Category Archives: Video

Don Hertzfeldt’s brilliantly unhinged short (nominated for a Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 2001), remastered in 2015 and recently re- released on the director’s YouTube channel.

A must see if you’ve not already.

Previously: The Meaning Of Life

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Eddy Chen – one half of Australian duo Two Set Violin – performs Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’ on a brace of Yellow Screaming Rubber Chicken Kids Baby Toy Squeak Squeaker Chew Gifts.

Naturally, you enjoyed that.

Now let’s join Eddy as he accompanies his colleague Brett Yang on piano for a rendition of Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’. 

And now, Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No.1.

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A initially peaceful but progressively more unsettling short by Florian Grolig. To wit:

It’s calm and peaceful above the clouds. But chaos lurks in the distance and each night, it draws closer.

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Behold the bewilderingly overpopulated, open world, first person, memory-gobbling RPGs of Brilliant Game Studios.

In The Ultimate Battle Simulator (top) players pit vast armies against one another. Above, 300 Jedi knights versus 60,000 medieval foot soldiers. Or if you prefer, a pitched battle between 20,000 Jedi and 20,000 Darth Mauls.

The Black Masses is a far darker and bloodier journey into crowd simulation, as evidenced above (warning: unremitting gore) by a sequence wherein 10,000 zombies are dismembered by a giant blender.

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