OMG, the Commando high score. Mind blown. (at 3:15)

A Chris Burden piece where no one is bleeding. The man has gotten really tame in his old age. But it rocks socks anyways.

Just goes to prove my theory: kid with OCD + Internet = art

After a good deal of introspection, and teaming up with awesome motion graphics artist Gerardo del Hierro, we decided that happy wasn’t happy for Physalia unless pliers, microchips and a bit of soldering were involved, and with this idea we resolved to create the happiest machine Physalia has built to date.

6 days till I hit the tropics

Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run from shiffman on Vimeo.

Via kottke.org.

Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways.

Particular nuggets I have found so far include: The Great Migration in the Sky, Taxis in London and Ships Crossing the Channel.

Via 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year at Flowing Data via Beyond the Beyond.

Some sweet tilt-shift video footage of Sydney beach, Tamarama

Via Super Colossal.

By Joshua Allen Harris

Via cityofsound.

Boy those DJ's sure look happy don't they?

Here you can see a good example of the dutch "tekno" dance.

Check the girl rocking out at 4:10.

TimeTwist from Herbert Spencer on Vimeo.

Via Bruce Sterling at Beyond the Beyond.

Bruce Sterling at Beyond the Beyond:

*This French guy is serenely hand-manufacturing his own vacuum tubes.

*This video is seventeen minutes long. I’d also be guessing this gentleman has invested about seventeen years in acquiring that vacuum-tube zen.

Fabrication d’une lampe triode
by F2FO

Martijn Hendriks:

Exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all birds have been removed
Single channel video, color, 119 minutes

Via Marcus Trimble at Super Colossal.