(via Miss at la Playa) Vogue Paris did a feature showcasing the same model made-up and photographed for every decade of her life. The two here show the model at 10 years and 60 years old, but if you click through, you can see the intervening decades. However, she’s actually the same age in each photo. It’s really quite remarkable.(via ragdoll)
Saved By Zero Ad by Toyota.
Time magazine claimed it’s an annoying ad. It’s actually quite good. I would’ve bought a Toyota if I haven’t already bought a Honda this year.
For the awesome original soundtrack by The Fixx, it’s available here.
Using 200 Toshiba Gigashot cameras this advertisement called “Timesculpture” for Toshiba advances the Bullet Time method we all remember from the movie The Matrix. However, this was created not by combining static images compiled together…no sir ree, Bob!! This was filmed and produced using looped video clips digitally stitched together to work seamlessly to create a really cool looking ad. The ad itself is fun to watch but the real meat of this story comes from the clip that details how they made it. What floored me was the amount of data collected to produce this ad…20,000 gigabytes! And the time it took to process this plethora of data? Four weeks. Four weeks! @_@ (via Bullet Time 2.0 by Toshiba - Neatorama
(Via markbean)
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty stemmed from research that exposed that only 2% of women world wide considered themselves beautiful. Apparently, the campaign was denied twice by the Dove executives. To prove their point, the marketers developing the campaign secretly interviewed the daughters of those executives and presented it to them in a video much like this one. The executives acquiesced and the campaign was launched in 2004.(Via dihard)
Enterprise-Class Starship under construction on Earth.
A screen capture from the new Star Trek trailer.
Star Trek XI - New Trailer
Watch the glorious 1080p HD version here.
The movie site is slick too.
Possible spoilers via Den of Geek.
So many webcomics eventually get collected into book form that we decided to leave webcomics as a whole off this list, but “Garfield Minus Garfield” isn’t actually a webcomic so much as an anti-newspaper-comic. Creator Dan Walsh finds the weirdness and angst in Jim Davis’ committee-created, achingly banal comic strip Garfield by erasing the title character, plus selected word balloons from other characters, in order to leave Garfield’s owner Jon Arbuckle alone in the strip. The results are surreal and depressing: Jon talks to himself, attempts to amuse himself, and bursts into tears, or just winds up staring blankly at walls. But Walsh isn’t just creating Dada nonsense, he’s pointing out that this Garfield is a cat, cats can’t talk, and Jon really is just talking creepily to himself whenever he “converses” with his grouchy pet. The recent book collection Garfield Minus Garfield—approved by Davis, who’ll seemingly approve anything for a buck—goes the website one better by showing the original strips alongside the altered ones. Oddly, this makes Walsh’s recreations less funny, since it’s much clearer how dumb the strips were to start with.
(via Why buy the cow? 27 popular websites that became books)
Amanda Tapping, with her glorious rendition of a British accent.
