Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

Japanese pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s debut “Pon Pon Pon” is one of the strangest videos I’ve ever seen. I think I love it.

-via Buzzfeed

Not only is this display on the side of a theater visually wacky, you’ll see towards the end of the video how it’s actually controlled by the sounds generated by audience participation. Nice.

-via Boing Boing

Click here for more kinda cool 3D Projections featured on TITAKC.

Watch this crazy video and enjoy all the high-larious effects of Peyote without the nasty side-effects like…….actually, after a quick wikipedia search, it doesn’t look like there are any nasty side effects!  Hmmm…

-via Kottke

Don’t you hate it when your disco party gets interrupted by a scary giant Godzilla squirrel?  I know I do.

They just keep coming…and coming…and coming!

3 minutes of surreal goodness:

-via Today and Tomorrow

This hypnotizing animation consists of 7 minutes of retro pop-culture characters morphing into each other to the beat of a trippy soundtrack. Huh? Just watch it…sure, it’ll probably give you nightmares for the next week or so, but it’s absolutely worth it.

-via Buzzfeed

Attention all geeks…3.14 in a mirror spells Pie!

-via Geekologie

(Ok, fine…I don’t write my 4′s like that either, but STILL!)

This ridiculously-ineffective PSA from 1985 makes me want to swallow a whole bunch of sweet, adorable pills.  I mean, just look at them sing their little song…what could possibly go wrong?

-via Presurfer

If you were obsessed with Super Mario Land on the Gameboy as much as I was, this rap-remix will bring back some amazing memories…I forgot how trippy this game was (aliens, huge tarantulas, mystical pyramids) – plus, Mario was cheating on Princess Peach with some chick named Daisy!  OK…enough geeking out for one day – just press play:

-College Humor via Buzzfeed

-via MediaVR

The quasi-3D effect is from a simple technology called ‘wiggle stereoscopy‘, where two almost-identical images are quickly alternated back and forth.  Remember when you were in college and you’d stare at those fuzzy pictures until you saw a 3D image?  This is essentially the same thing, except without the nauseating cross-eyed headache.

-via Blue Swami

-via Hillel Steinberg

***If you want to create your own 3D images (and you’re not afraid of a little Javascript) check out this tutorial.  There are also a few user-friendly iPhone apps that make ‘wiggle stereoscopy’ simple.