Tag Archives: life
A short by London based animator Olga Mararchuk that explores the endlessly scrolling, flickering distractions of our digital daily lives.
More of her work here.
Well that depends. With customary animated aplomb, German educational design studio Kurzgesagt sez:
The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the habitable zone of their stars. When we look at these numbers it is hard to imagine that there is nobody else out there.
Previously: Bright Sparks
A short by Nelly Michenaud featuring the life and death of the virus Covidou, as imagined, written and narrated by her 10 year old niece, Molly Durey.
A journey through the stages of life by London based artist and animator Vier Nev using pareidolia to tell two parallel tales of birth, identity and, eh, cats.
A noir stop motion short by Marco Jemolo in which a clay puppet craves to be blessed with the gift of life, about which you can draw your own conclusions
TLDR? Adenosine Triphosphate.
A sobering reflection on life, the Universe and everything from the always fascinating German education design studio, Kurzgesagt. To wit:
Picture yourself as a slinky falling down an escalator moving upwards – the falling part represents the self replicating processes of your cells, the escalator represents the laws of physics, driving you forwards. To be alive is to be in motion but never arriving anywhere. If you reach the top of the escalator there is no more falling possible and you are dead forever.
Previously: Coronavirus Explained