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First, check out the new trailer for director Neill Blomkamp’s (yeah, that’s Neill with two “L’s”) upcoming film “District 9″, in which extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa, and are forced to live in slum-like conditions until they find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. It’s an interesting twist on “alien movies”. Some people (yours truly included) will find the trailer oddly familiar.

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It’s a bizarre film about an even weirder candy… but their faces are priceless.

Here are two videos about the process of designing Barack Obama’s campaign logo.  It’s really interesting to see what other logos they looked at before deciding on the final one.  Equally interesting is how they tweaked the design to fit specific groups of people.

Here are a few examples of some great takes on Barack Obama’s Campaign logo:

   

 What is pixilation?
Pixilation is a nifty video process that simulates stop-motion animation. As opposed to taking a picture, moving a little, and then taking another picture, you leave the camera running and go about your business.  Then, while editing, you bring in only the frames you want to appear in the movie.  To give the appearance of “floating,” all you have to do is jump and move forward (over and over again) and bring in only the frames of you in the air.

Tony vs. Paul is an awesome YouTube video example of two guys who spent almost a year creating an editing a five minute video: