Posts tagged as "video"

Posted by Markus on 3rd June 2009

Our first robot! Meet Drobo

As I’ve mentioned earlier, I am a total gadget freak. Not a day goes by when I wouldn’t want to upgrade everything I have in my hub of entertainment, but eventually my nearly Vulcan logic wins and I do nothing. There was one thing, however that caught my attention like a two foot steel pole [...]

Posted by Markus on 29th May 2009

Wedding Music Video that rules

Brian and Eileen got married, glad for them, but they had Lockdown  projects to do them a wedding video and it’s the perfect way to end the arduous and long work week. I can’t understand why we didn’t do anything like this. Brian & Eileen’s Wedding Music Video. from LOCKDOWN projects on Vimeo. Have a [...]

Posted by Markus on 13th May 2009

The Trouble with Twitter

Supernews made a “sequel” for their massively popular video Trouble with Twitter and since Twitter has been in the frame constantly now, I thought I’d post the video here for people to catch up what it’s all about. If you already don’t, you can follow me at Twitter as well!

Posted by Markus on 12th May 2009

Swine flu terror show continues

Yesterday I posted some thoughts on Swine Flu and I bumped into Supernews‘ great video on the topic, for your viewing pleasure – here it is: Check Current.tv for more Supernews!

Posted by Markus on 7th May 2009

Our rock stars

Went to see some rock stars doing stand-up comedy at Manala’s English Comedy Club and it was well worth the 7 euro admission and I guess I’ll be spending more time there and I was even asked to go and try out on their English open mic night coming soon… Scary thought. I know. But [...]

Posted by Markus on 28th April 2009

Stand by me played by the world

I love music, and there’s something inspirational about when people unite in song. Even the cliched ones like the American superstar songs did with We are the world (video below). What comes first, is a video from the Playing for Change project that raises funds to build schools. It’s inspiring and awesome! From the award-winning [...]

Posted by Markus on 27th April 2009

The Butt Race – YouTube’s no.1 from 1965

If Youtube and some other technologies required by Youtube, such as the Internet were around in 1965 we would be watching videos like this. Videos directed by 14-year old kids, that are original and funny – and most importantly, have a very catchy name to get those viewers in. See? The next time your parents [...]

Posted by Markus on 26th April 2009

Evelien Lohbeck’s notebook

Again, the web delivers something awesome to my retinas – this time the awarded movie / animation by Dutch artist Evelien Lohbeck titled the “Notebook”. Her style reminds me of the incredibly simple Google product animations done by Commoncraft (for example, here’s the Google Docs animation) Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo. Totally beautiful and [...]

Posted by Markus on 26th April 2009

The week on varha.com April 20th to 26th

Oh boy, what a week! So many things to do and so little time to do it. The sun is, like, totally shining and summer’s coming and it is super schweet! Spend your Sunday afternoon reading these, after the sun has set! A lot of interesting articles again this week, here’s what you watched the [...]

Posted by Markus on 25th April 2009

Bionic Penguins? You betcha.

Robots are super cool, bionic swimming penguin robots that talk to each other forces me to reinvent the scale of cool. Created by German engineering firm Festo, these robotic penguins use state-of-the-art 3D sonar to navigate around their surroundings and, according to New Scientist, are suitably flexible: The bionic penguins can twist and turn almost [...]