MetaFilter posts tagged with seizure

Lori Samsel's Get in the Van

psychobum — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:20:43 -0800

Lori Samsel's Get in the Van (trailer, gallery, testimonials) is a space out masterpiece 25 minute greenscreen live-action/animation/puppet exercise video set to chiptune electronic music by Desert Planet, 8bitpeoples Twilight Electric, Plasticflesh, and others that will take your dimension to another dimension. The entire video in all its blown out seziure inducing over the top eye candy beep boop beep glory can be downloaded (550meg .avi, divx codec) from archive.org. I couldn't find a good link for Plasticflesh's music but I did find the root directory to all of it. That guy has some amazing C64 looking animated films like Nullsleep - Dirty ROM Dance Mix. Desert Planet have some interesting music videos too, like Return of the Ninja Droids. The only place I could find the song used in the trailer is at http://www.micromusic.net called 'theres more' by Commie 64 (an old pseudonym for Twilight Electric).

Never put anything in their mouth

urbanwhaleshark — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:24:01 -0800

Graphic epilepsy seizure footage - "[The] piece of footage was shot with the assistance of our friend David, in January 2003, at the repeated insistence of my wife Christine. She wanted to know what happened to her body while she was seizing, and we were under standing orders to catch any footage possible... Upon viewing this footage a few days later, she was shocked and astonished, as one could well imagine."

"Everyone who logged on, it affected to some extent, whether by causing headaches or seizures"

orthogonality — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:00:03 -0800

Possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims:

"I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts,"... "I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak."

If lovin' this heat is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

hypocritical ross — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:01:34 -0800

Duelin' Firemen was originally conceived as a 3DO game. According to this old subgenius post (Rev. Ivan Stang was apparently part of the cast), it was slated to be completed in July of 1995. It never saw the light of day. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), some of the game's video sequences survive, edited together in all their seizure-inducing glory [YouTube]. Watch for cameos by Rudy Ray Moore, Mark Mothersbaugh, Tony Hawk, Timothy Leary, Steve Albini, David Yow, and a whole bunch of others... if you can actually bear to watch it.

Please don’t let the cops in the house while I’m at the store.

brain_drain — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:00:15 -0800

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 5-3 decision (.pdf) that police may not search a home if any inhabitant of the home is present and objects to the search, even if another inhabitant consents. The Court drew what it acknowledged is a “fine line” – if a co-inhabitant is at the door and objects, the police can’t enter; but if the co-inhabitant is somewhere else – even in a nearby police car – and has no opportunity to object, then police don’t need his or her consent. Chief Justice Roberts issued his first written dissent, blasting the majority’s “random” and “arbitrary” rule and suggesting that the ability of police to respond to domestic violence threats could be compromised. The zingers in the footnotes may reveal “strains behind the surface placidity and collegiality of the young Roberts court.”

Monkey Dude

Edible Energy — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:27:17 -0800

Monkey Dude. Fast paced is an understatement.
Be sure to also check out Streets of Fire for the catchiest soundtrack ever, and Rambo III to relive the glory that was Sylvester Stallone stickfighting.
Some Friday Flash Fun

The Pixel Reanimator

pmbuko — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:06:48 -0800

Bring dead LCD pixels back to life! Did you know you can often fix dead LCD pixels by forcing them to rapidly cycle through red, green, and blue? Neither did I, but the video linked here worked on one of my older screens after a few hours of looped playback. YMMV, but what have you got to lose?

subway searches in NYC

Vidiot — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:17:46 -0800

The NYPD is searching passengers' bags, supposedly at random and with no racial profiling involved. Setting aside the very real question of how this makes us safer, is this legal? [more inside]

Espoo2 — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:47:51 -0800

Epileptic fined over $5000 for making a funny face during a seizure. (via Fark)