Not had any time to brush up on the Oscar-nominated films for Best Picture yet? Cheat by letting these kids sum up each film in under a minute each.
Kids re-enact Oscar Best Picture films
Kanye West premiered his high-concept 35 minute short film directed by himself featuring My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s next single ‘Runaway’ at its centre along with a host of new songs from the album. The story involves a lady phoenix that Kanye falls in love with..
Watch at MTV US.
Interactivity is the name of the game this week as Digital looks at sites which require input from general public.
An impressively ambitious project called Playhouse has been launched as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. The Liberty Hall building on the quays of Dublin’s city centre will be home to 100,000 low-energy LED lights covering 330 windows on two sides of Dublin’s tallest building and what they display is entirely up to you.
The project website – http://playhouse.daft.ie allows anyone to submit animations for inclusion in the project when it goes live officially from September 24 to October 11, using a small downloadable bit of software, imported images or video and your imagination. A word of warning to potential pranksters, each animation will be checked to ensure the type of crass content usually found on the back of school copybooks doesn’t appear on the Dublin skyline.
If you’re a horror movie buff whose always wanted to get involved in the filmmaking business but have no discerning movie talent, The Indywood Project offers you the chance to do so by becoming one of 2500 producers for the B-movie Invasion Of The Not Quite Dead. By splashing out from £20 and up, you can help fund the production and pre-order a copy of the finished film on DVD or Blu-Ray. Depending on how much you pay, your money also entitles you to a small speaking part, your photo appearing in the film or a share of the potential profits.
Take that concept and apply it to music and you get Sellaband – a site that enables fans to donate towards an artist’s album recording fund and share in the potential profits of the album if it is successful. If you’re interested in the concept though make sure you look around as this niche market is packed with sites of a similar ilk like Kickstarter.com and BandStocks.com. You may find an artist worthy of your finances and support.
Sexy Execs
“Meet the silver-foxes and their lovely lady friends who rule our corporate world.“
http://sexyexecs.blogspot.com
The Auteurs
Watch arthouse films for a fiver streaming online. Extremely worth it as a lot of these films are hard to find. Plus, the site shows a free film every month.
http://www.theauteurs.com
RTweeter
Belfast developer Stuart Manning has built some extensions for Twitter which allow you to write more than 140 characters, enter a map location on your tweets and check stats on your links.
http://rtweeter.com
T-Post
A Swedish t-shirt subscription website which mails out unique t-shirts to subscribers inspired by overlooked current news items.
http://www.t-post.se
5- Second Films
Do you have the attention span of a fish? This short video site might be for you..
http://5secondfilms.com/films
F My Life
A place for people to share everyday unfortunate moments and small failures (or internet fails).
http://www.fmylife.com/
Superheroes caught off-duty
Toronto photographer Ian Pool imagines what Batman, Hulk and Spiderman get up to in their spare time.
Link: Superheroes are normal people too
50 Movies hidden in a painting
Empire celebrate 20 years with a painting that has clues to 50 films. We got about 15 in our first attempt. How many can you get?
http://www.empireonline.com/crypticcanvas/
For Bacon enthusiasts..
Ten products which were inspired by bacon. A bacon mint anyone? I can’t believe Baconnaise – the bacon-flavoured spread didn’t make the cut..
Link: 10 Craziest Products Inspired by Bacon
[via Egoeccentric and Saturday Night Live]
