Awesome Local Student Film Nails 170,000 Hits On Vimeo [VIDEO]
This six minute animated film was created by six students from The Animation School in Cape Town. Within 24 hours of it appearing on Vimeo, it had garnered 90,000 views. That’s a big deal.
Today’s Viral Video – Awesome ‘Mirror City’ Time-Lapse Will Blow Your Mind [VIDEO]
Michael Shainblum has created this fascinating video appropriately named Mirror City. Click through to watch the kaleidoscope-esque visual story.
Wikileaks Temporarily Plugged Due To Lack Of Funds
It turns out publishing classified diplomatic files online isn’t all that lucrative! Whistle blowing site, WikiLeaks has announced that they’re pausing their publishing process to concentrate on raising funds. Julian Assange claims that the financial “blockade” mounted by Visa, MasterCard and other companies, has forced Wikileaks to “temporarily suspend its publishing operations and aggressively fundraise.”
Now There’s Vaguely Terrifying Face-Stealing Technology [VIDEO]
Watch developer Arturo Castro shows off his fancy new FaceTracker API, which allows users to harvest photographs of other folks’ faces, and project them onto their own. Here we see Castro variously becoming Vladimir Lenin, Chairman Mao, and Steve Jobs. Because, why not?