Live Action : Space Invaders
This video by artist Guillaume Reymond re-creates the game of Space Invaders using real peeps in an auditorium. Very cool. Check here if the youtube clip gets pulled (mmm, yummy copyright!)
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Anime Glossary
I like to watch anime, but I’m by no means a disciple of the genre. Which means that when I’m trying to figure out what is worth watching, I have to weave my way through a minefield of anime terminology that I don’t understand. Which is where an Anime Glossary comes in handy! Now I know that just because some reviewers are raving about something being yaoi, I may want to steer clear 
More terms
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White Stripes Video Ripoff
I’ve been seeing an ad for Chilis lately on the boob toob that looked like a ripoff of a White Stripes video I’d seen once. I recognized the style and had only seen the White Stripes video maybe twice. Was it produced by the same company? This is again the whole sticky issue of technique / style, and to what degree can does a style belongs to an artist. Lugz sued Apple for the style they used for an ad that was too similar to their own - but it seems to me that the style had already been part of the cultural landscape for quite some time. The Chilis ad however is using the same specific visual technique/trick, as well as the color palette and similar music to the “Seven Nation Army” track. To me, this clearly crosses the line into blatant ripoff-ery.
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