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Weekly Wanderings

Some of the cool stuff I stumbled upon this past week. This week: camera flashes are really cool in a music video, and food rises from the dead.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet! 250 cameras make for a pretty awesome music video.
This camera is on my Christmas list. Hint hint!
Creeepy! This food is dead, but moves in the bowl with a little soy sauce. Science, bitches!

Some of the cool stuff I stumbled upon this past week. This week: bloody cult musicals that aren’t Rocky Horror and event invisibility cloaks.

If this isn’t the coolest musical ever, I don’t know what is.
Take the Animal Sleep Quiz and tell me how you do! On my first try I scored only 2 out of 12. o.O
Invisibility cloaks? Old news. The new hotness is event invisibility devices.
What is success? I really like this definition of it.

Some of the cool stuff I stumbled upon this past week. This week: the vanishing kakapo, the color of dinosaurs, and monkey photographers.

A sad article about one of my favorite animals–the kakapo. At the end you find out that the most truly invasive species is man. (Jokes. Sort of.)
They can now figure out what color fossilized critters were by using a breakthrough x-ray technique. OMG awesome!
Weird and cool at the same time: Japanese girl pop group AKB 48 revealed a new, adorable group member in a commercial for candy, later revealing that the girl was actually a computer composite of the group member’s “best” features. Watch the compositing here. A little creepy in its implications of creating “perfect” people, and the over-sugary personae of these girls has a quiet pedophiliac vibe that bugs me out. Oh Japan how I miss you!
As if you need another reason to get a Roomba, you can also make some really neat light painting photos with them.
This is Kickstarter at its best! So glad to see this film got its funding, and I can’t wait to see it! It looks like it’s going to be amazing.
This monkey is a better photographer than I am! Such talent.
They found 500 years’ worth of treasure in vaults beneath an Indian temple, estimated at $22 billion. But read the article, it gets awesomer! The story reads like an adventure movie.