A tongue in cheek short about early learning toys by NY animation studio Bullpen. To wit:
…the games we design and give our children. It’s all fun & games. Until it isn’t..
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#BestMuseumBum: The ripely curvaceous fruit of a recent invitation from curators at The Yorkshire Museum to their colleagues at other antiquarian institutes around the world.
An increasingly chilling time-lapse visualisation of every COVID-19 death worldwide from January to June 2020 (Inspired by Isao Hashimoto’s “A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945”) created by James Beckwith, who admits a follow up may be necessary. To wit:
Each country is represented by a tone and an expanding blip on the map when a death from Covid-19 is recorded. Each day is 4 seconds long, and at the top of the screen is the date and a counter showing the total numbers of deaths. Every country that has had a fatality is included.
Needless to say, the cacophony builds relentlessly.
Sixty mini animations by sixty different animators on the theme of ‘love’, all compiled and produced by Australian motion designer Ben Marriot.
Behold: just one part of the immense interstellar molecular cloud of NGC 1976, aka Messier 42, aka the Great Nebula in Orion: To wit:
…the part of the nebula’s centre known as M43 is shown as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. The entire Orion Nebula, including both M42 and M43 spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright: Bryan Goff)
Previously: Inside Orion
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A new exploration of relative scale by Reigarw Comparisons – this time, numbers of things in video games -from the weapons count in Call of Duty to the vast quantity of blocks it would take to fill the Minecraft universe.
Previously: Superpowers: What Are The Chances?