Cool enough that he can play the song on the keyboard, but singing and playing at the same time is a new skill.
February 5, 2012
January 20, 2012
Friday Five 1/20/11
Anti-Ninja Turtle propaganda
Some Canadian anti-fun group shows us all the dangers of today’s toys. Today being the 80s and the toys being TMNT action figures.
In the heart of Trantor – 3D fractal trip
A fractal trip into infinity. I’m not quite smart enough to know exactly what I’m looking at here, but for what I can gather, computing power has gotten good enough to allow you to fly through an infinite fractal. Pretty cool!
Glitches in the Sims
Here’s a collection of glitches in the Matrix… I mean the Sims. I have a lot to say about how the We play the Sims and the Sims can even play the Sims, but who is playing our Sims?
Boob Puppet Theater (sNSFW for side boob)
Someone found a loop-hole to be able to put boobs onto Youtube. Even though it’s a cheap gag, they did a good job with the facial expressions and puppeteering (such as it is).
Paranormal Sounds from the Earth
These certainly sound creepy and it would be neat if they were real, but my money is on viral video campaign for some new disaster movie.
January 6, 2012
Friday Five: 1/6/12
Senseless Graffiti Robot
SENSELESS DRAWING BOT from yang02 on Vimeo.
I love machines that make art. We had to build some in college and one guy stuck paint in a disassembled tame measure and blew paint all over the class room.
Siri Argument
This has been making the rounds but it’s a pretty good win for College Humor.
Proteigon
PROTEIGON from BURAYAN on Vimeo.
A sweet animation about a paper cube. Well executed!
Mars Dentistry Holiday Commercial
Sure, this is a holiday message, but it’s lateness here at todorrobot sort of fits the bill. Brilliantly “bad” commercial.
araabMUZIK dubstep live
As a drummer, I’m not a big fan of the drum solo. This guy, however, is the sickest drum machine player I’ve ever seen. Shit gets real around the 1:15 mark. :O
December 30, 2011
Friday Five: 12/29/11
The ensemble “Birch” – “Pryalitsa” (google translated)
A hypnotic Russian folk dance with a wonderful color palette and a song as catchy as Trololo. In parts it doesn’t look like their legs are moving and the ladies are strapped to skateboards. Sort of the opposite of the Rockettes. There’s an “in Soviet Russia…” joke there somewhere but I’m too lazy to make it.
Three Cubes Colliding
Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.
This is a really cool 3-D printed art project. Some neat shifting focus shots in the beginning but the real money is at the 2:00 mark where they actually get the thing floating.
One bag’s journey through Delta
Follow a bag with 6 cameras through the mysterious black flaps at Delta Airlines.
Don Cherry’s Piano Desk
Nice execution of a simple concept. I only with there was a sustained note from the piano when the OTHER announcer pounds his fist on the desk. A duet!
Time-lapse Christmas Crowd
X-Mas Zoo from Ben Lean on Vimeo.
By Ben Lean filmed in Distillery District and Eaton Centre, Toronto Ontario. I love time-lapse stuff and this guy seems to have a bunch of it. Check out South Meadows from related videos too.
December 21, 2011
Work in Progress Wednesdays: Column Quote Caricatures
I just finished my second full year of weekly Column Quotes and am preparing to start on my third. Here are all the caricatures that ran with the puzzles in 2010 and 2011 (though there might be some stragglers from 2009 that I’ll have to dig up sometime). You can follow the pics to my Flickr where you can look at a larger version.
2010
2011
Do you know who everybody is?
November 25, 2011
Friday Five 11/25/11
Misfits – She Session A 1977 Original (feat. Peanuts)
Collin’s Lab: Atari Punk Console
OK. This thing sounds awesome. I wish I had the circuit-tech bendy skills to make something like this.
Icy Brinicle reaches down to freeze fleeing starfish
Nature is soooo cool. It’s like the icy hand of god reaching down to smite Spongebob and Patrick.
Anderson Cooper has never seen Redi-Whip before
Is this because he was a rich kid growing up or because he’s spent too much time in Rwanda? Either way he gets very excited about it.
Kitten Wrestling
No one ever went to prison for THIS, Michael Vick!
November 11, 2011
Friday Five: 11/11/11
Happy 11/11/11/11/11/11 day! Here are some videos for you to enjoy!
The GAG Quartet – le Internet Medley
This band does covers of internet memes because that’s what the internet is for. Well done medley.
First trailer for GTAV
I have no idea what system this is coming out for but I am excited to see more. I loved GTA:SA but I completely skipped playing GTA IV (not only because I didn’t have the correct system, but also because I heard it wasn’t very fun). I like the look of V from this tiny glimpse, but the realism is starting to bother me in my morals a bit perhaps because I’ve become a parent since I last played GTA. The last time I played San Andreas I stole a bike and kept showing off my tricks to the people on the streets. If they didn’t like my tricks, I’d punch ‘em. Then I jumped some cars off some ramps, but the bullet-fueled rampages just weren’t as much fun any more. #getting older 
Abobo’s Big Adventure
Speaking of games I’m looking forward to, my good pal Roger and his friends put together this loving homage to classic video games staring your favorite Double Dragon baddie and mine, ABOBO (though for the record I’m a bigger fan of Abobo’s green counterpart). This game looks like amazing fun and I will be writing a full review once I’m able to play. Be warned, I suck at video games, so by full review, I probably mean a full review of the first three levels before I get frustrated and give up.
Welcome to Kitty City by Cyriak
Jonah calls the sliding glass doors behind which two extremely fat kitties sit at the other end of our apartment complex “Kitty City” when he rides his tricycle past it. I can only hope that THIS is what it looks like in his imagination.
ASIMO gets a speed boost
Robots are getting faster and are one step closer to being able to do the hokey pokey (and serve drinks afterwards). The future is here!
November 7, 2011
Aftershock: Artists respond to disaster in Japan
My contributor copy of Aftershock, a relief effort spearheaded by the amazing Adam Pasion, came in the mail today. It looks great and I was so happy to be able to put something together for it. I only recognized a couple of the other contributors in the book: Ben Snakepit and Jeffrey Brown, which means I’m totally out of touch with the indie comics scene at the moment… a situation I plan to remedy soon.
I made a pledge last year to try to contribute to as many anthologies as I could to get myself back into drawing comics so if anyone out there knows of people putting together a group project please pass along the information.
September 23, 2011
Friday Five: 9/23/11
Hello and welcome back to the Friday Five! You’d think I’d have a bunch of stuff stock piled, but I only got reconnected to the internet last week and now that I’m working from home, I spend a lot less time dicking around on the internet. I’ll settle into a new groove though. In the mean time, here’s 4 videos to keep you entertained.
Tape Generations
Tape Generations from johan rijpma on Vimeo.
Lots of rolls of tape in this one. Nice in-camera trick and execution of concept.
Pink Floyd’s the Wall by Mariachi
Off-genre covers has become a running theme it seems.
What it’s like to fly over the earth
Put this on full screen and pretend you’re silver surfer.
Mad tea serving skills
Full respect for someone who is awesome at his job!
Animated alphabet
The Alphabet 2 from n9ve on Vimeo.
D is for demolition
August 5, 2011
Friday Five: 8/5/11
You only get 20 birthdays: Patton Oswalt
5 years of Riff-Trax
Unlimited Detail Computer Graphics
holy shit!
Metropolis II by Chris Burden
1,200 matchbox cars in this kinetic sculpture
It’s MuthaFuckin Luchables!
In the vein of the “banned” porn-style Skittles commercial, this fake knock-off hardcore rap lunchables commercial kinda nails the genre. (NSFW for language and cultural insensitivity). The song is pretty good though. reminds me of the GTA: San Andreas soundtrack.