bland you will probably think the same thing about the 3-person team explaining the going-ons behind the browser.

Saving Private Ryan is a popular flick with a memorable scene depicting the invasion of Normandy, France. Here it is to jog your memory.

In 1998, when this film was released, the average filmmaker didn’t have the technology available to them to produce a scene at this scale. But as technology has trickled down to the masses, more and more ideas become reasonable to execute. With the state of compositing and CG graphics where they are today there is really no limit with what can be done yet still believable to the average eye.

Take these four guys who managed to recreate a D-Day invasion over a weekend with one camera and off the shelf desktop tools. They documented the whole process so you can see how everything came together. While their mini-scene is not as extensive as the big Hollywood film, the fact that they could even pull this off with such a micro crew is awe-inspiring.

(via HD For Indies)

Here we have a video mashup using the iPhone guided tour video found on Apple’s website with an original song. Plus the thing is catchy, hence I posted it below:

(via BoingBoing)

Firefox has a noble goal of changing the world, one web surfer at a time. Makers of the popular open source web browser, responsible for giving the dominant Internet Explorer a swift kick in the butt, are at it again with a new viral marketing effort. The video below features a plethora of Internet stars singing a song to Fight The Boredom. They’re mocking those over-dramatic public service infomercials asking for money to stop world hunger, adopt a child, or save the birds. The video is fairly amusing and there was a website to go along with it at FightAgainstBoredom.org which now redirects to the Firefox download page.

The facts that scroll against the bottom are as follows:

Compared to Internet Explorer users, Firefox users are

• 21% less likely to be a sales representative or agent at their current place of business.
• 45% more likely to have gone on vacation in San Francisco within the last 2 years.
• 33% less likely to live with others suffering from high cholesterol.
• 6% less likely to have eaten any meal at Chick-fil-A within the last 7 days.
• 24% less likely to live with others suffering from heart disease.
• 66% more likely to have viewed or listened to audio or video about politics or public affairs news within the last 30 day.
• 89% more likely to have purchased database software for work in the last year.
• 38% less likely to live with others suffering from breast cancer.

Was that Tay Zonday of Chocolate Rain fame?

If you want to raise a kid that can’t become a functioning member of society then follow these simple steps:

1. Wait on them all the time
2. Never say no to them
3. Keep a Christmas tree up year ’round because you need to give them gifts every day
4. Do their homework and shelter them from any kind of work

Now those points might sound absolutely ridiculous to normal people like you and me, but these two parents in the clip below actual follow these guidelines.

I’m speechless.

(via Huffington Post)