Gingerbread House (2mins)
motionbox,
viddler,
tinypic
A slapstick comedy about a playmobile figure who builds a gingerbread
house. Set to "My House" by Madness.
Dancing Mexican Beans (1min)
youtube,
google.
Mexican Dancing Beans. These dried beans have a small moth larva
inside, and its twitches and spasms make the bean jump. Here
the beans are dancing to Chopin's
Minute Waltz.
Facial expressions: Friends (28secs)
youtube,
google.
In the book
Emotions Revealed, the author
Paul Ekman argues that the
chief human emotions (joy, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, sadness)
have the same facial expressions in all human peoples everywhere.
This animation is set to Scatman.
Facial expressions: Family (29secs)
youtube,
google.
I have tried to capture these expressions on film. So far I've
only been able to capture a mysterious seventh emotion,
goofy... This animation is set to
Perpetuum Mobile by the Comedian Harmonists.
Sunsets (90secs)
youtube,
google.
Photos of beautiful sunsets from around the world.
Fireplace (75secs)
youtube.
My fireplace as it burns away. Christopher Alexander wrote in
"The Timeless Way of Building" that a fire which has that 'nameless quality'
will burn quietly and completely, turning every last constituent into ash.
Stay In
microsoft
Here's a small webcam game I wrote in Visual Basic. Up to four players hold
an orb in their hands, and have to push each other out of view of the camera.
It can get violent...
Source code is
here.
