Wierd but Cool

I found these too web created tools that play with user inter-actable tools to create different sound and visual patterns. They're sort of strange but really simple and fun to toy around with.

http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html

www.grotrian.de/spiel/d/spiel_win.html

It makes me appreciate the kinds of tools people are able to design on a simple web page and how innovative they can be for such a basic idea.

Rube Goldberg vs OK Go

This video went viral precisely one year ago but it still surprises me that some haven't been privileged to witness it yet. You'd know OK Go from their treadmill music video, but this one is perhaps their best where they set up a complicated contraption and synchronize it with their music. If there was an award for most dedication  and/or time-consuming effort in a music video this one would go to them. Even if you've seen this one or two times before, it never gets old.

Rube Goldberg Machine: A Rube Goldberg machine, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.

Tarboy

Short animated flash videos, impressive as they are, are just simply for our amusement and don't always have much in terms of a story line. However one video in particular has a great artistic and narrative style that I believe rivals some of Pixar's animated shorts. That means a lot to me since Pixar has always been one of my few muses for becoming an computer animator or graphical artist ergo I hold equally high standards towards the following piece of work...