A 751-piece monochromatic tribute to the 1928 cartoon that introduced the world to Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
The set features hidden wheels, moving steam pipes and crane, rotating paddle wheels, special Mickey and Minnie monochrome minifigs, Mickey’s parrot, Minnie’s guitar and music sheet, and a “potato bin”.
€90 from LEGO.
In the first of a three-part series, German educational design studio Kurzgesagt (and here’s why you should trust what they say) explores the origins of consciousness and takes a closer look at how unaware things became aware.
Previously: Lonely?
A short by Mark Fuller and Stephen Ing of UK studio Make It Move, that ‘peers into the mundane, rarely heroic life of an office fire extinguisher’.
An impressive, award-winning short by Hakim Ismail of the Royal College of Art that tells the story of a pregnant mother rushed to hospital in the aftermath of a bombing – as told from the perspective of the child in her womb.
Entertain the Elk explores the history of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s animated classic and the episode the ‘sparked its downfall to mediocrity’.
FIGHT!
A series of contrasting vignettes by August ‘Poul’ Niclasen that explores Mark Twain’s notion that there is no such thing as a new idea To wit:
…an absurd existential crisis disguised as a collage film. Living in a world where everything’s already been said, felt, and done before, can anyone truly be unique? And is thinking about this too much really a good idea?
A graphic study in human behaviour by Tue Sanggaard of Animation Workshop in Denmark.
NSFW. Or on any kind of enclosed public transport.
A Spark Shorts short by Pixar director Rosana Sullivan telling the tale of a stray cat and the pitbull terrier that moves in next to its hiding place one day.
Previously: Smash And Grab
A new one-stop database of Prince gifs (searchable by album and song) from GIPHY in association with Paisley Park and Prince’s estate.
Because Prince.
