An impressive digital short by Serbian animator Sava Zivkovic in which a beautifully modelled humanoid is tasked with feeding a red stone into a hungry mouth protruding from the wall of the cave where he lives
Behind the scenes process here.
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A stop-motion paper-cut animation by Seen Film made for the all-string cover of Bjork’s ‘Venus As A Boy’ by the Vitamin String Quartet.
A time-lapse of woodworker Andy Phillip hammering, sanding, turning and polishing a scrunched-up roll of aluminium foil into a shiny sphere worthy of Phantasm.
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A fascinating half hour with dialect coach Erik Singer in which he analyses the accuracy of twenty eight Actors Playing The President Of The United States. To wit:
How close was Josh Brolin to capturing George W. Bush in W.? Is Jay Pharoah’s version of Obama true to life? Is it even possible for an actor to accurately portray George Washington?
Behold: the Selmi Triangle by Nidhal Selmi – an unholy marriage of the fractal Sierpinski Triangle and the Penrose Triangle.
*vomits*
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Behold: the Ferrari P80/C track car – a bespoke, one-off take on the classic 1960s P330 with elements of the 1966 Dino 206 S and a twin turbo V8, seven speed setup based on the 2015 Ferrari 488 GT3.
No you can’t buy one. Yes, it would get scratched in Tesco’s car park.
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The impossibly delicate hand-painted art of UAE based artist Julia Ibbini.
Ibbini’s laser-cut, algorithmically generated paper sculptures are inspired by Islamic absract art, embroidery and meenakari enamel work – each one built up in multiple layers and meticulously coloured in brilliant shades of pink, blue, yellow, and orange.
Behold: UGC 6945, aka Arp194 – a trio of merging galaxies 570 million light years from Earth. To wit:
Usually when galaxies crash, star formation is confined to galaxy disks or tidal tails. In Arp 194, though, there are bright knots of young stars right in a connecting bridge. Analyses of images and data including the featured image of Arp 194 from Hubble, as well as computer simulations of the interaction, indicate that the bottom galaxy passed right through the top galaxy within the past 100 million years. The result has left a stream of gas that is now falling toward the bottom galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that stars form in this bridge because of the recent fading of turbulence after the rapid collision. In about a billion years, the galaxies — including a smaller galaxy superposed on the upper galaxy will all merge into one larger galaxy.
(Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt)
