Northrop’s Flying Wing was a spectacular monoplane built in 1947. Apparently, people had visions of putting bars into these things and flying lots of comfortable passengers around. Too bad flying never became this luxurious at all. This promotional film from the Popular Science series has some gorgeous make believe shots inside the aircraft.
This is a learning game I programmed quite a few years ago. I’ve rewritten the code so that it should play more smoothly and perhaps be a little easier to read in the test results area.
The game is very simple: Larry Lobster tells you what to do. You just click on the letter bubbles to pick the right ones. A perfect score frees the trapped submarine from the bottom of the ocean.
Next up – an iPad version!
I started this fundraiser for the victims of the earthquake in Nepal on Crowdriser.com. It’s a very simple and direct way of making donations to the American Red Cross so they can give people some very much needed help.
Bahare Tabatabaei Masouleh is a filmmaker in Tehran, Iran. This piece about a woman who remembers her dreams of childhood is entirely hand animated.
Filmmaker Myrrha Jamil is working on a new film about the iboga, the sacred visionary plant of West Africa. Looks and sounds great so far.
The students at the French computer graphics and animation school, Supinfocom made this amusing little animated film.
It was directed by Corentin Charron, Lise Corriol, Olivier Lafay, and Nicolas Mrikhi.