A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinemaA Swarm of Angels reinvents the Hollywood model of filmmaking to create cult cinema for the Internet era.We want to invent the future of film. Call it Cinema 2.0.

A Swarm of Angels is a project to make a £1 million film and give it away to 1 million people in 1 year. The movie will be ‘open source’, using the flexible digital-age copyright of Creative Commons so people can freely download, share, and remix the feature film.

The project is conceived and directed by Brighton-based digital film pioneer, Matt Hanson. It will be funded and developed with the help of 50,000 Angels joining the Swarm, to offer feedback, expertise, and subscribing to the project (£25) to finance its execution.

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So I’ve come across a ton of amazing videos on YouTube this past week so I thought I’d share them.

• Black Lagoon OP – Great anime, great opening.
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ED (Cosplay) – Some fans dress up and do the dance from the ED of Haruhi (Orignal ED)
• Some otaku dancing the Haruhi ED live
• Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot
• Geek-Week vs. Joss Whedon – Geek-Week interviews someone cosplaying as Joss Whedon
• Stephen Colbert Roasts George Bush at Whitehouse – Link is to Google Video because C-SPAN had video removed from YouTube
• Nine Inch Nails to Mars – Someone puts the NASA Mars Pathfinder animation to Nine Inch Nails – Sunspots song, great mix!
• NIN – Every Day Is Exactly The Same – Someone makes a funny video to the NIN Song
• Pac Man: The Movie – Funny trailer for fake movie
• Star Trek Cribs
• Star Wars Lightsaber Duel – Best lightsaber duel ever!
• Techno Rave! – Someone having too much fun with Gary’s Mod

Well I think thats enough for now, probably will have a bunch more next week.

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Despite the domain being on sale for over a week, there has been no news or discussion on the final end to the once all-powerful BitTorrent site, Suprnova.org. Nobody even noticed, and if they did, they decided the news was not worthy or reporting to the world.

It was not always this way, once upon a time SuprNova was as much part of BitTorrent as the client itself, serving up torrents to 420,000 unique visitors a day. Without question, the site revolutionised the dynamics of internet traffic.

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I was a huge fan of SuprNova back in the day, I even wrote some software to scrape RSS feeds from it. Regardless of its downfall/sellout I still think it deserves credit for expanding the Bittorrent revolution as far as it’s come.

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