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We Have Band – You Came Out

We Have Band -You Came Out – official music video. Created by W+K creative team Ida Gronblom & Fabian Berglund and Blinkink director David Wilson. The face paint animation film is made up of 4,816 separate stills. Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence. This time-consuming process involved the band members lying still for two consecutive days in a studio.

In order to animate the singing bit, lip movement was created by animating a painted mouth on the singer Dede. This involved breaking the lyrics into phonetics and giving each sound a specific mouth shape. To make this as realistic as possible all the mouth shapes were painted on Dedes face individually and then shot. All 4,816 frames of the music video can be found on Flickr.

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Undefeated + Lakers = Orlando sucks

Ahh the NBA finals start tonight – Los Angeles Lakers vs Orlando Magic, should be hell of a game. Now even though these are neither of my teams (I’m Canadian so by default I have to roll with the crappy Raptors), but I am however very patriotic and dedicated to my teams.

Seems like Undefeated in LA are also pretty dedicated to their Lakers. On the day of the big showdown they have released what I believe is a limited run of bright yellow and purple kits featuring “Orlando Sucks”. Pretty harsh, direct and too the point no? Cmon Orlando, what do you guys have in store for when the Lakers roll into Disneyworld? You have to do something now, you can’t get owned like this?

Oh, for the record – I’m going on the record right here. It will be a tough series, Lakers have shown their weaknesses and lack of passion, but they also have the more talented roster and showed promise in the last 2 games against the Nuggets – who I claim to be a better team than the Magic.

Lakers in 6.

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DC shoes and Ken Block know how to drift

Nothing better than the smell of fresh tar on asphalt early in the morning. I had no idea DC was getting into rally racing as well, but seems like a pretty good look – this video has definitely sold me on it. There’s some serious heel/toe/parking brake/drifting action going on in here.

Move over Nike Shox – Porsche suspension coming to kicks near you

“The insane-looking kick has metal springs and lever arms built into its suspension and is designed to actually deliver increases in propulsion, rather than merely cushioning your footfalls. No word on whether it actually works–the darn things cost more than my ticket back home.”

Whether this is a prototype or just hot air – it still looks pretty bad ass.

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Sony Vaio P review – day 3

This is how it all happened. I was flying back home to Montreal a few days ago and ended up a Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport.  I had some time to kill so I got a quick bite to eat, checked out some shops and low and behold in front of me sat the little sony vaio p – so small I almost missed it actually and took a double take.  This was probably the most spontaneous, impulse purchase ever – no I don’t need it,yes it’s expensive and overly priced for a netbook, but yes I had to have it…another sucker born every minute.

So how does it fair? Is the 1600×768 resolution on a 8 inch display overkill?  Is it worth the high price tag? If I were to quickly summarize – yes and no, but it’s a beautiful thing. Not only is the smallest, sleekest device I’ve seen, after about 3 days of use, I can honestly say that it does everything I need to do and do it pretty well. Now I know there have been reviews targeting the lack of processing power (I have the low end 1.33ghz version) and couple that with the fact that it comes loaded with Vista (windows 7 will be coming up shortly), but when you think of what this device is supposed to be, it’s done an amazing job so far in my everyday life. Now maybe my demands are not as tough as the other guy who expects to play Call of Duty 5 on this thing, but a netbook is very simple – it’s used as a secondary computer for road warriors.  All I really need is to be able to do some heavy browsing, type some emails, play and watch videos/movies, view and write the occasional powerpoint or pdf and maybe do the occasional video chat to my girlfriend when I’m away – that’s all

I’ll post more thoughts really soon as I get to use the Vaio P a little more…but overall thoughts are very positive so far and typing this post from the Vaio P is a breeze.