Media Mashup: Two Towers

November 30, 2006

After Douglas Kahn came to speak at our lecture series, I did the following media cut-up for an assignment. It's pretty self-explanatory, basically the expression of a alternative opinion towards prevalent issues through the reshuffling of media in any form. Trailer re-edits are popular at the moment, and I need an excuse to play around with Final Cut.

I took the tracks used for the Two Towers trailer, spliced them according to the real trailer, sans dialogue.

Here are the trailers/footage I used to reconstruct the trailer:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Fog of War
Black Hawk Down
Apocalypse Now
Hotel Rwanda
Flag of Our Fathers
Farenheit 911
The Assasination of the President
Saving Private Ryan
Blood Diamond
Constant Gardner
Deep Impact
...and more

I've also incorprated YouTube video clips and Google Videos

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50 Years of Janus

I want this...

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How Cocaine is Made

A video documentation on the process of making cocaine. Extremely detailed and procedural. Fascinating.

Via Protein Feed.

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Bottled-Up Sunshine

This is poetic and purchasable...

Here's a short description:

Perfect for the darker month's of the year, the sun jar. Another great idea by Tobi Wong, one of our favorite designers, this jar stores the sun light. No kidding, it really does…

Have it sit in the sun during the day and see it radiate at night. All made possible by modern technology – some LED's, a solar panel and some ingenious thinking. The kind of thinking Tobi is famous for.

This is a wonderful effect and the sandblasted glass makes it seem as if it truly emits warm sun light. It is a great little idea for an outdoor summer dinner, where you have the jars scattered around the table, or an evening at the beach where they will provide just the right amount of light, or as garden illumination, just position them at strategic points in your garden or rooftop terrace or balcony – they work equally well in either location.

Size: 4" x 4" x 6" (10x10x16 cm)

Too bad it's sold out.

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How to Make Microwave Brownies

Jeanne and I were intrigued by this item, briefly introduced to us previously through Reality Bites.

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Kuler by Adobe Lab

November 26, 2006

Stumbled upon this new development on the web the other day. Kuler, an online/executable application developed by Adobe, helps to design and distribute color schemes for Web and design packages.

This completely intuitive interface is great on an obvious level, but the cool thing about it is its structural analysis of color, on a scientific level. It works on the principle of the interrelationships between colors, so that it's not "what looks good," but "what makes sense."

Oh how I love it when things can be interpretted quantitatively.

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