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Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.

Game of Thrones has captured a lot of attention. I've seen a few episodes and wonder if it's not just Mad Men meets Lord of the Rings - a very slick and polished period soap opera set in Middle Earth.

But the intro is gorgeous. It is reminiscent of Tolkien's books, with a map at the very beginning to show you the world the characters inhabit. Supposedly it will change over the course of the show to reflect the changes to the world.

I've been having trouble keeping track of all the characters, but their animal representatives help keep them in order in my head

Stark = Wolf
Targaryen = Dragon
Lannister = Lion
Baratheon = Stag
Arryn = Eagle
Greyjoy = Squid
Tully = Fish

Animated gifs aren't new, but this style, of flipping between 2 or more photoshopped photographs, is.

Kind of creepy, but interesting.

cinemagraphs.com

Makes me want to ride the Moscow subway

This is indy-folk singer-songwriter + stop-motion animation + papercraft + Star Wars, so I am obligated to link to it.

When we were kids, my brother and I were convinced that the proper pronunciation was Tatoonie

Evan Mullins points out: "The world has been excited by html5/css3 recently and has been pushing limits and experimenting. It’s been exciting and funny at the same time – most of the things that are amazing people in html5 experiments have been done 5 years ago in flash."

And he has a series of very simple generative "art" apps coded in as few as 15 lines of Actionscript.

intro,
line-width, & color

Fractals were cool 20 to 30 years ago. 3d fractals have been cool for just a few years. Animated 3d fractals are cool now.

Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.

More (static) 3d fractal images (in color)

Mike C. sent me the following link, full of cool new HTML5 / Canvas effects (all JavaScript, no Flash or other plugins)
http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/pocket_full_of_canvas/

I tried implementing one of the examples but couldn't figure out how without rewriting a bunch of the code, so I modified something from this site to make the HTML5 banana above.