I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

  • yadayada

    FOCUS!!

  • http://twitter.com/jere7my jere7my

    Can we PLEASE stop calling it “Winter Storm Nemo”? Every time we do, a fun-hating weather grognard suffers a severe rectal spasm.

    • http://www.peterbagge.com/ Buddy Bradley

      “Winter Storm Rectal Spasm”?

    • Lobster

       Super-storm Sandy!

  • http://twitter.com/fewsursam fss

    How long until Universal hits this with a DMCA takedown?

    • oasisob1

      Fantastic video, and I’m glad I had the chance to see it, because I also worry this will face a stupid takedown.

  • Bucket

    Almost makes me wish I lived somewhere it snows.

    Actually, no. No it doesn’t.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1271680112 Felix Tannenbaum

    In the winter of ’91 a bored friend and i split a tab of acid at Villa Italia Mall….

    and nothing happened.

    Or at least nothing happened until I got off a bus to make a transfer a few hours later.  The stop was on a street brimming with 10 story residential highrises, and as it was just a few weeks into December most everyone had christmas light up. The soft purple and pink night clouds opened up and a nice regular snow started. I looked up at the snow, and each flake was reflecting a different color off of the bulbs, making an effect not dissimilar to the one you photographed so beautifully.

    Thank you for reminding me of that memory!.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Acid and snow are a great combination! I used to wander around Boston in blizzards, tripping on five or ten hits.

  • Nadreck

    So if the reflecting particles are big enough neuro-typicals don’t get all of that edited out in the post-retinal photoshopping?  Some people see stuff like that all the time in things like scintillating dust particles going by stained glass windows.

    • C W

      Similarly, I’m trying to figure out how this refers to ASD and only seeing babble.

  • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

    Hopeful piano is to pretty vids what bow-chicka-bow is to smut.

    • Lobster

      How much smut actually has a bow-chicka-bow soundtrack?

      • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

         Quite a lot of the ’70s stuff that the cliches are based on does actually have a funk soundtrack.

        • Lobster

          Most porn was made after the 70′s.

  • That_Anonymous_Coward

    ooooh how Speilbergian….

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

    I assume this is the recent version of The Lorax, the one with Danny DeVito in the title role. If so then this is the only way it’s worth watching. 

    • 10xor01

      For this storm, I would have gone with The Shining.

  • ymr049c

    I’m sorry, I don’t really get it. It seems like the projection onto the storm in the background is cool, maybe. But all those snowflakes flashing by in front get in the way. Kind of a trees/forest problem.

    • rabidpotatochip

      At that point the snowflakes become the show.  There are nights I pull over on an empty country road and just watch snowflakes fly by my headlights for the same reason; it’s truly mesmerizing.

  • kringlebertfistyebuns

    It would be interesting to try this in an actual blizzard.  Drop a ~40mph wind in there, and you’d probably have enough of a “surface” to generate a viewable picture.

  • http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

    This was totally Snowtoshopped. I can tell by the flakes, and having seen some snowstorms in my time.

    • jackbird

      I was gonna say they rigged up the whole thing in Processing, but same diff.

  • http://www.darkphibre.com MrScience

    I’d love to see this from the perspective of the projector… does it create an ethearial image?

  • http://www.facebook.com/phillip.fr Phil Ferrante-Roseberry

    Love it, Cory. And LOVED Pirate Cinema. Changed my frame of reference.