The Commodore Amiga was announced 25 years ago today. My late A600 is still the very best computer I ever had (for its time).

“How many ‘likes’ will satisfy your need of consolation?”

That is one of the core questions of Peer-to-Peer. The video above includes images of the first presentation of our performance piece, that took place June 4th. Next presentation will be June 26th at Maus Hábitos, so pay us a visit if you’re in Porto that weekend!

An HD slow-motion clip of the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch. Nice.

Jeremy Dean’s Futurama: the car of the future! (via Neato)

Now these are short films: A bundle of twenty 5-second films. Many are indeed funny and poignant. But come on: how much ADD do you expect of you viewers to rush things like this?

An absurd, over-the-top action sequence from the Indian film Alluda Mazaaka. So, who’d win a fight between Chiranjeevi and Chuck Norris? (via Igor Pascoal)

Amazed by the color pictures of London in the 1940s I posted the other day? Here’s
London in color film, 1927.

Toby*spark’s Live Cinema Documentary. An amazing intro to cinema as live performance (way past VJing). (via CDM)

Rodney Ascher’s The S From Hell. A docu-horror short film about… a corporate design Manifestation of Evil?

Alex Roman’s The Third & The Seventh. This video shows what really matters in CG: even though the long shots may not be the very best architectural renderings I’ve seen (the textures look rather flat sometimes), the lighting, the camera moves and the small details (specks of dust, etc) make for one really engaging piece.

All done by a single person using a desktop computer - this is what William Gibson meant when he coined the expression “Garage Kubrick”.