Interesting stop-motion animation with a whiteboard:

Dunno the song, but it’s from Jamiroquai… love it!

Source: TechEBlog

In this… a little bit crazy video, pianist Torley Rex Wong shows some techniques to play the piano like Philip Glass:

Very awesome! Unfortunately I don’t even know the scales… but will look into it.

Source: Found while searching for Philip Glass piano style/techniques

Fede Alvarez is the director of this short CG movie called Ataque de Pánico!
Shot in Montevideo (Fede Alvarez has a post production house called Aparato Post in Uruguay), apparently it took only $300 for the live action stuff plus about an year to complete the whole process!

And get this: This video rendered a $30 million contract with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures.
What can I say? Congrats, you guys deserved it!
You can check more details about the production on CGSociety’s post about Ataque de Pánico! made by Fede Alvarez himself.

Source: Gizmodo

So, I always looked as these robot dogs and pets and asked myself: Why would anyone want to replace a real pet for something like that.
A post on Gizmodo showed me the truth behind those. People don’t buy robot pets for them… they buy it for their own real pets!

This robot dog here was given to a cat. Results are pretty much what was expected… (notice that bucket was of kitty litter!)

Source: Gizmodo

CNN does this interesting piece with interesting reflections on the Sal9000 and Nene Anegasaki (Love Plus) Wedding:

Shure most people nowadays will just shove it off as some japanese otaku weirdo that’s too timid to go after a real girl etc etc, but reporter Kyung Lah goes a little deeper into the question showing that while this might be a little odd now, it also can be the very start of a tendency of people getting related more to virtual beings than real ones.
As I’ve seen in lots of otaku documentaries and stuff, what seems to happen is that these anti-social oftenly shy and recluse people finds in virtual characters and friends relationships that are more confortable and less prone to bad surprises and judgements.
Despite Sal9000 there being an extreme case going as far as a simulated marriage and total dedication to the character, it’s becoming less and less a far fetched idea not only in Japan but also in the rest of the world of people turning the virtual world his/her only contact or at least the main contact with the outside world.
If this is bad or good, I won’t be the judge… today’s society standards certainly looks at it as something odd and weird.
But at least in some cases, I’m not so shure it’s as bad as the news makes it look…

Source: SankakuComplex (NSFW)

This is special for oldschool adventure games’ fans!
Kenney’s Bite Sized Non-Adventures is just like the title says: VERY SHORT adventure games… without the adventure.

Meaning it’s just like bits of everyday routine turned into a pixelated adventure game.
And you know what? It’s really entertaining! xD
At least for those of us who have the adventure gaming nostalgy bug.
Click the image or this link to play the game at Kenney’s official website!

Source: Kotaku

All in one very nerdy video!

By Dr Zeus and The Masters of Lightning.
Dunno if there’s a world record for most geek nerdy video, but if so this video must be close to the top!

Source: Gizmodo

RenderYardChannel and Retro Producciones has this trailer for an interesting indie documentary about Japan and hobbies, called (duh) Hobby:
http://www.dailymotion.com/videoxan18q
With Ciro Altabas as guide, and lots of interesting stuff!
Master blogger of all things otaku in Japan – Danny Choo seems to be a big theme there, which is just awesome!

Source: A Tweet from Danny

Very awesome stop motion claymation (clay animation) ad for the XBox 360:

Made by Moo Studios.
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So, I always looked as these robot dogs and pets and asked myself: Why would anyone want to replace a real pet for something like that.
A post on Gizmodo showed me the truth behind those. People don’t buy robot pets for them… they buy it for their own real pets!

Cat watches the dirty i-Cybie do his dog things, probably awaiting the best opportunity to blow it up.

Source: Gizmodo