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Playing with FrameByFrame

FrameByFrame is a freeware stop-motion app for OS X. I just used it to quickly make this very small test movie:
stopmotiontest.mov
Here it is embedded. Click to play: Had to cut it b/c it was crashing people’s FF3.
The little bit of music here is from NIN’s new freely downloadable album, the slip. The entire album is [...]

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Prince at Coachella covering Radiohead’s Creep

He cover’s Radiohead’s Creep at Coachella (*):

It’s like you took my two favorite artists and smashed them together. The only thing that would be more awesome is if Thom Yorke (*) walked out on stage and joined Prince (*) in a rendition of Let’s Go Crazy.
You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! You got [...]

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GTA4 Explosion of Walkthroughs, Leaks, Cheats, etc.

Mahalo’s Video Game Team is going crazy covering everything Grand Theft Auto IV. Here’s everything they’re finding on the GTAIV missions:
Grand Theft Auto 4 Missions (*) | Grand Theft Auto 4 Bull in a China Shop (*) | Grand Theft Auto 4 Easy Fare (*) | Grand Theft Auto 4 Easy as Can Be (*) [...]

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Lost Season 4 Spoilers

Are you a Lost nut? Have all kinds of conspiracies about what the hell is going on? Check it out: Lost Season 4 Spoilers (*).
Also, new Lost (*) tonight! w00t!

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Das Rad (the Wheel)

Spotted this 9 minute German film over at Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy:

Very cool, or should I say: Ausgezeichnet!

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Best Fictional Brands

Following up on the fun that was our Best Evil Robots (*) page, the Mahalo team has built a new page: Best Fictional Brands (*). I contributed the Lost brands section:

Now things get very bizarre in the current season of Lost, when we discover that the arch-rival company of the Hanso Foundation, Widmore Corporation has [...]

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Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur, Citizen Media, and Web 3.0

Andrew Keen (*) was at Mahalo HQ today to talk about his book Cult of the Amateur and what he thinks of Mahalo and what we’re doing. It was an interesting discussion, which you can watch right here (fast forward until about 45 minutes in as we set up the video early and ended up [...]

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Kagemusha

Did I mention that I love Hulu?

All of Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha viewable online (but watch the high res version as there is a problem with the low res version ending prematurely).

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Oscar Live Coverage

Mahalo is live covering the Oscars: Oscar Live Coverage (*) and we also have a page on Oscar Red Carpet Live Coverage (*). Come check it out and weigh in with your Oscar Predictions (*) on our message board.
Update: Oscars in 60 Seconds:

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Sample The Web Podcast: Sampling the World Wide Web 2/23/08

I decided to do something different with my podcast this week. Since this blog has for a long time had the tag line “Samplings from the World Wide Web,” I thought I’d actually *sample* some audio from various videos I came across this week. Thanks to Veronica Yanco, Lon Harris, and Sean Percival for bringing [...]

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Kristin featured in today’s Mahalo Daily

She’s the one beating the guy with the stick of bread:

My advice to Raj (the guy she’s beating) before the shoot: “Cover your eyes. She’s fierce and she likes to go for the eyes!”
More on this here: How to Propose (*)

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How To Speak French - Director’s Commentary

Mahalo Daily has followed up this morning’s excellent French episode with the Director’s Commentary. Check it out:

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How to Speak French

If you’ve ever watched a Godard film, you’ll enjoy today’s Mahalo Daily on How To Speak French (*):

YouTube: How To Speak French
Related: How to Speak French (*), Valentine’s Day (*), French (*), Jean-Luc Godard (*), How to Learn Basic Phrases in Any Language (*)

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Grammys in 60 Seconds

Miss the Grammys? Here’s the Grammy Winners and the entire show in 60 seconds:

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Hulu: American Gladiators Night 2

Did you miss night 2 of American Gladiators? Me too. Here you go:

I have to say, Hulu (*) is pretty awesome. Full videos, ad-supported in the video itself so they don’t care if you embed it in your blog like I just did. Now the real question is: does their embed code break validation?
UPDATE: [...]

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Shoutcast TV via VLC on Ubuntu

Just got Shoutcast TV working on VLC on Ubuntu. It’s sort of cludgy where they have it hidden. First I searched for how to do it with no luck and found this Ubuntu forums thread where others were also confused and didn’t find out how it works. So, I figured it out and then joined [...]

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Early Christmas: New PSP

Kristin picked me up from work today wearing the boots I bought her for Christmas that she wasn’t supposed to open yet. As a result, I arrived home and ripped open my new white PSP slim Rebel Assault edition (complete with Darth Vader on the back) and composite video attachment to hook it up to [...]

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RCRD LBL

Check it: RCRD LBL
Congrats, Peter!

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Sample The Web Podcast: The Morning Ride Edition, Episode 5

This morning’s ride consists of me passing by Veronica Belmont (*) on the way to work (btw, she has a new show and a new yo-yo-riffic episode you should check out), then talking about the podcast I recorded yesterday which didn’t work out, and some more about Google (*), Gmail IMAP (*), and a touch [...]

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Mahalo Daily: Nov 5, 2007: Tesla Roadster

The premiere episode of Mahalo Daily with Veronica Belmont is finally here. Check it out:

Mahalo Daily » Blog Archive » Nov 5, 2007: Tesla Roadster
Here’s some related links from Mahalo that relate to today’s show:
Tesla Roadster (*)
Elon Musk (*)
Hybrid Cars (*)
Who Killed the Electric Car? (*)
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