The Gift

Saw this fantastic short last night. Directed by Carl E. Rinsch, ‘The Gift’ belongs to the 'Parallel Lines' Philips Cinema campaign, aimed at the highlighting cinematic qualities of their TVs.

Thanks to Christian for this. 

O.B Tampons Apology

In 2010 O.B Tampons disappeared from the shelves. Apparently. I didn't notice (if they even disappeared in Europe?). Anywho, to say sorry, Lowe and O.B Tampons have made a nice little film for every single woman out there. It's all very silly, but in my view works precisely because of that, and if silly doesn't do it for you, you get a printable coupon at the end for a discount. 

You can check it out here - O.B Tampons Apology.

Damage Map; End of Days Procrastination Fun

Came across Damage Map today. I've been 'playing' with it for ages. It's so fucking cool.

Created by Gareth Collins, Robert Marcus and H. Jay Melosh at Imperial College London, it is, "an easy-to-use, interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth. This program will estimate the ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced."

Yes please.

You choose your location of impact (either coordinates or from a list of cities), diameter, density, velocity, impact angle, and then the target type (rock, water etc). I chose London, diameter of 30m, density of 8000kg, velocity of 17km/s (the 'typical speed of impact'), and a 50° impact angle. This is what happened.

The crater!

The air blast.

The ejecta.

Seismic shaking.

Now excuse me while I up my density to 80,000, my diameter to 200m, and my angle of velocity to 90°.