Why is Twilight Popular? A Short Animated Explanation
The Lego Brick effect he’s talking about is called “Masking“, and is extensively explained in Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, a book I highly recommend everyone read. I...
A Funny Explanation of the European Debt Crisis
Oh those clever Aussies…
A History of Power Rangers
I know I’m showing my geek roots here, but it’s time to come clean. I was a Super Sentai fan. -_- There, I said it. It’s out...
Hidden Talents
One of the great things about Youtube is that it’s a mini American’s Got Talent of sorts, where all sorts of interesting abilities people have can be...
WuXia versus Kung Fu
Recently I’ve been watching a lot old Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies on Youtube, and it occurred to me that from the point of view of someone...
Epic Sea Monsters of Tale and Legend
Since I already showed a Godzilla video earlier this week, and I’ve now shown the king of the monsters, let’s take a look at some of his...
Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge
Last Weekend Sci-Fi London (UK) held an event called the National 48 Hour Film Challenge where participant filmmakers were given obviously 48 hours to produce a 5...
Blazing Across the Stars
When I was 8, a single series rocked my young world- Star Blazers. The Americanization of Space Battleship Yamato (perhaps one of the most important anime of...
Augmented Reality Maps
TED Talks has just posted an 8 minute presentation with one of the lead designers of Bing Maps (Microsoft’s Google Maps clone) that shows basically how they’re...