Funny to see that this episode comes out shortly after Soutpark decided to put all their episodes online with no geographic restrictions. You can’t check this episode online yet due to contractual issues but it will be available in June. If you can’t wait, you know the drill.

Incidentally all the browsers featured in the computers in Southpark are Mac OS Safari showing a distressing “You are not connected to the internet message” (The TV station though shows an IE not found page).

Check the full Southpark online episodes guide here.

Here’s a gem by a band called The Arcade Fire (never heard of them before) in the shape of interactive videoclip for their latest song Neon Bible. It’s a minimalistic piece of interactive animation where the linear structure of the song meets the non-linear interactive medium. A kind of Kraftwerk meets Jonathan Richman.

Here’s the video. Don’t miss it.

Spanish is a bonus as if you happen to understand it you’ll be able to hear/see how the words match the type and the motion graphics.

This video is no doubt a commercial application (rendition?) of some previous motion typography clips such as Pulp Fiction’s What Does Marcellus Wallas Looks Like? or Abbot & Costello’s Who’s On First. For more of the kind search YouTube by Motion Typography.

Cuarteto de Nos page on YouTube.

Xinacittà’07

We’re still alive…
The 5th edition of Xinacittà is back with all its wit and machinery at the end of June with three magnificent programs. The title is The Art of Getting By: migrations, utopias and inventions. Also, starting this year, we’re packing our bags and going on tour to show our festival all over the world. We’re not leaving Barcelona, but we are moving to a new square: bigger, with more room to lie down and roll around with the joy of seeing our films.

Take note, because if you miss it you won’t survive.

Date: June 28, 29 and 30, 2007
Time: 9:30pm
Place: Plaça de la Mercè. (New location!)
Price: free (yes, everything for free!)

All the info at xinacitta.com

Why Disney Characters? Watch the full video and you’ll know. The company is the message.

Via Dani Julià

M Y T O O N S is a new Web 2.0 project à la YouTube for cartoons. The webstite must be getting huge as it was on the news today where a small cut of a short animated movie was featured.

I found out that it was Goo Shun-Wang’s short “Hallucii” a kind of Escher meets Big Brother which currently tops the most viewed shorts list.

Imagine James Bond meets Get Smart meets Austin Powers meets The Jetsons meets Gilligans Island meets Elvis meets Tom Jones meets Sin City meets Bikini Bandits meets Martinis meets Chevrolet meets Bewitched meets Space Age meets Tiki Lounge meets Formica meets Stereorama meets Spaceports meets TV Dinners, all in the city of Lost Vegas in the year 2025.

Well this is what Atomic City is, or will be if it ever gets produced. For now this is a project of Markus Rothkranz a Hollywood computer graphics artist (Die Hard and Total Recall) who wants it to be a TV show and, why not, a movie. I don’t know if this will ever be or if it has already been turned down, but the concept and the retro-cool image of the website are awesome.

Don’t miss the trailer and the cast pictures. (with Sean Connery and Tom Jones impersonators included). Didn’t we all think that the future would look like this?

Via atomiccity.net

ATOMIC CITY is a fun high concept family entertainment science fiction television show (and possible movie) set in what we thought the future was going to be like in the fifties and sixties (60s, 60’s, 1950’s, 1960’s), kind of like a live action Jetsons but with a more silly twist like Austin Powers and the Simpsons. For everyone who grew up with shows like Gilligans Island, Get Smart, Bewitched and James Bond, this has that magic innocent charm that shows from the sixties had. Fasten your jetomatic spacebelts baby, because this is designed to be the HOTTEST SHOW UNDER THE SUN! A campy, kitschy show for all ages, this is a worldwide pop culture phenomenon waiting to happen. Tune in your coolarama tv space remote, sit back with a martini and laugh your butt off!

Looking for information in the Lego website about the Concept Lab that they have in Barcelona, I learnt a few things about the brand and the process of making the infamous Logo bricks.

The name ‘LEGO’ is an abbreviation of the two Danish words “leg godt”, meaning “play well” and in Latin Lego means together.

There are actually more than 900 million different ways of combining six eight-stud bricks of the same colour.

I also found a nice flash film about the brick manufacturing process (direct link to the swf file) all in pixel-art and of course in isometric perspective. Probably manufacturing is not the best word to describe the process as it is fully automated and you don’t see any humans in the flick taking part in it. A toy made for humans by robots. It makes you think.

At some point in the film captions read:

Because of the dangerous conditions and high precision required, the molding process is almost completely automated.

It sounds like the kind of excuses robots would tell us to take control of the key processes in society. After that it’s the T1000 terminators.

More info at LEGO.com About Us - LEGO Company - The LEGO Brick

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Via Joan Soler, a video-artists colleague.

I don’t know these guys too well but the videoclip is awesome.

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