I’ve been a big fan of the “X Shreds” videos, that take footage of famous guitarists and dubs in new audio in the form of horribly bad guitar playing. Well, Patrick T. Lo has done the same thing with a melodica and a dramatic moment from Jurassic Park. The results are hilarious.

The film Sound of My Voice opens today, after several months of buzz.  A large driver of that buzz was the release the first 12 minutes of the film, in an expanded and enhanced experience.

I wanted to embed that video in this post, but apparently Fox Searchlight beheaded WordPress’s father or something, because they refuse to play together nicely. You can find the 12-minute experience here.)

Here’s the movie’s trailer instead:

Mmmmm, culty-wulty, timey-wimey goodness!

(Aside: I confess that I am tired of terms like like “enhanced experience,” “bonus content” and *shudder* “transmedia,” that try to describe something without really giving you any useful information.  Not that it stops me from using these terms almost every day. Oh, buzzwords. I can’t quit you. )

Watching the film’s opening online gives you access to the expanded world around the film – youtube videos, multiple websites, and recurring cult indoctrination every Thursday at the Ukranian Cultural Center.  All put together in a very well-design, intuitive interface.

Looks like somebody learned some lessons from the Jejune Institute.

If you ever wanted a way to feel small, here’s a dose of universal perspective from Brad Goodpseed.

So the basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, 380,000 kms from earth.

I don’t know if it’s the music, or my knowledge of what the gravitational forces would do to us were this true, but there’s something incredibly awe-inspiring and unsettling about this.

In this fun bit of vfx work, director Fernando Livschitz turns Buenos Aires into an Inception-esque amusement park.

Once you hear it, you’ll never unhear it. And you’ll never stop laughing again.