Sixty mini animations by sixty different animators on the theme of ‘love’, all compiled and produced by Australian motion designer Ben Marriot.
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A suitably trippy video by our favourite UK animator Cyriak Harris for this apocalyptic track by veteran US art rockers Sparks (from their new album ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’).
An alarming but illuminating video essay from The School Of Life. To wit:
Some of the reason why we choose such unsuitable partners in love is that we aren’t trying to find someone who ideally suits us, we’re looking out for someone who feels familiar. We recreate in adulthood patterns of attachment that we know from childhood – and thereby often perpetuate cycles of suffering and dissatisfaction.
Previously: When To Lose It (And When Not To)
An atmospheric NSFW voyage into the seedy world of washed-up taxi driver Johnny Supro and the motley cast of characters inhabiting his memories.
Directed by Belgian animators Thijs De Cloedt and Wouter Sel.
Narrated by gravelly-voiced Queens Of The Stone Age producer, Chris Goss.
An evocative, evanescent short by Johan Primiano in which memories of a family pet emerge and evaporate – traced in graphite.
A kaleidoscopic short by motion designer Paul Catoera who ‘stumbled on some beautiful patterns while working with superformulas’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxL2JylKyDU
A look at the organised chaos behind the writing of the world’s best animated series by video essayists Behind The Curtain, featuring interviews with creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon.
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.
We are, silly.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt lays out the science with its trademark authoritative calm. To wit:
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have released over 1.5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide or CO2 into the earth’s atmosphere. In the year 2019 we were still pumping out around 37 billion more. That’s 50% more than the year 2000 and almost three times as much as 50 years ago.
Previously: The Coming Storm
A short by German animator Vincenz Neuhaus about a boy with a nose capable of discerning the intrinsic essence of everything on earth.
Keep that kid away from my cocaine, etc.