Pete Hindle

Part of an emerging trend of CGI mashup – as computer graphics become good enough that home users can do incredible things, genres become squished together. Click through for the artists blog or videos.

I don’t often sling Youtube videos up here, but this band – solo violinist Owen Pallett – has not only covered this song and made it his own, but also written an album called “He Poos Clouds”, which is about the magic system in Dungeons and Dragons.

Right after I made this 2004 called and asked for it’s internet back. I told them I’d mail it back to Zefrank as soon as I was finished with it.

Famous Irish playwright Samuel Beckett has a science-fiction namesake: Doctor Sam Beckett, who leaps through time to set right what went wrong. The above video is a joke about these two Samuel Becketts. In his later career, the playwright Beckett made some awesomely post-modern offbeat works, including a play that lasts for three seconds, and [...]

(SuperAmazingDoesItForYou video link) After a morning spent tussling with installing, then uninstalling Zotero, I’ve finally had it with those instructional videos that software designers create. I think that nothing beats the written word for communication of information, but I’m consistently finding that complex software is being explained by the use of an instructional video. And usually, that video [...]

RSS readers might need to click through for the video. EDIT: I recorded this video using Photobooth and uploaded it to Vimeo, but it seems that – like every video I record with Photobooth – something went wrong with it. In fact, I have a whole litany of hate just for Photobooth, as every occasion [...]

I’m putting this up because my mum told me she liked it. Thanks! It’s a video made with the programming language Processing, inspired by the work of Douglas Coupland.

James Hugonin is an artist who lives in Northumbria, and makes paintings that reflect his surroundings by taking the predominant colour for each day and painting a square in that colour. This is very procedural art, and therefore it lends itself very well to make a computer program that does the same thing. This would [...]

Now that we’ve shaken off the annoyances of changing themes, let’s talk fun stuff. The video above is such a classic piece of mid-1990′s footage. The style of it is pretty eye-catching, washed in original sentiment grunge, but gear-heads like me will notice the reel-to-reel tape recorder in some of the session footage. Do you [...]