With a nod, if not a deep bow to Rick And Morty , this short by Stefan Schumacher tells the tale of Trevor and Gleb – two alien sharks who camouflage themselves to blend in after crash landing on a strange planet.
And therein lies a grim message about the plight of real sharks on earth.
Earlier this week, on its monthly trundle around the Earth, our moon passed directly in front of Saturn from the viewpoint of the Southern hemisphere.To wit:
The featured image from Sydney, Australia captured the pair a few minutes before the eclipse. The image was a single shot lasting only 1/500th of a second, later processed to better highlight both the Moon and Saturn. Since Saturn is nearly opposite the Sun, it can be seen nearly the entire night, starting at sunset, toward the south and east. The gibbous Moon was also nearly opposite the Sun, and so also visible nearly the entire night — it will be full tomorrow night. The Moon will occult Saturn again during every lap it makes around the Earth this year.
(Image: Peter Patonai)
Behold: the Thomas Crown Affair Dune Buggy – which is to say, the actual Meyers Manx that Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway raced along the beach in the 1968 film that made Dunaway a Hollywood A-lister and started the dune buggy craze (which still hasn’t abated).
The car that McQueen himself helped to design (a VW chassis with a flat-six 230bhp Chevrolet Corvair engine) comes up for auction next year.
A one-shot music video for ‘Paramour’ by Scottish composer Anna Meredith created by Ewan Jones Morris in which a camera mounted on a model train speeds around a series of rooms filled with ingenious props.
‘Business cards’ by graphic designer Drew Tetz which become phenakistiscopic when played on a turntable and viewed though a camera under bright light.
Behold: the Oru Inlet Kayak – a foldable canoe that can be assembled in about three minutes. It weighs 9kg and expands from a transportable 100x45x25cm case to a water-ready 3 meter long boat.
Yours (on pre-order from Kickstarter) for about €670.
A bird manages to escape its captor but still ends up imprisoned in this short (intended to raise awareness about the cruel exotic pet trade) by Canadian animator Evan DeRushie.
